BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Royale Boston - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Royale Boston X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://royaleboston.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Royale Boston REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160401T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160401T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160110T060133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160110T060133Z UID:10002124-1459533600-1459533600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Parachute DESCRIPTION:Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:30 pm \nThis event is all ages.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/15 at noon! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n  \nBack when they were in high school\, Parachute’s Will Anderson (vocals\, guitar)\, Johnny Stubblefield (drums)\, and Christopher “Kit” French (saxophone\, keyboards) spent nearly every afternoon in Anderson’s basement\, dreaming up songs showing a deep affinity for classic pop\, heart-felt rock\, and tuneful blue-eyed soul. Now\, after a decade of touring internationally and turning out smash singles like “She is Love” (#1 at iTunes) and “Can’t Help” (the first single from the band’s 2013 album Overnight\, which debuted at #15 on the Billboard Top 200 chart)\, Parachute are set to deliver a new album that reclaims the spirit that first sparked their love of music. “Making this record felt just like that one hour after school when we were kids\,” says Anderson of Wide Awake\, the band’s fourth full-length album. “It was like we were all 15 again and just starting to discover that excitement of creating songs together.” \nWith a sound that’s impassioned but sunny\, fresh but timelessly organic\, Wide Awake centers on songs both gracefully arranged and brimming with the boundless energy of Parachute’s live show. Newly pared down from a five-piece to a trio\, the Charlottesville\, Virginia-bred band forged that sound in part by shaking off all creative inhibitions. “We felt like we had no limitations to chase this sound that the three of us have wanted to build for so long\,” says Anderson. “It was as if we were woken up from some sort of slumber\, revitalized and rejuvenated with this new awareness of who we are as a band.” Reuniting with John Fields (the producer behind 2011’s The Way It Was and their 2009 debut Losing Sleep)\, Parachute were also guided by the purest of instincts in the studio. “We knew a song was working when we were all dancing and having a blast with it\,” says Anderson. “And if something didn’t feel good\, we just let it go.” \nThough that commitment to intuition is beyond palpable on Wide Awake\, the album was also born from two and a half years of dedicated writing and exploration. “I don’t know if I’ve ever written more for an album\, or worked so much on any specific song.” says Anderson\, who came up with nearly 100 songs during that time. “It was just very important to me that we got each song exactly to where it needed to be.” \nWith every track on Wide Awake\, Parachute matches their sublime melodies with a refined sense of songcraft. Showing a complex sensitivity shaped in part by lifelong love of artists like Paul Simon and Billy Joel\, Anderson also infuses the album with both carefree warmth and emotional depth. The album’s epic opener “Without You\,” for instance\, captures what Anderson calls “the feeling of meeting someone and knowing that it’s going to happen\,” and harnesses that lovestruck feeling with the help of gorgeous gospel harmonies and soulful horns. The gently devastating “Jennie” wraps its cascading rhythms and wistful vocals around a story of broken opportunity and love lost. “Sometimes you catch a glimpse of they way things could be but end up taking a detour\,” Anderson says\, “only to realize you’ve lost your chance and can’t ever get it back.” \nShifting from joy to heartache and back again Wide Awake\, offers everything from the stomping\, fired-up swagger of “Crave” to the sorrowful piano ballad “What Breaks My Heart” to the hushed acoustic reverie of “When You Move.” And in certain moments Parachute brilliantly embodies both bright and dark\, such as on the swinging and summery anthem “Lonely with Me” (as in: “Baby if you’re gonna be lonely/Be lonely with me”) and on the moody but pop-infused “Love Me Anyway\,” an ode to “knowing you’re inevitably going to mess up\, but having somebody who’s willing to forgive you and move on\,” according to Anderson. \nIn bringing Wide Awake to life\, Parachute made a point of “dialing back our thought process and just doing whatever we could to best serve the songs\,” as Anderson explains. To fulfill that ambition\, the trio returned to the same sense of wonder they felt upon launching their first musical project back in 2002. Starting out while they were still in high school\, the band quickly began landing gigs locally and soon gained a following at the nearby University of Virginia. As their inaugural release under the name Parachute\, Losing Sleep debuted at #2 on the Billboard Digital Albums Chart and climbed to #40 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. Over the next few years\, along with releasing The Way It Was and Overnight (which shot to the #3 spot on iTunes)\, Parachute toured with such artists as Kelly Clarkson and Gavin DeGraw\, in addition to three sold out\nheadlining tours. “One of the biggest highlights over the years is definitely playing all these venues that we dreamed about growing up\,” says Anderson. “Anytime we play a show like that\, it’s just mind-blowing for us.” \nWhile Parachute’s indelibly melodic sound packs more than enough power to electrify an arena- filled crowd\, each song on Wide Awake comes from much more intimate origins. “Most of my writing process for this album was very solitary.” says Anderson. “I’ve written with other people in the past\, but it was fun to go back to the way I used to write when I was a teenager.” And when combined with Parachute’s renewed passion as a band\, that approach ultimately allowed for an honesty and heartfeltness that makes Wide Awake their most thrilling authentic album yet. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/parachute/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/PARACHUTE-admat-WIDEAWAKETOUR-20161-localized2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160401T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160401T220000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160204T220044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160204T220044Z UID:10001630-1459548000-1459548000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:MARSHMELLO DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/marshmello/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/SOFAKING_MARSHMELLO.png GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160402T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160402T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160124T100946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160124T100946Z UID:10002174-1459620000-1459620000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Pokey LaFarge DESCRIPTION:6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 18+.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/29 at 12pm! \n \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \nPokey LaFarge\n \n[Website] – [Facebook] – [Twitter] \n“It really feels like I’m taking a big step forward on this one\,” Pokey LaFarge says of Something in the Water\, his seventh album and his Rounder debut. “While we were recording it\, I kept thinking\, ‘Hey\, we’re really onto something here.’” \nIndeed\, the dozen-song set marks a new landmark in a career that’s already filled with musical highlights. The St. Louis-based singer\, songwriter\, and multi-instrumentalist draws from a deep well of American musical traditions to create distinctively personal music that’s timeless rather than retro\, transcending the confines of genre in a manner that reflects the artist’s openhearted attitude. \nIncorporating elements of early jazz\, ragtime\, country blues\, Western swing\, and beyond\, LaFarge has created a vibrant\, deeply expressive body of work that embodies an expansive musical vision and vivid storytelling sensibility that are wholly his own. He’s also earned a reputation as a tireless\, uniquely charismatic live performer\, winning a loyal international fan base that regularly packs his rousing\, celebratory live shows. \nSince he began recording in 2006\, Pokey has maintained an indefatigable work ethic that’s yielded a wealth of compelling music. After making a grass-roots splash with his self-released debut album Marmalade and moonlighting as mandolinist with the Hackensaw Boys\, he continued to gain notoriety with his widely acclaimed longplayers Beat\, Move\, and Shake\, Riverboat Soul and Middle of Everywhere—the latter two were both named Best Americana Album by the Independent Music Awards—and the concert set Live In Holland. \nLongstanding admirer Jack White added LaFarge to the roster of White’s Third Man label for the 2011 EP Chittlin’ Cookin’ Time in Cheatham County (which White produced) and the 2013 album Pokey LaFarge\, as well as enlisting Pokey as opening act on the North American tour in support of White’s Blunderbuss album. Also in 2013\, Pokey was featured on the soundtrack of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire\, performing the jazz standard “Lovesick Blues” with Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks. 2014 was LaFarge’s busiest year yet\, with the hard-working artist performing on five continents\, including tours in India\, Australia and New Zealand as well as extensive roadwork in the United States\, Canada\, UK\, Ireland\, and The Netherlands. \nSomething in the Water finds the artist doubling down on his established creative strengths\, expanding and deepening his musical reach on such new originals as the wry\, rollicking title track\, the swaggering ragtime workout “Wanna Be Your Man\,” the infectiously jazzy “Underground\,” the evocative instrumental “Cairo\, Illinois\,” the exotic ballad “Barcelona” and the swinging album-closer “Knocking the Dust off the Rust Belt Tonight\,” whose witty lyrics underline the album’s proudly Midwestern sensibility. Also featured are fresh\, buoyant takes on popular blues standards “When Did You Leave Heaven” and “All Night Long.” \n“The Midwest is at the heart of this record\,” LaFarge asserts. “The people playing on these songs are from Wisconsin and Illinois and Chicago and St. Louis\, and there’s a certain attitude that comes across in the songs and the way that they’re performed. I’m born and raised in the Midwest\, and my family’s been here for generations. This is where I’m from and how I think\, and that’s reflected in the music I make. \n“Americans love to reinvent themselves\, but you can never really get away from the place that you come from\,” he continues. “And in a globalized world\, I think that there are some parts of our regional identity that we should hang onto and cherish. I do buy into that old idea of the Midwestern work ethic\, and it’s definitely something that’s been passed down through my family and something that I feel connected to\, and it influences the way I approach making music.” \nLaFarge teamed with kindred-spirit producer Jimmy Sutton to record Something in the Water at Chicago’s Hi-Style Studio. For the occasion\, he recruited a diverse cast of talented players\, including his own longstanding touring combo as well as members of such notable outfits as NRBQ\, the Fat Babies\, the Modern Sounds\, and the Western Elstons. He designed the sessions’ communal recording approach to push himself creatively\, while bringing several new musical elements—including the more prominent use of drums and vocal harmonies—to the table. \n“I knew that I really had to challenge myself on this one\, and to create a slightly different take on my music\,” LaFarge notes. “The Third Man album put me on the map for a lot of people\, so I was conscious that I wanted to take things to the next level. One thing that I really wanted to do this time was to emphasize the groove\, and I was also thinking a lot about space and about juxtaposition. The ability to work with some different people took me out of my comfort zone\, and Jimmy really challenged me and pushed me into some new places. And as I felt the spirit and the camaraderie that we all had in the studio\, the whole thing took on a life of its own.” \nThe resulting album is the most powerful showcase to date for Pokey LaFarge’s peerless gifts as a songwriter\, performer and entertainer. \n“You try to make something that’s cool\, something that’s sexy\,” he observes. “But when you come down to it\, you can really only make music for yourself\, and I feel like this album is the first time that I was really able to do that. I’m 31 and I’ve been doing this for awhile\, but I feel like I’m only starting to make the music that I’ve always wanted to make. I used to put a lot of pressure on myself when I was younger\, because guys like Hank Williams and Bob Dylan and Otis Redding made so much great music when they were in their 20s. But now I feel like I no longer have that pressure\, so I can just be myself.” \n*** \nThe Cactus Blossoms \n \n[Website] – [Facebook] – [Twitter] \nBrothers Jack Torrey and Page Burkum grew up in northeast Minneapolis and have been blending their voices as The Cactus Blossoms since 2010. Their hypnotic harmonies and unforgettable songs have made them favorites in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul music scene. Their latest album\, Live at the Turf Club\, blurs the line between old and new as they sneak a few originals into their repertoire of early country and Western swing. \n“The brother duet that America is waiting for”\nGarrison Keillor \n“An absolute gem – a completely stunning debut album”\nBob Harris\, BBC Radio 2 \n“The Cactus Blossoms have quickly turned into the Twin Cities’ most beloved new traditional-country act”\nChris Riemenschneider\, Minneapolis Star Tribune \n“It’s true and traditional country\, folks”\nCraig Shelburne\, Country Music Television URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/pokey-lafarge/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pokeyDEC_927_1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160402T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160402T220000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160331T214751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160331T214751Z UID:10001649-1459634400-1459634400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Joe Bermudez DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. Admission not guaranteed after 12 AM URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/joe-bermudez-2/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/image2.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160403T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160403T150000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160209T212803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160209T212803Z UID:10001635-1459695600-1459695600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Speed Rack Season 5 New England DESCRIPTION:Serious stirring and shaking is about to happen\, thanks to the return of Speed Rack\, the all-female speed-bartending competition that raises money for breast cancer. We are excited to be in New England for the epic battle for the title of Miss Speed Rack New England on Sunday\, April 3 as these tough babes duke it out. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/speed-rack-season-5-new-england/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/SR_Postcard_BOS-01.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160408T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160408T183000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160108T201929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160108T201929Z UID:10001625-1460140200-1460140200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:DDT DESCRIPTION:DDT returns to Boston with it’s new show “Prozrachnii” and Greatest Hits.\nDDT is one of the most prolific Russian rock band founded by its lead singer Yuri Shevchuk. \n21+\nManagement reserves the right to refuse admission. \nDoors: 6:30\nShow starts: 7:00 URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/ddt/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/4.08-DDT.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="PartytimeBoston":MAILTO:info@partytimeboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160408T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160408T220000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160204T220038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160204T220038Z UID:10001631-1460152800-1460152800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:AUDIEN DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/audien/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1604920_678368408968705_3733119308658471394_n.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160409T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160409T220000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160405T191812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T191812Z UID:10002293-1460239200-1460239200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Spring Fling Bunny Bash DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/spring-fling-bunny-bash/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ROYALE_PLAYMATE_828x828.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160412T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160412T183000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160115T170047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160115T170047Z UID:10002158-1460485800-1460485800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Magic Man / The Griswolds DESCRIPTION:Radio 92.9 presents \nDoors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:30 pm \nThis event is all ages.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/22 at 12pm! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \nMagic Man \ncjmoyphoto.com \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \n*** \nThe Griswolds\n\n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \n*** \nPanama Wedding\n\n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/magic-man-the-griswolds/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/MM-HOTLINE-SPRING-BOSTON-NOW.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160414T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160414T183000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20151116T181050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151116T181050Z UID:10002016-1460658600-1460658600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:The Decibel Magazine Tour 2016 DESCRIPTION:Doors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:25 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \nAbbath\, High on Fire\, Skeletonwitch and Tribulation spearhead metal mag’s ferocious new tour this March. \nOver the last four years\, Decibel Magazine has redefined what a metal tour can accomplish. Creative and ambitious curation has unified artists from far reaches of the extreme universe who would never have the opportunity to tour North America together. The 2016 Decibel Magazine Tour continues that proud tradition\, as Norwegian black metal legend Abbath takes his new band of the same name to war with Bay Area metallic institution High on Fire\, Ohio thrash powerhouse Skeletonwitch and Swedish progressive black/death prodigies Tribulation (with regional openers in select markets to be announced soon). \nThe Decibel Magazine Tour has an impressive history of bringing extreme metal’s most notorious global icons to the stage\, boasting headliners such as Behemoth\, Cannibal Corpse\, Carcass and At the Gates. This year\, Abbath (former frontman of Norwegian black metal legends Immortal) will join that storied legacy to perform songs from not only Immortal’s fabled back catalogue\, but brand new music from January’s self-titled debut as the band Abbath\, on Season of Mist. It will be Abbath the band’s first tour on North American soil. Presented by Randall Amplifiers\, ESP Guitars\, IndieMerchstore.com\, Season of Mist\, eOne\, Century Media and Prosthetic\, the 2016 Decibel Magazine Tour will treat North American audiences to 23 grim and frostbitten dates\, boasting a rich array of metal’s most riotous voices. \nOf 2016’s four mainstage artists\, the two that released new albums in 2015 placed high in Decibel’s notorious Top 40 Albums of the Year list: High on Fire\, with seventh full-length Luminiferous\, and Tribulation\, with third effort The Children of the Night. High on Fire have already been honored with a dB cover and an authoritative Hall of Fame feature on 2002 album Surrounded by Thieves. Skeletonwitch have likewise graced dB’s cover\, and their most recent album\, 2013’s Serpents Unleashed\, also cracked our Top 40. Their original track “Tragedy of Days” was one of the first installments in Decibel’s renowned Flexi Series\, also celebrating its fifth birthday. And Tribulation will soon join them\, recording a track that will appear in the Flexi Series next year. \nWhile there’s plenty of time to stir up your corpsepaint for the 2016 Decibel Magazine Tour\, here’s your chance to score a great deal and avoid standing in line. There will be a number of VIP premium packages available in each market\, providing you with a limited edition T-shirt\, 18 x 24 tour poster\, “Skip the Line” pass\, exclusive digital tour issue of Decibel Magazine and a coupon for 15% off a purchase on Indie Merch’s webstore. The price of this package is less than you would spend on a ticket and a tour shirt at the show! More details\, including ticket info\, are available at www.decibelmagazinetour.com URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/the-decibel-magazine-tour-2016/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/decibel-dB_tour2016_admat_NOdates-localized.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160415T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160415T183000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20151220T042923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151220T042923Z UID:10002126-1460745000-1460745000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:SPLEAN DESCRIPTION:There is hardly a Russian in the world that hasn’t heard of the legendary rock band SPLEAN and its leader Alexandr Vasilyev. \nFor the first time in over 10 years\, the band will be hitting the road for a North American tour in spring of 2016. The SPLEAN will be playing only one show per city\, performing all time favorites. The tour will kick off on April 15th in Boston\, MA and wrap on April 24th in Seattle\, WA. For a complete list of dates\, more details and ticketing information\, visit the US Tour 2016 official website: SPLEAN2016.COM URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/splean/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Boston_600х900_new.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160415T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160415T220000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160318T191705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160318T191705Z UID:10001642-1460757600-1460757600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:MATTHEW KOMA DESCRIPTION:21+ \n*Management reserves the right to refuse entry / Admission not guaranteed after midnight / No refunds of any kind all sales are final. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/matthewkoma/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/4.15-Matthew-Koma.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160416T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160416T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160118T170019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160118T170019Z UID:10002157-1460829600-1460829600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Lissie DESCRIPTION:Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 18+.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/22 at 12pm! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n‘My Wild West begins’ with an overture\, by definition an “introduction to something more substantial.” In this case it is Lissie’s third studio album and her most personal one to date\, a fitting tribute to Lissie’s life in California\, from her arrival as a fresh-faced singer-songwriter till now\, leaving for the Midwest wiser and more self-assured. Bookended by the songs “Hollywood” and “Ojai\,” it brings out the two extremes of the past decade — the dashed hopes and heartbreak of the former and the “stability\, joy and peace” of the latter. ‘My Wild West’ represents both a new beginning and a return to Lissie’s Midwestern roots. \n‘My Wild West’ was recorded with producer Curt Schneider in his Studio City home — he oversaw the project as a whole\, produced 8 tracks on the record and pulled together the additional material from Lissie’s time recording with her band in Ojai and with Bill Reynolds in Nashville. As the album unfolds\, we see a more confident Lissie\, self-assured and coming into her own power. “I want my 40 acres in the sun\,” sings Lissie on “Hero\,” written before she had made the decision to leave California. It details Lissie’s life on the West Coast and the empowerment she felt that she could leave and demand a new adventure from life: “I could have been a hero\, I could have been a zero\, I could have been all of these things.” \nAfter being signed by Sony U.K.\, Lissie’s two previous albums\, 2010’s ‘Catching a Tiger’ and 2013’s ‘Back to Forever\,’ came out on Columbia in England and prestigious indie Fat Possum in the U.S.\, both scoring in the Top 20 of the U.K. charts and Top 5 in Norway\, the former going gold in both countries. Stateside\, the two releases hit the Top 5 in Billboard’s Heatseekers chart\, peaked at #5 and #11\, respectively\, on the U.S. Folk tally and went Top 40 on the Indie chart. \n“There was always a bit of commercial compromise\, like pressure to make the charts and sell units\,” she recalls of her experience on a major label. “I just wanted to be able to move people with this gift I’ve been given… my voice.” \nWhat emerged was a cohesive\, conceptual\, musical whole\, which belied the rather unorthodox manner in which it was created. “The songs turned out to be more personal because I wasn’t adhering to a strict set schedule\,” she realized. “In writing ‘Hero’ and ‘Wild West\,’ I had no idea at the time I was going to leave California and move back to the Midwest. I feel like their very creation was predictive of the changes that were coming. The moment I decided not to make an album was when I really started to make the album. That took all the pressure off!” \nLissie’s tales of triumph and self-propelled adventure were inspired by strong females close and far from home: “Sun Keeps Risin'” was inspired by an aunt of Lissie’s who passed away from ALS\, while “Daughters” is a pro-feminist call-to-arms that took its cue from Liberian peace activist and Nobel Prize winner Leymah Gbowee\, subject of the documentary “Pray the Devil Back to Hell.” The funereal\, dirge-like “Shroud” and the upbeat “Go for a Walk” shed light on the yin-and-yang nature of Lissie’s personality\, the first a meditation on depression and isolation\, the latter a heartfelt affirmation of nature’s power of renewal. “Stay” and “Together or Apart” detail the pain and pleasure of relationships\, while “Don’t You Give Up On Me” is a spiritualized self-pep talk\, urging those around her to hang in there while she figures life out: “Don’t you give up on me/As I dive into the dark/And slip into the endless sea.” There’s also the line “I left you on the coast for something only I can see” and that’s just it\, Lissie has a personal vision and it may be hard for others to understand at times but she has to follow it. \nHaving recently purchased a farm on 10.7 acres in a small Iowa town\, Lissie now boasts her own personal “Field of Dreams\,” just across the Mississippi River from Rock Island\, Illinois\, where Elisabeth Maurus grew up in possession of a strong rebellious streak surrounded by the memory of steamboats and railroads of past. Concentrating on converting the barn into a recording studio\, getting used to her new pick-up truck and setting up beehives\, Lissie is visibly content in her new life\, eager to take on each new adventure and challenge that presents itself. \nWith a career that has seen her open for renowned artist Lenny Kravitz (an early supporter)\, Tom Petty and even been asked to perform at Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore’s wedding\, Lissie has had a wealth of incredible experiences that have made her the confident and determined artist she is today. “I have a loyal\, passionate fan base that every day is growing through its own power\, not just an aggressive marketing campaign\,” she says. “I want to be an artist with longevity\, which is an exciting prospect for me. I feel I’m in a really good place. In fact\, I’m already planning a follow-up album\, ‘My Mild Midwest\,'” she says with a laugh. \n‘My Wild West’ will be released on February 12th\, 2016\, via Thirty Tigers in North America and Cooking Vinyl elsewhere. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/lissie/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/lissie-admat.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160416T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160416T220000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160408T171848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160408T171848Z UID:10002328-1460844000-1460844000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:ULTRA VIOLET DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/ultra-violet/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ROYALE_UV_600X900.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160417T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160417T220000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160331T162524Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160331T162524Z UID:10001648-1460930400-1460930400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Thorgy Thor LIVE DESCRIPTION:Chris Harris & Rafael Sanchez Present Thorgy Thor LIVE with DJ Richie Ladue. Hosted by Fena Barbitall \nFirst 100 people to arrive get to meet Thorgy! \n21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/thorgy-thor-live/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/HOTMESS_04172016-poster.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160419T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160419T190000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160215T060332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160215T060332Z UID:10001637-1461092400-1461092400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Peter Murphy "Stripped" DESCRIPTION:Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over.\nTickets on sale now! \nA rare opportunity to see Peter Murphy in an intimate setting performing acoustic versions of his music from throughout his illustrious career. \n*** \nPeter Murphy \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nIn his four decades of service in the post-punk culture wars\, PETER MURPHY has confounded fans\, critics\, even himself. As the mainman of the acclaimed outfit Bauhaus\, he helped usher in ground breaking opaque moods and atmospheres into the post-punk landscape. When the band broke up for the first time in 1983\, the singer set off on a solo career that found him challenging his audiences in numerous ways. When the music press tried to tag him as “the new David Bowie\,” he’d close his shows with a vamping of the Thin White Duke’s disco classic “Stay\,” only to switch into a cover of Bauhaus’ funky punch-up “Kick In The Eye\,” followed by a cover of Pere Ubu’s “Final Solution\,” which ended with a burly roadie physically picking up the singer and putting him in an airplane spin. When fans and critics tried to paint him exclusively as “the King of the Goths\,” his response was to encore with Prince’s venerable “Purple Rain.” When the singer began to explore more melodic concerns to distance himself from the gothic-rock culture he helped create\, he accessed both new audiences and successful records. \n“People remember those things\,” the singer says\, laughing at memories of his onstage audacity. “They don’t remember some digital file they downloaded from the Internet that gets lost among the other 3\,000 ones they already have.” \nIt’s doubtful Peter Murphy will be assigned a similar fate. He’s aligned himself with Nettwerk Records to release NINTH\, his first solo album in seven years and the first since the permanent dissolution of Bauhaus in 2009. Produced by David Baron\, Ninth is a culmination of where the singer has been and where he is now\, all imbued with a confidence that has been Murphy’s stock in trade. While countless\n\nperformers and industry types bemoan the demeaning of music in current download culture\, Murphy’s only concern is continuing to connect with his audience with unparalleled honesty. \n“I think younger audiences are just as aware that they don’t have any identity in the music they follow\,” he says\, commenting from a place of aesthetic analysis than any kind of bitterness. “Once they start listening to older music or music that isn’t generically issued\, they start to hold onto things more. That’s why it’s more important for people like myself to connect with an audience. I’m not talking about Facebook—I’m talking about a live show. People can really start to form a congealed idea in their relationship with an artist. That kind of connection is missing in the digital world: You experience things more in a tangible realm than in a virtual existence. I don’t deny or get anxious about being labeled; I can’t really describe what I do\, but it does have an outside effect on an audience. But I mustn’t get stuck holding onto that\, because you mustn’t rest on your laurels.” \nMurphy is hardly the poster child for artistic inertia. His 2004 solo album\, Unshattered\, was doomed not by any artistic shortcomings\, but by the Artful label closing its doorsjust as the record was coming out. The following year\, he once again teamed up with his colleagues in Bauhaus for a co-headlining tour with Nine Inch Nails\, when it was decided that they would reconvene in a recording studio to create new music. After a tumultuous 18 days in an Ojai\, California studio in 2006\, the band came out with Go Away White\, a record displaying both the personal chemistry\, as well as the incendiary aspects of the group dynamic. \n“It was typically Bauhaus\,” says Murphy\, who actively embraced the high tensions within the band. “The tension [on that album] is palpable\, isn’t it? I loved it. People hearabout that record retrospectively. Danny [Ash\, Bauhaus guitarist] would say\, ‘We couldn’t stand to be in the same room together.’ But that’s not my experience. I was always the biggest advocate for that band. We were warming up when it ended. I was still raring to go to complete that album. I was putting my solo career on hold to advocate for Bauhaus. We split up\, I reworked my life—I’m Peter Murphy in or out of Bauhaus\, so it’s not too difficult. I’ve got a band of my own\, but I didn’t have an idea where it’s going to go.” \nUnbeknownst to him\, Murphy’s career arc would take a different turn. In 2005\, he met singer/songwriter Sarah Fimm\, the support act for his tour that year. He did some recording with the electronics-based artist in upstate New York\, with the sessions being helmed by producer David Baron. In Baron\, Murphy found not only a kindred spirit\, but also a person with great jurisprudence with regards to modern technology and how it should be considered within an artist’s work. “I call David an errant genius\,” Murphy says about his collaborator. “He’s like my brother: very perceptive\, very musical. So musical you can’t quantify it. He allowed the music and the ideas to speak for themselves.” Considering the breadth of his career\, conventional wisdom would question why Murphy would need a producer to see his vision through in the first place. But the singer is in service to his songs—not his ego. “I don’t want to be hands- on\,” he says. “It’s distracting for me. I’m hands-on in terms of exchanges\, discussions and various takes. David is superior in that he is super-musical and totally respects the artist. He doesn’t fall for overproduction. He is only concerned with the songs’ needs.” \nProbably the most apparent characteristic of Ninth is the level of intimacy Baron and engineer John Siket captured. The proceedings carry the feeling of a tight\, seasoned band—in this case\, guitarists Mark Gemini Thwaite and John Andrews\, bassist Jeff Schartoff and drummer Nick Lucero—facing each other in a small studio\, playing together. There’s a sophisticated energy and psychic urgency to tracks like “Seesaw Sway\,” “Slowdown” and “Memory Go.” Equally exciting are moments like “Velocity Bird\,” where Murphy gets his swagger on in the same wild kingdom where Iggy Pop’s “streetwalking cheetah” prowled; the rocking “Peace To Each\,” where the singer ramps up his sinister quotient a few notches; the slow grooving head-nodder “Uneven & Brittle\,” and the brooding\, atmospheric noir of “Secret Silk Society.” On the convex\, Ninth also features moments of warm poignancy\, like the lover-comforting “Never Fall Out” and the melancholy closing track\, “Crème de la Crème.” \nBut it’s the album’s first single\, “I Spit Roses\,” that reconciles Murphy’s melodic sophistication with his resignation toward the fate of Bauhaus. Teeming with nautical metaphors of a ship’s crew (i.e.\, the other three members of Bauhaus) and a dip into Lewis Carroll territory (“Shick-shack\, left you in shock/shed poison with a lover’s lock”)\, the song was inspired after Murphy spent a long day in the studio during the making of Go Away White. As the other members were working on an arrangement\, Murphy went home\, having put in a full session. He suspected that his decision would cause more schism when he returned to the studio the next day. “When I went in the next day\, I knew there was going to be some kind of confrontation about my leaving the previous night\,” Murphy recalls. “I was sitting near a rose garden\, talking on the phone to a friend of mine about the situation. She told me not to worry\, to take a rose there as a friendly gesture. Instead\, I took three or four and put them in my mouth. \n“As I walked in\, David [J]\, Kevin [Haskins] and Danny were in conference about the band\,” he continues. “I thought\, ‘Oh dear\, here we go…’ The moment anyone speaks to me\, my response is to spit roses in their face—and that’s what happened. Daniel said\, ‘Peter we need to talk about…’ Pwah! ‘That’s my answer.’ It caused them to think\, ‘Look at him\, he’s crazy!’ And I responded\, ‘Look\, it’s roses\, don’t you get it? C’mon\, let’s just work.'” \nDealing with short-fused tempers (and botanical snacks) are part of his artist mythology\, but it cannot be denied that much of Murphy’s artistic visions have been original and seminal. Fortunately\, he’s not interested in trading on his significant accomplishments. While Ninth marks another chapter in his artistic (and thereby personal) evolution\, the album exists on a plane of its own. Ninth isn’t a “reinvention\,” “return to form\,” or any of the buzzword nomenclature used to herald an album’s release date. For three decades\, Peter Murphy introduced new ways of thinking in the rubric of rock music. He’ll be the first to tell you the work is its own reward and that it’s acceptable if the world at large still hasn’t caught up with him. Well\, maybe… \n“Although people tell me I’m famous\, I don’t feel like it\,” he resigns. “Right now\, it’s quite nice: I feel like I’m 24 with this record and I think a lot of people are going to get to know my music. I have a very hardcore audience who’ve been with me for a long time\, but I do have a great urge to broaden it.” \nHe stops to laugh. “I’d like to play theaters; I’m more able to be lowered from the rafters on a chain than in a club!” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/peter-murphy-stripped/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/12747262_943427572389809_2978474597867611277_o-copy.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160421T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160421T183000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160112T215112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160112T215112Z UID:10002155-1461263400-1461263400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Into It. Over It. / The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die DESCRIPTION:Doors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is all ages.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/15 at 10AM! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/into-it-over-it-the-world-is-a-beautiful-place-and-i-am-no-longer-afraid-to-die/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/into-it-over-it-admat-localized-IIOI_TWBP_Admat_FLAT.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160422T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160422T220000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160322T160047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160322T160047Z UID:10001644-1461362400-1461362400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:ERICK MORILLO DESCRIPTION:21+ \nMANAGEMENT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ADMISSION. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/erick-morillo/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/4.22.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160423T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160423T220000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160419T174837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160419T174837Z UID:10001652-1461448800-1461448800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Liz Ladoux DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/liz-ladoux-2/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ROYALE_LL_APRIL16_600X900.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160424T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160424T190000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160111T180038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160111T180038Z UID:10001627-1461524400-1461524400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Behemoth DESCRIPTION:Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nBLASFEMIA AMERIKA 2016 \nThis event is 18 and over.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/15 at noon! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n“The Satanist is magic. It’s dangerous. It’s adventurous\, and it’s organic\,” states Nergal\, the driving force behind Behemoth since their inception in 1991\, and brief exposure to the band’s tenth album more than supports this statement. While instantly recognizable as the work of the Polish blackened death quartet it takes their sound in previously unimagined and riveting directions. A writhing\, densely layered\, brutally violent and sinister record\, it is quite unlike anything ever unleashed within the canon of heavy music. As such it demands attention\, offering ever greater sonic and emotional depths with every listen. “You may hear the title and think it’s very primitive and one-dimensional\, and yes it is\, but when you look beyond that it’s as primitive as it is complex and multidimensional\, and that applies to everything about the record.” \nIt has been a rocky road leading to the realization of the album. Having dropped 2009’s Evangelion to almost universal critical acclaim they saw it top the chart in their native country and dramatically expand their following around the world\, and playing some of the best shows of their lives the band seemed truly unstoppable. But\, in August 2010 Nergal was diagnosed with leukemia\, stopping them in their tracks. Forced to abandon their ongoing tour in support of Evangelion Nergal was hospitalized\, and both he and Behemoth faced an uncertain future. With the search for a bone marrow donor ultimately successful Nergal underwent a transplant\, leaving the hospital after six months and beginning down the long road to rehabilitation. “I knew I was pretty much fucked and there was a battle to be won\, and I had no fucking idea if it was going to take six months or twelve months or maybe four years\, because with cancer you never know. I learned from being in the hospital that there are things in life that you can control and things that you can’t control. The sooner you realize which is which it’s going to make your life so much easier\, and since then I started to focus on the right things. I could be determined\, I could have discipline\, I could have faith\, but everything else is not under my control\, and it really was a case of just crossing fingers for the best possible outcome. I was fortunate enough that that recovery period was relatively fast\, and that I was really strong and very determined to get back into shape made a real difference.” \nRather than immediately getting down to working on a new album\, the band – also comprised of drummer Inferno\, bassist Orion\, and guitarist Seth – set out to complete the abandoned touring cycle for Evangelion\, hitting the road for the aptly titled Phoenix Rising Tour. Wanting to prove they were stronger than ever the first show was the only time doubts crept into Nergal’s mind. “I was a fucking wreck\, and I almost didn’t make it to the end of the set. The venue was really smoky\, and that was stuffing my nose and my lungs\, and physically I felt that I couldn’t pull it off. I did\, but I was close to passing out on stage. I was literally shocked by this\, I remember thinking while we were playing shit\, what if I can’t do this anymore? I’m just a human being after all. Going into the next show I had no sleep because of all the nerves and anxiety\, but it was fucking amazing. With every following show I would get stronger and stronger and grow more confident\, and aware of the fact that yes\, we will do this.” \nHaving returned to full force the band were ready to once more move forward\, and they began work on what would become The Satanist. While many bands might be concerned with how to follow up a record as devastatingly powerful – and successful – as Evangelion Nergal faced no such doubts. “I don’t race myself\, and I don’t need to prove anything to anyone. Evangelion was a very important record to us\, and yes\, it was very successful too\, but in making The Satanist it wasn’t a point of beating that. The point was to do what was organic\, and make a natural and honest and sincere album\, and that’s it. Now the record is finished I like to think of it as an album that is just so different that you can’t really compare it to our previous works\, which is the best outcome I could hope for.” One thing is inarguable\, and that is the record is the most sonically rich and complex released under the Behemoth name. With layer upon layer of sound it has great sonic density\, but there is intricacy to this\, and nothing is forced or contrived. “I don’t have a kid but I think the process of raising one is comparable: you invest a lot of your energy and effort and wisdom and money and you educate them\, but there’s never a one hundred percent guarantee he’s going to become a lawyer and not a serial killer. It’s the same story with the records – we supply the elements but we just don’t know how these elements mixed together are going to come out\, and I think it’s fortunate that we don’t have one hundred percent control over it! It makes for something special.” \nThe title of the record itself is undeniable in its power\, and Nergal sees it as capturing the primal wisdom that the band have always tried to maintain. “To me it’s not pretentious at all. It’s very straight up\, very sincere\, and a devastating\, conquering statement. There’s no compromise or bullshit or gimmicks. What I love about it is that it just speaks for itself. On one hand it’s a very black and white title: The Satanist is like a fucking nail through the hand of Jesus Christ\, period. No more\, no less. But then again\, as with everything else you put a hundred people together and ask them what the name The Satanist means to them and you’re going to hear a hundred different opinions\, which they can then discuss and fight over.” Likewise\, Nergal views the lyrical content of the record as similarly open to interpretation\, encouraging this. “There’s a lot of symbolism and reflections and impressions in there\, and it’s using millions of metaphors to express a certain very sinister and very captivating atmosphere\, but there are no answers. People always like to have a deeper insight into what we do\, but that’s not what we want to give with this record. The way I see it is that between us we can make a huge fucking pyre and set the world on fire\, but what we’re doing is just giving you the matches\, giving you the spark\, what you want to do with it is up to you. Personally\, if I sat down with the lyrics in front of me I too would probably come up with a lot of different interpretations and concepts\, it’s a never ending process\, and that’s exciting to me.” \nTwenty-three years and ten albums into their career\, that Behemoth is still in the ascendant is a statement to their commitment\, determination and capacity for writing such powerful music. If ever a band was to go out on a high The Satanist would make for one hell of a swan song\, but don’t expect them to disappear any time soon. “I remember before we we had a record deal I was having a conversation with Baal\, the band’s original drummer\, and we said okay\, if one day we manage to record an album and put it out how cool would it be to split up right after that? It would be one record and no more\, and there was something about that that had an appeal\, but y’know what\, it doesn’t work like that for individuals like myself. Hunger has always driven me through life\, and I can never sit in one place and relax for too long because I have the need to explore this whole universe in every possible way. Now\, over two decades later it’s the same story. I can tell you I have no problems with finishing my career after this record. Just say the title itself: The Satanist. How the fuck am I gonna beat that title? It sounds like the ultimate definition of our art – but then again\, I remember that conversation with Baal\, and I know it doesn’t work like that\, so I know there will probably be other incarnations of our artistic identity\, one way or another. All I know is I love being here and now\, and I just want to underline that I couldn’t be more proud and happy with my own music. It really drives me through the day\, and now I just want to sit back and hear any and all opinions of it.” \nBehemoth is:\nNergal – vocals & guitars\nInferno – drums\nOrion – bass\nSeth – guitars URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/behemoth/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Behemoth-Admat-US2016-localized21.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160425T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160425T200000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160127T175644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160127T175644Z UID:10002178-1461614400-1461614400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:The Residents present Shadowland DESCRIPTION:Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18+.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/29 at 12pm! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n[Website] – [Facebook] URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/the-residents-presents-shadowland/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ShadowlandStageHiRes.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160429T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160429T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160306T170010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160306T170010Z UID:10002248-1461952800-1461952800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Baroness DESCRIPTION:Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:45 pm \nThis event is 18 and over.\nTickets on sale Fri. 3/11 at 10AM! \n*** \n \n*** \nBaroness \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nPete Adams – Guitar\, Vocals\nJohn Baizley – Vocals\, Guitar\nNick Jost – Bass\, Keyboards\nSebastian Thomson – Drums \nBaroness’ triumphant new album contains some of the biggest\, brightest and most glorious riffs and choruses the adventurous rock group has ever recorded. But its title\, Purple\, also reflects a dark moment in the group’s recent history: the terrifying bus crash they survived while on tour in 2012. “The band suffered a gigantic bruise\,” singer-guitarist John Baizley says of the accident. “It was an injury that prevented us from operating in a normal way for quite some time. Hopefully\, this record is the springboard that helps us get away from all that.” \nThe album\, which is due out December 18 and which producer Dave Fridmann (the Flaming Lips\, Sleater-Kinney) helmed\, covers the gamut of emotions Baroness have experienced in recent years and serves as their victory cry. Purple finds a revamped lineup of the band – Baizley and Pete Adams (guitar\, vocals) and new additions Nick Jost (bass\, keyboards) and Sebastian Thomson (drums) – playing 10 intricately textured tunes and singing about the worry they felt immediately after the crash (“If I Have to Wake Up (Would You Stop the Rain)”)\, the struggle to recover as smoothly as possible (“Chlorine & Wine”) and their ongoing quest for survival (“The Iron Bell”). From its bulldozing opener “Morningstar” to the avant-garde 17-second closer “Crossroads of Infinity\,” the record is at once both their most emotionally threadbare and musically complex offering to date\, with passages that allude to their classic-rock roots as much as their crushing metal past. \n“We didn’t want to make a mellow\, sad\, dark thing\,” Adams says. “We needed to be up-tempo. We needed to be melodic\, and it also needed to be aggressive. In all of that\, I think we were able to get out everything we felt\, all of the emotion involved\, everything from being angry to wanting to continue to push forward.” \nBaroness formed in 2003\, slugging it out in their local Savannah\, Georgia scene while adhering to a DIY punk ethic\, booking their own tours and silk-screening their own shirts. In 2007\, they put out their critically acclaimed debut\, the sludgy\, guitar-banging Red Album\, which heavy-metal magazine Revolver named Album of the Year. They followed it up two years later with the heavier Blue Record\, extreme-metal magazine Decibel’s Album of the Year. But it was on their last release\, the 2012 double-album Yellow & Green\, where they really opened up\, exploring a slightly lighter touch with more accessible vocals and alt-rock arrangements\, leading to a Top 30 chart debut in the U.S. and Spin declaring it the “Metal Album of the Year.” Unfortunately\, the group would not be fully able to enjoy Yellow & Green’s success and accolades. \nIn August 2012\, less than a month after Yellow & Green came out\, Baroness were on tour driving in England when their bus broke through a guardrail on a viaduct near Bath and plummeted nearly 30 feet to the ground below. Through some miracle\, none of the nine passengers died\, though Baizley broke his left arm and left leg and the group’s rhythm section at the time\, bassist Matt Maggioni and Allen Blickle\, both suffered fractured vertebrae. \n“I was lying in my bunk when the brakes went out\, and I knew immediately once we picked up speed that we were going to crash\, period\,” recalls Adams\, an Army vet who went through the equivalent of a bus crash a day while fighting in Iraq and who earned a Purple Heart in combat. “I didn’t tense up. I didn’t brace myself. I just rolled over in my bunk and said a few peaceful words to myself and hung in there\, because I was like\, ‘Here we go. If it this is it\, then make it quick.’ I felt like a shoe in a dryer. Next thing you know\, it’s over and I’m standing there\, and I was not broken. I was burned\, I was cut\, I was bleeding\, I was dazed\, but I was OK. And I collected myself and started helping people out. But I absolutely thought the band would be over.” \nBaizley spent two-and-a-half weeks immobile in a hospital and then months to recover from his injuries\, but when he did\, he and Adams decided to keep the group going. “I spoke to James Hetfield\, who has also dealt with the fallout from a bus-related accident\, and he said\, “Life is going to be difficult for a while; but you’ll be fine. You’ve got this\,'” he says. “And once I had done some physical therapy and played guitar again\, I thought\, ‘Yes\, I’ve got this. It’s not over.'” \nLooking back on it now\, Hetfield was right\, and now Baroness’ members feel like they’ve gotten through the worst of it. “While we realize the accident is obviously of interest\, we have gone over that particular story’s details at length over the past few years\,” Baizley says. “We feel that this album not only addresses but puts a punctuation mark on that story. Baroness existed before the accident and will continue to exist\, and we’d rather talk about what we’ve created with Purple than let one side-story overtake or define who we are as a band.” \nOnce Baizley was ready to get moving again\, the first matter at hand was to find a rhythm section\, since Maggioni and Blickle had both split amicably with the group. To find the right people\, Baizley leaned on some famous friends for advice. Eventually\, Baizley spoke to Mastodon’s Brann Dailor\, who pointed him in the right direction to finding the group’s new drummer\, Trans Am member Sebastian Thomson\, to help build up the band again. “We didn’t try out anyone else\,” Baizley says. Another friend suggested that they check out someone whom she described as being the best player she’d ever heard. That turned out to be Nick Jost\, who not only played both the upright bass and bass guitar\, but was also a skilled piano player with a degree in jazz composition. \nWith a new lineup in place\, the group eventually embarked on lengthy trek that Baizley describes as a “thank you tour\,” to the fans who stood by the band in its darkest hour\, in the spring of 2013. Other than a handful of Australian gigs in 2014\, Baroness spent the time since then getting ready for their next chapter\, setting up their own indie label\, Abraxan Hymns\, and writing songs for Purple. \n“I wanted to celebrate my misery through my creativity and face it head on\,” Baizley says of the LP. “The lyrics on Purple are about the different paths that formed in the fallout of the crash\, from very direct stories about difficult moments of suffering to the love I feel for people who were there for me.” \nWhen the group finally got to work out the tunes in the studio\, they did so with a producer whom Baizley has always been eager to work with: Dave Fridmann. “He’s been on the top of my list since Day One\,” the singer says. “I never thought he’d work with us. I absolutely worship his recordings.” With 25 years of experience mapping out Wayne Coyne’s intricate flights of audial fancy on Flaming Lips records and making the most of bands generally known for understatement like Low and Spoon\, the producer helped the group construct a sonic habitat for all of Purple’s unique sounds\, including acoustic guitar\, otherworldly keyboard and echoes galore. He also helped them make the most of themselves. \n“We’re a very analytical band\,” Adams says. “We’ll write something and overanalyze it to the point where we feel we’ve edited the songs as much as they could be\, and Fridmann threw ideas at us that we’d never thought about before. We needed that outside ear.” \nBut Purple is perhaps most notable for serving as a vehicle for Baizley and Adams to move on\, and welcome Jost and Thomson to the fold. “They are both very talented musicians\,” Adams says. “They’re open to new ideas and you can rely on them.” \n“They said\, ‘We just want to make sure it kicks ass\,'” Baizley recalls. “That’s what I needed. I was in a pretty bleak spot when we weren’t playing. And when I realized that Pete\, Nick and Sebastian were excited – and I hadn’t felt that unified amount of excitement before – it pushed us into saying\, ‘We’ve got this.'” \n“The whole process was very smooth\,” Thomson says. “The only thing that required a little bit of work was learning how to write together. That took us a month or two to figure out\, but once we did we got on a roll.” \n“I made a mistake and hit the wrong chord at the end of a run through of ‘If I Have to Wake Up’ and out of that mistake we wrote ‘Fugue\,'” Jost says. “That shows how we grew. And then ‘If I Have to Wake Up’ shows just how far we came.” \n“We had a situation where a band had to rebuild itself with half-new members and an almost entirely new crew\,” Thomson says. “On paper that sounds like a possible recipe for disaster\, but we all clicked almost immediately. We still have that attitude to this day.” \nAdams says only recently\, since the group has gotten back on the road\, he thinks that Baroness has felt like a band again. And now with Purple under their belts\, Baroness are ready to take on the world. “There’s a lot more playfulness now\,” Adams says. “Everyone now is positive\, there’s no heavy bullshit. People are laughing and smiling more now in Baroness than I’ve ever seen. That’s real\, and I’m thankful for that.” The bruise is beginning to heal. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/baroness/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Baroness_US_AdMat_Spring_2016_Flat_v1-localized.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160429T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160429T220000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160204T220031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160204T220031Z UID:10001632-1461967200-1461967200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:TJR DESCRIPTION:21+ URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/tjr/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/4.29-TJR.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160430T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160430T220000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160311T190258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160311T190258Z UID:10001640-1462053600-1462053600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:6th Birthday Party w/ Lil Jon DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. Admission not guaranteed after 12AM URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/6th-birthday-party-w-lil-jon/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/12806092_1089017884494499_6973089927090719079_n.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160501T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160501T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20151201T120007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151201T120007Z UID:10002066-1462125600-1462125600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Basement DESCRIPTION:Doors: 6:00pm / Show: 7:00pm \nThis show is open to all ages. \nThis show is SOLD OUT. \n*** \nSince abruptly announcing an indefinite hiatus only weeks after the release of 2012’s breakthrough LP Colourmeinkindness\, Basement’s intensely devoted following has only grown. Promise Everything is the band’s full-length return to writing and recording since the break. Challenged by the spacing out of members not only across the country – but across the globe – Promise Everything was written by piecing together songs without the luxury of a space or even a time zone to share. Perhaps this is why upon listening\, Promise Everything feels like a conversation between different people\, revealing different moods and feelings throughout. This conversation shifts and evolves\, filtering subtle\, tasteful alternative rock touchstones through the band’s unmatched melodic lens. More clearly aggressive songs like “Brother’s Keeper” and title track “Promise Everything” situate Basement at the forefront of the rock world\, pairing that aggression with an inherent sense of melody. On the standout track “Aquasun\,” lyrical flow and melody overtake the listener while overt meaning gives way to musicality and its nuance. Despite years spent apart\, it would seem Basement’s musical conversation has been one that has lingered even when after it was interrupted too soon by their premature & luckily temporary break\, and as their first true cohesive document\, Promise Everything is only the beginning of what Basement has to say. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/basement/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/basement-admat-UK-Tour-Flyer-2016-blank-localized.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160506T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160506T220000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160408T051154Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160408T051154Z UID:10002292-1462572000-1462572000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:BORGEOUS DESCRIPTION:21+ \n*Management reserves the right to refuse entry / Admission not guaranteed after midnight / No refunds of any kind all sales are final. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/borgeous/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/5.6.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160507T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160507T180000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160112T160042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160112T160042Z UID:10001626-1462644000-1462644000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:M. Ward DESCRIPTION:Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:45 pm \nThis event is 18+.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/15 at 10AM! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \nM. Ward returns with a stunning new album\, More Rain\, for release on Merge Records on March 4\, 2016. Ward has released a string of acclaimed solo albums over the past several years\, along with five LPs with Zooey Deschanel as She & Him and a 2009 collaborative album with My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis under the moniker Monsters of Folk. In addition to his celebrated work as a musician\, Ward is an accomplished producer\, handling those duties for such luminaries as Mavis Staples\, Jenny Lewis\, and Carlos Forster as well as his own musical projects. \nM. Ward knows how to live with rain. Having spent the last decade-and-a-half based in the perennially damp Portland\, Oregon\, the singer-songwriter and producer has learned how to shine through the soggy gloom by simply embracing its inevitability. For Ward\, there is inspiration in a dark sky and harmony in foreboding winds. And with his new album More Rain\, he has made a true gotta-stay-indoors\, rainy-season record that looks upwards through the weather while reflecting on his past. \n“I think one of the biggest mysteries of America right now is this: How are we able to process unending bad news on Page One and then go about our lives the way the style section portrays us?” says Ward. “There must be a place in our brains that allows us to take a bird’s-eye view of humanity\, and I think music is good at helping people—myself included—go to that place.” \nThis album\, Ward’s eighth solo affair\, finds the artist picking up the tempo and volume a bit from his previous release\, 2012’s A Wasteland Companion. Where that record introspectively looked in from the outside\, More Rain finds Ward on the inside\, gazing out. Begun four years ago and imagined initially as a DIY doo-wop album that would feature Ward experimenting with layering his own voice\, it soon branched out in different directions\, a move that he credits largely to his collaborators here who include R.E.M.’s Peter Buck\, Neko Case\, k.d. lang\, The Secret Sisters\, and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ. The result is a collection of upbeat\, sonically ambitious yet canonically familiar songs that both propel Ward’s reach and satisfy longtime fans. \nMore Rain begins with an actual rainstorm\, then throughout the album\, guitars chime\, chug\, and riff with Ward’s unmistakable earthy tone\, while layers of atmospheric reverb and skittering drums climb and clip in equal measures. As the cloud of noise rolls in\, the layers part ever so slightly to make way for Ward’s voice\, which can play wispy and whimsical in one moment (“Pirate Dial”) or crackling and smoky in the next (“Time Won’t Wait”) just as well as it can climb to clear-sky clarity (“Confession”) then drop down to smooth\, soulful crooning (“I’m Listening”)\, each one after the other. “Girl From Conejo Valley” is a nostalgic trot through people he used to know and a place he used to be\, and “Slow Driving Man” is sweeping and lush in its orchestral climb towards confident heights. \nAs the album ends with the self-assured swing of “I’m Going Higher\,” voices join together in a chorus of rising “ah”s and\, for just a second\, it seems the storm outside has slowed\, making room for a ray of hopeful sunlight. As Ward knows\, the rainy season is sure to return\, but for now\, More Rain is here to help us with our perspective. \n*** \nPre-order More Rain on CD or LP in the Merge store. The first 750 pre-orders will received a limited edition translucent red vinyl. Pre-order the album digitally via iTunes. \nwww.mwardmusic.com\nwww.facebook.com/mwardmusic\nwww.twitter.com/mwardtweeting URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/m-ward/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/M-Ward-Ad-Mat-localized.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160507T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160507T220000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160502T163849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160502T163849Z UID:10002352-1462658400-1462658400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Cinco De Mayo DESCRIPTION:21+ \nLadies free before 11pm w/ RSVP ticket. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/cinco-de-mayo/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ROYALE_CINCO_600X900.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160510T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160510T190000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160229T140010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160229T140010Z UID:10002229-1462906800-1462906800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Chelsea Wolfe DESCRIPTION:Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over.\nTickets on sale Wed. 3/2 at noon! \n*** \n \n*** \nChelsea Wolfe \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nSleep paralysis plagues singer/songwriter Chelsea Wolfe\, and that strange intersection of the conscious and the unconscious has inadvertently manifested itself within her work. Across the span of her first four albums\, there is an underlying tension\, a distorted and nebulous territory where dark shadows hover along the edges of the sublime and the graceful. But until now\, Wolfe’s trials and tribulations with the boundaries between dreams and reality have only been a subconscious influence on her work. With her fifth album\, Abyss\, she deliberately confronts those boundaries and crafts a score to that realm she describes as the “hazy afterlife… an inverted thunderstorm… the dark backward… the abyss of time.” \nChelsea Wolfe’s material has always felt intensely private\, from the almost voyeuristic bedroom-production aesthetic of her debut album The Grime and the Glow to the stark themes and atmospheres of 2013’s Pain Is Beauty. “Abyss is meant to have the feeling of when you’re dreaming\, and you briefly wake up\, but then fall back asleep into the same dream\, diving quickly into your own subconscious\,” says Wolfe. To conjure this in-between world\, Wolfe continued her ongoing collaboration with multi-instrumentalist and co-writer Ben Chisholm and drummer Dylan Fujioka\, with Ezra Buchla brought on board to play viola and Mike Sullivan (Russian Circles) enlisted to contribute guitar. The ensemble traveled to Dallas\, TX to record with producer John Congleton (Swans\, St. Vincent). In the back of her mind burned the words of designer Yohji Yamamoto: “Perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make\, I want to see scars\, failure\, disorder\, distortion.” The resulting eleven songs reflect that philosophy as they smolder with human frailty\, intimacy\, quiet passion\, anxiety\, and deep longing. \nAbyss opens with the disorienting lurch of “Carrion Flowers”\, where Wolfe weaves a hypnotic vocal melody over monotonic industrial thuds\, much as an Indian raga is constructed around a lone note or swara. On “Iron Moon”\, the band pushes for extremes in its loud-quiet-loud strategy\, alternating between hushed balladry and gargantuan doom. On “Dragged Out”\, glacial-paced fuzz riffs underscore Wolfe’s sultry verses\, until a howling wail of distortion dominates the chorus. But there are certainly moments when the brutish elements are reigned in—“Maw” could serve as a lullaby and “Crazy Love” harkens back to the humble acoustic compositions of her Unknown Rooms album. But between them we have “After the Fall”\, the centerpiece of the album\, where the abrupt tonal shifts\, descending chord progressions\, and climactic vocals illustrate Wolfe’s fascination with Memories\, Dreams\, Reflections by Carl Jung. “I let myself drop\,” begins one of Jung’s recollections of his dreams. “I was so struck by that visual: the drop into the abyss of one’s own mind\, allowing yourself to feel things you’ve hidden away\, bringing them front and center. That became the goal of this album\,” says Wolfe. That surrender can be heard in the slowly escalating cacophony of “Survive”\, the penultimate square-wave hum and yearning of “Color of Blood”\, and the clamorous piano loop and disorienting arrangement of the closing title track. \n“Sleep and dream issues have followed me my whole life\,” remarks Wolfe as she revisits notes from the writing and recording sessions. In a way\, these issues have become a part of Chelsea Wolfe’s identity\, for whom the notion of sleep as an escape has been subverted. Abyss captures this dichotomy\, this battle between the soothing and the upsetting\, and demonstrates why Chelsea Wolfe has become one of the most intriguing songwriters of the decade. \n– Brian Cook\, 2015 \n*** \nA Dead Forest Index \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nLandscapes both seen and felt\, real and imagined\, lie at the heart of In All That Drifts From Summit Down\, the vast debut full-length release from nomadic duo A Dead Forest Index. Comprised of brothers Adam Sherry (vocals/guitar) and Sam Sherry (drums/piano)\, the group crafts ethereal and intensely intimate compositions that defy trends and labeling\, instead shaping an aural experience as organic as it is unpredictable. Forsaking instrumental complexity in favor of richly dense vocals and an otherwise minimal palette\, the band evokes heaviness with the atmosphere they create rather than through blunt force. Teaming-up with Sargent House on the heels of a recent European tour supporting labelmate Chelsea Wolfe\, A Dead Forest Index are poised to introduce their sound to a global audience in 2016. \nA Dead Forest Index was initially the solo project of Adam Sherry\, begun in 2008. By 2010\, it had evolved into a collaboration\, with Sam Sherry supplying percussive depth to his brother’s distinctively hymnal approach to vocals\, itself characterized by cyclical harmonies and experiments with drone. Untethered by place (or\, for that matter\, era)\, they’ve spent the past few years developing their sound\, touring extensively between 2012-2014\, and issuing the EPs “Antique” and “Cast of Lines” in the process. The latter was released by Jehnny Beth of Savages’ Pop Noire label\, a precursor to the collaborative Savages/A Dead Forest Index composition and performance titled “In What I’m Seeing; the Sun” for the Barbican’s Station to Station Festival in 2015. \nThough basing themselves periodically in locales as far-flung as Melbourne and London\, the oceanic grandeur of A Dead Forest Index’s songs suggests a spiritual mooring in their homeland of New Zealand. Their influences are rich and untapped: the poetic\, archaic ‘deep song’ of Indian and Andalusian origin\, Romanian lăutari troupe Taraf de Haidouks\, and the allegorical symbolism found in William Blake have all been cited as antecedents. The group have themselves been compared to The Velvet Underground with Nico\, Scott Walker\, Swans with Jarboe\, and Antony and the Johnsons\, to name a few. \nIn All That Drifts From Summit Down\, their debut album\, is a testimony to the sublime divinity of nature and the cold reality of time’s passage. Unfolding over 13 tracks\, the album imagines natural phenomena as poetic metaphor for the human condition\, the lyrics evoking stone\, cold air\, unyielding emptiness and erosion\, while the enveloping warmth of Adam Sherry’s layered\, choral vocals makes for an intriguing contrast. “Cast of Lines” is a prime example of this\, its rapturous “In all our currents / a fog upon the sea at night” mantra accompanied by little more than a strumming guitar. Sam Sherry’s steady rhythms propel some tracks\, like “Tide Walks” and “No Paths”. “Ringing Sidereal”\, on the other hand\, unwinds more slowly\, a dark cavern of a song with flickering sparks of percussion emerging only where necessary. Occasionally swells of noise take shape. On “In Greyness the Water”\, a slow-building churn buffers the repeating “In… fall… colour” chorus that penetrates through the cacophony like spires through fog. Savages guitarist Gemma Thompson guests on two tracks\, providing a wiry undercurrent to the brilliant postpunk stomp of “Myth Retraced”\, before fortifying the processional stride of “Sand Verse”. In All That Drifts From Summit Down is a potent\, compelling statement\, an exercise in restraint and severity whose icy hue only accentuates the warmth at its core. \nA Dead Forest Index epitomize the possibilities of the modern age. Weaving threads of disparate influence from around the world into a captivating tapestry\, the duo exemplify their own transience\, producing mature\, wholly inspired work unbound by time or place. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/chelsea-wolfe/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/11x17-Tour-AdMat-v1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160512T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160512T200000 DTSTAMP:20260407T130818 CREATED:20160202T174741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160202T174741Z UID:10002194-1463083200-1463083200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:NIGHT SNIPERS DESCRIPTION:Diana Arbenina is a Russian Rock legend – leader of “Night Snipers”. They will be presenting group’s new album “Выживут Только Влюбленные” as well as band’s Greatest Hits. \nDon’t miss an opportunity to see one of Russia’s great independent voices live in concert in Boston! URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/night-snipers/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/5.12-partytime.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="PartytimeBoston":MAILTO:info@partytimeboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR