BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Royale Boston - ECPv6.15.16//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:20160304T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160304T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T112650 CREATED:20151201T205007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151201T205007Z UID:10001606-1457128800-1457128800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:MICHAEL WOODS DESCRIPTION:21+ \nMANAGEMENT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ENTRY. ADMISSION NOT GUARANTEED AFTER 12AM URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/michael-woods/ 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/2015/12/3.04-Michael-Woods.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:20160305T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160305T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T112650 CREATED:20160301T194050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160301T194050Z UID:10002245-1457172000-1457215200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Liz Ladoux DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse admission. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/liz-ladoux/ 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/ROYALE_LIZL_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:20160311T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160311T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T112650 CREATED:20151211T162254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151211T162254Z UID:10002106-1457719200-1457719200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Brian Fallon & the Crowes DESCRIPTION:Doors: 6:00pm \nTickets on sale Thu. 12/17 at 12pm \nThis event is 18+. \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***\nBrian Fallon \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \n“This one is different\,” says Brian Fallon. “This one is mine.” \nBursting at its seams with huge hooks\, big choruses\, and enormous heart\, PAINKILLERS marks the first solo album from Brian Fallon\, known far and wide as singer/guitarist of the Gaslight Anthem\, as well as such acclaimed outfits as The Horrible Crowes and Molly & The Zombies. Produced by studio superstar Butch Walker (Taylor Swift\, Frank Turner\, Keith Urban)\, richly textured songs like “Long Drives” and the addictive title track encompass the great rush and flow of American music\, fusing sonic hits of heartland country and folk with hardcore punk energy and classic rock ‘n’ roll swagger. PAINKILLERS once again affirms the NJ-based rocker’s elemental gifts as a songwriter and storyteller\, booming with insistent imagery\, narrative craft\, and the extraordinary emotional acuity that has informed his music since the very start. \n“I’ve had this sound kicking around in my head for so long\,” says Fallon\, “but it took maturity to get it out.” \nFallon decided to begin work on PAINKILLERS immediately following the announcement of The Gaslight Anthem’s indefinite hiatus. Though his prior extracurricular projects were made under alternate band monikers\, a dear friend suggested that this time perhaps he might think otherwise. \n“She said I was limiting myself\,” Fallon says. “’If you make a Horrible Crowes record\, then you’ve got to make Horrible Crowes music. You have to float within those guidelines. But if you use your own name you can make any record\, you can change throughout your career\, work with different musicians\, be whatever you want to be and then wrap it all together.’ That’s one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten.” \nSolo or otherwise\, Fallon knew he couldn’t make his record all alone. He considered a number of potential collaborators but again and again\, Butch Walker’s name kept coming up as an ideal match. A meeting was arranged and the two musicians hit it off from the jump\, tracking four demos in three days\, including fleshed out versions of “Painkillers” and “Nobody Wins.” \n“It was just like fast friends\,” Fallon says. “All the sounds fell into place. There wasn’t any searching – it was all right there. We had a blueprint from the records we grew up on.” \nFallon set to work in September\, spending three weeks at Nashville’s Taxidermy Studios backed by a crack outfit featuring Walker\, Molly & The Zombies bassist Catherine Popper (Jack White\, Ryan Adams & The Cardinals\, Willie Nelson)\, and drummer Mark Stepro (Hayes Carll\, Ben Kweller\, Jackson Browne). Freed from any brand\, Fallon felt\nmore comfortable and confident than ever before\, unrestrained and able to fully articulate himself in the studio. \n“I felt like I was doing exactly what I should be doing\, at exactly the moment I should be doing it\,” he says. “There was a very nice feeling\, like\, you’ve been working towards this record your whole career and here you are getting to do it.” \nFallon had spent much of the past decade pushing himself in different directions\, challenging himself as a songwriter by trying on various guises and techniques. This being his solo debut\, he decided to return to his initial path\, cutting through the craft to simply write “couch songs” on his trusty acoustic guitar. \n“I’d been trying different things for the past few years now\,” Fallon says\, “but there’s a path that I started on. I thought\, let me go back to the very basics of where I started writing songs and maybe see if I’ve gotten any better. I know I haven’t mastered the craft but now that I’ve learned a bit\, let me see what I can pull out now.” \nInspiration came\, as it often does\, from Fallon’s lifelong canon\, specifically BORN IN THE USA and FULL MOON FEVER\, milestone rock records unafraid to work as mass appeal pop statements. Classic sounds abound throughout PAINKILLERS\, from the ringing Rickenbackers that drive “Among Other Foolish Things” to the shingled backing vocals that give lift and spirit to each of the album’s dozen songs. “A Wonderful Life” is perhaps Fallon’s greatest anthem thus far\, a righteous slice of 60s-fueled dance party rock ‘n’ roll brought full stop into the new century. \n“It’s got all the bits\,” Fallon says\, “the riff\, the whoa-whoa-whoas\, the chorus\, the whole thing. It’s simple but we just knew right away that that one was something else.” \nOther high spots include “Red Lights” and the intensely orchestrated “Long Drives\,” both originally written and demoed by the country rock-inspired Molly & The Zombies but never properly recorded. Walker helped Fallon retrofit the Molly tunes by “straightening out the beat\,” bringing them in from the front porch and placing them square on the boardwalk where they belong. \n“I didn’t want to make a country record\,” Fallon says. “I’m from New Jersey\, not Nashville. But I thought those songs were too good to throw away.” \nFallon’s garrulous lyricism – as ever\, ribboned with spot on setting\, telling character study\, and cultural references spanning “Famous Blue Raincoat” to DC post-hardcore heroes Rites of Spring – is more than matched here by his musical ambition\, for the first time truly weaving his wide-ranging tastes into a distinctive and dramatic unified whole. Remarkably\, PAINKILLERS was recorded with but one amp\, the very same Tone King Imperial 20th Anniversary Edition Fallon used to record his initial demos. \n“This thing does everything\,” Fallon says. “Sounds like the Byrds when you plug in the 12-string\, it rocks when you plug the Les Paul in\, it does country\, everything. I showed it to Butch and he was like\, alright\, cool\, we’ll use your amp. He plugs into it\, we recorded all the guitars for one song on it\, he goes\, wow\, that amp’s pretty good. Let’s use it tomorrow. And that’s what we did. At the end of the session\, Butch said to me\, I don’t think I turned on another amp this whole time. It was awesome!” \nFallon – with Tone King Imperial in tow – plans to spend much of 2016 on the road\, accompanied by a stellar combo comprised of The Gaslight Anthem guitarist Alex Rosamilia\, The Horrible Crowes’ Ian Perkins\, and the aforementioned Catherine Popper. With PAINKILLERS largely crafted in the studio\, transitioning its songs to the stage offers yet another happy challenge. \n“You just do it when you’re making a record\,” Fallon says. “Then to play it live you kind of have to pull it all apart and put it back together again. So the songs take on a whole new life\, which is the benefit of going to see a band live.” \nThe Gaslight Anthem will return\, avows Fallon\, but for the time being his focus is firmly locked on the present moment. For him\, PAINKILLERS marks neither an end nor even a beginning – where he’s at now is all that matters. \n“Pseudo-philosophically\,” Brian Fallon says\, “you really only have what’s in front of you today. That’s kind of where my head’s at with this. I’m doing this now\, I’ve always wanted to do it\, let’s see where it goes. And that’s kind of it.” \n*** \nAustin Plaine \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \n*** \nJared Hart \n[Soundcloud] [Twitter] URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/brian-fallon-the-crowes/ 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/BRIANFALLON_ADMAT-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:20160311T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160311T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T112650 CREATED:20160204T220053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160204T220053Z UID:10002196-1457733600-1457733600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:INGROSSO DESCRIPTION:21+ \n*Management has the right to refuse entry / No refunds of any kind all sales are final. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/ingrosso/ 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/2016/02/3.11-INGROSSO1.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:20160312T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160312T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T112650 CREATED:20151124T161338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151124T161338Z UID:10002024-1457805600-1457805600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Rachel Platten [SOLD OUT] DESCRIPTION:Doors: 6:00pm / Show: 6:30pm \nThis show is SOLD OUT. \nThis event is open to all ages. \n*** \nGrowing up in Boston\, Rachel Platten recalls harmonizing with her family to finely crafted pop songs – from Sam Cooke to The Beatles – that dominated her parents’ vinyl collection. As a teenager\, Rachel gravitated towards\, and began to become affected by\, hip-hop and female singer-songwriters. “My CD collection was Tori Amos and Patti Griffin but then A Tribe Called Quest and Nas.” The commonality between the two seemingly different genres: confessional and vulnerable songwriting. \nAs a kid\, Rachel dreamt about music as a career but never really thought it could happen in real life. “I grew up playing classical piano and I knew I could sing but I had no model to follow creatively. The idea of growing up to be an artist seemed impossible.” However\, the electricity she felt on stage while studying abroad in college\, performing in front of 80\,000 at the International Soca Monarch Finals in Trinidad\, inspired Rachel to start chasing what she once thought was an impossible dream. \nAfter finishing college\, Rachel immediately set out for New York City where she took up residence in the very apartment building on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village where Bob Dylan once lived. Naturally\, she found a band on Craigslist and started performing in clubs around the city. Those years consisted of paying dues through a mix of temping during the day and getting fired a lot\, gigging until 4am\, and lugging an 80-pound keyboard to her fifth floor walk-up night after night. Despite the struggle and the setbacks\, Rachel loved being on stage\, even if at times nobody was listening. \n“I felt crazy sometimes that I still believed in myself when there were no signs that I should.” During this time\, a conversation with her soon to be manager\, Ben Singer\, helped reignite her passion. “Ben helped me realize that I had to start my own fire and my songs would be the sparks.” \nRachel would find her first big spark with “Fight Song\,” which took two years for the singer/songwriter to complete. She turned inward by telling her own story through the song. Turns out it was just the message people needed. “The reactions were honest\, and intense. People have been sending me the most beautiful stories of how they refuse to give up\,” she recalls. “Fight Song” is without a doubt the life-changing inspirational song of 2015\, topping iTunes and radio charts\, and selling more than 2 million downloads in the U.S. alone. \nThe fire that “Fight Song” ignited has connected not only with music fans but also Columbia Records. Now planning her major label debut in early 2016\, Rachel is touring the world\, performing on countless television shows and being played on radio stations coast to coast. Rachel just recently premiered the beautifully uplifting music video for her newest single “Stand By You\,” another emotionally empowering anthem from the songstress. But ask Rachel what she wants people to take away from her music and she says\, “I’m in love with the idea of connecting people. Bringing people together is to me\, the most important thing we can do in this life. I feel like that’s my mission with my music. I think that’s why I’m getting this chance right now.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/rachel-platten/ 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/RP-Wildfire-Admat-layered-Updated-localized1.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:20160312T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160312T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T112650 CREATED:20160308T205138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160308T205138Z UID:10002272-1457820000-1457820000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:ALL THAT GLITTERS DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse admission. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/9344/ 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/2016/03/3.12-Glitters.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:20160313T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160313T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T112650 CREATED:20160112T140010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160112T140010Z UID:10001628-1457895600-1457895600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Kyle Kinane DESCRIPTION:Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18+. \nThis is a partially seated show and seats are available on a first-come\, first-serve basis. \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*** \nKyle’s new special “I Liked His Old Stuff Better” debuted on Comedy Central in January\, 2015. He’s appeared on @Midnight\, Conan\, Workaholics\, Those Who Can’t and Comedy Bang! Bang! He can be heard as the voice of Comedy Central and in various animated programs such as\, Regular Show\, Aqua Teen Hunger Force\, Bob’s Burgers\, TripTank\, Adventure Time\, and Lucas Bros. Moving Co.. His first one hour special\, Whiskey Icarus\, aired on Comedy Central in 2012. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/kyle-kinane/ 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/kyle-kinane-bw.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:20160317T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160317T200000 DTSTAMP:20260404T112650 CREATED:20160207T170012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160207T170012Z UID:10001634-1458244800-1458244800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:House of Pain Featuring Everlast DESCRIPTION:Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nThis event is 21+.\nTickets on sale now \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***\nSt. Patrick’s Day 2016\nHouse of Pain Featuring Everlast \n \n[Facebook] [Twitter] \nOn the heels of their widely heralded reunion show at KROQ’s ‘Epicenter 2010’\, EVERLAST and DANNY BOY have decided to get the band back together in celebration of their 20th anniversary. That’s right\, HOUSE OF PAIN is back\, more focused than ever and extremely excited to kick-off a worldwide reunion tour in 2011. \nIt’s hard to believe that the rowdy Irish Americans got started way back in 1991\, but for the past 20 years the group has maintained a high profile – topping the Billboard charts as a group and with solo efforts. It was a turn of a new decade when HOUSE OF PAIN changed the face of hip-hop with their self-titled debut album\, going multi-platinum and launching one of the most memorable songs in hip-hop history with “Jump Around”. Now it’s the start of another new decade and HOUSE OF PAIN is ready to do it all over again; the group aims to bring their fiery live show to fans all over the world\, reclaim the throne as hip-hop’s best and celebrate what has allowed their successes over the past 20 years – the fans. \n“It’s been 20 years and we are very excited to go out there and do this again\,” comments Everlast. “The catalyst was definitely the KROQ Epicenter show this past summer. We had already been working together on the La Coka Nostra record and did an event with [UFC President] Dana White but it really came down to seeing the crazy response from the crowd in LA when we went into ‘Jump Around’. After that\, we went home thinking about it and now is the time to act on it. Every show is going to be like an anniversary party. It’s going to be crazy.” \nSince HOUSE OF PAIN disbanded back in 1996\, the members have kept their star power and went on to huge successes. EVERLAST has maintained an incredibly successful solo career that includes a triple platinum album\, multiple Top 10 hits (including the #1 smash hit “What It’s Like”) and a Grammy for the song “Put Your Lights On” which was recorded with Carlos Santana. Danny Boy changed focus from music to art and launched an extremely successful art company\, multiple clothing lines and ultimately brought the reunion about by forming the group LA COKA NOSTRA that featured the original lineup from HOUSE OF PAIN alongside rappers Slaine and Ill Bill. \nAfter experiencing all of the solo success\, it becomes obvious that HOUSE OF PAIN isn’t a group reforming to cash in on current musical trends. HOUSE OF PAIN is reforming because of the passion that they have for their music. They are back to celebrate with their fans across the 20 years that have spawned tremendous success and undying anthems of rebellious teenagers everywhere. They are back to show young fans everywhere just how raucous and dirty hip-hop can be – to prove that it doesn’t matter your age\, race\, religion or whether you’re into hip-hop\, rock or metal. HOUSE OF PAIN has crafted a 20-year legacy that speaks to fans from all walks of life. \nSo get out of your seat and “Jump Around.” \n*** \nRite Hook \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nRite Hook gives the lost souls of the world a gritty\, honest\, and unique voice. The Boston based alternative artist blends his dense\, lyrical raps with bluesy\, sung rock choruses to capture the struggles of those on the fringe with gruff\, raw emotion.\n“When I first heard Rite Hook\, his choruses and voice stuck in my head weeks later\,” says Ned Wellbery of Leedz Edutainment\, a Boston promotional company. “That’s how I knew he was someone special.” \nRite Hook spent nearly a decade bouncing from band to band and genre to genre\, sharpening his writing\, singing\, and rapping. Whether rapping\, crooning\, or shouting in a hardcore band\, his voice was always a trademark feature: rough\, gritty vocals that reflect a rough\, gritty life.\nHe soon found consistent work crafting hooks for Boston rap legend Slaine\, who also brought him along on tour. A solid emcee himself\, Rite Hook went bar for bar with Slaine and Vinnie Paz on “It Ain’t Easy\,” a breakout track off 2013’s From the Wrong. \nRite Hook grew up in the suburbs of Boston and Worcester\, roaming around the state like a nomad\, before settling in the Hub at 18. No matter what town he found himself in\, he was always part of a generation of blue collar kids who liked to party and cause trouble. That lifestyle followed the artist and his friends from their teen years to adulthood. Fights\, fires\, petty thefts\, and close-knit families that struggled with alcoholism and drugs behind closed doors. As the country grapples with an addiction epidemic\, Rite Hook gives voice to those lost in the struggles of drug abuse\, doubt\, and no place to call home. \nA lost son of Massachusetts himself\, years of hard music and hard living defined Rite Hook’s early career in Boston. In 2012\, he overdosed and died. His heart stopped completely\, and paramedics had to revive him. \nNow a survivor in the truest sense\, he returned to music with a newfound focus\, and churned out the polished album From the Wrong—titled after both the outcasts he grew up with and his fanbase of rock kids with an ear for hard rap styles. The local scene enforced a love of classic rock and the blues\, but as a teen he was also exposed to the raw lyricism of 90’s rap. Never an easy act to pin down\, his art is set to evolve\, driven by dense lyrics\, hard flows\, a rock attitude and a bluesman’s soul. \n“Some people can rap well and sing okay\, others can sing well and rap a bit\, but only a very few can do both extremely well\,” says Wellbery. “Plus\, he looks how he sounds\,” he adds\, commenting on how Rite Hook’s grave vocals match his inked forearms and neck\, blocky build\, and lengthy mane. \nWith more artistic changes to come\, Modify was an easy title choice for his fourth effort—an album that sees the artist inviting others to his story\, sharing his realizations\, struggles\, and triumphs. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/house-of-pain/ 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/house-of-pain-admat2.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:20160318T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160318T230000 DTSTAMP:20260404T112650 CREATED:20160204T220047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160204T220047Z UID:10002198-1458342000-1458342000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:BINGO PLAYERS DESCRIPTION:21+ \n*Management has the right to refuse entry / No refunds of any kind all sales are final. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/bingo-players-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/2016/02/3.18-BINGO.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:20160319T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160319T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T112650 CREATED:20160315T231848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160315T231848Z UID:10001641-1458424800-1458424800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:GET LUCKY DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. Admission not guaranteed after midnight. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/get-lucky/ 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/ROYALE_GET_LUCKY_4X6.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:20160320T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160320T200000 DTSTAMP:20260404T112650 CREATED:20160118T180020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160118T180020Z UID:10002156-1458504000-1458504000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Pete Yorn DESCRIPTION:92.5 The River presents \n“Arrangingtime Tour” \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18+.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/22 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*** \n \nIt’s hard to think of anything more starkly reliable than the ticking of a clock\, but time is an untrustworthy thing. It feels like ages since we’ve had a proper Pete Yorn LP to dissect\, though it’s been just five years. And it seems like only yesterday that we first heard musicforthemorningafter\, which came out back in 2001. Yorn’s brand new album and Capitol Records debut\, ArrangingTime\, plays with the elasticity of the years both in between and since — it’s not only a culmination of the Los Angeles by way of New Jersey artist’s adventurous latter-day projects\, but a return to his original leaner methods. \nFor the first time since 2003’s Day I Forgot\, producer R. Walt Vincent returns to help Yorn execute his most poised and diverse set of songs yet. ArrangingTime runs the gamut from elegiac folk to wasteland blues to upbeat\, synth-kissed rock. Of course\, some things never change. Yorn still plays the observer\, stepping into characters — or his past selves from previous years — routing wistful poems and beatific visions through the weather-beaten voice of a man who’s seen a few things in his time. \n“I’ll look at pictures of places I went\, or things I did\,” says Yorn\, “and I think\, ‘Look at how great that day was and you just missed it.’ I think about the past and how much of it is a blur. The title of the album is a reminder to be present and within each song is a minor lesson about that. Time only gets faster as you get older.” \nWe blinked and Yorn turned 40\, but he isn’t settling or slowing. If the extra-musical side of his last few years has been about anything\, it is hard work. He’s focused on personal growth\, broken bad habits\, learned to get out of his own way\, and become more lithe to life’s undulations. He got married. He gave the commencement address at alma mater Syracuse University (his speech was about running toward the stuff that makes you uncomfortable in life). And last year\, after completing an acoustic tour without a backing band or a set list\, he welcomed a child into this world. \n“I was taking my life back\,” says Yorn. “It was back-to-back with the records\, and I toured a lot. There used to be just one way to approach the road in my mind: fucking burn it out. I had to realize\, ‘Maybe I’m addicted to some things\, and a little scared of adulthood.’ I said\, ‘I want to tackle this.’ Now\, discipline feels better than excess.” \nAs he prepares to release another album\, it’s clear his music has been shored up too. By one measure\, another trick of time\, Yorn’s first three albums span a single day. The so-called “trilogy” — musicforthemorningafter\, Day I Forgot\, and Nightcrawler (2006) — captures the man’s progression from an unknown songwriter unspooling raw magic at the storied Café Largo\, to the sort of dude who can dial up Dave Grohl for a ripping drum solo and trade twanged verses with Natalie Maines. Those all found Yorn solo with a producer\, building songs in the studio (or garage). \nBut for his last two\, 2009’s Back & Fourth and 2010’s Pete Yorn\, he did the session thing\, stepping into readymade bands under the guidance of Saddle Creek producer Mike Mogis and Pixies genius Frank Black\, respectively. And those were bookended by collaborative projects: 2009’s playful album-length duet with Scarlett Johansson\, Break Up\, and The Olms (2013)\, a sunny\, ’60s-styled retro-pop duo with J.D. King. \n“I went on a run abandoning my first approach\,” says Yorn. “I was molting an old skin in a lot of ways. After that\, it felt natural to come back to just letting it flow with Walt. I have no illusions: You can’t walk through the same river twice. I’m not trying to recreate an album I made in my 20s. I’m revisiting a method. I started off doing watercolors\, then I did sculpting. And now I’m back on watercolors.” \nBut he does bring his experience with him to the looser style of his first producer\, R. Walt Vincent (with work from a couple of others). ArrangingTime opener “Summer Was a Day” drops us into the desert at night — it’s lush with shimmering ambience\, swelling strings\, ringing guitar strum and skittering beats. And while “In Your Head” juxtaposes Springsteen’s heartland chug with Morrissey’s dramatic softness\, a song like “Shopping Mall” is just understated and pretty — spare on instrumentation and generous with emotion. Penultimate track “Tomorrow” is almost a dance cut\, and Yorn’s attempt to buck the singer-songwriter trend of the album-ending slow fade. \nArrangingTime flows like a mixtape with Yorn’s warm voice and perspective as the through-line. These 12 songs are populated by fragmented folks: people waiting for something to happen (the bus-stop sitter in the dreamy “Halifax”)\, or chasing a feeling they once had (the angsty burnout in the raucous “Screaming at the Setting Sun”). But it’s not all so bleak — light seeps through the cracks in “I’m Not the One\,” where our host morphs into a loner coming to terms with his self-imposed isolation. \n“I’m an observer\,” says Yorn. “I’m into subtleties\, the moments between moments\, but I don’t pretend to know where all the ideas come from. I try to clear myself\, create a melody and let that emotion dictate what comes out. I like my own songs when I haven’t even figured them out yet. I’m into the mysterious part of the process.” \nBut we’re still allowed to guess at the hidden lessons of ArrangingTime. In the case of the characters above\, one’s stuck on the future\, one’s trapped in the past\, and the other’s learning to be present. The ambling “Walking Up” acknowledges outcomes both negative and positive as neutral — the titular act is what’s important: facing the challenge\, eyes open\, in the moment. Because as seemingly treacherous as that tick-tock\, tick-tock can be\, it’s not time that’s changeable. It’s the timekeeper. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/pete-yorn/ 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/pete-yorn-admat-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:20160321T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160321T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T112650 CREATED:20160119T170013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160119T170013Z UID:10002159-1458586800-1458586800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Yung Lean DESCRIPTION:Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 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*** \nYung Lean \n \n[SoundCloud] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nSwedish rapper born in 1996. Yung Lean exists in a universe of instant references to the pop culture that surrounds him. Digimon\, Space Jam\, Nintendo64\, Mindcraft\, Transformers\, Super Smash Bros.\, Pokemon\, Windows screensavers… Musically Yung Lean and his Sad Boys crew\, all born in 1995\, 1996\, works in rap’s freeform tradition. A flowing\, asymmetrical and multicoloured creativity where wrong might as well be right. Emotional laser sword melancholia from Stockholm. \nSo far 2014 Yung Lean has been nominated for a place in the XXL Freshmen Class\, several videos has reached over a million views on Youtube and he’s done a sold out european tour. The next project is on it’s way and it’s finally time to meet the fans in the US and Canada. The Black Marble tour visits around 15 cities in 20 days. \n*** \nAdamn Killa \n \n[SoundCloud] [Twitter] \nChicago\, IL URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/yung-lean/ 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/YungLean_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:20160325T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160325T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T112650 CREATED:20160204T220057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160204T220057Z UID:10002199-1458943200-1458943200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:SUNNERY JAMES & RYAN MARCIANO DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/sunnery-james-ryan-marciano/ 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/2016/02/3.15-SJRM.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:20160326T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160326T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T112650 CREATED:20160322T183031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160322T183031Z UID:10001643-1459029600-1459029600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:DUDENGUY DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/dudenguy/ 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/ROYALE_DNG_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:20160327T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160327T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T112650 CREATED:20160205T171148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160205T171148Z UID:10001633-1459110600-1459110600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Thanos Petrelis DESCRIPTION:21+ URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/thanos-petrelis/ 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/2016/02/3.27-Thanos-Petrelis.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:20160329T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160329T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T112650 CREATED:20160110T060142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160110T060142Z UID:10002122-1459278000-1459278000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Lucius [SOLD OUT] DESCRIPTION:92.5 The River presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over.\nThis show is SOLD OUT \n*** \n \n*** \nLucius \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nLucius is a triple-threat of vocal harmonies\, infectious hooks\, and dance-inducing percussion. Pair those traits with the band’s irresistible live show and it’s easy to see why NPR Music calls Lucius “a fabulous band playing such infectious pop songs.” Charismatic co-founders and lead vocalists Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig sing in unison uniquely delivering songs with stories told from the same perspective. Multi-instrumentalists Andrew Burri\, Peter Lalish\, and Dan Molad round out the quintet. \nMarch 2016 brings the release of Good Grief\, the band’s sophomore effort and the follow-up to 2013’s successful debut Wildewoman. The lead song “Born Again Teen\,” which Rolling Stone calls “ebullient” is available now. \nWolfe and Laessig met in 2005 while attending Berklee College of Music. Since forming\, Lucius has toured extensively\, playing headline shows and major festivals including Bonnaroo\, Austin City Limits\, Lollapalooza and Newport Folk Festival. Additionally they have collaborated with the likes of Jeff Tweedy\, David Byrne and Roger Waters and have toured with The Decemberists\, My Morning Jacket\, Jack White and more. \n*** \nPure Bathing Culture \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nTo hear Sarah Versprille and Daniel Hindman tell it\, their Portland\, OR-based band Pure Bathing Culture has always evolved naturally and at a steady pace. “That’s really the path we’ve been on as a band\, always putting one foot in front of the other as opportunities presented themselves\,” Versprille said. “The music just revealed itself to us as we kept going.”\nBut for Pure Bathing Culture’s second album\, Pray for Rain\, the band has taken a big leap forward. You can hear it from the opening notes of their anthemic title track: in Hindman’s clean yet serpentine guitar lines interacting with the live rhythm section and Versprille’s lucid vocals cutting through it all as she asks: “Is it pleasure? Is it pain? Did you pray for rain?” Pray for Rain is the sound of the group confidently taking a step up to the next level and finding their footing as a true band.\n“We needed to make a big step and our version of that was to cut the cord from our previous albums\,” Hindman said of the process\, then confesses: “I was nervous all the way through. It was nerve-wracking and almost antagonizing at times.”\nThe roots of Pure Bathing Culture stretch back to 1999\, when Versprille and Hindman befriended one another on the first day of freshman orientation at William Patterson University in Wayne\, New Jersey. A decade later\, they became bandmates when they both joined Vetiver for their Sub-Pop albums Tight Knit and The Errant Charm. It was while playing in Vetiver that Pure Bathing Culture emerged as its own entity.\n“Dan was working on some instrumentals that he would make on a looping pedal\,” Sarah said. “One night he was out and I just listened to this loop and wrote some lyrics to it. He came home and I showed it to him. We laughed at first\, as we didn’t have some grand plan to start a band. It just happened naturally.” That song “Lucky One\,” wound up in the hands of Richard Swift\, who encouraged the duo to keep writing. “Richard pushed us along and became an inspiration\,” Dan said. Swift wound up producing the band’s first EP and dreamy full-length\, 2013’s Moon Tides at his National Freedom studio.\nFrom there\, PBC evolved from simply being the product of Versprille and Hindman writing songs in their own home to hitting the road as a full touring band. “Sarah and I conceptualize music and then write so it’s a pretty fragile state\,” Hindman said. “Playing live was a huge change for us.”\nWhen it came time to write and record their follow-up to Moon Tides\, the duo knew what they didn’t want. “We didn’t gravitate towards someone making indie dream-pop records\,” Dan said. That was when producer John Congleton (St. Vincent\, Swans\, Angel Olsen\, The Walkmen) reached out to the band and invited them to come record with him in his Dallas\, TX studio.\n“John pushed us to not make clichés\, to not play into the style of other bands\,” Dan said. The challenges came right away as Congleton pressed the group into unfamiliar and at times uncomfortable territory in the studio. “He tricked me with the guitars on the album\,” Dan said. “We got the basic tracks down and he asked me to do scratch guitar and then John wouldn’t let me go back and do the guitars again. He refused to do any layering.” \nAs a result\, everything on Pray for Rain is pretty much as Pure Bathing Culture actually sounds\, all analog gear\, with virtually no plug-ins or effects added afterwards\, no hiding behind multiple layers. “There aren’t a lot of tricks; What you hear is naturally what’s there\,” Dan said. \nIt was a taxing yet ultimately rewarding experience when the album was completed. “It was shocking to hear what the finished product was\,” Sarah said. “It was like being in a vortex and then we came out with this record.” She adds with a laugh something John Congleton told her when all was said and done: “You were very brave.” \nSarah summarizes the Pray for Rain experience as one of “stepping into the realm of discovering who we are as a band and as songwriters\,” echoing a theme of the album itself\, the process of change and transition. “You can find the best version of yourself in those hardest moments\,” she said. To which Dan adds: “You have to be backed up against the wall in order to really feel those feelings and respond to them.” Pray for Rain is the sound of Pure Bathing Culture transforming from who they were to who they will be\, of finding their way\, ready to take steps both small and momentous on their musical path. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/lucius/ 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/Admat-Lucius-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:20160401T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160401T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T112650 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:20260404T112650 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:20260404T112650 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:20260404T112650 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:20260404T112650 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:20260404T112650 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:20260404T112650 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:20260404T112650 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:20260404T112650 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:20260404T112650 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:20260404T112650 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:20260404T112650 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:20260404T112650 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:20260404T112650 CREATED:20160408T171848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160408T171848Z UID:10002328-1460844000-1460844000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:ULTRA VIOLET DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. 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