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:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151001T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151001T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150909T003554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150909T003554Z UID:10001820-1443729600-1443729600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Yacht Rock Revue DESCRIPTION:Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. \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*** \nThe Yacht Rock Revue is the greatest show on Surf and the finest tribute to ’70s light rock to ever perform anywhere. Ever. Their spot-on renditions of Hall & Oates\, Michael McDonald\, Steely Dan\, and the rest of the Time-LifeInfomercial Catalog have enthralled fans across the United States. It goes without saying they have taken their act to the high seas\, performing showcase sets on music cruises with Weezer\, Kid Rock\, Train\, Zac Brown Band\, Sister Hazel\, and fitness guru Jillian Michaels. \nBy blurring the lines between a tribute\, an original act\, and a comedic troupe\, the Yacht Rock Revue has forged a unique niche market and a special bond with their fans. The band attacks each song as if it were their own\, and the energy exchanged between the band and the crowd has more in common with a stadium U2 show than that of a typical bar band.\nThe band has won accolades ranging from “Best Place to Get Drunk With Your Dad” to “Best Overall Music Act in Atlanta” to “Best Place to Start an Extramarital Affair\,” and has been name-dropped by the New York Times\, Pitchfork\, the Guardian UK\,Spin\, TimeOut New York\, Billboard\, MTV.com\, and (probably) your mom at her last cocktail party. \nSpeaking of name-dropping\, members of the band have played on-stage with members of Weezer\, Billy Joel\, Walter Egan\, .38 Special\, John Mayer\, Zac Brown Band\, Little River Band\, Sheryl Crow\, Noel Gallagher\, Starbuck\, Sarah McLachlan\, Don Henley\, Lynyrd Skynyrd\, Neil Finn\, Jellyfish\, Devo\, Nine Inch Nails\, Joan Jett\, Wet Willie\, Bon Jovi\, Skid Row\, and the Saturday Night Live Band. (None of those were a joke.) URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/yacht-rock-revue/ 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/2015/09/YRR-Press-Shot-3-w-Logo.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:20151002T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151002T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150909T003926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150909T003926Z UID:10001822-1443808800-1443808800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Destroyer DESCRIPTION:Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. \nPresented by RadioBDC. \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*** \nTrouble in Dreams continues Bejars lyrical and musical assault on all that is stagnant in modern popular music. His is a body of work that consistently flouts convention in favor of musical leaps of faith\, statements of purpose cloaked in subterfuge\, and the joyous refrain of an optimists heart cloaked in cynicism. Anthems sprawl with shifting layers of guitar and piano\, spinning just to the edge of chaos and back\, while referencing fantastical realms and mysterious women who may or may not approve of our interloping voyeurism. \nWritten during an extended stay in Spain during the spring and summer of 2007\, Trouble in Dreams is both soothing and jarring\, sparing us neither his lyrical bite nor pulling any punches. Trouble in Dreams is yet another brilliant entry in the astonishing Destroyer canon. \nDan Bejar started Destroyer as a solo home-recording project in the early to mid-nineties. In 1996\, he released his debut full length of stripped-down\, lo-fi electric folk\, Well Build Them a Golden Bridge. Soon the Destroyer template expanded to include a rhythm section\, and Bejar was compelled to head into a proper studio to record City of Daughters in 1998. It was with Daughters that Bejar began to develop his own unique lyrical voice\, a voice that continued to evolve and refine itself over the course of his next two records\, Thief and Streethawk: A Seduction. Destroyer seemingly had produced its masterwork with Streethawk\, a highly refined send-up and condemnation of popular culture\, an idea honed to razor-sharp precision. The album became one of the most acclaimed recordings of 2001\, and the Destroyer mystique captured music fans and critics alike.\nThis Night\, the Destroyer debut for Merge\, is an epic full of indulgences and flights of fancy that seemed the perfect foil to the sleek and streamlined approach of earlier recordings. This Night both baffles and seduces\, leaving jaws on the floor and confounding both fans and critics. Bejar took another turn towards the unexpected with Your Blues\, his second recording for Merge\, wherein he stripped Destroyer down to its barest essentials once again\, with MIDI-synthesizer symphonies that explored what Bejar dubbed European Blues\, a vainglorious retreat from American rock traditions\, celebrating an exercise in old-world excess within limited means. Those who had been pining for a new Streethawk were left shaking their heads\, forced to admit that the last thing Destroyer was ever going to give them was anything close to what they expected (or hoped for). Bejar had everyone right where he wanted: dazed\, confused\, and not knowing what was to come next. \nWhat came next was yet another triumph. Destroyers Rubies was hailed as the second coming by many longtime fans and firmly established Destroyer as a critical and commercial success without ever having compromised Bejars vision at any point along the way. On its March 2006 cover\, The Fader proclaimed him Rocks Exiled King and we could not agree more. But it was a case of self-imposed exile\, as Bejar and company have never had much use for the trappings of indie-rock fame. \nOver the course of his career as Destroyer\, Dan Bejar has established himself and his band as one of the most unpredictable success stories in modern popular music. As a songwriter\, Bejar is recognized as having few peers. As a musician\, he is like the court jester\, waiting in the wings\, poking fun at those who take themselves too seriously and skewering those who would celebrate commerce as art. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/destroyer/ 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/2015/09/destroyer.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:20151002T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151002T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150830T104435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150830T104435Z UID:10001553-1443823200-1443823200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:MATOMA DESCRIPTION:21 + \nMgt reserves the right to refuse admission. Dress code applies. Admission not guaranteed after 12am. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/matoma/ 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/2015/08/SOFA-KING-Fall-2015-Lineup_V2.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:20151003T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151003T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150909T004535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150909T004535Z UID:10001559-1443895200-1443895200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Ibeyi DESCRIPTION:Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is all ages. \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*** \nLisa and Naomi Diaz are the daughters of the late Cuban percussionist Anga Diaz. Naomi plays percussive instruments\, the Cajon and the Batas\, while Lisa plays piano. Together the twins have learned the songs of their father’s culture\, Yoruba. \nYoruba travelled from West Africa to Cuba with slavery in the 1700s. The Yoruba people have the highest twinning rate in the World\, and twins occupy an important position within Yoruba culture. Ibeyi is pronounced “ee-bey-ee” and translates as “Twins” in Yoruban. \nIbeyi sing in English and Yoruban\, and have created a minimalist sound that merges elements of their heritage with their natural love of modern music as teenagers growing up in Paris\, citing artists such as James Blake and King Krule amongst their wide range of influences. \nIbeyi are currently recording their debut album for XL\, with Richard Russell on production. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/ibeyi/ 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/2015/09/ibeyipress.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:20151004T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151004T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150830T104740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150830T104740Z UID:10001554-1443988800-1443988800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:ELLI KOKKINOU DESCRIPTION:21 + \nMgt reserves the right to refuse admission. Dress code applies. Admission not guaranteed after 12am. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/elli-kokkinou/ 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/2015/08/10.04-KOKKINOU-FLYER.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:20151005T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151005T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150909T012304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150909T012304Z UID:10001561-1444071600-1444071600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:MS MR DESCRIPTION:Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. \nRadio 92.9 Presents – How Does It Feel Tour \nPlease note the band will be donating a dollar per every ticket on this tour going to Third Wave Fund. \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*** \nIn 2014\, Lizzy Plapinger and Max Hershenow came back to New York City to start work on their sophomore album as MS MR. Only three years had passed since the first time they’d met up in secret\, former college classmates with day jobs\, spinning musical fragments into private worlds in front of Max’s laptop in Brooklyn. They made their name on their early songs “Bones” and “Hurricane\,” and since then\, Lizzy and Max have amassed 30 million album streams\, played festival main stages\, become known and celebrated as an alt-pop duo with a wide magnetism\, a contagious exuberance and a distinctly technicolor style. Far from the days when they would release their music anonymously on Tumblr\, they came back to New York altered and focused—better lyricists\, vocalists\, producers and performers. They were after the complicated alchemy of subversion and directness that they saw defining the modern pop act; they were no longer aiming for serendipity but for control. And yet\, for all the exhilaration the past two years had brought them\, the duo was dizzied\, too. They had a thousand ideas and one album to make\, and to do so\, MS MR found themselves seeking out the feel of those early\, nameless days—the visceral\, bare-bones intimacy that had been their music’s genesis. Secondhand Rapture\, the music they’d played in front of crowds tens of thousands deep–the album that they’d finished at the legendary Electric Lady Studios—had been recorded\, after all\, for $500 in spare rooms in Brooklyn. As they started to hammer out the ideas that would eventually result in the ecstatic\, high-octane How Does It Feel\, it wasn’t glamour but a certain DIY gravity that set their compass straight. Lizzy and Max rented a room in Bushwick and brought in MS MR’s drummer Zach Nicita to co-produce. For three months\, they worked the way they had in the beginning: all day\, all night\, no engineers\, no outside people\, no special equipment. Just like he had in the beginning\, Max strung up Lizzy’s makeshift vocal booth by thumbtacking heavy blankets to the walls. When you make music like this\, everything becomes exposed and apparent; MS MR’s intentions were clear\, and the heart of How Does It Feel mirrors them. It’s a simultaneous re-grounding and a conscious\, triumphant evolution. Like both the Candy Bar Creep Show EP and their full-length debut Secondhand Rapture\, this album is dark\, epic\, synesthetic alt-pop\, laced with sugary hooks and bitter colloquial lyricism. \nAnd at the same time\, How Does It Feel comes in bright\, sharp\, big and new. The propulsive bass and drum rhythms that drive MS MR’s live show are heady and forceful in these tracks. Max’s production\, as hypnotic as ever\, has an amplified certainty about it; the album’s backdrop is a kaleidoscope of brassy synth and percussive horns\, electronic and organic textures all dressed up and disguised. Lizzy’s vocals\, still warmly intimate\, are marked by a new sense of presence\, height and command. This sonic directness makes How Does It Feel the rare second album that feels more personal than the first. The sound of the record puts Max and Lizzy up front\, magnifying their disparate\, complementary backgrounds\, bringing them out of the surreal\, shadowy atmosphere of their early releases. In the dynamism in the album’s melodies you can hear the way that Lizzy\, born and raised in the UK\, still has the midnight energy of the London indie pop scene in her veins; there’s a plurality and energy to her vocal lines that invokes her work developing other artists as the co-founder of the boutique pop label Neon Gold. There’s a sense of brazen forward movement and physicality that suffuses every song\, telling of Max’s adolescence in Latin America\, of the band he started at Vassar\, of his time as a choreographer and dance student at Martha Graham Dance Company. The story of MS MR is the story of two people’s instincts meeting at a transportive place. Lizzy and Max both think of making music as creating universes\, every song something self-contained and new. They balance the scale of this aspiration with their remarkably direct songwriting\, and How Does It Feel shows MS MR in a place of simultaneous tenacity and abandon\, the place where you have to be to make a second world: it’s the animus of the album\, uniting it through a deliberately wide array of tones\, thoughts\, tempos\, textures. The album begins at a sprint\, with Lizzy opening “Painted” in a chant\, a meditation\, a teasing curse: her repeated “What did you think would happen” carries through the track as the song builds to a catharsis\, catches fire. The same story of tumultuous creation continues in the cheeky\, deliciously controlled\, Timbaland-inflected “No Guilt In Pleasure\,” as Lizzy sings\, “No one on the outside has heard from me in weeks/ Wrapped up in the chaos/ Come too far to recede\,” before releasing herself to the chorus\, with its final line: “Who are we to stay away?” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/ms-mr/ 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/2015/09/MSMR_Cover_HowDoesItFeel_Tour_M1-localized-NEW.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:20151007T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151007T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150909T014215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150909T014215Z UID:10001563-1444248000-1444248000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:JD McPherson DESCRIPTION:Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. \nPresented by 92.5 the River \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*** \nAs a visual artist\, Broken Arrow\, Okla.\, native JD McPherson is well versed in the process of working within clearly defined formal parameters\, and he employs a similarly rigorous discipline with his music. On Signs & Signifiers (Rounder\, April 17)\, McPherson’s seductively kickass debut album\, produced by JD’s musical partner\, Jimmy Sutton\, this renaissance man/hepcat seamlessly meshes the old and the new\, the primal and the sophisticated\, on a work that will satisfy traditional American rock ’n’ roll and R&B purists while also exhibiting McPherson’s rarefied gift for mixing and matching disparate stylistic shapes and textures. \n“There are little subcultures within the roots scene\, where people are really into rockabilly\, traditional hillbilly stuff or old-timey music\,” JD points out\, “but there aren’t a whole lot of folks making hard-core rhythm & blues hearkening back to Specialty\, Vee-Jay or labels like that. That’s what Jimmy and I really like\, and our only intention going in was just to make a solid rhythm & blues/rock ’n’ roll record. But I didn’t want to make a time-machine record\, so we tried to make something relevant but with all the things we love about rock ’n’ roll and rhythm & blues and mesh it all together. We both have eclectic tastes; Jimmy likes the Clash as much as he likes Little Richard\, and I like the Pixies\, T.Rex\, hip-hop and all kinds of stuff. So we came up with a couple of weird songs and put them on the record\, hoping that it wouldn’t scare off any of our ultra-selective fanbase.” \nJD needn’t have worried. It’s highly unlikely that even the most discerning listeners would guess that the arrangement on his cover of Tiny Kennedy’s R&B chestnut “Country Boy” incorporates not only the tambourine beat of Ruth Brown’s 1955 Atlantic single “Mama\, He Treats Your Daughter Mean\,” but also Raekwon and RZA’s “abstract\, out-of-tune piano loops” on Wu-Tang Clan’s innovative ’93 LP Enter the Wu-Tang; or that the mesmerizing churner “Signs & Signifiers” is powered by an unchanging tremolo guitar figure modeled on Johnny Marr’s part on the Smiths’ “How Soon Is Now.” Then there’s “Firebug\,” which JD “wanted to sound as if Stiff Little Fingers had recorded at Del-Fi Records.” And while it may not have been specifically what McPherson and Sutton were going for\, the haunting dreamscape “A Gentle Awakening” seems to chart a course from “Heartbreak Hotel” through Terence Trent D’Arby to Amy Winehouse. \nNever has an album of so-called “retro” music been laced with such a rich payload of postmodern nuance. But that was precisely the intent of what JD describes\, only half-facetiously\, as “an art project disguised as an R&B record.” \n“It’s weird\,” says Sutton\, “when you grow up being a fan of ‘older’ music and all of a sudden you’re making a record\, you’re thinking\, are we just recreating something—a museum piece—or are we actually bringing it forward? It’s interesting\, because if you make something today and it moves you today\, in that sense it’s contemporary. I like that juxtaposition of classic and fresh\, something old yet new that can actually take you somewhere now.” \nOf course\, pushing the genre envelope doesn’t work unless the artist has the chops and feel to capture the form in its pure state to begin with. Check out\, for example\, “Dimes for Nickels\,” McPherson’s vital evocation of the very moment when R&B and hillbilly music had a baby and they called it rock ’n’ roll\, or the Jackie Wilson-meets-Elvis exuberance of “Scratching Circles\,” or the lascivious ecstasy of the Little Richard doppelganger “Scandalous\,” (although the “gold-capped tooth” reference in the first line is lifted from the Leiber-Stoller Coasters classic “Love Potion #9”). But for all we know\, these tracks\, too\, may have been secretly embedded with elements from far afield\, their stylistic twists hiding in plain sight. This cat is wicked-clever—and man\, can he ever deliver this righteous shit. \nMcPherson took a circuitous path to get to this point. Broken Arrow butts up against Tulsa\, a cultural oasis in the Heartland that has long been not only a musical hotbed but also a bustling center of the contemporary arts. “Tulsa’s got a lot of resources for people who are into weirdo art\,” JD points out. And he gravitated toward it. “I did my undergraduate studies at the University of Oklahoma in experimental film\,” he says. “I wanted to paint\, do installation\, make video art\, performance stuff\, sculpture. I’ll bet I’m the only person to have received graduate credit hours in card magic.” He wound up with an M.F.A. from the University of Tulsa in open media\, a discipline designed specifically for his interests and ambitions. \nBut all along the way\, music was an integral part of McPherson’s life. His dad introduced him to Delta blues and jazz as a kid\, and after getting into Hendrix\, Led Zeppelin and punk rock during high school\, he picked up a Buddy Holly box set. “Something about that scratched an itch\,” he says. “Then I started getting into the black side of rock ’n’ roll: Larry Williams\, Little Richard\, Art Neville’s stuff on Specialty\, then soul and Jamaican rocksteady.” While studying visual arts\, he also played in bands\, doing everything from punk to western swing. JD was still scratching that itch when he recorded some originals with his previous band and took a shot in the dark. Well aware of Sutton’s status as a heavy hitter on the roots scene and the leader of R&B group the Four Charms\, he fired off a MySpace friend request and asked if the producer/bassist would listen to his demos. \n“I get sent stuff all the time\, and it’s always the same\,” says Sutton\, “but I checked JD out and there was definitely something there. He wowed me—his voice\, his songwriting. So we started talking\, and we were always on the same page about the music we dig and where we wanted to take it. He had great ideas but he was still an open book. I was just trying to push him to stay true to himself. So the idea became to create a record that was honest and live.” \nSix months into their budding partnership\, JD arrived at Sutton’s newly completed home studio in Chicago—a sort of working shrine to all-tube recording as it was practiced a half-century ago\, right down to Jimmy’s collection of vintage mics and his early-’60s Berlant/Concertone quarter-inch tape machine. Also on hand was Sutton’s go-to guy Alex Hall\, “a Brian Eno type” according to JD\, who multitasks as engineer\, drummer and keyboard player. \n“I showed up and I said\, ‘I got this song ‘Dimes for Nickels\,’ and I want it to be like a Chess Chuck Berry thing\, slowed down\, with a flat-tire beat\,’” JD remembers. “Jimmy and Alex are from Chicago—they know that stuff backwards and forwards—and we nailed it in two takes.” Within a week\, they’d banged out a dozen tracks\, recording during the day and writing at night with a guitar and a laptop. \nIn order to make sure the album got heard by JD’s potential core audience\, Sutton threw some chum in the water\, pressing up a limited run on his brand-new Hi-Style label and directing it at the roots community. JD and Jimmy\, who’s also a visual artist\, then applied those skills to the making of a striking video for opening track “North Side Girl\,” which has now registered well over 350\,000 YouTube views. \n“When the album came out\, we immediately got a really strong response from that crowd\,” JD recalls. “Then we put that video out\, and it went all over the place within a week. Not too long after that\, we started getting calls from managers\, prospective booking agents\, and it turned into this weird journey. By early last year\, we were talking to some major labels and the folks at Rounder\, who found out about us from the video. What made it the perfect storm was\, as all that was happening\, I lost my job—I was a middle school art teacher. I loved that job but\, sign of the times\, they started laying off the art department and I was part of the fallout. So I collected my paycheck through the summer and toured.” After which he signed with Rounder. \nHaving finally decided on his artistic direction\, JD isn’t looking back. “Although I grew up wanting to be a visual artist\, I’ll tell you what: the most satisfaction I’ve ever had as an artist is right now\,” he says. “Because as much as I love artists like Joseph Beuys\, I love David Bowie and Little Richard more. I was doin’ OK\, I had some things going\, but I’d rather do this\, make music the priority. There’s more instant gratification—you play a show and right away you feel like it’s something worthwhile\, and a lot of people are in on it. So I’m definitely into continuing to explore all this stuff. It’s really exciting—knock on wood.” \nJD has no doubts about the viability of the choice he’s made. “Working within a genre has been done in all kinds of mediums—look at Alfred Hitchcock\,” he points out. “It’s been established that rock ’n’ roll is a viable form—it’s hard-wired into American brains to understand swinging blues stuff. So it’s not surprising to me that kids are into the Black Keys and Adele. It just had to be presented to them.” \nSo now it’s JD McPherson’s turn to step up to the plate and give it a good whack. Go get ’em\, tiger. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/jd-mcpherson/ 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/2015/09/JD_McPherson_band.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:20151008T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151008T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150903T004050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150903T004050Z UID:10001775-1444338000-1444338000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:"TURN UP THE HEAT" 2016 Boston Firefighters Calendar Launch DESCRIPTION:Mgt reserves the right to refuse admission. Admission not guaranteed after 12am. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/turn-up-the-heat-2016-boston-firefighters-calendar-launch/ 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/2015/09/BFC_2015_FLYER-03.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:20151009T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151009T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150909T015354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150909T015354Z UID:10001565-1444413600-1444413600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:An Evening with Lucero DESCRIPTION:Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. \nPresented by Sailor Jerry. \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*** \nYou could say we were one of the lucky ones\, starting this band in April of ’98 without a clue as to what we were doing. We were getting tired of the steady punk rock and metal diet and we wanted to try our hand at country songs\, or do our best Tom Waits/Pogues impersonation. \nThe trick there was that we couldn’t really play our instruments! I had never played guitar before and Ben Nichols (lead singer\, guitar) had only played bass in other bands. Finding Roy Berry (drummer) and John C. Stubblefield (bassist) solidified the line up and being hidden away in Memphis allowed us to woodshed\, experiment with different sounds and create one that was ours alone. \nEventually we got out of town\, and playing 250 shows year not only made us tight as a band but as a family as well. We are still one of the few bands out there with the original line up from almost the beginning\, and it shows. \nPicking up Rick Steff on keys allowed us to expand the sound and grow musically. Being able to play whatever we could think up in our heads and having the music we loved and grew up on motivate and inspire us to try new things and take chances. We realized that if you added some horns to Ben’s lyrics that it took it to the next step\, from sad bastard country rock to soul and R&B and we realized we were a Memphis band and came by it honest. We have always brought Memphis with us wherever we went and this just proved it. \nWe came out screaming on 1372 Overton Park. Big sound\, bigger horns – like a kid with a new toy we put them on everything and loved it! This record was a marked departure from the previous sound and announcement of way things we’re gonna be now! \nWhile 1372 Overton Park was written and the horns added after the fact\, Women & Work was written with the horns in mind so it was a little less gung ho and was starting to settle in nicely. Women & Work is one of the best modern Southern rock records in my opinion and the song “On My Way Downtown” has almost surpassed “Tears Don’t Matter Much” as the crowd favorite… almost! \nThis brings us to the new record. All A Man Should Do contains some of the most resonant lyrics Ben Nichols has ever written\, lyrics that read like chapters from his life on the duality of relationships\, getting older\, finding where you want to be in this world\, and musically we are broadening our sound. Working with producer Ted Hutt for a third time at the famous Ardent Studios\, we felt comfortable enough to take some chances with a palette of new tones that sound understated yet powerful\, bringing life to the stories behind the lyrics without overshadowing them. \nIt’s also the first time we’ve ever put a cover song on a record\, with a full band version of big star’s “I Fell in Love with a Girl”\, and having Jody from Big Star sing back-up vocals makes it that more special and amazing. This is a Memphis record in the greatest sense and a perfect finish to the three-part love letter to a city that brought us up and made us what we are today. \n“I was 15 years old in 1989. This record sounds like the record I wanted to make when I was 15. It just took 25 years of mistakes to get it done.” – Ben Nichols \n“Having Big Star actually sing on your cover of a Big Star song that you’re recording at Ardent Studios – it doesn’t get much more exciting than that.” – Ben Nichols URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/an-evening-with-lucero/ 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/2015/09/800_SJUS_Lucero11x17_LR-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:20151009T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151009T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150903T005506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150903T005506Z UID:10001778-1444428000-1444428000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:W&W DESCRIPTION:21 + \nMgt reserves the right to refuse admission. Dress code applies. Admission not guaranteed after 12am. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/ww/ 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/2015/09/SOFA-KING-WW-10-9-15.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:20151010T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151010T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150910T033911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150910T033911Z UID:10001880-1444514400-1444514400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:DOSVEC DESCRIPTION:21+ \nMgt reserves the right to refuse admission. Dress code applies. Admission not guaranteed after 12am. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/dosvec/ 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/2015/09/10.10-dosvec-r.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:20151011T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151011T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150910T035001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150910T035001Z UID:10001895-1444600800-1444600800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Isaac Escalante DESCRIPTION:21 + \nMgt reserves the right to refuse admission. Dress code applies. Admission not guaranteed after 12am. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/isaac-escalante/ 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/2015/09/10.11-queen.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:20151014T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151014T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150909T020057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150909T020057Z UID:10001566-1444849200-1444849200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Tove Lo DESCRIPTION:NOTE: THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nQueen of the Clouds Tour \nThis event is all ages. \n*** \nAs anyone with ears will tell you\, Sweden is quite good when it comes to fostering amazing pop talent. With Stockholm’s Tove Lo\, however\, the typical mould of elegant heartfelt electropop has been beautifully corrupted by the sort of lyrical honesty and rawness that not only ruffles feathers\, but makes you want to clutch your hand to your chest and wail along at the top of your lungs. Having self-released two examples of her unique take on pop – the clattering blood-letting of Love Ballad and the raw\, but disarmingly melodic Habits (the latter earning respect from everyone from Pitchfork to Popjustice) – Tove Lo is ready to take her pop confessionals to a whole new level. \nMusic was always going to be something Tove Lo was involved in. Her high school\, for example\, wasn’t like most high schools. Run by teachers whose motto apparently was “fuck reading\, let’s play music”\, it was here that Lo met both of Icona Pop\, forming bands left\, right and centre and learning how to write songs. Singing in bands was something Lo also took outside the school gates\, fronting a math rock band and playing what she affectionately refers to as “shitty” venues. “I wanted to write but couldn’t play anything and the guitarist in the band put music to my lyrics so that’s how it all started\,” she explains. “It was such hard music and it would change key and tempo all the time. You had to understand it\, like mathematical rock. We’d play all these awful bars where there were no monitors or anything. It was always pretty rowdy\, so I got a lot of stage experience.” \nAt the same time she also started working on her own demos in-between earning money as a session singer. “I think I just started to feel like I wasn’t really into that music anymore\,” she explains of her need to spread her wings. “I wanted to experiment more with other sounds and not keep it so organic. I was into the electronic stuff that was happening and the guitar player was very against that sort of stuff. I started producing my own songs on my computer which was fun.” Perhaps as a sign of her intent\, those early recording sessions took place in a freezing cold shed turned makeshift studio. “My cousins had a shed outside of their house. It wasn’t heated so I had this heater in there and sometimes in the winter it would be minus ten\,” she laughs. “The days I didn’t have a session I’d walk my dog there and just sit there all day and produce my own songs. Habits and Love Ballad were kind of started there actually.” \nIn-between living her life\, writing songs about the various ups and downs in her life (break-ups\, drink and drugs\, raucous nights out and emotionally barren mornings after) and earning a living\, Lo also set about cultivating her songwriting career. At a party held by her friends Icona Pop to celebrate them signing a record deal\, Lo decided it would be a good idea to harass some people from said label. “I just walked up to someone and said to him\, ‘you have to hear my songs\, they’re amazing’\,” she giggles. “It was just to get some feedback from someone. He was like ‘who the fuck are you?’\, but I forced him to give me his email address and so I got that and sent him some stuff. He replied saying there was something there and we sort of planned a meeting in Stockholm.” From there she signed a publishing deal with Warner Chappell and before long she found herself being flown out to LA to hang out at pop songwriting legend Max Martin’s house via newfound friend\, and fellow songwriting legend Alex Kronlund. “It gave me so much more confidence because at the beginning you don’t know what you like. If someone says it’s good you almost immediately believe them.” The impromptu meeting has since resulted in Lo becoming part of Martin’s pop songwriting team\, working on some of the biggest forthcoming pop releases. \nBut it’s with her own songs that Lo’s real songwriting chops come to fore\, as evidenced on her excellent debut EP\, the tellingly-titled Truth Serum. At its core is Habits\, which garnered so much blog buzz it lead to not just a deal with Universal but the attention of hugely-respected pop label Neon Gold\, who are releasing a special limited edition of Truth Serum on vinyl in America\, as well as hosting Lo at their SXSW showcase. Shifting effortlessly from verses that detail the lengths people go to to forget their pain (visits to sex clubs\, casual sex with strangers\, lots of drink)\, to a chorus that soars with barely restrained anguish\, Habits is anchored by Lo’s impassioned vocal as it wraps itself around the line\, “you’re gone and I’ve got to stay high all the time to keep you off my mind”. “Habits is about my ex\,” Lo shrugs. “It was a lot of passion and pain clouded by smoke and it was chaos. Really up and down. He then changed his life around and joined a Buddhist movement and I wasn’t ready for that at all so I left.” Did she ever think of restraining her honesty in any way? “I don’t like to filter it. I get into a flow and get it out\, but if I stop myself I just think ‘why? Why be subtle? Just say it as it is’. It’s not ‘I’m a single girl\, let’s party all night long’\, it’s more ‘I’m really destructive right now and I don’t care’. I think my honesty bothers some people.” \nRaw\, unbridled and packed full of sky-scraping pop hooks\, the rest of Truth Serum follows Habits’ lead. From the sleek\, electronic pulse of the ludicrously catchy Not On Drugs to the jungle and drum’n’bass influenced Paradise\, to the devastating melancholia of the musically upbeat Over\, it’s a collection that not only showcases a sharp new talent but sets a new standard for emotional pop music. The EP closes with perhaps Lo’s catchiest moment so far in the shape of Out Of Mind\, a song that rushes along over a mesh of fizzing synths while Lo defiantly picks at a relationship\, the chorus repeating the line “you’re out of your mind to think that I” before the resolution of “could keep you out of mine” brings with it a sort of heartbreaking resolution. It’s another example of Tove Lo’s greatest strength; the ability to cloak emotional honesty in the sort of songs you want to jump about a room to\, drink in hand\, singing out your emotions with a big tear-stained grin on your face. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/tove-lo/ 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/2015/09/TOVELO_FM_COLOR-LOCALIZED-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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151016T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151016T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150909T020700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150909T020700Z UID:10001567-1445018400-1445018400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Catfish and the Bottlemen DESCRIPTION:Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. \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*** \nCatfish and the Bottlemen are a four piece band from Llandudno in Wales. They play attacking\, melodic\, anthemic\, guitar fuelled garage rock songs fizzing with lust\, hope\, anger and a furious desire to exist.\nIn just a few frenzied years of existence\, Catfish and the Bottlemen\, (singer and guitarist Van McCann\, lead guitarist Johnny Bond\, bassist Benji Blakeway and drummer Bob Hall) have headlined hundreds and hundreds of gigs to increasingly wild and dedicated audiences\, been championed by BBC Radio One\, MTV and XFM\, churned out a series of classic singles and have released an utterly thrilling debut album that positively burns with emotion and ambition.\n“I don’t think rock and roll has ever gone away\,” says Van. “I just don’t think there’s been a band to believe in. Nobody’s really gone for it and put their whole lives on the line. We got kicked out of school for it\, lost girlfriends for it\, went on the dole for it\, been broke and starving and done everything for it. If you’ve got to go for it\, you’ve got to go for it.”\nVan McCann talks a good fight. He is proud of being a test tube baby\, the IVF child of “free-minded Liverpuddlian parents” who spent his early years travelling around Australia. It was here the young McCann saw a strange busker. “My first memory of music is being sat outside a café watching a guy play a washing line with bottles on it. He was called Catfish the Bottleman. So I thought it was apt to name the band after him. I really wish I hadn’t. Try telling a drunk guy that name for the fifteenth time.”\nVan himself was named in honour of Van Morrison. “My father took me to a Van Morrison gig when I was young. The way he controlled the band and worked the room\, it wasn’t like going to see a rock band\, it was like seeing a magician. After that\, I realised I wanted to be a frontman\, I wanted to be hold a room in my hand.”\nHe was writing songs before he could play an instrument and picked up a guitar aged thirteen. He got his first lessons from Billy Bibby\, the older brother of a friend. Billy’s school mate Benji Blakeway was recruited on bass\, and they started gigging as soon as Van had mastered a few chords. “We played in a beer garden. We got paid in booze\, so we had free drinks all day until they found out I wasn’t old enough to drink and I got chucked out of my own gig\,” recalls Van. Drummer Bob Hall lived across the road from Van.\nA live reputation for incendiary shows spread by word of mouth. In short order\, they acquired management by ATC (the people behind Radiohead and Nick Cave) and signed to Communion Records in 2013 (the independent label set up by Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons). All of their singles (Homesick\, Rango\, Pacifier\, Kathleen\, Fallout) have been nominated as Hottest Record In The World on Zane Lowe’s Radio One show.\nTheir storming anthem Kathleen was ranked number one on MTV’s Hottest Tracks in April 2014. Legendary tastemaker DJ Steve Lamaq has been a supporter from the beginning. John Kennedy described them as “stadium ready”. They signed to Island in 2014 and their debut album has been produced by Jim Abbis\, the man behind The Arctic Monkeys classic debut (who has also worked with Kasabian\, Stereophonics and Adele).\n“We fought a lot\, because he’s really good and we’re just kids. It took a while to earn his respect. But it felt like the way it should have been made. We were just in this cottage in the middle of nowhere that had no phone signal or contact with the outside world\, really. I’d go out every night and have a smoke and every morning I’d come up with an idea. It was class. I’m so proud of every single note\, every single beat and every single lyric.”\nThe title\, Balcony\, was inspired by a moment of epiphany on a rooftop in New York\, where Van was writing the song Cocoon whilst looking out across a glittering city of millions of strangers. “It’s about being in love with the moment. It’s the feeling that I have a great band\, a great family and the best friends. Nothing else matters.”\nThe theme of the album\, he says\, is “not letting anybody else get in the way\, not letting any fucking person or thing drag you down. It’s about being positive\, looking forward\, surrounding yourself with good people. It’s an album for anyone who has to put up with shit in their lives. We grew up in a small town and my writing has come out of that small town mentality\, where everyone knows your business and tries to get involved with it. The whole album is a big two fingers up to those kind of people. It’s euphoric\, positive\, fuck the world\, we’ve got everything we need right here.”\nLive shows are the essence of the Catfish experience. This is a band forging intense bonds with its audience. Members of Arctic Monkeys\, The Libertines and The Vaccines have been spotted at their gigs. After triumphant festival dates (including headlining the BBC Introducing Stage at T In The Park)\, they toured the US in October\, have a sold out run of dates in the UK in November and December and have announced a string of already sold out shows in the spring including two Shepherds Bush Empires.\n“Our live shows are about the moment\, just getting lost in the music and going fucking crazy\, Make people dance and make people feel. My whole night is based around that\, the lights going off and people screaming. I get onstage\, see everyone’s faces and something clicks in me and I just go.”\nCatfish and the Bottlemen are dreamers. And in rock and roll\, that’s always a good thing. “Everything I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid\, we’ve already done\,” says McCann. “It’s a bit crazy. Hearing my songs on the radio\, selling out shows. My dream is for it is to get as big as it can possibly get. We are not afraid of the ultimate high. I want to give people a band they can hold on to for the rest of their lives.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/catfish-and-the-bottlemen/ 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/2015/09/Catfish_Tour_Poster_2-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:20151016T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151016T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150903T005808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150903T005808Z UID:10001780-1445032800-1445032800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:THE CHAINSMOKERS DESCRIPTION:21 + \nMgt reserves the right to refuse admission. Dress code applies. Admission not guaranteed after 12am. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/the-chainsmokers-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/2015/09/SOFA-KING-The-Chainsmokers-10-16-15.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:20151017T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151017T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150909T021219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150909T021219Z UID:10001568-1445104800-1445104800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:The Dear Hunter DESCRIPTION:The Rebirth Tour \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:30 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. \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*** \nThe Dear Hunter is a full-time project of Casey Crescenzo\, formerly of post-hardcore band The Receiving End of Sirens. The band’s sound is not unlike that of Casey’s former band\, but with more alternative and progressive rock tendencies and a wider variety of instrumentation. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/the-dear-hunter/ 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/2015/09/RebirthTour-localizedWEB.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:20151018T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151018T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150909T021515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150909T021515Z UID:10001569-1445196600-1445196600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Leon Bridges DESCRIPTION:NOTE: THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT \nDoors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:30 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. \n*** \nThe river of soul music flows on deep and strong\, and 25-year-old Leon Bridges is immersed in its life-giving current. The Forth Worth\, Texas native and Columbia Records artist is currently preparing his debut album for release in the summer of 2015. “I’m not saying I can hold a candle to any soul musician from the ’50s and ’60s\,” Bridges says\, “but I want to carry the torch.” \nHumility aside\, Bridges’ light is burning bright. Following the October\, 2014 release of two tunes that set the on-line world aflame\, and accompanied by intimate solo shows from London to Los Angeles and Nashville to New York\, the singer and songwriter has proved himself a rare talent who can do smoldering ballads and elemental rock’n’roll with equal aplomb. While he appears to have emerged cut from the cloth and fully formed\, Bridges explains in his dulcet voice how he came to be here now. \n“As a kid I grew fascinated with modern R&B. In high school I’d try singing songs by Ginuwine and Usher\,” he explains\, “and I thought well\, maybe they weren’t in my range.” Instead\, a lithe\, nimble physicality led Leon to study dance at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth. “I’d been doing hip-hop dance since I was 11 years old\,” he says. “I knew there was a dance program there\, and I started diving into ballet and jazz and modern technique and learning choreography. I thought that’s what I wanted to do.” \nNative inspiration soon diverted his path. “A friend of mine brought his keyboard to school every day\, and we’d have these little jam sessions\, improvising\, and I started to find my voice.” One day a female friend asked Bridges to look after her guitar while she went to class. “I asked her to show me a couple chords first. And she did: A-minor and E-minor. I fell in love with their sound\, and that’s when I started writing songs\, from those two chords.” \nThat Bridges compositional bedrock began in a minor mode is revealing. At a moment when popular music seems in thrall to major chord sing-alongs\, the blue hues of Bridges’ tunes embrace a subtlety that feels wholly refreshing. “Based on my innocence on guitar and my lack of knowledge of the technical side\, my songwriting is something I have to make on-point with melody and delivery to make it shine\,” he explains. \nWith a few early compositions tucked under his belt\, a seeming dichotomy surfaced: Bridges’ tunes sounded less like the modern R&B he’d grown up loving than a style he was\, in fact\, not very familiar with: classic soul. Furthermore\, Bridges’ sleek\, fastidious fashion sensibility dovetailed with the songs he was writing. He began a tenderfoot period of apprenticeship playing coffeehouses in and around Fort Worth\, slowly finding and refining his voice. \nA turning point soon came via a pair of selvedge trousers. One night at an Austin bar Bridges was approached by a young woman who complimented him on his snazzy Wrangler’s and said that he should meet her boyfriend\, a fellow with a comparable sense of style. Her boyfriend turned out to be Austin Jenkins of the band White Denim. “I hadn’t heard of White Denim at the time\,” Bridges says\, “but I went and looked them up and thought yeah\, that’s interesting music.” After Jenkins and his bandmate Joshua Block subsequently peeped Bridges perform at a low-key local show\, they insisted Leon enter the studio to cut a few tracks on their burgeoning bank of vintage equipment. \nThat initial three-day session\, with Jenkins and Block producing\, yielded the recordings that set Bridges at the center of rapturous attention from aficionados and labels alike. The buttery\, seductive “Coming Home” and the piston-driven\, doo-wop flavored “Better Man” demonstrated Bridges’ versatility. Inking with Columbia Records\, whose roster includes a certain hero named Bob Dylan\, was the outcome of courtship and deliberation. “Columbia has artists I look up to like Adele and Pharrell\, as well as Raphael Saadiq and John Legend\,” says Bridges. “They way they value artistry makes it feel like home.” \nThe early 2015 release of another new song\, “Lisa Sawyer\,” has further burnished Bridges’ promise. With its brushed snares and glowing brass\, “Lisa Sawyer” is a remarkably assured offering from so young a talent. The song\, about Bridges’ mother\, a woman “with the complexion of a sweet praline\,” has the flavor of one of Allen Toussaint’s productions for the great Lee Dorsey. Connecting the sacred and the secular\, “Lisa Sawyer” feels natural considering Bridges’ churchgoing childhood. And by writing with specificity about his own family\, Bridges is creating resonant work about the African-American experience. \n“I have a lot of insecurities because I don’t have a big powerhouse voice\,” he admits. “I’m not a shouter. I rely on phrasing to get my feeling across.” Bridges’ delivery exudes strength through tenderness. “I guess that’s why I connected with Sam Cooke.” \nThe name Sam Cooke has appeared frequently in Bridges’ early notices in the press. The point of comparison is apt\, but not initially intentional. “When I wrote ‘Lisa Sawyer’ I didn’t know anything about old soul music\,” Leon says. “I was asked ‘Is Sam Cooke one of your inspirations?’ I had to say no\, because I only knew Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ from the movie Malcolm X\, which I’d watched with my father. But from being asked about Sam Cooke and Otis Redding I started digging deeper into soul music from the ’50 and ’60s and realizing this is really the root of what I’m doing.” \nWhat to make of the fact that Bridges is working in a tradition whose existence he was initially only vaguely aware of? “It speaks to the gift God placed in me\,” Leon says\, choosing his words carefully. “It humbles and wows me to think I was pulling from something I didn’t really know about.” \nIn the striking black-and-white images that have accompanied Leon’s emergence\, one photograph stands out. It depicts Bridges sauntering down a sunlit sidewalk\, his shadow falling not behind him but stretching out in the direction of his forward stride. The implication is that Bridges is not walking away from the past\, but moving forward with both family history and the tradition of soul music in full view. His ancestors and antecedents walk with him. “They’re with me at all times\,” affirms Bridges. Steeped in tradition\, drenched with intention and desire\, Leon Bridges’ soul music is happening here and now. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/leon-bridges/ 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/2015/09/leon_london_final-localized-WEB.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:20151019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151019T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150909T022907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150909T022907Z UID:10001570-1445281200-1445281200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Smallpools DESCRIPTION:Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is all ages. \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*** \nThe story of Smallpools is mostly a series of happy coincidences. Vocalist Sean Scanlon and guitarist Michael Kamerman met at SXSW in 2007 while both of them were playing in different bands. After forging a friendship based on a mutual love of music and a shared frustration of not seeing their respective bands actually take off\, the two eventually decided to join forces and\, ultimately\, leave the East Coast behind. Moving to LA in 2011 (“We threw all of our stuff in a van and drove cross country from New Jersey\,” says Kamerman)\, both musicians had no solid plan other than to try and make music and not starve to death in the process. “It just seemed like eventually something would have to happen\,” recalls vocalist Sean Scanlon. As luck would have it\, eventually something did. After randomly crossing paths with bassist and recent Portland transplant Joe Intile (who\, in turn\, would randomly cross paths with drummer Beau Kuther\, himself recently uprooted from Portland and dropped in Los Angeles for work)\, the newly assembled band booked some studio time in Atlanta to bang out three songs that would ultimately serve as a template for their burgeoning sound. \n“We had a lot of random ideas when we started\,” says Kamerman\, “But once we kind of hit on the sound\, I think we all knew it. We grew up listening to the same stuff that our parents loved—Billy Joel\, Paul Simon\, Springsteen\, Elton John—so the goal was always to push ourselves in writing what we thought were good songs. The actual sound of it just sort of came from this new world we suddenly found ourselves living in. After a year of really struggling in LA\, the songs became the way out.” \nRecorded with up-and-coming LA production team Captain Cuts\, the tracks on the band’s 2013 debut EP\, Smallpools\, showed a band coming into their own. Breakout track “Dreaming” brought the band national attention (including a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live) and the song eventually managed to rack up over 4.5 million views. Though the band were eager to get to work on a full-length debut\, they would spend the better part of the next year touring all over North America with the likes of Walk The Moon\, Neon Trees\, Grouplove\, MS MR\, Twenty One Pilots and Two Door Cinema Club (not to mention stops at both Lollapalooza and Firefly Festival\, along with their own year-capping headline tour). The time spent on the road proved to be a valuable lesson for the band\, in more ways than one. \n“As we were writing these songs we were also playing live a lot\, which really affected the dynamic of the music\,” says Scanlon. ”You know\, we were initially out there as the opening act a lot of the time and we had to make the most of that experience. We were lucky to tour with bands that were we toured with. You have the opportunity to get up there in front of someone else’s audience and prove yourself. It was like school for us\, like a crash course in how to play to your strengths and win over an audience. It’s also a chance for people to discover you and slowly grow a fanbase of your own.” \nThe fourteen tracks that make up Lovetap!—the band’s full-length debut—show off the evidence of over a year spent playing live. Recorded once again with production team Captain Cuts in between touring stints\, the new record builds on the promise of Smallpools’ earlier music: stadium-sized pop anthems with the kind of choruses that basically beg to be sung along to. Tracks like “Dyin’ To Live” and “American Love” spring out of the gate with the kind a kind of urgency and hyper-melodicism that earlier Smallpools tracks only hinted at. Given that all four band members are seasoned musicians\, the pristine pop of Smallpools music is no accident. The airtight songs dip and soar at all the right moments thanks to the no bullshit indie-pop hooks that seem to be embedded in their DNA. The quantum leap forward on Lovetap! is the result of endless touring\, lots of experimentation\, and\, as Kamerman describes it: “Being locked in a room together for long hours to write songs and figure out our roles in the band.” Nowhere is this more evident than on “Karaoke\,” the album’s anthemic and wonderfully big-hearted first single. \n“I actually used to hate karaoke\,” explains Scanlon\, “But when Mike and first moved to LA—before Smallpools was really a thing yet—we used to do karaoke all the time. We used to always sing that New Radicals’ song ‘You Get What You Give’ because it kind of made us feel better. We were working so much just to pay our rent\, it was hard to even find the time to get together and make music. Doing karaoke became this weird outlet for us just to perform. We could go out and sing a song that we loved that made us feel inspired\, like we could eventually make our own songs. I remember driving to work after a late night of drinking and singing and feeling like\, ‘OK\, we’ve got it in us to do this!’ It’s about celebrating and performing with your friends. It’s life affirming\, you know?” \n2015 looks to be a big year for Smallpools. With their long-in-the-works debut finally out in the world\, the band is looking forward to an abundance of touring as well as their first ever stop at SXSW. More than anything though\, each member of the band is happy to so many years of hard work finally begin to truly pay off. “We’ve all done our time working on a million projects that didn’t make it\,” confers drummer Beau Kuther. “And just when you start to think it’s time to maybe give up\, suddenly everything you’ve been working for suddenly starts to come together. It’s kind of like falling in love\, as soon as you stop trying so hard\, then it happens. That’s basically the story of our band.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/smallpools/ 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/2015/09/fall_2015_admat_mock_v5.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:20151020T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151020T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150909T023302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150909T023302Z UID:10001571-1445371200-1445371200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Duke Dumont Live DESCRIPTION:Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. \nPresented in association with Mmmmaven. \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*** \nBefore 2012 Duke Dumont was known as a ‘producer’s producer’. He was the name on a 12″ record the DJ knew to reach for when he wanted to please the crowd\, without them knowing who had constructed the mesmerising sonic confection they were dancing too. \nIn 2012\, two EPs on Tiga’s Turbo Recordings (with whom Duke has had a long standing relationship) changed all that. ‘For Club Play Vol. 1 & 2’ offered up sweet ecstatic deep house & UK bass cuts that have united people across the spectrum of music\, from early club adopters like Annie Mac\, Erol Alkan\, Diplo\, Martyn and Jackmaster to Fearne Cotton on daytime Radio 1\, Trevor Nelson on 1xtra and even podcasts by Tiesto and Avicci. On some nights in Duke’s beloved Fabric London\, you would hear the anthemic ‘The Giver’ being played in all three rooms at the same time. \nDuke’s early career was mentored by Switch (last sighted producing for Beyoncé) and he made his name as the ‘go-to’ man to remake a pop song for the dance floor (Lily Allen and Bat For Lashes were notable clients). In 2011\, he moved out of London to the countryside (Hertfordshire\, where his studio overlooks a forest) to focus on his original material. \nSynthesising his influences from techno to UK garage and house he brought back goodies from this zen-like exile. ‘For Club Play Only Vol. 1’ was released in April 2012 on Turbo. With ‘Street Walker’ and ‘Thunderclap’ on there\, it alerted the heads to the Duke movement and received support from the likes of Jamie Jones and Simian Mobile Disco. \nRemixes for AlunaGeorge and Santigold quickly followed\, then in August ‘For Club Play Only Vol.2’ featuring ‘No Money Blues’ and ‘The Giver’ made Duke the man to watch. ‘The producer’s producer’ had become the ‘people’s producer’. \n‘Need U (100%)’ features 17 year-old starlet A*M*E* on singing duties. With a chunky low-end\, funky stabs and silky vocals this is like an early 90s house classic couched in 2013 techno techniques. In 1988 Inner City would have been jealous of this one. \nCo-written by teenage wonder-kid MNEK (who recently sung on Rudimental’s ‘Spoons’ with Syron) ‘Need U (100%)’ is out now on his newly minted Blasé Boys Club label. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/duke-dumont-live/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/DD_UK_SINGLE-DATE-A6-FLYER-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:20151021T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151021T230000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150903T010022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150903T010022Z UID:10001797-1445468400-1445468400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:KASKADE DESCRIPTION:21 + \nMgt reserves the right to refuse admission. Dress code applies. Admission not guaranteed after 12am. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/kaskade/ 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/2015/09/Kaskade_ROYALE.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:20151022T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151022T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150909T023701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150909T023701Z UID:10001824-1445540400-1445540400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:The Menzingers / mewithoutYou DESCRIPTION:NOTE: Online sales have ended. Tickets will be available at the door. \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. \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*** \nPhiladelphia-by-way-of Scranton punk band\, The Menzingers are two years removed from Epitaph debut On The Impossible Past. Voted Album of the Year by Absolute Punk and Punk News\, the universal acclaim praised the band for its punk roots and quintessentially Midwest romantics. The same accoladeshave followed The Menzingers since forming as teenagers\, followed since Chamberlain Waits (2010) andA Lesson In The Abuse of Information Technology (2007). No longer housemates in Scranton\, PA\, the title to The Menzinger’s 2014 follow-up\, Rented World\, mirrors the band’s lifestyle since moving to Philly in 2008. The band was renting separate spaces around the city\, but maintaining a practice space in North Philly where the majority of the record was written. Faithfully archetypal Rust Belt punk\, Rented World is an album concerned with maintaining a sense of self\, the softening of posture\, and the burden of harsh realities. In every respect\, The Menzingers went into Rented World asking more of themselves. As co-songwriter and guitarist Tom May notes\, The Menzingers felt like a different band in 2013. Rented World remains punk\, while fearlessly colliding the snarl of emo with grungy\, 90s grit (“Bad Things”) and exploring the celestial expanse of post-rock (“Transient Love”). It’s slightly new territory for a band coping with their mid-twenties\, and whether you’ve been there or you’re on the way there\, it’s important to note a maturation that comes with the milestone. “When you’re 15 you view music and the music industry a certain way\,” May said. “But by the time you’re 25 you have a different view. Not that it’s good or bad\, but getting older itself has changed the music.” While the previous two records live in the trademark angst of Chicago producer Matt Allison (Alkaline Trio and Lawrence Arms) and his Atlas Studio sound\, Menzingers kept it Philly-local for Rented World\, enlisting Jonathan Low\, whose distinctively rich Americana resonates through the careers of The War OnDrugs\, Sharon Van Etten\, Kurt Vile\, and The National. The band as a whole recognized shifts in their craft\, shifts they knew would best be handled by Low at Miner Street Recordings. “We wanted to go to somebody who wasn’t used to recording punk records\,” Tom May said. “Though it wasn’t in a pretentious way\, like we wanted to become an indie rockband.” With that in mind\, album opener “I Don’t Wanna Be An Asshole Anymore” is not just a declaration to be better to that special someone\, but a bold recognition that permeates the record on into “Nothing Feels\nGood Anymore”. Shaking oneself out of ruts\, still life stagnancy\, and the same damn party every weekend informs two of Rented World’s most anthemic offerings. While the front end of Rented World mostly focus on the complications of friendships and relationships\, the latter songs progress towards the abstract. “The Talk” kicks the surgeon general’s number one killer out the front door (“I want my life back / you turned my chest black / I don’t owe you anything”)\, while “Sentimental Physics” addresses with the impossibility of compromise in the science vs. religion battle\, “you can come find me / when you feel lost in a bidding war”. On “In Remission” Barnett’s insecurities manifest as “I hate how I always get nervous every time I try to speak / in front of a big crowd / a pretty girl / or the police”\, meaning The Menzingers didn’t write the answers into Rented World. The record admits to an in medias res that comes with one’s late 20s\, old enough to know better\, but still seeking greater wisdom. Things start to feel a little more serious\,” Tom May said. “When we were younger we wrote fiery songs because at that age it’s your world view. Things feel wrong and you want to say how wrong it is. Now\, I look at the world with a view of ‘well\, I’m not right all the time’. \n*** \nThose who have followed mewithoutYou’s music in recent years will likely see their new\,self-releasedTen Storiesas a return to old form. Their previous record\,It’s All Crazy!\, etc. had been a drastic and intentional departure. Aaron Weiss’ manic\, unorthodox hollering was nowhere to be found\, deliberately giving way to a more conventional melodic vocal approach. The explosive\, schizophrenic drumming and swarthy\,tempestuouslow end (Rickie Mazzotta and Greg Jehanian\, respectively) were accordingly subdued\, relegated largely to keeping basic time. Chris Kleinberg had jumped ship for med school\, leaving Mike Weiss reluctantly alone on electric guitar\, feeling like a session player embellishing his little brother’s folk songs\, no longer part of a coherent unit.In short\, due largely to their singer’s creative wanderlust\, the band had entirely forsaken whatever they’d become; in an effort to spurn the familiar\, they had grown unrecognizable\, alienating no shortage of fans in the process. Those fans\, and whoever has come to miss what was most distinct about mewithoutYou\, will welcomeTen Storiesas the rightful follow-up to their 2006 release\,Brother/Sister\,and 2004’sCatch forUsthe Foxes.To be sure\, the band hasn’t altogether renounced the psychedelic-rustic-pop elements ofIt’s All Crazy!; rather\, they have renounced the scrupulous control inherent to its renunciation. Simply put\, they seem to have let go of the steering wheel\, and are back to writing music\, well\, ‘naturally.’“They’re not quite children’s songs\,” vocalist Aaron Weiss explains\, “with not quite coherent storylines\, but there is an overarching and kind of child-like narrative: a circus train crashes in 19th century Montana. Some animals escape\, others stay in their cages. The traveling menagerie re-rails\, stays its course\, and struggles to fill in the missing attractions. Meanwhile\, freed from institutionalized life\, the rice-cake rabbit takes to a peripatetic fortune teller\, the monastic walrus is tempted by a hedonistic owl\, a fish falls for an eggplant. Other songs describe a contemplative Fox’s prophetic dream\, a starving Bear’s vision of a martyred saint\, and an indecisive Peacock & gnostic Tiger learning the virtues of megalomania from an ego-annihilated Potter Wasp.”This bizarre\, character-heavy lyrical approach let the band revisit their perennial leitmotifs of romantic disaster & quasi-mystical speculation\, without the self-pity/indulgence of direct autobiography. Reflecting recent\, devastating personal losses\, practically every song addresses ourinevitable dying\, apparently easier to face when projected onto anthropomorphic animals. This zoological ventriloquist act allows them to explore abstract philosophical themes and draw on finespun literary sources with a profound goofiness that deflates whatever danger of pretentiousness. The story-teller elements are obscure enough to avoid the short-lived rock opera aesthetic\, leaving most plot details and potential moralizing to the imagination; and this without succumbing to insincerity/irony\, overt relativism\, or outright nonsense.The ever-odd Daniel Smith’s production and veteran Brad Wood’s mixing combine to improve upon the best sonic elements of the band’s past releases. Musically\,Ten Storiesis a mix of the brazen noisiness\, hypnotic soundscapes\, and derelict shouting of theirold songs\, the dead-level melody and extravagant orchestration of recent years\, and a newfound reliance on ethereal harmonies\, courtesy en masse of female guest vocalists (most notably\, Paramore’s Hayley Williams). Whimsically morbid as an Edward Gorey alphabet\, simultaneously self-abnegating and -aggrandizing\, defying simplistic musical or intellectual categorization\, mewithoutYou’s new collection of songs is the fabulously vivid outgrowth of an ongoing religious and irreverent eclecticism\, a ‘decade-plusnarcissistic scramble for artistic affirmation’ (their words)\, and the even longer-running and peculiar friendship of four not-so-younggentlemen from nowhere in particular\, apparently at the height of their mutual affection.Epilogue:mewithoutYou’s 17-ton grease-powered bus –the ornately-chipped\, floral-painted\, “mental hospital on wheels” –will once again\, according to the band\, “hem and haw its way across the country this summer\, punctuated no doubt by near-daily breakdowns\, makeshift repairs\, newborn babies\, manic depressive episodes\, and desperate attempts by all parties involved to separate [them]selves from separation itself.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/the-menzingers-mewithoutyou/ 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/2015/09/MM_fall2015_poster_BG_layered.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:20151023T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151023T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150903T011534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150903T011534Z UID:10001799-1445594400-1445637600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:DANNY AVILA DESCRIPTION:21 + \nMgt reserves the right to refuse admission. Dress code applies. Admission not guaranteed after 12am. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/danny-avila/ 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/2015/09/SOFA-KING-Danny-Avila-10-23-15.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:20151024T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151024T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150909T024038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150909T024038Z UID:10001839-1445709600-1445709600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:X Ambassadors DESCRIPTION:NOTE: THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:30 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. \n*** \nSome of our most enduring rock and roll is built upon the following truth: Sometimes you have to replant yourself to find your roots. Nearly a decade ago\, three of the four young members of Ithaca\, New York\, quartet X Ambassadors left home with great ambition\, vowing not to look back. Like so many small-town kids before them\, they yearned to find fame and fortune in the city. They wanted\, as they confess in one of their most powerful new songs\, to “go big.” And after years of hustling and overcoming personal challenges\, rock stardom felt imminent. But something was missing. Some bands never get that missing piece back\, but the potentially great ones go looking for it. More often than not\, the search leads them right back home. X Ambassadors’ stomping\, syncopated full-length debut\, VHS\, is all about that exploration. Ironically it proved to be a journey — as the antiquated technology name-checked in the album’s title indicates — through the past. \nX Ambassadors’ KIDinaKORNER labelmates Imagine Dragons and Jamie N Commons appear on VHS (“Fear” and “Low Life\,” and “Jungle\,” respectively)\, but the most noticeable guests are the band members’ younger\, more restless selves. The songs on VHS are woven with a series of “interludes\,” or bits of audio from the archives from their family video albums. “Moving Day” and “First Gig” provide a cinematic narrative and pay homage to their love for hip-hop. (Classic albums from De La Soul\, Dr. Dre\, Fugees\, and Eminem also featured micro-dramas or gags between tracks.) “I wanted the album to feel like a movie\,” the band’s singer and guitarist Sam Harris says. Consequently\, the songs on VHS are about movement\, speed\, and the determination to navigate away from heartbreak and the constraints of small-town status quo. “Run away with me / Lost souls and revelry\,” Sam sings\, young-Springsteen-like\, on the album’s first single\, the Top 5 Alternative radio hit “Renegades” — a bouncing folk-rock ode to the misfits and adventurers. Then he continues: “Running wild and running free / Two kids\, you and me.” \nMusic had always been a friend to Sam and his older brother Casey Harris (X Ambassadors’ keyboard player) even when actual friends were few. The brothers grew up with instruments and lessons and hand-me-down Beatles\, Stones\, Billy Joel\, and Joni Mitchell records. These\, as well as the musical theater that Sam participated in at school\, instilled a strong sense of melody and composition\, as well as great hooks. The Johnny Cash and Woody Guthrie albums that their film-maker father favored gave Sam a sense of storytelling and narrative. But everything else around them pointed to a certain kind of faded American glory that screamed: There is no future for you here. “A lot of towns in upstate New York are kind of abandoned\,” Sam says. “They used to be these big metropolises and they’re not anymore. Big cities like Binghamton and Rochester haven’t really been big since the ’50s and ’60s. Most of the manufacturing businesses have moved overseas.” \n Hip-hop gave Sam his voice without sacrificing his love for massive\, arena-ready rock. “I became obsessed with it immediately\,” he says. “It was exciting. I felt like I’d found my own music.” The band bonded over hip-hop with the head of their label\, KIDinaKORNER’s Alex Da Kid\, a veteran hitmaker who has worked with Dr. Dre and Nicki Minaj. VHS’s main ingredient is unapologetically hard rock\, like “Superpower\,” and soulful\, moody pop like “Renegades” and “Unsteady\,” but there’s a rhythmic unpinning that can only come from a hip-hop fan\, and it gives even the album’s most introspective moments a fresh swing. \nIt is unusual for a guitar-driven band to welcome elements of soul and hip-hop into their guitar assault with as much balance and care as X Ambassadors do. They have been\, after all\, all about the rock since their early days. Sam met his future guitarist Noah Feldshuh on the first day of kindergarten. “We were five years old and we became best friends\,” Sam recalls. When they got older\, they both loved Red Hot Chili Peppers\, Coldplay\, and Kings of Leon\, and eventually decided to form a band. The burgeoning group began recording demos very early on. The songs were admittedly rough\, but just the notion of being in a band and having a sense of brotherhood was empowering. \n Casey\, despite being blind since childhood\, was accomplished enough on the piano to later make a living as a professional tuner. He played with a series of local bands and occasionally sat in with a nascent version of the current group. But Sam was not keen on Casey joining. “I was like\, ‘No way am I going to be in a band with my brother\,’” he says. Adds Casey with a laugh: “I was such an asshole to him.” Everyone else pleaded with Sam to relent. “They all said\, ‘Sam\, your brother is a better musician than all of us. Please!’ So I caved.” \nBy the time Sam and Noah enrolled at New York City’s The New School in 2006\, they needed all the creative strength they could muster. This was not the scrappy Manhattan of old\, but one ruled by jaded hipsters prone to dismiss an unabashedly hard-rock loving crew of perceived townies. They met drummer Adam Levin in the dorms and soon the Los Angeles native joined\, but fans were in short supply\, and the Harris brothers felt like Ithaca was never far behind. “We never felt like a New York band\,” Sam says. “You expect to move to the city and become part of some kind of scene but that never happened. It was a struggle for us to get gigs.” \n Between classes and menial work to pay the bills\, there was every reason to give up\, but doing so would mean facing a return to their roots before they were ready. Casey rejoining the fold\, after years working and traveling\, proved to be a shot in the arm. In 2012\, their ballad “Litost” was included on a Spotify playlist and caught the ear of the program director at Virginia rock station 96X. It quickly became a local favorite and the station’s most requested track of the year. That lead to a management deal and a lot of buzz. Another song\, “Unconsolable\,” provided yet another breakthrough\, this time creative\, as it detailed Sam’s own relationship struggles. For Sam\, songwriting became not only a way out of small-town life\, but also a way for him to explore fertile themes of longing\, jealousy\, and personal pain. Music was a healer and others began to notice. “‘Unconsolable’ was the first song where we captured something truly unique\,” he says. Enter an impressed Alex Da Kid\, who was working with on-the-verge alternative rockers Imagine Dragons. Alex\, Imagine Dragons’ frontman Dan Reynolds\, and band friend Dan Stringer co-produced X Ambassadors 2013 EP\, Love Songs Drug Songs\, for KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records. \nThe songwriting got better and better with Sam figuring out how to transform even the most painful circumstances of his personal life into the songs on the band’s 2014 EP The Reason\, like “The Business” and “Free and Lonely\,” which resonate with universal truths about out-running your past and chasing your goals. It’s a trait that’s evolved one of VHS’ standout tracks\, “Unsteady\,” which addresses his and Casey’s parents’ divorce — a blow to the close-knit Harris family. \nFate dealt them yet another hurdle when Casey became seriously ill with a kidney ailment that required a transplant. (Their mother would ultimately donate one of her organs.) “In the grand scheme of our band it seems like a blip on the radar\,” says Casey of that time period. “I’m not gonna lie\,” Sam adds\, “it was pretty stressful.” Once again\, however\, they emerged unbroken and even more determined to rise above their humble beginnings. Soon after\, the small-town boys became a bonafide\, touring rock and roll band\, playing shows with Imagine Dragons\, The Lumineers\, and Panic! At the Disco. Each stellar live show added members to their formerly elusive fan base. \nVHS brings X Ambassadors full circle. And as they prepare to strike out on their own again\, they finally have the self-awareness to guide them through their next chapter. “This album is the culmination of all the work we’ve put in since seventh grade\,” Sam says. “I wanted to show people who we are — a group of brothers\, best friends\, and family who’ve been through so much together.” In one of the interludes\, “Y2K Time Capsule\,” the Harris brothers’ dad asks them where they see themselves in 15 years. (The answer: “Very far away.”) That was in 1999 and now\, just over a decade and a half on\, Sam’s soul has been restored by re-engaging with his origins. He maintains a new sense of peace and understanding for the place that made him with fresh eyes. “It’s beautiful\,” he says of the land known for its gorges\, lakes\, foliage and now\, X Ambassadors. You can and probably should go home again. \n# # # URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/x-ambassadors/ 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/2015/09/XA_VHSTour_Layered-localized-x-ambassadors-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:20151024T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20151020T161512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151020T161512Z UID:10001905-1445724000-1445810400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:ROYALE SATURDAY DESCRIPTION: URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/royale-saturday/ 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/2015/10/ROYALE_FRAIOLI_600X900_1.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:20151025T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151025T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150903T011936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150903T011936Z UID:10001800-1445810400-1445810400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:GRIZ DESCRIPTION:21 + \nMgt reserves the right to refuse admission. Dress code applies. Admission not guaranteed after 12am. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/griz/ 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/2015/09/10.25.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:20151028T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151028T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T231211 CREATED:20150909T024438Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150909T024438Z UID:10001840-1446062400-1446062400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Trevor Hall DESCRIPTION:Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 8:30 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. \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*** \nTrevor Hall began songwriting and performing when he was 16 years old. He burst into the music scene with the song “Other Ways” which was featured on the Shrek the Third soundtrack. Hall’s captivating live performances and growing popularity have led to sold out tours across the country as well as touring with such artists as Steel Pulse\, The Wailers\, Jimmy Cliff\, Matisyahu\, Michael Franti\, Colbie Caillat and SOJA. In 2009\, Hall released his Vanguard Records debut\, which featured the single “Unity\,” a song written and performed with longtime friend\, Matisyahu. His follow up album Everything\, Everytime\, Everywhere debuted on iTunes Rock Chart at #3\, iTunes Top Albums at #12 and #8 Amazon Movers & Shakers. The featured single “Brand New Day” was used as the music bed for the reformatted CBS This Morning Show. Hall’s Chapter of the Forest debuted at #3 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter chart and #17 on the iTunes Overall Albums chart. His latest EP\, Unpack Your Memories debuted at #3 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter chart and also hit top 20 on the iTunes Top Albums chart. Trevor Hall’s music is an eclectic mix of acoustic rock\, reggae and Sanskrit chanting that echo with the names and teachings of divinities\, while maintaining an incredibly and refreshingly universal message. 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