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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171006T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171006T220000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170801T221107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170801T221107Z UID:10002540-1507327200-1507327200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Sofa King Fridays w/ Showtek DESCRIPTION:VIP Inquiries please call 617.733.0505 \nThis event is 21+ \nDress Code: No shorts\, hats\, boots\, athletic wear\, tanks\, flip flops\, or backpacks. Please see FAQ/Policy page for more details. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/sofa-king-fridays-w-showtek/ 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/2017/08/106-Showtek.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:20171007T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171007T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170802T171755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170802T171755Z UID:10002541-1507395600-1507411800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:The Wonder Years: Intimate Acoustic Tour DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 5:00 pm / Show: 6:00 pm \nThis event is all ages.\nTickets on sale Fri. 8/4 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nThe Wonder Years \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nWhat was originally a one-off song written by a group of bored suburban kids turned into a five-year plan none of them were expecting. Call it the ultimate after-school project. With only the intent and purpose of taking that one song and infecting it on everyone they knew\, this ragtag group of “socially awkward” musicians called The Wonder Years found themselves in the middle of a burgeoning – wait for it – career. Now\, as the band joins the Hopeless Records family\, it’s obvious their easygoing short-term plans have changed dramatically. \nThe Wonder Years have come a long way from piggybacking their friends’ shows in Philly with that one initial song to sharing stages with the likes of New Found Glory\, Set Your Goals and Comeback Kid. Oh\, and Boyz II Men. Comprised of Dan “Soupy” Campbell (vocals)\, Casey Cavaliere and Matt Brasch (guitar)\, Nick Steinborn (keys/guitar)\, Josh Martin (bass) and Michael Kennedy (drums)\, they’re a band that used to borrow gear from their friends\, trying to make shows memorable and exciting without worrying whether it was a perfect set or if they were even on time. It shows what the relatable appeal of a band can do – even when\, as in the early days\, they’re not even really trying. \nTheir influences\, ranging from tour mates NFG to Saves the Day and the Hold Steady\, are apparent in the attitude of a band that just want to connect with their audience in the most authentic and unpretentious way possible. “We’re just ourselves all the time\, and we don’t have any rad gimmicks\,” Campbell said. “We play loud and fast and recklessly. We front flip off speakers and sweat and spit and break just about everything. We’ve walked off stage needing stitches more than once.” \n“We’re a band very much charge of ourselves. We always kind of know exactly what we want to do and exactly how we want to do it\, and we like Hopeless because they let us do just that\,” Campbell said. \nThe Wonder Years released their follow up to “The Upsides” this year. Their highly anticipated album “Suburbia\, I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing” is available now. \n*** \nLaura Stevenson \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nLaura Stevenson is finally learning not to worry. After more than a year of national and worldwide touring following the release of her critically acclaimed album Wheel\, both headlining\, and alongside such varied acts as Against Me!\, The Go-Go’s\, Kevin Devine\, Tim Kasher of Cursive\, and The Gaslight Anthem\, the songwriter made the move from her between-tour home base of Brooklyn\, to upstate New York’s Hudson River Valley. There\, she rented a nineteenth- century Victorian\, a former brothel in a cement-mining town-turned hippie-enclave\, and converted the attic into a makeshift studio. It was in this space that she and her band went to work arranging and demoing the eleven songs she had written that would make up Cocksure\, Stevenson’s fourth album. The record features musicians Mike Campbell\, Alex Billig and Peter Naddeo\, who in various incarnations have performed with her for over seven years\, as well as newcomer Samantha Niss\, a long-time Hudson Valley resident and the veritable go-to drummer of the region. \nWhere 2013’s Wheel was full of lingering uncertainty\, harkening to Stevenson’s folk and country leanings\, Cocksure is a straightforward\, to the point\, emboldened rock and roll album. Although some existential dread still peaks through the cracks\, Stevenson treats themes as heavy-hearted as sudden and tragic death\, self-imposed exile in small windowless rooms\, and that back-of-your- mind anxiety that the road you’re on may not be the right one\, as their own signs of life; a life that is brightly colored by those realities. \nWith influences ranging from The Lemonheads\, Liz Phair\, and The Replacements\, to early Weezer and the Smoking Popes\, Cocksure maintains Stevenson’s unique vulnerability\, and steadfast devotion to a solid and honest melody. In the writing process\, she challenged herself to be true to whatever was going to come out of her\, with many of the tracks featuring melodies that were purely stream of consciousness. “I felt like over-working it would suck some of the spirit out of the songs… this record needed that spontaneity. Spending so much time editing and second guessing yourself takes all the life out of it.” \nThis sense of spontaneity was maintained in the way Cocksure was recorded. In May of 2015\, Stevenson and her band traveled city-bound to Room 17\, a studio located in her old neighborhood of Bushwick\, Brooklyn. “It’s this very positive and amazing space\, and Joe Rogers\, the engineer\, was so enthusiastic about what we were doing. Everyone was comfortable enough to just really play and not get caught up in anything else.” All the main instrumentation on Cocksure was performed live\, no clicks/no punches\, under the watchful eyes of Rogers and producer Jeff Rosenstock\, Stevenson’s long-time friend and collaborator. “Jeff was the perfect person for the job. All of his Bomb The Music Industry! and solo recordings have this energy to them\, they’re like living things. I wanted to capture some of the magic he has.” The album was later mixed and mastered by Jack Shirley (Joyce Manor\, Deafheaven\, Tony Molina) at Atomic Garden Studios in Palo Alto\, CA. \nSelf-assurance is a new hat for Stevenson\, and on Cocksure she confronts her usual tendencies toward self-deprecation head-on. “It’s freeing to stop being so hard on yourself\, and to quiet down all of the outside noise\,” she says. “Once you’re able to do that\, you can actually write what you should be writing.” \nLaura Stevenson will release Cocksure on October 30\, 2015\, via Don Giovanni Records. \n*** \nThe Obsessives \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nLo-fi EP “A Great Menace Weighs Over the City” is out now! theobsessives.com\nThese songs were written and recorded by both of us this summer\, just for you guys – enjoy 8)\n/////New LP coming in 2017 on Lame-o Records///// \n*** \nJetty Bones \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nkelc writes the songs and asks for help from her friends. then they play you the songs. then we all hug and dance. then we build this life long bond where we can all just be friends and a progressive\, mutually supportive team in the seemingly endless race to establish the kindness we know as genuine humanity. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/wonder-years-intimate-acoustic-tour/ 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/2017/08/The-Wonder-Years-admat-2017.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:20171007T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171007T220000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170919T230352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170919T230352Z UID:10002559-1507413600-1507413600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Cosmic at Royale Saturdays w/ Pauly D DESCRIPTION:Opening sets by Dirty Dek & Nitty \nVIP Inquiries please call 617.733.0505 \nThis event is 21+ \nDress Code: No shorts\, sneakers\, hats\, boots\, athletic wear\, tanks\, flip flops\, or backpacks. Please see FAQ/Policy page for more details. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/cosmic-royale-saturdays-w-pauly-d/ 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/2017/09/107-Pauly-D.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:20171010T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171010T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20171010T213835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171010T213835Z UID:10002566-1507622400-1507654800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Cosmic UV Party w/ DJ Tao DESCRIPTION: URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/cosmic-uv-party-w-dj-tao-2/ LOCATION:279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/1021-DJ-Tao.png GEO:42.3499958;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=279 Tremont Street Boston 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499958 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171010T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171010T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170814T154308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170814T154308Z UID:10001833-1507662000-1507662000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Gary Allan DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 8/18 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \nGary Allan \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nWith the allure of a modern day outlaw\, Gary Allan has won over fans\, peers and critics with his signature blend of smoldering vocals\, rebellious lyrics and raucous live performances. While becoming a force on the country music scene\, Allan has remained true to his artistic voice each step of the way. Allan re-signed with Universal Music Group Nashville in 2016\, the label home for the entirety of his twenty-year career. He is currently finishing up work for his upcoming EMI Nashville release. His last album\, SET YOU FREE\, topped the Billboard 200 (Pop Chart)\, a career first for Allan. The album also made its debut at the top of the Billboard Country Album chart (for the fourth time in a row)\, and produced his fifth #1 country radio chart topper with “Every Storm Runs Out Of Rain.” The California native released his first album\, Used Heart for Sale\, in 1996 and since then has released eight additional studio albums selling over 8 million albums\, been certified platinum on three back-to-back albums\, and been certified gold five times. Allan has five #1 hits at country radio\, fourteen Top 10 hits to his credit and amassed over 1.4 billion total streams.  He’s described as “dark and dreamy” in Entertainment Weekly\, “soulful and rough around the edges” in Playboy and deemed a “maverick” by Rolling Stone.  He sells out venues as a headliner from NY to LA\, appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno\, Late Show with David Letterman\, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon\, Live with Kelly and Michael and Jimmy Kimmel Live. He has also landed on the covers of Country Weekly\, Pollstar and People magazine.   URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/gary-allan/ 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/2017/08/GaryAllan_EA_1008_HIres_WEB-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:20171011T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171011T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170823T162906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170823T162906Z UID:10002550-1507752000-1507752000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Syd DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Please note: bags or backpacks larger than a purse are prohibited.\nTickets on sale Fri. 8/25 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n***\nSyd \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/syd/ 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/2017/08/image1-7.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:20171013T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171013T220000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170626T172355Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170626T172355Z UID:10001809-1507932000-1507932000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:#SofaKingFridays w/ Gorgon City DESCRIPTION:21+ \nPre-sale w/ code on sale Tuesday June 27 at 10am\nGeneral Sale Wednesday June 28 at 10am \nVIP Inquiries 617-733-0505 URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/sofakingfridays-w-gorgon-city/ 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/2017/06/101317-Gorgon-City.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:20171014T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171014T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170602T165519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170602T165519Z UID:10002514-1508005800-1508016600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Blue October DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 6/9 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nBlue October \n \n“Fear” from albums such as 2009’s Billboard Top 200 #13 debut Approaching Normal\, 2011’s Billboard #8 debut Any Man In America\, the Platinum-selling Foiled and most recently Billboard’s #13 debut Sway\, reaching audiences around the world. \nOn April 22nd\, 2016\, Blue October will release their 8th studio album\, titled Home. This album was co-produced by Justin Furstenfeld and Tim Palmer and features mixes from Tim Palmer and Mark Needham. \n“Sway was about finding inner peace and learning to live in a healthy way\,” says Furstenfeld. “This new album Home is about what we do with our time on earth\, how we’re going to utilize that time in a positive way and make it the best we possibly can by bettering ourselves.” \n*** \nThe Score \n \nTO OUR FANS: \nWe started writing together six years ago\, and had no idea where it would take us. Just two dudes in New York\, learning how to write and produce. We wrote a lot of bad songs\, and tried a lot of different things. We moved to LA and wrote more songs\, and tried more different things…like recording in Edan’s bedroom closet. And one pop song we wrote happened to land in a commercial\, and that commercial happened to be really big. ‘Spotify Viral #1’ big. ‘Major label record-deal’ big. ‘Worldwide booking agency’ big. And all that was really cool\, but we had a problem — we weren’t actually a pop band. \nWe like guitars. We like rock and roll. And we like it loud. So we started doing what we like\, and it’s been pretty damn cool so far. Our new EP Myths & Legends is four of the most honest songs we’ve ever written\, and we think our fans reactions say it all: \n“Who ever Disliked song\, I will find you and force you to listin to this song Intel you regret your life choices.” – Chase Cornett\n“The best song I have ever heard” – Mr. Nightmare\nand…\n“The Score=GOAT ‘Like’ if they never disappoint you!!!” – DawnCS \nWe hope you like the new music\, but if you don’t…Chase Cornett will find you and force you to listen to it until you regret your life choices. \n– Eddie & Edan ** THE SCORE URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/blue-october-2/ 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/2017/06/blue-october-admat-2017v2.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:20171014T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171014T220000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20171003T124813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171003T124813Z UID:10001850-1508018400-1508018400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Cosmic Saturdays w/ Bad Royale DESCRIPTION:21+ \nVip inquiries call/text 617.733.0505 URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/cosmic-saturdays-w-bad-royale/ LOCATION:279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/1014-Bad-Royale.png GEO:42.3499958;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=279 Tremont Street Boston 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499958 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171015T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171015T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170629T161953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170629T161953Z UID:10002524-1508094000-1508094000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Throwing Shade Live DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 6/30 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nThrowing Shade \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nErin’s Twitter\nBryan’s Twitter \nCalled “the perfect combination of silly\, intelligent\, cynical and charming” by Entertainment Weekly and “well worth dialing up” by the New York Times tv critic\, \nThrowing Shade Live is the boundary-pushing political comedy podcast and tv show hosted by Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi who bring their fresh takes on pop culture\, women’s rights\, and LGBT rights live to the stage for an evening of hilarity and vulgarity. “Sorry Bill Maher\, there has never been a raunchier or funnier current affairs program.” – Fast Company URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/throwing-shade-live/ 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/2017/06/throwing-shade-admat-2017.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:20171018T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171018T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170802T170351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170802T170351Z UID:10002542-1508356800-1508356800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Vasilis Karras w/ Eleftheria Eleftheriou DESCRIPTION:21+ URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/vasilis-karras-w-eleftheria-eleftheriou/ 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/2017/08/1011-Greek-Karras.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:20171019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171019T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170626T173102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170626T173102Z UID:10001808-1508439600-1508439600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Moon Taxi DESCRIPTION:92.5 The River Presents\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18+. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. \nTickets on sale now! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nMoon Taxi \n \nWEBSITE\nFACEBOOK \nIndie rock band from Nashville\, Tennessee\, U.S. \n*** \nToo Many Zooz \n \nWEBSITE\nFACEBOOK \nWith the snowballing trend towards electronic instrumentation in music\, it’s easy to forget where it all first started: on street corners with real instruments\, playing for tips\, that is until you’ve heard Too Many Zooz. Too Many Zooz is a three-piece “BrassHouse” band comprised of Matt Doe\, Leo P\, and King of Sludge. The group found their voice playing for change on New York’s subway platforms\, honing extremely danceable rhythms and melodies. \nNamed one to Billboards’ Top 25 Next Big Sound\, thanks in part to a video of one of their frenetic subway performances was posted to Reddit and went viral to the tune of over 2.2 million views\, and in a very short time amassed a large fan base. Additional videos have millions of views\, and Facebook likes over 420\,000. \nThis is all for good reason\, too. Their music is infectious\, impossible to stay still listening to. As old-fashioned as their musical approach is\, – if one were to call live instrumentation old fashioned – the structure of their songs follows very closely to any hit dance music track\, hence their self-prescribed “brass house” genre. The drums provide a rhythmic base\, the saxophone a bass line and the trumpet serves as the melody\, guiding you to a gradually increasing\, precipitous crescendo\, where all the instruments come together only “drop” from a dizzying height\, clashing together in an explosive climax of sound. Too Many Zooz will definitely force you to reconsider the way you think about jazz music. Don’t just take our word for it\, Beyoncé APPROVES! \nTOO MANY ZOOZ have shared the stage with Beyoncé\, KASKADE\, Beats Antique\, Galactic and more. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/moon-taxi/ 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/2017/06/Moon-Taxi-admat-2017v2.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:20171020T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170724T135119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170724T135119Z UID:10002533-1508522400-1508535000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Wolf Parade DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 7/28 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nWolf Parade \nWolf Parade \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nThe soaring choruses\, rousing anthems\, sprawling guitars and chaotic keys that make up Wolf Parade are on proud display over the course of Cry Cry Cry\, the band’s thunderous first album in seven years. \nThat unique combination of sounds and influences\, spearheaded by electric co-frontmen Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner—a complex yet relatable\, energetic brew of glam\, prog\, synth-rock\, and satisfying discomfort—helped define 2000s indie rock with three critically celebrated albums\, and propelled a growing Wolf Parade fandom even after the band went on a then-indefinite hiatus in 2010. \nThe upcoming return marks their first to be produced by Pacific Northwest legend John Goodmanson (Bikini Kill\, Sleater-Kinney\, Unwound) at Robert Lang Studios outside of Seattle\, and is accompanied by a renewed focus and the creativity of a band that took their time getting exactly where they needed to be. It’s also a homecoming to Sub Pop\, which released all three of the band’s previous albums. \n“The band itself is almost a fifth member of the band\, something more or at least different than the sum of its parts\,” says Krug. “We don’t know who or what is responsible for our sound\, it’s just something that naturally and consistently comes from this particular combo of musicians.” \n“Once we got back together\, I was playing guitar\, writing and singing in a way that I only do while I’m in Wolf Parade\,” says Dan Boeckner\, who shares primary lyrical and singing duties with Spencer. “It’s just something that I can’t access without the other three people in the room.” \nIn the time apart\, the band scattered geographically and focused on family and other work–Spencer on his solo project Moonface\, Dan on his bands Handsome Furs\, Operators\, and Divine Fits (with Spoon’s Britt Daniel)\, and Dante De Caro on records with Carey Mercer’s Frog Eyes and Blackout Beach. And that time allowed for an even stronger\, tighter band to emerge. \nEventually\, Spencer\, Dante\, and Arlen found themselves all back living on remote Vancouver Island\, accompanied by a population density less than that of Alaska\, and the tranquility that leads to creative emanations like a government-sponsored bathtub race. With Dan on the same coast in Northern California\, discussions began about picking things up where they left off. \n“All of our albums are always a reaction to our last one\,” says Arlen. “Expo 86 (2010) was about as sparse as we get\, which is usually still pretty dense\, and this time we wanted to make the palette a little larger.” Adds Dante\, “Expo was a real rock record. We just sort of banged it out\, which was kind of the point.” Cry Cry Cry\, on the other hand\, is more deliberate in its arrangements and embrace of the studio process. “If a part was going on for too long it would get lopped\, you know?” says Dan. “That being said\, there are two very long songs on the record and I don’t think it would be a Wolf Parade record if it didn’t have some kind of prog epic.” \n“I think we’re actually a better band than we were when we stopped playing music together\,” says Arlen. “A little bit more life experience for everybody\, and people having made a bunch of records on their own.” \nThe result of this new consciousness is songs like “Valley Boy\,” a Bowie-inflected anthem for which Spencer wrote lyrics after Leonard Cohen died the day before the 2016 election (“The radio’s been playing all your songs\, talking about the way you slipped away up the stairs\, did you know that it was all gonna go wrong?”). “You’re Dreaming\,” also influenced by the election and the spinning shock that followed\, is driving\, urgent power pop that draws from artists like Tom Petty and what Dan calls one of his “default languages” for writing music. The swirly\, synth-heavy crescendo of “Artificial Life” takes on the struggle of artists and at-risk communities (“If the flood should ever come\, we’ll be last in the lifeboat”). \nThe album carries a sense of uprising that is not unrelated to Wolf Parade’s renewed determination to drive the band forward in uncertain times. Welcome to Cry Cry Cry. \nAll right\nLet’s fight\nLet’s rage against the night \n– “Lazarus Online” (Spencer Krug) URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/wolf-parade/ 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/2017/07/Wolf-Parade-admat-2017.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:20171020T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T230000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170803T151951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T151951Z UID:10002543-1508540400-1508540400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Sofa King Fridays w/ Gryffin DESCRIPTION:**DOORS AT 11pm)\nVIP Inquiries please call 617.733.0505 \nThis event is 21+ \nDress Code: No shorts\, hats\, boots\, athletic wear\, tanks\, flip flops\, or backpacks. Please see FAQ/Policy page for more details. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/sofa-king-fridays-w-gryffin/ 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/2017/08/1020-Gryffin.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:20171021T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170620T162108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170620T162108Z UID:10001803-1508608800-1508621400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 6/23 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nHope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions \n \n[Website]\n[Facebook] \nThrough The Devil Softly\nThe delicious dichotomy between darkness and light\, the space between inspiration and the manifestation of thought\, is where Hope Sandoval’s music and lyrics catch fire. Through The Devil Softly\, her second album with Warm Inventions partner Colm Ó C”osóig (My Bloody Valentine)\, is a rich brocade of pastoral meditations that resonate with the kind of restrained yet provocative intimacy that only these two artists can provide. Well known for their reticence in the media\, they’ve once again chosen to pour out their hearts and minds on record.\nIt’s been eight years since the release of the critically acclaimed Bavarian Fruit Bread\, but Colm and Hope aren’t ones to adhere to traditional timetables and conventions. “Time is vibrations for us\,” he says. “We didn’t feel like [this album] was ready until it was ready.” In the meantime\, however\, neither artist has been creatively idle. Hope has collaborated with Devendra Banhart\, Air\, Bert Jansch\, Death In Vegas\, and is due to appear on Massive Attack’s forthcoming album. And yes\, a new Mazzy Star record is on the horizon. (“It’s almost finished\,” says Hope\, “but when it will be coming out\, I don’t know.”) Meanwhile\, 2009 saw the reunion of My Bloody Valentine for a select group of live shows\, kicking off with an incendiary performance at this year’s Coachella Festival.\n“It’s like the opposite ends of the spectrum\,” says Ó C”osóig of the difference between MBV and his work with Sandoval. “I play very held back\, but there’s a tension to it.”\nWritten and recorded over the past two years in both Northern California and the Wicklow Mountains of southeast Ireland\, Through The Devil Softly sees Sandoval and Ó C”osóig sharing production and engineering credits\, with Dave Trumfio (Wilco\, The Rentals) and Jim Putnam of the Radar Brothers assisting in the mix. Other guests of note include Mazzy Star keyboardist Suki Ewers and cellist Ji Young Moon\, who provides the solo on the sublime “Thinking Like That.” But the album’s most broad brush addition comes courtesy of Ireland’s Dirt Blue Gene\, the group who tracked the recordings with Sandoval and Ó C”osóig\, and will accompany them on their upcoming tour. While the simplicity of “Lady Jessica and Sam” and the bucolic beauty of “Fall Aside” represent one facet of the record\, Dirt Blue Gene help inject an undulating\, sultry swagger into songs like “Trouble” and “For The Rest Of Your Life” that compliments the album’s more delicate passages. Elsewhere\, autoharps\, vibraphones\, slide guitars\, and crystalline bell chimes flicker across the tape heads like shadows\, used so sparingly at times that their sound is barely audible above Hope’s hushed inflection. On “There’s A Willow\,” her verses are carried on the back of a simple\, singular cymbal\, cresting and falling like ocean waves. Meandering guitar and harmonica parts waltz together like old lovers\, while the distant knocking of a solitary woodblock and the tapping of a tom provide the only cadence. “I merely standing on holes in the ground. If I fall\, well they’ll never know I’m found\,” she coos on “Banchard.” Later she muses\, “I play death in the space of my life. That’s how I feel\, and I never think it twice\,” and you’re left to wonder if she’s ruminating on her own taciturn nature. As with the album’s title\, the words are not there to be explained. They’re to be felt and interpreted. The mystery is magnetic.\n“We just make music for ourselves\,” says Colm. “We don’t really pay attention to what’s going on in the big world when it comes to pop music or anything.”\nAnyone whose seen Sandoval perform live\, either with Mazzy Star or the Warm Inventions\, can attest to that intimacy. Often shrouded in low light\, she rarely communicates with the crowd outside the boundaries of a song. “I go into myself\, close myself off\,” says Hope of her relationship with audiences. “But I do know that they’re there.”\nRife with lush sonics and textures\, Through The Devil Softly is a deliberate body of work that gently solicits your patience\, and like the cover photograph\, it’s creators reveal very little so that the art can reveal so much. \n*** \nHoly Wave \n \n[Website]\n[Facebook] \nFreaks of Nurture by HOLY WAVE \nKyle Hager\nDustin Zozaya\nJulian Ruiz\nJoey Cook\nRyan Fuson URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/hope-sandoval-warm-inventions/ 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/2017/06/hope-sandoval-admat-2017v2.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:20171021T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T220000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20171009T181926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T181926Z UID:10002565-1508623200-1508623200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Cosmic UV Party w/ DJ Tao DESCRIPTION:VIP Inquiries please call 617.733.0505 \n*Wear white for free entry before 11:30pm \nThis event is 21+ \nDress Code: No shorts\, sneakers\, hats\, boots\, athletic wear\, tanks\, flip flops\, or backpacks. Please see FAQ/Policy page for more details. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/cosmic-uv-party-w-dj-tao/ LOCATION:279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/1021-DJ-Tao.png GEO:42.3499958;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=279 Tremont Street Boston 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499958 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171022T183000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170808T154953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170808T154953Z UID:10002545-1508697000-1508697000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Citizen DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:30 pm \nThis event is All Ages.\nTickets on sale Fri. 8/11 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n*** \nCitizen \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nCitizen’s As You Please reports from ground zero of an epidemic. Two years removed from their previous Run For Cover LP\, Everybody Is Going To Heaven\, Citizen’s perspective is far less sublime. As You Please is a confrontational record\, incapable of turning a blind eye toward the inescapable strife. And so\, songwriter Mat Kerekes pursues the source of discontent that is ravaging his Rust Belt city of Toledo\, Ohio with the band’s most dynamic record to date. \nOn As You Please the epidemic is bigger than addiction and overdoses. There is no longer a Dream to be pursued for the friends and family surrounding Citizen. The band explores that absence and the misguided ways in which it gets filled. On opener “Jet” the kids move slow and there’s a stranger living in the narrator’s home. “In The Middle Of It All” might be Citizen at their most hopeful\, but it also reads as agonizing expression of the ruin in the Heartland. \nAs You Please also showcases the growing versatility of a band seven years deep and still restless. Citizen has churned and ground out their own unique foothold within the greater context of alternative rock. Written over the course of a year\, the record is devoid of the brutish and sinister elements found on Everybody Is Going To Heaven. Here\, Citizen go beyond their early grunge contrasts and strive for something benevolent. \nThere’s a spiritual core to the record that manifests in subtle ways like the ethereal vocals echoing in the breakdown of “Control\,” the droning organs on “You Are A Star” or the almost operatic refrain on “In The Middle Of It All.” The finespun ways in which Citizen has written this record mark a cataclysmic breakthrough for the band. There is damage and disarray in the band member’s lives\, but within this record all the pieces have been restored in an ornate arrangement befitting a stained glass mosaic. \nIn the end\, As You Please tries to give strength to those in need. There are illicit factors that control\, but Citizen has written a guiding light of an album out of the debris. It concludes with “You Are A Star” and “Flowerchild;” one an unstable request of confidence set to soaring progressions\, the other a blistering finale that subverts expectation. As You Please might read as meek\, but it represents Citizen in its most confident and expansive state. \n*** \nSorority Noise \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \n“I don’t want to be in an emo band anymore\,” proclaims SORORITY NOISE frontman Cameron Boucher. “But I have no problem with people calling us that\, because in the strictest of senses\, we are an emotionally driven band.” \nThat\, is Sorority Noise in a nutshell: part of a movement\, but also discrete and determined to break free from the pack. Truth be told\, the Connecticut-based quartet—Boucher\, guitarist/vocalist Adam “Scuff” Ackerman\, bassist/vocalist Ryan McKenna and drummer Charlie Singer—have always operated a little differently than most of their peers. \nFor starters\, Boucher attended the University of Hartford for jazz saxophone\, while guitarist Ackerman studies acoustics and upright bass. But it’s not just their unorthodox musical chops that set the band apart in the underground punk scene. With the release of their Topshelf Records debut\, JOY\, DEPARTED\, Sorority Noise—recently named one of the 100 Bands You Need to Know in 2015 by Alternative Press—are poised to break out in a big way. \nJoy\, Departed is more than just the best iteration of Sorority Noise to date; the album also marks a creative shift for Boucher\, who draws musical influence from a diverse crop of acts spanning Regina Spektor and jazz trumpeter Chet Baker to The Smiths and Broken Social Scene—and previously spent time fronting screamo band Old Gray. In some ways\, the singer says he approached the creative process like writing his very first album. \nBoucher started Sorority Noise in late 2013 with friends as an outlet to explore musical styles outside his work in Old Gray. The group then recruited Ackerman and issued their debut full-length\, Forgettable\, in May 2014. Much buzz—and tours with rising stars Modern Baseball and The Hotelier—followed\, as did a split 7” with Somos and the arrivals of Singer (whom Boucher had played with in Old Gray) and McKenna. \nOutside of pure proficiency\, one of the more gripping elements of Sorority Noise’s musical direction is the band’s willingness to speak of personal hardships\, including the often-taboo topic of addiction on songs like the heart-wrenching album-closer “When I See You (Timberwolf).” \n“There’s so many people having drug problems—and a lot of bands who play it safe and don’t want to talk about it\,” Boucher explains. “I think it’s important to be shown in modern music. I like to be honest about my past and talk about things that have had me down. As a lyricist\, you are responsible for the people who care about your music.” \n*** \nGreat Grandpa \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nPlastic Cough\, the fantastic debut full length from Seattle WA’s Great Grandpa\, is bursting with grunge and pop sensibilities focused around the legendary indie rock sound that’s dominated the Pacific Northwest music scene for the past three decades. \nGreat Grandpa began in Seattle in 2014 when guitarist & vocalist Patrick Goodwin recruited bassist Carrie Miller\, drummer Cam LaFlam\, and vocalist Alex Menne to form a humble rock band. Inspired by the pop-sensible alternative rock of the 90’s\, and offset by a mutual love for noise and math rock\, the group set forth to write and record their first EP. \nDuring recording\, guitarist Dylan Hanwright joined the group\, solidifying the lineup. Great Grandpa began performing in the Seattle area in late 2014\, frequenting the city’s DIY venues. In March of 2015\, their debut EP Can Opener was released on Broken World Media. The EP was met with considerable praise\, and has been described as “warm\, slightly off-kilter grunge pop”\, and “knotty\, twisted\, and warm rock music that’s as melodically satisfying as it is\, at times\, confounding.” \nGreat Grandpa began writing their debut LP soon after\, and found themselves touring the western US and performing extensively in the Seattle area. Written in 2015 and 2016\, Great Grandpa’s debut LP Plastic Cough continues to explore the sonic territory visited in Can Opener\, exhibiting infectious melodies across a range of backdrops\, from quiet bedroom-pop to explosive\, anthemic rock. Plastic Cough is out July 7th via Double Double Whammy. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/citizen/ 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/2017/08/Citizen-admat-2017.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:20171026T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T220000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170830T230011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170830T230011Z UID:10002552-1509055200-1509055200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Sofa King Presents Yellow Claw DESCRIPTION:VIP Inquiries please call 617.733.0505 \nThis event is 21+ \nDress Code: No shorts\, hats\, boots\, athletic wear\, tanks\, flip flops\, or backpacks. Please see FAQ/Policy page for more details. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/sofa-king-presents-yellow-claw/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/1026-Yellow-Claw-.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:20171026T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T220000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170921T172129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T172129Z UID:10002560-1509055200-1509055200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Yellow Claw DESCRIPTION:*COSTUMES ENCOURAGED*\nNo fake weapons\, or masks that cannot be removed for ID check. \nVIP Inquiries please call 617.733.0505 \nThis event is 21+ URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/yellow-claw-2/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/1026-Yellow-Claw-.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:20171027T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T220000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170913T175658Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170913T175658Z UID:10002558-1509141600-1509141600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Sofa King Fridays w/ Cheat Codes DESCRIPTION:*COSTUMES ENCOURAGED*\nNo fake weapons\, or masks that cannot be removed for ID check. \nVIP Inquiries please call 617.733.0505 \nThis event is 21+ URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/sofa-king-fridays-w-cheat-codes/ 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/2017/09/1027-Cheat-Codes.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:20171028T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T220000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170928T194624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170928T194624Z UID:10001849-1509228000-1509228000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Halloween Freak Show DESCRIPTION:VIP Inquiries please call 617.733.0505 \nThis event is 21+ \nHalloween costumes encouraged. No fake weapons\, all bags subject to check\, any masks must be removed for ID check. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/halloween-freak-show/ 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/2017/09/1028-royal-freakshow.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:20171102T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171102T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20171025T190031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171025T190031Z UID:10001852-1509645600-1509645600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Corey Griffin Foundation - Old Dominion DESCRIPTION:Private Event – Invite Only\n*Sold Out* URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/old-dominion-private-event/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Events 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:20171103T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171103T213000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170428T170707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170428T170707Z UID:10002499-1509732000-1509744600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Hamilton Leithauser DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:30 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 5/5 at noon! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. 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*** \nHamilton Leithauser \nHamilton Leithauser + Rotsam in Brooklyn\, NY on September 26\, 2016 \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nI Had A Dream That You Were Mine is an album of songs Hamilton Leithauser and Rostam wrote and recorded together between July 2014 and February 2016. In the spirit of collaborative albums\, not unlike those of David Byrne and Brian Eno\, each musician’s individuality remains in tact\, while in fact\, on this record\, both Hamilton’s identity as a singer and Rostam’s as a producer seem to reach new heights. \n“This was a record I’d been wanting to make for at least a decade\,” Rostam says. “As a fan of Hamilton’s voice in the Walkmen\, I’d been wanting to capture it in ways it hadn’t been captured before — to make songs with him that placed the crooner right beside the howler\, the screamer beside the whisperer — to try to leave no stone unturned in terms of how we should approach the delivery of a song. And also to try to push his voice outside of any musical context it had lived in before.” \nSays Leithauser\, “Rostam’s one-man-band process is so fundamentally different from the way I’ve always written songs\, and it’s very impressive. We had no idea what kind of music we were going to make — we actually didn’t know we were working on an album at first — but unexpected things kept falling into place. We were writing and recording everything simultaneously — it was flat-out inspiring just to be there.” \nMany of these songs seem to take place in a memory of New York’s past\, or wading through the waist high waters in a half-submerged New York of the future. Yet what unites them is that they tell stories — I Had A Dream That You Were Mine is an album\, a collection of songs yes\, but also a collection of narratives. “The Bride’s Dad” faithfully recounts an unexpected (an probably uninvited) guest at a friend’s recent wedding; “You Ain’t That Young Kid” follows the wistful narrator through a night of lost love and transformed resolve. \nFrom the doo-wop of “When the Truth is…” to the country pedal steel of “The Morning Stars”; from the piano and organ alchemy of the Band in “A 1000 Times\,” to the Leonard Cohen-esque Spanish triplets of “In a Black Out”; the album harnesses the exploding musical styles of midcentury America — which\, when melded with the warbled 1980’s analogue synthesizers of “You Ain’t That Young Kid\,” the ultramodern sub bass of “Sick as a Dog\,” the intimate falsetto of “1959\,” and the raucous bar-room chorus of “Rough Going” — sparks an entirely unexpected and innovative style. \n*** \n Courtney Marie Andrews\n/strong> \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nAt just 16 years old\, Courtney Marie Andrews left home in Arizona for her first tour. She traveled up and down the West Coast\, busking and playing any bars or cafés that would have her. Soon after\, she took a Greyhound bus four nights straight from Phoenix to New York to do the same on the East Coast. For a decade or so since\, Courtney’s been a session and backup singer and guitarist for nearly 40 artists\, from Jimmy Eat World to Damien Jurado. She never stopped writing her own material\, though. Picking up admirers like Jurado and Ryan Adams along the way\, she has quietly earned a reputation as a songwriter’s songwriter. \nWith plans to settle down for a bit and focus on her own songs\, Courtney moved to the Northwest in 2011 to record her last full-length record On My Page. However\, the record had hardly been released before she was on the road again performing other artists’ songs\, eventually leading her overseas to play guitar and sing with Belgian star Milow. At the tour’s end\, though\, the other session players joined her to record her 2014 EP Leuven Letters in one take. \nIt was during this time that Courtney also wrote many of the songs on Honest Life. She found herself realizing the impact of growing up on the road and this constant reconciling between her and other’s art and identity. Courtney will take it from there: \n“While in Belgium for four months\, I was going through a major heartbreak. I started growing homesick for America and the comfort of family and friends\, and life in the states. That’s where I wrote the first songs for Honest Life. It was a giant hurdle in my life. My first true growing pains as a woman. That’s why in a sense\, I feel this record is a coming of age album. A common thread that runs through the songs\, is a great desire to fit somewhere\, when nowhere fits. And wanting to get back home to the people I know and love. Once I got back to the states\, I started to bartend at a small town tavern. I was home for awhile\, and needed to post up while rehearsing with the band for the record. At the tavern\, I felt I could truly empathize with the stories and lives of the people there. I wrote the other half of the songs about coming home and feeling a sense of belonging again. A lot of the stories at that tavern definitely ran parallel with my own\, even though our lives were so different. I was the “musician girl.” They were farmers\, construction workers\, plumbers\, waitresses\, and cashiers. But\, no matter how different\, I felt we were all trying to live our most honest life.” \nCourtney produced the entire record herself at Litho Studios in Seattle with recording engineer Floyd Reitsma. Honest Life will be available on LP\, CD and digitally August 19th from Mama Bird Recording Co. (USA/World) and on January 20th from Loose Music (Europe). URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/hamilton-leithauser/ 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/2017/04/hamilton_leithauser_glassnote.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:20171103T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171103T220000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170807T203743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170807T203743Z UID:10002544-1509746400-1509746400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:The Monster Energy Outbreak Tour Presents Party Favor DESCRIPTION:Sofa King Fridays Event \nVIP Inquiries please call 617.733.0505 \nThis event is 21+ \nDress Code: No shorts\, hats\, boots\, athletic wear\, tanks\, flip flops\, or backpacks. Please see FAQ/Policy page for more details. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/sofa-king-fridays-w-party-favor/ 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/2017/08/113-Party-Favor.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:20171104T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171104T230000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20171019T180026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171019T180026Z UID:10002567-1509836400-1509836400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:COSMIC at Royale Saturdays w/ DEUX DESCRIPTION:**DOORS AT 11PM**\nVIP Inquiries please call 617.733.0505 \nThis event is 21+ \nDress Code: No shorts\, sneakers\, hats\, boots\, athletic wear\, tanks\, flip flops\, or backpacks. Please see FAQ/Policy page for more details. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/cosmic-royale-saturdays-w-deux/ 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/2017/10/114-DEUX.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:20171105T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171105T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170818T165904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170818T165904Z UID:10001836-1509908400-1509908400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Slow Magic [MOVED TO THE SINCLAIR] DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS SHOW HAS BEEN MOVED FROM ROYALE TO THE SINCLAIR. ALL PREVIOUSLY PURCHASED TICKETS WILL BE HONORED AT THE NEW LOCATION. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/slow-magic/ 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/2017/08/slow-magic-admat-2017v4.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:20171110T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171110T220000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170720T175059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T175059Z UID:10001826-1510351200-1510351200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Sofa King Fridays w/ San Holo DESCRIPTION:VIP Inquiries please call 617.733.0505 \nThis event is 21+ \nDress Code: No shorts\, hats\, boots\, athletic wear\, tanks\, flip flops\, or backpacks. Please see FAQ/Policy page for more details. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/sofa-king-fridays-w-san-holo-2/ 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/2017/07/1110-San-Holo.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:20171111T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171111T220000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20171019T174038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171019T174038Z UID:10002568-1510437600-1510437600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:COSMIC at Royale Saturdays w/ Throttle DESCRIPTION:VIP Inquiries please call 617.733.0505 \nThis event is 21+ \nDress Code: No shorts\, sneakers\, hats\, boots\, athletic wear\, tanks\, flip flops\, or backpacks. Please see FAQ/Policy page for more details. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/cosmic-royale-saturdays-w-throttle/ 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/2017/10/1111-Throttle.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:20171113T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170627T164013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170627T164013Z UID:10002521-1510599600-1510599600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Angus & Julia Stone DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18+. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. \nTickets on sale Fri. 6/30 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n \n*** \nAngus & Julia Stone \n \nWEBSITE\nFACEBOOK \nThe first notes of Snow are instantly transporting. The guitar is a scratchy\, wooden memory laid over a moment of silence. The gently driving organ beat emerges and takes you with it\, beginning the next enchanting journey with brother-sister duo\, Angus and Julia Stone. “Running from the start\, here we are again\,” Julia sings. “Running from the start\, here we go again\,” comes her brother’s reply. \n“Snow is both of us” Angus says of the first single from the fourth Angus & Julia Stone album. “We sat down and wrote it together.” \nIn that sense\, the album continues a process the siblings began at the suggestion of producer Rick Rubin on their self-tilted album of 2014. “That was the first time that we actually started writing together\, in the same room\, and I guess we took a leaf from that chapter into this record. This time round though\, every song on the record we wrote together” Angus says. \nSince the duo began performing together in 2006\, their story has unfolded with an almost magical magnetism that has galvanised the world. Their four albums have amassed multi-platinum sales and numerous ARIA and APRA awards at home\, and won a fanbase of millions over spiralling tours of the UK\, Europe and North America. The band have each month over 5 million listeners who tune in\, to stream their music from all over the world. \nTheir quietly hypnotic songs have infiltrated film and TV from the recent woody Harrelson film ‘The Edge of 17’ to TV shows like ‘Pretty Little Liars’\, ‘Suits’ & ‘Revenge’. They have cast their spell over the world’s key festivals: Coachella\, Lollapalooza\, Bonnaroo\, Outside Lands\, Rochweichter\, Hurricane\, Austin City Limits\, Electric Picnic\, Splendour In The Grass\, The Great Escape. \nIt’s no secret that these escalating demands nearly divided the duo into parallel solo careers in 2012\, before Rick Rubin insisted they reunite for that self-titled album in Los Angeles. It naturally led to more laps of the world\, and a new purpose and cohesion that flowed into early band sessions for the album. \nPlot-wise\, SNOW is the first moment of yet another confident advance on a story which now accounts for over half a million album sales in Angus & Julia’s homeland of Australia alone. The Sydney-born siblings produced and largely engineered it themselves\, in Angus’s cottage studio\, Belafonté\, in the Byron Bay hinterland. \n“It was quite magical because Angus and I have never spent that much time together\, just the two of us\,” says Julia. “There’s always at least an engineer or tour manager but the last phase of writing and recording was just eight weeks of him and me and the quiet of the land. It was a beautiful time.” \n*** \nLuke Sital-Singh \n \nWEBSITE\nFACEBOOK \n“I made an album that I was mostly proud of. But the process was hard and process matters to me. It colours the final work with a subtle significance. So now I look back with a bemused frown. Because all I remember is the process. And the process was too hard. \n“When it came time to move on\, things needed to change. I wanted control of the process back. I wanted to be small again. Big can be good\, but big can be brittle. And small packs a punch when you can be nimble.” \nSo wrote Luke Sital-Singh in July 2015. He typeset his words using metal type and an old printing press\, each sentence on a new line\, no full stops required. It was a pause\, a moment of reflection on the events of the preceding couple of years\, specifically the release of his “compromised” debut album\, ‘The Fire Inside’\, the slightly bitter fruits of an ill-starred major label relationship. It was also a personal manifesto\, a quiet\, internal rallying cry. And it was a nice bit of writing\, thought through and pored over and carefully presented. That’s how he rolls. He rolls his own. \nEighteen months on – he wasn’t going to rush – comes ‘Time Is A Riddle’\, that second album Sital-Singh was determined to make solely on his terms. No interference\, no scheduling issues\, nor elaborate musicianship\, nothing big or brittle. Just care\, and effort\, and time well spent – values he shares with the Slow Movement to which he subscribes\, and with the crafts people up and down the country with whom the musician has some special projects planned. It’s a lovely record of self-written songs\, a crafted distillation of the ideas and tastes that have been percolating through Sital-Singh since he was a teenager in suburban southwest London\, listening in awe to Damien Rice\, since he was a rapt fan in the audience at a Ryan Adams gig in Brighton. \nRecalling the music that made him\, Sital-Singh – a singer with both soul and grit in his voice – says: “There was something about acoustic\, singer-songwriter music that seemed more meaningful\, and beautiful. I only like music that I feel like I can call beautiful. And to me that’s slow music\, and more downbeat music. It’s a running joke amongst my friends that I’m a grumpy git\,” he admits (and admits cheerfully). “But I’m not actually depressive. I’m just fairly introverted\, quiet and pessimistic – but I’m happy being that. And songs are always the things I’ve been interested in\, not the bells and whistles around the song. It’s purely about the song in its simplest form\, and trying to craft that with just a guitar or just a piano. I’m obsessed with that.” \nSital-Singh is a student of words. “I was brought up in a fairly religious family\, and there were quite a lot of philosophical\, theological discussions around. So there was always this thing in me about exploring inner things. So before the songs there were woe-is-me\, slit-your-wrist poems\,” he smiles. \nAnd he’s a student of notes\, the youngest of three musical brothers. He was first a childhood violinist then an adolescent guitarist who attended BIMM Brighton music college before graduating from the London open-mic scene. Self-released EPs led to Proper Record Deal led to Difficult First Album. “Spent too much money\, lost too much money\,” the now Bristol-based musician recalls without rancour. “This time I was determined to do the complete opposite.” \nHaving written a brace of songs – simple songs that moved him – Sital-Singh followed his long-held artist’s dream: he escaped to a remote studio\, Attica Audio\, in Donegal\, with nothing on his mind other than making the record of his life. The studio’s owner\, producer Tommy McLaughlin (a member of Villagers’ touring band\, who Sital-Singh has opened for) pulled together a small group of musicians. Well-used to playing together\, the band slotted together effortlessly for a series of recordings over ten days. \n“There were big windows looking over the hills of Donegal\, and it was raining the whole time\, which was perfect for me. We were playing and singing at the same time in this lovely big live room\, with so much bleed\, just the way records used to be made. So much fun. These were simple songs that just need to be recorded nicely and played well with a good band with nice instruments in a nice room. We don’t need weird stuff going on. We needed me to feel inspired by the performance to sing a good vocal. And that’s what I was.” \n‘Time Is A Riddle’ opens with ‘Still’\, a song Neil Young might have left behind on Zuma Beach. \n“It’s a song about wanting to remind everyone that I’m still here – and also reminding myself that all this shit goes on\, but it can just blow past\, and you’re still here. It’s not quite ‘I’m Still Standing’\,” he smiles of the Elton John belter. “But I hate our obsession with newness and following trends. So the idea of someone still there\, still doing their thing\, I think is a nice sentiment to start the record with.” \nAnother cornerstone track is the album’s title track. “I was listening to a lot of Feist and thought she was great\,” he says by way of explaining a song with heavy chords and quiet drama. “And that’s what her music is: quiet drama. Some of the production is quite bombastic\, but there’s a gentleness around it as well. That’s what I was trying to get to.” \nThen there’s ‘Innocence’\, a song glowing with echoey wonder. “It’s fairly up for me\,” Sital-Singh grins with typical self-deprecation. “I’m really proud of that one. That was a song that took as long to write as it lasts for. I was watching telly with my guitar and it just came out\, pretty much fully formed. I’m not entirely sure what it means\, but I guess it’s about this idea of being born\, losing innocence\, people coming in and out of the world\, changing as they go.” \nThe first taste of ‘Time Is A Riddle’ is the heart-shivering\, spine-tingling ‘Killing Me’\, accompanied by an evocative\, home-made\, typically personal video. \n“It’s me singing as my grandma\, and addressed to my grandfather\, who died ten years ago. She talks about him every day. When I think about it too much it just breaks my heart. So one day I just sat down at the piano and it’s probably the most emotional song I’ve ever written. I almost didn’t include it – I thought it might be too much to release. It’s so sensitive and so close to my heart. Then I thought maybe people will connect with it… \n“But then when it came to the video\, I definitely didn’t want to be singing this song\, prancing around in slow motion. Then by coincidence I took delivery of these digitised cine films that my wife’s late grandfather shot in the Seventies. They were only sent to us because her parents were in the process of moving to Vancouver. And when I watched them\, the nostalgic nature and the parallels with both our grandparents\, it just felt tonally right\, and a little note of serendipity. So I just edited them together and that’s what we’ve got. It’s definitely the most personal song on the record.” \nThen again\, personal is stamped on and through everything Luke Sital-Singh does. Head to iTunes to listen to the very funny ‘Idiot Check’ podcast\, recorded by him and a couple of mates (don’t worry\, it’s free). Head to Spotify and you’ll find a lovely selection of covers of songs from films\, including Radiohead’s ‘Exit Music (For A Film)’ from Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet\, Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘Sound Of Silence’ from The Graduate and The Shins’ ‘New Slang’ from Garden State. Storied songs by storied bands from storied movies\, but he makes them all his own. \nLikewise a new selection of covers recently uploaded to Soundcloud: songs as diverse as Toto’s ‘Hold The Line’\, The Faces’ ‘Ooh La La’ and Kate Bush’s ‘This Woman’s Work’ sound reborn and rebooted. \nWhat it all has in common is care\, effort and dedication. It’s Luke Sital-Singh’s way. It’s what makes his music breathe and his songs pulse. “I like things that are well made – things that love has been put into. And not throwaway shite. It’s why I like the Slow Movement. It’s why I like vinyl.” \nIt’s also why he likes Hannah Cousins\, his wife (although presumably that isn’t the only reason). She’s the artist responsible behind the vivid sleeve artwork for ‘Time Is A Riddle’. \n“Hannah’s an illustrator and printmaker\, and we’ve worked together on most of my artwork. She helped set the tone for the initial three EPs\, which then Parlophone bulldozed over for the album art for ‘The Fire Inside’.” \nThe image on the new cover began as a photograph of a wind-bent tree in Donegal\, “which wasn’t just the place I recorded the album – it became a symbol of escape and refreshment”. Cousins\, a skilled linocutter\, then set patiently to work. “The lino process is one of painstaking craftsmanship\, where an image is carved in reverse in a linoleum sheet\, which takes hours and hours. In this case it took Hannah two days. She then carefully inked the lino with an ink roller and pressed it onto paper\, using an Albion press from 1881.” \nIn the same spirit\, Sital-Singh is finessing a series of special filmed performances in the studios\, workshops\, foundries and ateliers of a host of crafts people he’s connected with up and down the country. Watch this (bespoke) space for collaborations with a ceramicist in Glasgow\, a knife-maker in Derby and a stained glass designer in Devon. \nBut for now\, here’s ‘Time Is A Riddle’. A record where you can smell the graft\, see the joins and hear the sweat on the frets – and the occasional live-recording misstep. It’s that real. Luke Sital-Singh wouldn’t have it any other way. As he said in that summer ’16 letter\, “the effort was justified. Like a long run up a steep hill. \n“I’ve reached the top now. I’m catching my breath. My heart is pounding. And as I look back down\, I am proud of each and every step that it’s taken.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/angus-julia-stone/ 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/2017/06/Angus-Julia-Stone-ADMAT-2017.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:20171115T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T005711 CREATED:20170822T171902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170822T171902Z UID:10002549-1510772400-1510772400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:John Carpenter: Anthology Tour DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Please note: bags or backpacks larger than a purse are prohibited.\nTickets on sale Fri. 8/25 at 10AM! \nTickets available at AXS.COM\, or by phone at 855-482-2090. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. \n*** \n \n  \n  \n*** \nJohn Carpenter \n \nWebsite\nFacebook\nTwitter \nJohn Carpenter has announced Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998\, a collection of 13 of his classic movie themes newly recorded with the collaborators that worked on his Lost Themes studio albums and subsequent tours: his son\, Cody Carpenter\, and godson\, Daniel Davies. Set for release on October 20 via Sacred Bones\, Anthology… is a near-comprehensive survey of John Carpenter’s greatest themes\, from his very first movie (the no-budget sci-fi film Dark Star) to 1998’s supernatural Western\, Vampires. Those sit alongside the driving\, Led Zeppelin-influenced Assault on Precinct 13 theme\, Halloween’s iconic 5/4 piano riff\, and the eerie synth work of The Fog. Carpenter and his band also cover Ennio Morricone’s bleak\, minimalist theme for The Thing. “I asked Morricone to please compose something with a very few notes\,” Carpenter says. “And brilliantly\, he did.” \nTo accompany the announcement\, Carpenter has shared the theme from 1994’s “In The Mouth of Madness”. Reminiscing on the original composition he states\, “I worked on the soundtrack for In the Mouth of Madness with Jim Lang. We never came up with a great main title theme. In a rented house on Woodrow Wilson (my house was being remodeled)\, I came up with a heavy metal theme inspired by Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.” My friend Dave Davies played lead guitar\, and now\, over 20 years later\, his son Daniel is playing the lead. One of my favorite themes.” \nJohn Carpenter is a legend. As the director and composer behind dozens of classic movies\, Carpenter has established a reputation as one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of modern cinema\, as well as one of its most influential musicians. The minimal\, synthesizer-driven themes to films like Halloween\, Escape From New York\, and Assault on Precinct 13 are as indelible as their images\, and their timelessness was evident as Carpenter performed them live in a string of internationally sold-out concert dates in 2016. \nIn the weeks following Anthology’s October 20 release\, Carpenter will return to the road\, playing both classic movie themes and material from his two Lost Themes albums. Tickets for the tour go on sale this Friday at 10:00am local time\, including special VIP packages that include meet and greets with John  Carpenter and exclusive merchandise (for more details check www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com). The performances will once again affirm the power of the Horror Master’s brilliant work as a composer and musician\, and undoubtedly send audiences rushing home to their DVD libraries to dive yet again into the most rewarding filmography in genre cinema. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/john-carpenter-anthology-tour/ 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/2017/08/john-carpenter-anthology-admat-2017-v2.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 END:VCALENDAR