BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Royale Boston - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://royaleboston.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Royale Boston REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160916T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160916T180000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160605T135944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160605T135944Z UID:10001670-1474048800-1474048800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Blind Pilot DESCRIPTION:Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over.\nTickets on sale now! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nBlind Pilot \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nThe past isn’t finished with us yet. Love can be like that\, too. A couple of years ago I found love in different forms leaving my life at once. In a single month I lost my closest group of friends\, my 13 year relationship ended\, and my dad was diagnosed with cancer. I had just stopped touring to write the next Blind Pilot album\, but instead I was watching each of my plans unthread as a new season pulled forward relentlessly. \nAvoiding suffering\, is avoiding real happiness too. My reason to tell this story isn’t because it broke me and pinned me breathless. There was suffering\, but those two years\, as I moved to my hometown to help my parents through my dad’s sickness and eventually his death\, also brought me true closeness\, a deeper will to care and hope\, and many moments of beauty I can barely describe.\n \nThis album came from love for my family\, my town\, my friends\, my community. We don’t have to be so afraid of loss. We can speak and share its name\, knowing we are together in it. If these songs are invitations to talk about loss and death\, the invitation is to talk closely of the courage we find when we face loss honestly\, cracked open and unsure of what we will become.\n-Blind Pilot’s Israel Nebeker\n \nBlind Pilot’s ‘And Then Like Lions’ on ATO Records is the third LP from the Portland\, Oregon-based sextet consisting of frontman Israel Nebeker\, fellow founding member Ryan Dobrowski\, Luke Ydstie\, Kati Claborn\, Ian Krist and Dave Jorgensen.  The album was produced by Israel Nebeker and Tucker Martine (The Decemberists\, Neko Case\, My Morning Jacket)\, and was written and composed by Nebeker.  It comes five years after the band’s well-received ‘We Are the Tide’ and three years after Nebeker thought he’d be starting the songs that would become the band’s third album.\n \n‘And Then Like Lions’ opens with “Umpqua Rushing\,” the first single from the album and the track that most directly deals with the end of his relationship. It’s inspired by memories of visiting the Umpqua River with his then girlfriend. The song connects images of a forest fire to the destruction and new beginning found in love’s wake.\n \n“Umpqua Rushing” has a strong\, mid-tempo flow built on major chords and rich instrumentation that matches the river the song’s named for. Nebeker’s voice soars on strings to an uplifting ending\, and it’s as vulnerable and open as he’s ever been.  \nPacked Powder is an upbeat\, solidly-driven song filled with elevated textures of guitar hooks and trumpets. It comes from an idea Nebeker had as a teenager\, when he and his friends found they could repack fireworks to different outcomes: “We’re all made of the same stuff\, but who knows how we’re packed and what we’ll show as we burn across the black sky of our own time?” The song speaks lightheartedly of ironic outcomes when trying to better a life through different career paths\, and then sings a chorus that surrenders and desires life to reveal what we are made of.\n \n‘And Then Like Lions’ ends triumphantly on “Like Lions\,” a song inspired by various stories of courage Nebeker has whitenessed in his recent years\, including watching his father fight for life and\, before the end\, find strength enough to give himself and be at peace with his own mortality.\n \nBlind Pilot has performed on Ellen and The Late Show with David Letterman\, at the Newport Folk Festival\, Bonnaroo\, and Lollapalooza. The group has shared stages with The Shins\, Local Natives\, Andrew Bird\, and more. The project began in 2007 when Israel and co-founding member Ryan Dobrowski went on a West Coast tour via bicycle. Blind Pilot’s six members recorded for this new album and will tour through 2016. \n*** \nRiver Whyless \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nAsheville\, North Carolina’s River Whyless is a band much like that titular body of water – a mingling of currents\, a flow of time and physical space\, all brought together in a murmuring sense of purpose. It is the expression of a group of musicians\, three of which are songwriters\, who have played together in various forms since their college days in the North Carolina mountains. Their forthcoming EP\, their first release since their 2012 debut album\, is the next evolution of the band’s collective voice. \nComposed of Ryan O’Keefe (guitars\, vocals)\, Halli Anderson (violin\, vocals)\, Alex McWalters (drums\, percussion) and Daniel Shearin (bass\, vocals\, harmonium\, cello\, banjo)\, the band is preparing to release a self-titled EP\, their first effort since 2012\, on January 20th. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/blind-pilot/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Blind-Pilot_sp16-admat-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160916T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160916T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160720T160649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160720T160649Z UID:10002406-1474063200-1474063200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Krewella DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry/ Admission not guaranteed after 12AM URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/krewella/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/9.16.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:20160917T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160917T180000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160710T100037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160710T100037Z UID:10002394-1474135200-1474135200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:KT Tunstall DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 7/15 at noon! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nKT Tunstall \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nTwo years ago\, KT Tunstall thought she was done with music. Not done as in she’d never again play guitar or sing\, but done playing professionally\, at least for the foreseeable future. “As an artist I feel like I died\,” she says. “I didn’t want to do it anymore.” It had been ten years since she’d released her multi-platinum debut\, ‘Eye To The Telescope’ (2004)\, and twenty-some years since she started playing gigs as a teenager back home in St. Andrews\, Scotland. She’d lived a decade in obscurity and a decade in the brightest of limelights\, releasing three more critically acclaimed albums — ‘Drastic Fantastic’ (2007\,) ‘Tiger Suit’ (2010\,) and ‘Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon’ (2013) — and playing everywhere from the rooftops of splashy Las Vegas hotels to Giant’s Stadium. She’d been nominated for a Grammy\, won a BRIT and the Ivor Novello\, and seen her songs used everywhere from opening credits of “The Devil Wears Prada” to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign theme. She’d had a good run\, Tunstall thought\, but it was time to take a serious time out. “I was utterly burnt out\,” she says. \nSo the singer put her stuff in storage\, sold all of her property in the UK\, and started again\, at what felt like the ends of an entirely different earth\, in a little house in Venice Beach\, California. She lived a quiet life for the better part of a year\, until\, like a little imp waiting in the wings for Tunstall to get really comfortable in her state of blissed out California calm\, one day the urge to rock began to return. And once it took hold\, it just wouldn’t let go. “My physical body was telling me that what I should be doing is sweating onstage\,” she says. “It turns out\, if I can’t do that then I’m just a racehorse in a stable.” Almost against her own will\, Tunstall found herself picking up her guitar and writing riffs. And they came\, one after another after another after another. \nThe music that Tunstall has written since moving to California is\, she says\, the most impassioned and inspired of her life; these songs were fueled by the openness of desert spaces and wild ocean cliffs\, the intimacy of being snowbound in Taos\, New Mexico during winter writing retreats\, and the freedom and mystery of driving too fast on canyon roads late at night listening to Neil Young and Tame Impala at top volume. A new full-length album coming this September\, is\, in spirit\, the follow-up\, to her debut. A edge-of-your-seat\, psychedelic rock record rooted in classic songwriting\, but infused with the sense of wonder and beneficent chaos Tunstall has reconnected with since untethering herself from her past. But first up\, a little teaser of what’s to come: ‘Golden State\,’ a four-song EP out this June including a remix of “Evil Eye” by critically acclaimed UK band Django Django. \nThe opening track\, “Evil Eye\,” was the first song that came to her since going on hiatus. “It was just a little seed\,” the singer remembers. She’d been rehearsing for a string of low-key gigs where she’d be performing some of her back catalogue\, the first shows since the relatively formal\, seated gigs she’d given last time she was on tour. “It was a vibrant up-tempo high-octane gig\, after so long of not playing that kind of show\,” she recalls. Something got shaken loose. “I just got excited\, and it was then that I wrote the riff for ‘Evil Eye.'” With its beguiling psychedelic whooshing intro\, propulsive guitar line and primal backbeat\, the song comes on all roll-your-windows-down-and-turn-me-up\, before sneaking up behind you with a downright chilling chorus: “There’s an evil eye\, watching you.” “Some of these songs are like cats\, they’re really furry and sweet and then they fuckin’ scratch you\, and they won’t let you put a leash on them\, ever\,” Tunstall says gleefully. \nAbove all\, what these songs have in common is they all feel like they had to be written. And now that they’re done\, Tunstall is standing at the starting line\, just itching for the gun to go off. “Getting to know myself these last few years and getting to know what my own mind is capable of and what my soul is capable of and what my spirit is capable of — reading and learning and reaching out to new people and gleaning new information about what’s possible as a human\, it has all made me want to ask the same questions of myself as a musician: how much can I expand?! Where can I go from here?!” Tunstall enthuses\, nearly out of breath. “This feels like the beginning of the second chapter of my career.” \n*** \nConner Youngblood \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nFrom growing up in Dallas\, to “studying” at Yale\, and eventually moving to Nashville\, music has always been a big part of Conner’s life\, but it wasn’t until seeing success on the HypeMachine platform that he decided to do it full time. \nHis music combines lyrically and sonically to paint a vivid picture that is both ambient\, yet focused. The production results in a sound much bigger than your typical singer / songwriter. Combining a wide range of influences from bluegrass to hip-hop with very eclectic instrumentation\, Youngblood decidedly carves out his own niche. \nFollowing on from “Confidence”\, Conner released his sophomore EP The Generation of Lift in the Fall of 2015. Conner self-produced the five-track compilation\, showcasing his songwriting and knowledge of roughly 30 instruments over the course of its 18-minute run time. Since its official release on October 9\, 2015 The Generation of Lift has reached over one million streams on Spotify. On the heels of the release\, Conner shared a video for “The Badlands\,” which premiered on Nowness and was selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/kt-tunstall/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/KT-Tunstall-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:20160917T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160917T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160906T031407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160906T031407Z UID:10001706-1474149600-1474149600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Breeazy DESCRIPTION:21+ URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/breeazy-3/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Breeazy-917.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:20160918T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160918T190000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160731T021818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160731T021818Z UID:10001696-1474225200-1474225200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Eric Hutchinson DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 8/5 at 10AM! \n*** \nEric Hutchinson \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nIf there is an overriding theme to Eric Hutchinson’s career\, it is his relentless pursuit of the kind of feel-good music that will make his fans dance and sing while still managing to ponder the beauty and humor that comes from fully experiencing life. This journey had come to a crossroads this past year\, as the 35 year-old singer/songwriter/performer changed management\, stripped down his sound and embraced the mantle of producer\, all the while spending months working on his fourth studio album\, Easy Street. \nA collection of penetratingly honest songs\, Easy Street is a musical snapshot of perseverance and musical maturity brimming with superb melodies and contagious rhythms. It is also a reckoning with the inevitability of Hutchinson’s own evolution as an artist and a man. \n“I see this new album as an embrace of change\,” says Hutchinson. “I guess you can say I grew up a traditionalist – worrying about things changing and wanting to keep things them the same. But once I realized that things change no matter what\, there’s comfort in that; embracing immediately that it takes me a little while to get used to things… and then I usually like them.” \nChange for Hutchinson also meant letting go of the reigns in the writing and recording process\, which is especially prevalent on the album’s first single\, “Anyone Who Knows Me”\, a wonderfully crafted and stirringly melodic ballad of trying to find love within and without. \n“I was stuck writing the song\, so I just put it away and when I came back to it\, it was like somebody else had sent it to me to work on\, and I thought\, ‘Okay\, cool; I’ll build on top of whatever this guy was doing.’ It felt like co-writing with myself\, which was fun.” \nAnother challenge for Hutchinson on Easy Street was his role as sole producer\, as he had to make all of the final decisions. “In the early days I always felt like I had to do everything myself\,” he says. “This time I said\, ‘I’m producing this\, so why not let Elliott (longtime touring bandleader\, Elliott Blaufuss) play the piano\, because he plays it a little better than I might. It was nice to have that confidence that it’s still my music\, whoever plays it. That was a big change for me.” \nEasy Street is arguably Hutchinson’s most insightful and in some ways autobiographical work\, which manages to balance the profound concepts of evolving and acceptance into a relatable sonic expression. “Things are gonna change\, but change is better than you thought” he sings in the strikingly confessional “Dear Me” that opens the album\, setting the stage for this creative catharsis. “See my reflection now in all of the trends/in isolation with the words of my friends” he sings with stark resonance in “Bored to Death”\, a song that dissects a world view set against personal and satirical introspection. \nIn fact\, each song on Easy Street is a study in personal\, professional and generational divides; including the seemingly airy if not catchy pop of “Lost in Paradise” that speaks to the wanderer in us all. Hutchinson also plays with music biz preconceptions\, specifically facing the gnawing guilt over success in “Good Rhythm” or his escaping the shadow of his musical heroes to forge his own unique voice in “Same Old Thing”. \n“When I was growing up I thought\, ‘I’ll never be my heroes’\,” he admits. “And with this album I say ‘I don’t want to be my heroes. I want to be me.’” \nThis has taken many forms for Hutchinson since he released his first album\, Sounds Like This in 2007. Raised in Washington D.C.\, Eric now works and lives in New York City\, where he has begun writing and producing records for other artists. He has also started DJ-ing regularly\, presenting The Basement\, his passion project of spinning Motown\, Soul\, Funk & Oldies. \nEric is an advocate for Operation Smile and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. \n*** \nGreat Caesar \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nIn the dead of winter\, the grand summer homes of the Hamptons sit vacant and silent\, their yards piling high with snow behind the perfectly manicured hedges that line the quiet streets… or so you might expect. But\, if you paid a visit to Southampton\, NY last winter\, you may have noticed that one house in particular was neither vacant nor silent\, but rather spilling over with raucous music and joyful listeners. A knock on the door would have welcomed you into the winter retreat of Great Caesar\, the six-piece\, Brooklyn-based band bringing together chamber rock and indie soul in a singularly anthemic and captivating blend. Don’t fret if you missed those wild winter nights\, though. They were just the warm-up. Now\, with a new EP (titled ‘Jackson’s Big Sky’ after that Southampton house) and extensive US tour dates on the way\, Great Caesar is ready to bring their one-of-a-kind sound directly to you. \n*** \nSkout \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nBetween where you are and where you’d like to be\, there exists a state of hopeful unrest. It’s in that space\, that in-between\, where Brooklyn-based indie-folker Skout has taken residence. \nSkout’s candid lyrics explore the intricacies of navigating this in-between\, powerfully depicting the complex relationships between identity\, change\, and a search for solid ground. Perhaps most unique to Skout\, however\, is the intricate\, percussive acoustic guitar that has come to define her sound. \nSkout’s innate knack for catchy\, eclectic songwriting shines in her 2014 debut EP\, Again Anew. After touring to support the EP and securing talented guitarist Connor Gladney as a songwriting and performing counterpart later that year\, Skout caught the attention of soul-pop powerhouse Eric Hutchinson. He signed on to produce her second EP\, set for release summer of 2016. Skout’s sophomore effort maintains an unshakeable acoustic backbone while simultaneously demonstrating the versatility of her songwriting chops. It’s a testament to the undeniable promise of this young indie-folker. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/eric-hutchinson/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Approved-Photo-Fall-Tour-2016.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:20160919T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160919T190000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160718T150736Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160718T150736Z UID:10002404-1474311600-1474311600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Against Me! DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is All Ages.\nTickets on sale Fri. 7/22 at 10AM! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nAgainst Me! \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nTo pirate the title of one of their early songs (and still a set-list staple)\, Against Me! is a band that laughs at danger and breaks all the rules. \nFronted by Laura Jane Grace\, AM!’s much-anticipated latest offering\, Transgender Dysphoria Blues\, is scheduled for release in January 2014. The title of their sixth album offers a direct nod to news that shocked fans and shook up the rock world when it was dropped—Grace is a transitioning transgender person who revealed her story in the May 12\, 2012 issue of Rolling Stone (readers curious to learn more about the transition can check out Laura Jane’s “My First Year as a Woman” journal online in Cosmopolitan). \nBecause Transgender Dysphoria Blues marks the band’s first release with Grace as a woman\, there are a lot of misconceptions: The record is neither a radical stylistic departure nor a “concept album.” Rather\, it’s just another bold step forward for an artist doing what she has always done—forging her own path by processing the highs and lows of life through music. \nAgainst Me! began as an anarchist solo act in Gainesville\, Florida in 1997. After transforming into a traditional four-piece a few years later with the crucial addition of guitarist James Bowman\, they quickly became a driving force in the punk scene—despite facing an abundance of unsolicited danger. \nWhile emerging unscathed from two separate road tour spinouts and\, more recently\, enduring a flying mic stand which cost Grace her front teeth\, Against Me! have played in all 50 states and 29 countries\, cranking out an average of 200 sweat-drenched\, fist-pumping\, shout-a-long live gigs per year over the past decade. Their music runs the gamut from thrashing to anthemic to intimate\, with Grace’s pointed lyrics and powerhouse voice blending vitriol and vulnerability like few other performers. \nWith a healthy dose of folk and even some old-school country in their sound\, the band’s first three indie full-lengths (2002’s Against Me! is Reinventing Axl Rose\, 2003’s As The Eternal Cowboy and 2005’s Searching For A Former Clarity) earned them a rabid and steadily growing following. \nTheir 2007 major label debut\, New Wave\, was produced by Butch Vig (Nirvana\, Garbage\, Green Day) and named “Album of the Year” by SPIN Magazine. The early-Springsteen-esque raver “Thrash Unreal” reached #11 on the Modern Rock charts\, and in addition to a headlining tour\, the band also supported the Foo Fighters on the road in 2008. \nAfter 2010’s White Crosses (which peaked at #34 on the Billboard charts)\, the band parted ways with Sire. It was at this time that Grace went through an intense soul-searching phase and eventually decided to transition\, going public with the gender dysphoria she had been dealing with since childhood. \nAs might be expected with such an intensely personal project\, Grace took complete creative control of Transgender Dysphoria Blues. She not only assumed producing reins for the first time but even built the Florida studio\, Total Treble\, where the demos were recorded. Then—more danger struck. During a tornado\, a tree crashed through the roof of the studio. \nAfter that mishap\, the full record was recorded without further incident at three separate facilities: Dave Grohl’s 606 Studios in Northridge\, California; Motor Studios in San Francisco; and Earth Sounds in Valdosta\, GA. \nWhich is certainly not to say Transgender Dysphoria Blues is a “safe” record. Grace’s soul is brutally laid bare here in this riveting 10-song collection. While four of the tracks directly address the unique anxieties and fears inherent with being transgender\, they still crackle with universal resonance. \nThe song “Transgender Dysphoria Blues\,” written before Grace announced her transition\, artfully folds the specter of hateful public perception (“You want them to notice\, the ragged ends of your summer dress… They just see a faggot.”) into an irresistible chugga-chugga arrangement\, given ballast as always by Bowman’s bouncing guitar and full-bore backing vocals. \nThen there is the defiant battle cry of “True Trans Soul Rebel” (released in tandem with “FUCKMYLIFE666” on-line to fans through the Against Me! website in the Fall of 2013). Evoking fatalistic images of escape\, the song ultimately showcases the strength both of Grace’s spirit and voice\, soaring mightily as it does when she asks the question “Does god bless your transsexual heart?” \nThe balance of the record covers typical Against Me! touchstones—from matters deeply personal (the sizzling “Unconditional Love”); to political (“Osama Bin Laden as the Crucified Christ\,” which recalls Sandinista!-era Clash and the band’s own “From Her Lips To God’s Ears (The Energizer)”) and even the music biz—“Black Me Out” is a flat-out showstopper\, with Grace ramping a slow-burn into withering nuclear scorn\, screaming at an unnamed power-abusing exec that she wants to “chop those brass rings off your fat fucking fingers” and “piss on the walls of your house.” \nJoining Grace and Bowman in the band are a brand-new rhythm section. Longtime bass player Andrew Seward amicably departed Against Me! in 2013 after 11 years with the band. Fat Mike of NOFX (also the owner of Motor Studios) handled bass duty on the recordings of “FUCKMYLIFE666” and “Unconditional Love\,” while Laura Jane played on the album’s other eight tracks. \nSince that time\, Inge Johannson (formerly of Sweden’s International Noise Conspiracy\, and a surefire winner of the “Scandinavian Ramones Lookalike Contest\,” if one is ever held) has come aboard as the full-time bassist. \nThe new drummer is punk stalwart Atom Willard\, who launched his career as a teenager with Rocket From the Crypt and has had stints with the Offspring\, Angels & Airwaves\, and Social Distortion. Willard replaced Jay Weinberg\, who’d toured with the band since late 2010. \nWith the lineup changes\, Grace acknowledges that Against Me! may be in a state of flux\, but the mission is still real: “If I didn’t feel like I had something that I really needed to say with the album we’ve been working on for the past year then I’d humbly hang the hat and move on\,” she said in the wake of Seward’s departure. \n2013 saw another career milestone for Grace\, as she co-wrote a song (“Soulmates to Strangers”) with rock royalty Joan Jett for Jett’s Unvarnished album. Against Me! is set to tour behind the new record in 2014 with an attitude perhaps best summed up by these lines from“FUCKMYLIFE666”: “No more troubled sleep. There’s a brave new world raging inside of me.” \n*** \nPotty Mouth \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nPotty Mouth are Western MA-based trio Abby Weems (guitar\, lead vocals)\, Ally Einbinder (bass) and Victoria Mandanas (drums). Originating in 2011 from the hometown of guitar rock predecessors Dinosaur Jr.\, Potty Mouth emerged from a casual\, “why not?” attitude when Einbinder\, who met Mandanas at Smith college\, set out to form a band with like-minded women who shared her interest in learning and growing together as musicians. Though no singer was chosen at the time of formation\, Weems emerged as having a knack for melodies and lyric writing\, and what started out as a casual pastime turned into a way of life; recording\, making t-shirts\, and planning tours soon came in natural succession. \nOne year after their formation\, the band recorded a 12″ vinyl EP\, entitled ‘Sun Damage\,’ released through three small\, independently-run labels. ‘Sun Damage’ garnered the attention of Pitchfork\, who called the six-song EP an “an impressive\, no-filler debut\,” as well as local big-hitters The Boston Globe\, who named Potty Mouth one of the top five indie-rock bands to watch in 2013. \nIn 2013\, Potty Mouth signed with Brooklyn-based indie label Old Flame Records to release their debut full-length album\, ‘Hell Bent.’ NPR music premiered the album\, calling it “one of the best rock albums of the year.” As Potty Mouth garnered national attention\, the band began to tour more extensively\, co-headlining their first full US tour with Perfect Pussy and Swearin’ in summer 2014\, as well as supporting artists like Waxahatchee and Juliana Hatfield. \nOn August 21\, 2015\, the band debuted a five-song self-titled EP under their own imprint\, Planet Whatever Records. Produced by John Goodmanson (Sleater-Kinney\, Blonde Redhead\, Bikini Kill) at London Bridge Studios in Seattle\, the new EP shows off a new level of both songwriting and production for the trio. Refreshingly candid\, singer-guitarist Abby Weems weaves sarcasm and melancholia into a passionate performance held together by drummer Victoria Mandanas and bassist Ally Einbinder’s solid foundation. The crisper direction emphasizes the work the triad has put in since 2013’s ‘Hell Bent\,’ with more vocal harmonies and bigger production\, recalling the sounds of influences like Veruca Salt and Nirvana. \n*** \nFrameworks \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nLuke\, Cory\, Matt\, Wyatt\, and Bobby URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/against-me/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/against-me-admat-fall-2016-2.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:20160921T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160921T200000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160704T100042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160704T100042Z UID:10002402-1474488000-1474488000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:TroyBoi: The Mantra Tour DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over.\nTickets on sale Fri. 7/8 at noon! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nTroyBoi \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nOne of South East London’s most closely guarded secrets has recently emerged from the shadows and is set to take the music industry by storm. Known only as TroyBoi\, this multi-talented musician recently signed to Timbaland’s right-hand man and US Super Producer\, Jim Beanz\, things are heating up faster than ever! Producing a wide variety of genres\, but specializing in extraordinarily unique\, versatile\, and highly musical trap beats\, TroyBoi is without a doubt one of the top up-and-coming producers in the game right now and it’s quite clear from his composition that his influences are vast indeed. He is also one half of the Producer/DJ duo SoundSnobz with one of his best friends\, icekream and together they craft the most creative and daring audio paintings you’ll ever listen to. Buckle up and get ready to be taken into the world of TroyBoi because once you are in\, you will never want to get out. \n*** \nFatherdude \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nObsessively recording moments and having you hear them at a later point in time. \n*** \nGypZ \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \n2 girls just trappin URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/troyboi-the-mantra-tour/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/troyboi-admat-3.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:20160923T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160923T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160707T211755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160707T211755Z UID:10001685-1474668000-1474668000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Bakermat DESCRIPTION:21+ \n*Management reserves the right to refuse entry / Admission not guaranteed after midnight / No refunds of any kind all sales are final. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/bakermat/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/bakermat.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:20160924T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160924T173000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160726T153958Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160726T153958Z UID:10001694-1474738200-1474738200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Brian Fallon & The Crowes / Ryan Bingham DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 5:30 pm / Show: 6:30 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 7/29 at noon! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nBrian Fallon & the Crowes \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \n“This one is different\,” says Brian Fallon. “This one is mine.” \nBursting at its seams with huge hooks\, big choruses\, and enormous heart\, PAINKILLERS marks the first solo album from Brian Fallon\, known far and wide as singer/guitarist of the Gaslight Anthem\, as well as such acclaimed outfits as The Horrible Crowes and Molly & The Zombies. Produced by studio superstar Butch Walker (Taylor Swift\, Frank Turner\, Keith Urban)\, richly textured songs like “Long Drives” and the addictive title track encompass the great rush and flow of American music\, fusing sonic hits of heartland country and folk with hardcore punk energy and classic rock ‘n’ roll swagger. PAINKILLERS once again affirms the NJ-based rocker’s elemental gifts as a songwriter and storyteller\, booming with insistent imagery\, narrative craft\, and the extraordinary emotional acuity that has informed his music since the very start. \n“I’ve had this sound kicking around in my head for so long\,” says Fallon\, “but it took maturity to get it out.” \nFallon decided to begin work on PAINKILLERS immediately following the announcement of The Gaslight Anthem’s indefinite hiatus. Though his prior extracurricular projects were made under alternate band monikers\, a dear friend suggested that this time perhaps he might think otherwise. \n“She said I was limiting myself\,” Fallon says. “’If you make a Horrible Crowes record\, then you’ve got to make Horrible Crowes music. You have to float within those guidelines. But if you use your own name you can make any record\, you can change throughout your career\, work with different musicians\, be whatever you want to be and then wrap it all together.’ That’s one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten.” \nSolo or otherwise\, Fallon knew he couldn’t make his record all alone. He considered a number of potential collaborators but again and again\, Butch Walker’s name kept coming up as an ideal match. A meeting was arranged and the two musicians hit it off from the jump\, tracking four demos in three days\, including fleshed out versions of “Painkillers” and “Nobody Wins.” \n“It was just like fast friends\,” Fallon says. “All the sounds fell into place. There wasn’t any searching – it was all right there. We had a blueprint from the records we grew up on.” \nFallon set to work in September\, spending three weeks at Nashville’s Taxidermy Studios backed by a crack outfit featuring Walker\, Molly & The Zombies bassist Catherine Popper (Jack White\, Ryan Adams & The Cardinals\, Willie Nelson)\, and drummer Mark Stepro (Hayes Carll\, Ben Kweller\, Jackson Browne). Freed from any brand\, Fallon felt\nmore comfortable and confident than ever before\, unrestrained and able to fully articulate himself in the studio. \n“I felt like I was doing exactly what I should be doing\, at exactly the moment I should be doing it\,” he says. “There was a very nice feeling\, like\, you’ve been working towards this record your whole career and here you are getting to do it.” \nFallon had spent much of the past decade pushing himself in different directions\, challenging himself as a songwriter by trying on various guises and techniques. This being his solo debut\, he decided to return to his initial path\, cutting through the craft to simply write “couch songs” on his trusty acoustic guitar. \n“I’d been trying different things for the past few years now\,” Fallon says\, “but there’s a path that I started on. I thought\, let me go back to the very basics of where I started writing songs and maybe see if I’ve gotten any better. I know I haven’t mastered the craft but now that I’ve learned a bit\, let me see what I can pull out now.” \nInspiration came\, as it often does\, from Fallon’s lifelong canon\, specifically BORN IN THE USA and FULL MOON FEVER\, milestone rock records unafraid to work as mass appeal pop statements. Classic sounds abound throughout PAINKILLERS\, from the ringing Rickenbackers that drive “Among Other Foolish Things” to the shingled backing vocals that give lift and spirit to each of the album’s dozen songs. “A Wonderful Life” is perhaps Fallon’s greatest anthem thus far\, a righteous slice of 60s-fueled dance party rock ‘n’ roll brought full stop into the new century. \n“It’s got all the bits\,” Fallon says\, “the riff\, the whoa-whoa-whoas\, the chorus\, the whole thing. It’s simple but we just knew right away that that one was something else.” \nOther high spots include “Red Lights” and the intensely orchestrated “Long Drives\,” both originally written and demoed by the country rock-inspired Molly & The Zombies but never properly recorded. Walker helped Fallon retrofit the Molly tunes by “straightening out the beat\,” bringing them in from the front porch and placing them square on the boardwalk where they belong. \n“I didn’t want to make a country record\,” Fallon says. “I’m from New Jersey\, not Nashville. But I thought those songs were too good to throw away.” \nFallon’s garrulous lyricism – as ever\, ribboned with spot on setting\, telling character study\, and cultural references spanning “Famous Blue Raincoat” to DC post-hardcore heroes Rites of Spring – is more than matched here by his musical ambition\, for the first time truly weaving his wide-ranging tastes into a distinctive and dramatic unified whole. Remarkably\, PAINKILLERS was recorded with but one amp\, the very same Tone King Imperial 20th Anniversary Edition Fallon used to record his initial demos. \n“This thing does everything\,” Fallon says. “Sounds like the Byrds when you plug in the 12-string\, it rocks when you plug the Les Paul in\, it does country\, everything. I showed it to Butch and he was like\, alright\, cool\, we’ll use your amp. He plugs into it\, we recorded all the guitars for one song on it\, he goes\, wow\, that amp’s pretty good. Let’s use it tomorrow. And that’s what we did. At the end of the session\, Butch said to me\, I don’t think I turned on another amp this whole time. It was awesome!” \nFallon – with Tone King Imperial in tow – plans to spend much of 2016 on the road\, accompanied by a stellar combo comprised of The Gaslight Anthem guitarist Alex Rosamilia\, The Horrible Crowes’ Ian Perkins\, and the aforementioned Catherine Popper. With PAINKILLERS largely crafted in the studio\, transitioning its songs to the stage offers yet another happy challenge. \n“You just do it when you’re making a record\,” Fallon says. “Then to play it live you kind of have to pull it all apart and put it back together again. So the songs take on a whole new life\, which is the benefit of going to see a band live.” \nThe Gaslight Anthem will return\, avows Fallon\, but for the time being his focus is firmly locked on the present moment. For him\, PAINKILLERS marks neither an end nor even a beginning – where he’s at now is all that matters. \n“Pseudo-philosophically\,” Brian Fallon says\, “you really only have what’s in front of you today. That’s kind of where my head’s at with this. I’m doing this now\, I’ve always wanted to do it\, let’s see where it goes. And that’s kind of it.” \n*** \nRyan Bingham \nBW224967-1-0001-002.psd \nRyan Bingham needed some peace and quiet. Free of the burdens that had saddled him during the writing and recording of his recent albums\, he relocated to an old airstream trailer tucked away in the mountains of California\, camping out for several weeks and embracing the solitude to dig down deep and craft his most powerful album yet\, ‘Fear and Saturday Night.’\n“It gave me the space and time to tap into myself\,” Bingham says of the experience. “Up there\, it was totally isolated. No phones\, no noise\, no lights. At night the only thing you’d hear is the bugs and the coyotes. It’s lonely when you get back up in there and there’s nobody around\, but for me\, I kind of grew up that way in the middle of nowhere. Since I’ve started touring\, I’m surrounded by people all the time\, so getting back to the roots of everything\, that’s really where I seem to find stuff that’s meaningful when I’m writing songs.”\nBingham was actually in the back of a van in North Dakota when he wrote ‘The Weary Kind\,’ a song that became the centerpiece of the 2010 film ‘Crazy Heart’ starring Jeff Bridges. It earned him an Academy Award\, a Golden Globe\, and a Grammy\, and skyrocketed him into the spotlight. Amidst the incredible success\, though\, was tragic loss behind the scenes that few knew about.\n“A lot of peopled didn’t realize when that Oscar stuff was going on and ‘Junky Star’ was released\, I was dealing with the loss of my parents\,” says Bingham\, who released the follow-up album ‘Tomorrowland’ as a direct reaction to the emotional turmoil that surrounded him. “My mother drank herself to death\, and my father shot himself. I was also going through a huge transition with the band—we were breaking up—and I felt so lost playing with different musicians for the first time in years.”\nThere were positive changes in his life during that time\, too\, including his marriage\, which serves as a frequent well of inspiration on ‘Fear and Saturday Night\,’ particularly on tracks like “Snow Falls In June” and “Top Shelf Drug\,” a Stones-esque rocker that’s bound to become a live favorite.\nBingham never really set out to be a musician\, though. His mother bought him a guitar when he was 16 years old\, and a neighbor taught him a mariachi tune. When he grew tired of playing the only song he knew\, Bingham began penning his own music\, discovering the writing process to be a therapeutic coping mechanism for dealing with the tumultuousness of his upbringing. His first performances were informal affairs in the backseats of cars with friends on the way to rodeos\, where he was competing professionally on the weekends. Every now and then\, Bingham’s friends would convince him to break out the guitar in a bar\, and before he knew it\, he had more gigs playing guitar than riding bulls.\nRecorded mostly live with a brand new backing band and under the guidance of producer/engineer Jim Scott\, ‘Fear and Saturday Night’ opens with “Nobody Knows My Trouble\,” a loping\, autobiographical ballad about trying to outrun a painful past and finding redemption both in the strings of a guitar and in hitting the road with the love of your life. “Adventures Of You And Me” is a slide-guitar and mariachi-tinged barn-\n\nburner about a pair of misfits who travel the country together\, while “Island In The Sky” again picks up the theme of travel as a means of salvation and escape.\n“I feel like I’ve been traveling my whole life\, even from when I was a little kid\,” says Bingham. “Both of my parents were really bad alcoholics\, and my dad could never keep down a job\, so we never lived in the same town for more than a couple years. And even if we did\, we’d move to different houses every other month. It felt like I lived out of a cardboard box growing up until I was old enough to buy my own suitcase\, and then I was just running from everything.”\nBingham faces down his past with a poetic grace throughout the album. Lead single “Radio” is about coping with a darkness that doesn’t want to let go\, searching for a safe place to make sense of your life and the strength to stay on the right track through it all\, while “Hands of Time” deals with accepting what’s behind you and moving forward with grit and determination. On “Broken Heart Tattoos\,” a wistful waltz written to an unborn child\, he imagines what kind of parent he’ll become\, singing\, “Take your sweet time and walk a straight line in two / But don’t you be shy of your wilder side / Or be afraid to let loose / With broken heart tattoos.” Perhaps the most affecting moment on the album arrives in the title track\, when Bingham sings\, “I don’t fear nothin’ except for myself / So I’m gonna go out there and raise me some hell.”\n“Certain things aren’t going to change\,” he explains of the song. “You can’t run away or hide from the past. You have to live in it and deal with stuff and find your own way to overcome. The way I grew up\,” he continues\, “you had to develop a certain kind of toughness. Hanging with those guys on the rodeo circuits\, you learn at an early age how to defend yourself. There’s lots of fights and rowdy bars and mean people out there. But if you’re smart enough to stay out of situations where other people can hurt you\, you’re the only one who can really hurt yourself. That’s something I had to learn on my own.”\nThose hard-learned lessons\, through both good times and bad\, helped make Bingham the man he is today. ‘Fear and Saturday Night’ is the most authentic\, personal\, and deeply moving portrait of that man we’ve heard yet. \n*** \nPaul Cauthen \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nPaul Cauthen remembers sitting alone in an Austin house after a weekend-long bender. A life making music seemed to be slipping away. Wide awake with nothing to lose\, he fell on his hands and knees right there\, bowed his head\, and threw down a divine gauntlet. \n“I dared Him\,” Cauthen says\, recalling his desperate challenge to God. “I said\, ‘Use me. I’ll be a rag doll. Just put me out there\, let’s go. I dare you.’” \nMost people don’t plead in the form of a dare. That blend of vulnerability and brash confidence is part of what makes Cauthen and his music––which often hinges on the same paradox––so compelling. Whether it was by heavenly intervention or sheer force of will\, Cauthen emerged with My Gospel (Lightning Rod Records)\, his mesmerizing full-length solo debut. Produced by Beau Bedford\, the record is both an artistic and personal triumph. My Gospel captures a young artist in full possession of a raw virtuosity that must sometimes feel like a burden: If your singing takes listeners on white-knuckle rides and you write like a hard-luck Transcendentalist poet who abandoned the East Coast for the desert\, you’d better do both. Anything else just wouldn’t feel like living. “I don’t know what else I’m supposed to do in life\,” Cauthen says. “So I just kept on working. Even when I didn’t hardly have money to eat\, my songs allowed me to get into the studios. I wrote my way into this thing.” \nThe album is called My Gospel\, but make no mistake: These are songs about Earthly struggles to love\, connect\, and just get by. “I’m not super religious\,” Cauthen says. “I don’t believe God is this guy wearing a white cloak who comes down with wings and beautiful sandals. I do believe that people are put into other people’s lives for reasons\, and those reasons are unexplained. I believe that is God.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/brian-fallon-the-crowes-ryan-bingham/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/BrianFallonBostonAdmatColor.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:20160924T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160924T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160906T030741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160906T030741Z UID:10001705-1474754400-1474754400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Chachi DESCRIPTION:21+ URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/chachi-2/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ROYALE_CHACHI_1024.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:20160925T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160925T190000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160613T150846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160613T150846Z UID:10001675-1474830000-1474830000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Peter Bjorn and John DESCRIPTION:Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over.\nTickets on sale Fri. 6/17 at 10AM! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nPeter Bjorn and John \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nIt’s been five years since Peter Bjorn And John have wowed the world with their musical talents. During a fruitful period of disappearance\, the trio have built their own studio\, started a record label\, and toiled to perfect a formula for effortless sounding pop music that (spoiler alert!) has taken them a huge amount of effort. Something else happened\, too. The rise of Swedes in music scenes around the globe gained huge traction. From Avicii and Swedish House Mafia to Lykke Li and Robyn\, the flag for Scandinavian genius flew. But one (or –more accurately – three) names were missing: those of Peter Moren\, Bjorn Yttling and John Eriksson. \nThe gang of childhood friends who once bonded over a love of ‘60s baroque pop and Stone Roses famously broke the mould an entire decade ago with one of the catchiest songs to feature whistling ever – ‘Young Folks’. But as bassist and production whizz Bjorn says\, ‘Young Folks’ was not a curse upon a career that is on the verge of entering its seventh era with forthcoming album ‘Breakin’ Point’. “Seven albums seems like an awful lot\,” reflects Bjorn. “But we put them out during a long period so it’s OK!” \n‘Breakin’ Point’ is about the band’s newfound search for another career high. “We started with some other album title ideas – like ‘Thriller 2’. Then we realised we were pushing the envelope so got into the idea of a breaking point. If we broke it once\, we can break it twice\,”says Bjorn. That’s why the album artwork features a hammer with three heads on it\, not just to strike your nightmares\, but to send a message out to everyone. “It says – ‘We’re back! We’re smashing it!’ Haha.” In the literal sense\, they may be wielding hammers\, but how about musically? “Musically\, a breaking point is just about working so hard until you know you can’t do any more\,” says Bjorn. “It’s about being in that fog when you’re creating where you can’t see. That’s when you find something – the door home\, or the door out. You get a chance to turn it around. You have to really put yourself in a big mess to be able to go somewhere new.” \nThe trio’s previous record ‘Gimme Some’ wasn’t exactly a big mess\, it was Peter Bjorn And John’s “power pop\, guitar statement”\, focused on recreating in the studio what they were confidently doing live. Having established that ground for themselves\, they wanted to do the total opposite of that this time around. “This was about doing big pop songs\,” says Bjorn\, who recalls sitting around listening to ABBA with his bandmates\, marvelling at how they made it sound and look so easy. \n‘Gimme Some’ was also the first of Peter Bjorn And John’s first records to feature an outside producer. ‘Breakin’ Point’ sees the threesome high on that socialising bug\, inviting a whole host of others to join them aboard the good pop/rock ship. Together these outside influences have helped the band realise their dreams of creating era-defining\, dance floor appropriate indie pop that intends to affect people on a deeper level. It’s about the tropes of life\, the difficulties that come with maturing. “There are very few songs in our collection that are positive. I can’t think of one\,” laughs Bjorn. “It’s always been about the blues. Life is shit\, but tonight is nice – that’s what pop is\, especially the songs that we love. You wanna have some darkness to be able to see the light. That’s how we do it up here in Sweden! It’s like a black and white movie if you look out: snow and a black mass of darkness.” \nIndeed\, opening track and album highlight ‘Dominos’ is a piano disco anthem about working for the Man. The track ‘Hard Sleep’ and title track ‘Breakin’ Point’ are about abandoning life’s small trivialities and embracing newfound fatherhood. //You’ve been hiding in the bosom of my dream\, now the clock sets the scene// go the lyrics.On ‘A Long Goodbye’ the guitar riff is reminiscent of Blondie classic ‘Heart Of Glass’. “Yes I can hear that\,” agrees Bjorn. “But we haven’t sampled it so you can forgive us for that.” \nBjorn comments on how they didn’t need to go too far to find their collaborators – the alternative music community had naturally begun to hang out more in Stockholm. “So we started to see more people more regularly\,” he says. They met Patrik Berger first. At the time he was working with Icona Pop and Robyn. “We knew he was in a punk band before. We were looking for people who wanted to make hits that also had that rock influence.” \nThankfully they also had the likes of Paul Epworth (Florence And The Machine\, U2\, Paul McCartney)\, Greg Kurstin (Sia\, Adele)\, Emile Haynie (Lana Del Rey\, FKA Twigs\, Kanye West) and Pontus Winnberg (Miike Snow) to help guide them. “You behave better when you have people over for dinner that aren’t just your family\,” he says\, proverbially. “It wasn’t that we just brought in anyone. We really respect what these guys do. We wanted to make pop music that was relevant now and not in a fantasy world of what we thought would be relevant. We learned how to not dwell on stuff because you can’t sit forever. You have to reach a goal. That was a little bit scary at first.” One fulfilled goal was to have their own built studios in Sweden\, studios that were formerly used by ABBA. It’s also the site of the trio’s new label INGRID. \nDespite their fears\, the collaborating also reasserted their own winning sense of self-confidence. “Well\, you realise you know some stuff yourself too!” laughs Bjorn. “That made us cocky.” Peter Bjorn And John intend for these songs to be consumed on the radio\, in live shows and – most importantly – on the dance floor. “Like ABBA would though\, it’s not like we’re going for the Avicii thing. In a nice pub\, you know?” says Bjorn. “We definitely want it to be like Prince’s version of a dance floor song. Everything should be groovy and funky.” \nHaving been together almost 20 years\, Bjorn is still unsure as to what their secret is. “Exercise!” he jokes. “We all have different ideas and those have to live close to each other. That’s what makes it an interesting mould. If you mix two similar ingredients you’re not gonna get a good result. You have to have a little pepper and salt to get a good dish.” Indeed\, just like their culinary acronym counterpart – P B & J (peanut butter and jelly) – Peter Bjorn And John are a meld of three disparate and unique elements. Together\, they’re both classic and delicious. \n*** \nCity of the Sun \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nNew York’s City of the Sun is a worldly\, genre-bending instrumental trio whose sound combines their love of indie rock\, flamenco\, and post-rock. Formed in 2011 by guitarist John Pita\, COS also features guitarist Avi Snow and percussionist Zach Para. Having honed their sound performing on the streets of New York City\, the group first gained wider attention after playing a 2013 TED conference. \nSince then\, City of the Sun has headlined and sold out NYC venues like the Gramercy Theater and Brooklyn Bowl; they played SXSW\, Firefly\, CMJ and CBGB music festivals\, among others. The band supported Charles Bradley and Gregg Allman\, and have long-standing collaborations with Sofar Sounds and Godin Guitars. “The C Word” documentary\, directed by Meghan O’Hara and narrated by Morgan Freeman\, featured a score worked on by John\, Avi\, and Zach. \nCity of the Sun signed with Chesky Records in 2016 and released their LP ‘To the Sun and All the Cities in Between\,’ which debuted at #12 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. Lead Track “Everything” hit #2 on Spotify’s US Viral 50 chart and #5 on Global Viral with over one million plays in two months. \n*** \nCleopold \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nCleopold is an Australian singer-songwriter whose debut EP was just snapped up by Detail Co.\, a boutique record label owned and curated by Chet Faker. Its lead single\, “Down In Flames\,” will serve as Cleopold’s emergence as an independent artist. \nBased in Los Angeles\, Cleopold has penned multiple singles for Miami Horror and Cassian\, while collaborating with other Australian luminaries like Bag Raiders and Chet Faker. Cleopold provided the lead vocals for Miami Horror’s latest single\, “Love Like Mine\,” and Cassian’s recent club hit\, “Running\,” while honing his compositional chops on film scores for directors like Roman Coppola. \nCleopold crafts blunt\, honest songs with a confidence and sonic precision rarely heard in an emerging artist. His shapeshifting voice is deliberately hard to pin down\, and places Cleopold in a musical territory all his own. \nCleopold will return to Australia in August for a national tour supporting Miami Horror. With the keys to Chet Faker’s Melbourne recording studio\, he also plans to pen his debut LP in his label-owner’s throne—a seat still warm from composing the award-winning album\, Built On Glass. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/peter-bjorn-and-john/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/peter-bjorn-and-john-admat2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160927T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160927T190000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160614T120015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160614T120015Z UID:10001677-1475002800-1475002800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Buzzcocks DESCRIPTION:Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale NOW! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nBuzzcocks \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nThere are hardly any bands performing today that genuinely deserve the adjective ‘legendary’. Buzzcocks are one of those very few. Their achievements are staggering: one of the original holy trinity of British punk (with the Sex Pistols and the Clash)\, innovators of the independent record scene and genuine punk rock superstars who have been cited as inspirational by bands as diverse as REM\, Nirvana and Green Day. Eight studio albums\, over twenty singles and EPs\, a constellation of compilations\, covers by other bands and songs on film soundtracks and advertisements have put Buzzcocks among the top echelons of British recording artists. A Mojo Inspiration award in 2006 is just one of the many accolades they have received for their work. \nBuzzcocks have been thrilling audiences for over thirty years. Once called ‘the Beatles of punk’\, their music blends high-octane guitar\, bass and drum power with heartrending personal statements of love won and lost or dismay at the modern world to create a unique catalogue of unforgettable and immortal music – music they continue to deliver to fans old and new around the world with undiminished passion and energy. \nBuzzcocks have forged a unique relationship with their public and are deeply loved and revered by a global audience. They are simultaneously true to their original ideals and open to new ideas – a happy result of their own uncompromising and individual standing. \nOver the years\, generations of musicians have tried the Buzzcocks methodology and have made their own variations of it. Most are generous in their thanks to the band that started it all. Those impressed by the recent waves of ‘punk’ bands would do well to spend an afternoon with Buzzcocks’ seminal pop treasure Singles Going Steady\, consistently the band’s biggest seller and a masterclass in genre-busting songcraft. This compilation of their first UK Top 40 hits is a classic album in every sense\, an astounding collection of stunning moments such as ‘Orgasm Addict’\, ‘What Do I Get?’ the anthemic ‘Harmony In My Head’ and\, of course\, the song that has become their calling card: ‘Ever Fallen In Love With Someone (You Shouldn’t’ve Fallen In Love With?)’. These songs have been covered by dozens of groups in many styles\, a testament to the originals’ strengths not as slices of punk rock history but as examples of songwriting craft. \nBuzzcocks are the true godfathers of punk-pop\, having laid down that infinitely superior archetype. They are also a band with a past\, present\, and future. It is a history the group’s members could never have imagined back in the hot punk rock summer of ’76. Says Pete Shelley: “Looking back on it now\, what’s going on is like echoes of the Big Bang. You look around you in society and the culture; so many things would not have been the same if there never was punk rock. It’s strange; it’s like a science fiction novel. But to us at the time\, it just sprung naturally.” \nThey’re still doing it\, better than anyone. Sometimes the archetype is clearly the best. Buzzcocks – no. 1 in people’s hearts. Icons\, superstars\, legends. \n*** \nResiduels \n \n[Website] [Facebook] \nPhilly’s Residuels aren’t ashamed to play big\, dumb rock n’ roll. They’ve got a stripped-down\, 70’s punk vibe but whip out extended improvisations without coming off like assholes… think MC5 without the speeches or the afros. In virtually no time this power-trio has played all over the continent with bands like THEE OH SEES\, BLACK LIPS\, THE SONICS\, DESTRUCTION UNIT + THE SPITS and made IGGY POP a fan with their cover of STOOGES’ “I Got A Right” \n“”I first met Justin Pittney (Residuels singer / guitarist) working on the Stooges music for a Sailor Jerry spot. I noticed he had a great feel for our music\, and I enjoyed his company and his wit\, and I still do. I think Justin is a good example of someone who is solving the puzzle of how to have fun and more as a young musician today” – IGGY POP \n*** \nThe Welch Boys \n \n[Website] [Facebook]\n[Twitter] \nTHE WELCH BOYS are a five-piece punk band from Boston featuring members of SLAPSHOT and THE BLUE BLOODS. \nRaised and bred on the many great Boston punk and hardcore bands\, THE WELCH BOYS emerge with a sound that is a perfect mix of punk rock\, Oi!\, and east coast hardcore. They were formed in 2004 by guitarist\, and founding member of The Blue Bloods\, T.J. Welch. The lineup for their self-titled debut also includes Slapshot alumni Ed Lalli on vocals\, Mark Powers on bass\, P.j. Dionne on lead guitar and Ron Holbrook on drums. \nTHE WELCH BOYS write short\, catchy\, and powerful songs that emphasize sing along choruses and aggressive playing. There is an economy to their music that strips everything down to the unpretentious\, honest core. While firmly rooted in the punk rock legacy of their hometown\, THE WELCH BOYS’ sound is unique enough to set themselves apart. Lyrically\, they tackle a wide variety of subjects that convey the struggles of working class life laced with an underlying core of hope and optimism. \nMet with critical praise and acceptance from the punk community\, their debut self titled disc was recorded with Dropkick Murphys’ producer Jim Seigal . Earning a reputation as a rowdy\, high energy live act \, the band has toured with The Dropkick Murphys\, The Dead Kennedys \, Sham 69\, and The Business. . \nIn August of 2007\, drummer Ron Holbrook unexpectedly passed away. After this deeply sad period\, the band offered the resilient follow-up disc\, Drinking Angry in 2008. The band continued with several superb drummers\, including Sam Jodrey formerly of Toxic Narcotic. In 2014\, THE WELCH BOYS released their third disc\, Bring Back the Fight.. A call to arms from a now veteran punk band\, the disc was received with raves. \nThe current lineup includes original members\, and new addition Jose Morales on drums from Boston band Dead Friends. The band continues to play out and write new material. Garnishing a deeply loyal\, strong following\, they continue to grow in popularity. THE WELCH BOYS are even more passionate about delivering their honest brand of punk music as they enter their second decade together. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/buzzcocks/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/buzzcocks-admat3.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:20160928T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160928T190000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160501T130046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160501T130046Z UID:10002340-1475089200-1475089200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Jake Bugg DESCRIPTION:92.5 The River Presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:30 pm \nThis event is All Ages.\nTickets on sale Fri. 5/6 at 10AM! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nJake Bugg \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nThe new album “On My One” out June 17th.\niTunes: https://po.st/JBOMOft\nStore: https://po.st/JBOMOe \nSign up to Jake’s newsletter https://po.st/u8B1kY\nSpotify https://po.st/JakeBuggSpotify \n*** \nSyd Arthur \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nFree and edgy\, operatic and immediate\, Sound Mirror sees Syd Arthur lighting out for the territory\, reconfiguring contemporary psychedelia with a harmonic interplay of deeply felt songcraft\, collectivist performance\, and limitless invention. Their second full-length outing\, the album sees traditional borderlines obliterated as elements of free jazz improvisation\, floor-filling funk\, and bucolic folk fuse with the band’s most concentrated and emotionally direct songwriting thus far. From the tantalizing “Garden of Time” to the prophetic “Sinkhole\,” Sound Mirror expands and refines Syd Arthur’s already uncommon sonic multiverse into a brave new space where focus and concision is as essential as freewheeling abstraction and genre-shattering creativity. \n“The weirder stuff comes as naturally as the more traditional\,” says singer/guitarist Liam Magill. “It’s all the same to us\, really. Somehow everything filters through and comes out as us four guys and the sound that we make.” \nSyd Arthur – Magill\, his brother Joel (bass\, vocals)\, Raven Bush (violin\, keyboards\, mandolin)\, and Fred Rother (drums) – emerged out of Kent early in the new century\, their post-millennial revision of classic British psychedelic music leading MOJO to proclaim them “Canterbury’s dazzling new sons.” On An On\, the band’s 2012 debut album (released in 2013 by Harvest)\, affirmed their insatiable appetite for invention\, bridging ambitious time-shifting workouts with indelible folk-pop dazzlers like the breakthrough single\, “Ode To The Summer.” \nSyd Arthur also earned hosannas as an exhilarating live act\, honing their distinctive jams through near-constant performance\, from their start playing self-promoted festies to myriad headline shows in both the UK and the US with support slots in the past alongside such like-minded artists as White Denim\, Vampire Weekend and the one and only Paul Weller\, as well as upcoming performances tours with Jonathan Wilson and Sean Lennon’s The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger. Performing on increasingly bigger stages proved a valuable lesson and a significant influence on the band’s musical perspective. \n“It taught us that you’ve got to be a bit fatter in your delivery\,” Bush says. “The intricacies don’t always come across the same way when you’re playing a bigger gig. It’s the main points that you’re trying to say that become important.” \nSound Mirror’s genesis began in late 2012 with the band traveling to Rother’s parents’ house in Ireland\, their equipment literally in tow. The four musicians spent the holiday season woodshedding as a unit\, laying the groundwork for their second album in advance of what they knew would be a busy 2013. Indeed\, extensive touring followed – including the band’s debut trip to North America – before they finally set to work in September at their own recently refurbished Wicker Studios in Southeast London. \n“Everything felt right making the album\,” Joel Magill says. “There was no tension\, we were all just pumped to have what was the longest period we’ve ever had just solely concentrating on music and being in the studio.” \nAs with all their prior recordings\, the band produced and engineered Sound Mirror on their own\, its crystalline intensity and aural innovation reflective of the proudly self-reliant band’s ever-expanding mastery of the studio process. \n“It felt like we had a lot more in ourselves that we could get out before we reached that point where having a producer would help\,” Joel says. “We’re well up for exploring that option in the future. We don’t have our heads buried in the sand.” \nIndeed\, Syd Arthur elected to have the Sound Mirror recordings mixed by one of the industry’s top hands\, multiple GRAMMY® winner Tom Elmhirst (Adele\, U2\, Arcade Fire). \n“At first we were apprehensive\,” Bush says\, “because even though he’s obviously the best at what he does\, we didn’t think\, ‘Oh yeah\, he’s the obvious guy.’ But ultimately\, his perspective on our music was very interesting because he approached it with more of a broader brush stroke.” \nHaving spent much of the past two years on the road\, Sound Mirror echoes Syd Arthur’s deep connection to their home turf\, its title referencing the massive concrete structures placed around coastal England to detect incoming enemy aircraft in the pre-World War II era. \n“They were the precursor to radar\,” says Bush. “They’re very striking objects\, basically facing out from England to France. We liked the idea of this mega mirror\, reflecting out to the rest of the world from Kent.” \nProgressive in the truest sense\, tracks like “Forevermore” and “Backwardstepping” evolve the archetypal Canterbury sound into a surprisingly heartfelt mutation of Arcadian acoustica and Syd Arthur’s own uniquely modern voice. “Hometown Blues” – perhaps the most plainspoken song in the band’s increasingly rich oeuvre – was born of a 2012 collaborative session with avowed fan Paul Weller at his Solid Bond Productions Ltd. Studio. \n“We were jamming and it just fell out\,” Liam says. “Weller actually got my book out and read through it – that was pretty nuts. I nailed it\, the essence of what I was trying to say.” \nSyd Arthur’s determined search for quintessence extends into the album’s more experimental excursions. Songs such as “Autograph” and “Singularity” gambol around rock’s outer limits\, their gear-shifting extremes counterbalanced by windswept melody and brilliantly crafted production. \n“I like to think we can get weirder and more poppy at the same time\,” Bush says. “We want to reach a place where the songs can get tighter and more succinct and then when we go crazy\, we really go crazy.” \n“Our take on it\, at the moment anyway\, is to present our music in a slightly more concise way on the album\,” says Joel\, “and then live\, we explore the compositions and jam out.” \nThat unbridled spirit of transgression and forward motion defines both Sound Mirror and Syd Arthur\, a band preternaturally unwilling to settle down\, forever looking towards the far horizon. \n“We’re not ever going to stay still\,” Bush says. “We’re going to keep pushing on. We feel like there are a lot of records to be made\, if we can work out how to make them. It’s funny\, as soon as we finish one thing\, we start getting excited about the next one.” \n“For a long time\, I’ve felt we’ve needed to get a lot further out of field\,” Liam Magill says. “I’m looking forward to getting out amongst it\, getting to explore further\, it’s going to be really interesting. It’s going to be fun.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/jake-bugg/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/jake-bugg-admat2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160930T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160930T183000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160531T152617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160531T152617Z UID:10001669-1475260200-1475260200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Luna DESCRIPTION:Doors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over.\nTickets on sale Fri. 6/3 at noon! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \nLuna \nOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nLuna\, the New York-based quartet\, were last seen on stage in February 2005. In 2015 they will play their first shows in ten years. \nLuna recorded 8 studio albums between 1992 and 2005. The current touring lineup is the exact ’99-’05 group that recorded Luna Live!\, Romantica\, Close Cover Before Striking\, and Rendezvous: Dean Wareham and Sean Eden on guitar\, Lee Wall on drums\, and Britta Phillips on bass. \nAt their best\, it’s hard to believe there is any other kind of music besides this simple\, graceful\, chiming chug — the Guardian \nOne of indie rocks’ most beloved live acts — Rob Sheffield\, Rolling Stone \nDean Wareham has an unlikely quiver of a voice that\, for whatever ungodly reason\, sounds as if he’s survived something his music alludes to but never gives away — Jerry Stahl \nA handful of records and songs that will accompany me forever – Ignacio Julia \nLuna timeline \n1992. Dean Wareham\, after leaving Galaxie 500\, recruits Justin Harwood (ex-Chills) on bass and Stanley Demeski (ex-Feelies) on drums to record Lunapark for Elektra Records. After completing the album\, the band adds Sean Eden on guitar. Eden first appears on the Indian Summer EP (aka the Slide EP). \n1993. The band records their second album\, Bewitched\, featuring Sterling Morrison of the Velvet Underground on guitar on two tracks. \n1995 Luna’s classic third album\, Penthouse (1995) is recorded in New York City\, featuring guests Tom Verlaine (Television) and Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab). The band signs to Beggar’s Banquet in Europe. \n1997 Lee Wall replaces the travel-weary Stanley Demeski on drums\, and the band records Pup Tent\, their fourth album for Elektra. \n1998 Luna recorded their fifth album The Days of Our Nights\, produced by Paul Kimble (Grant Lee Buffalo). \n1999 Justin Harwood moves back to his home country (New Zealand)\, and is replaced on bass by Britta Phillips. \n2000 finding themselves between contracts\, the band quickly records a live album — Luna Live! for the Arena Rock label. \n2002 the band sign to Jetset Records\, record Romantica\, co-produced by Gene Holder (DB’s) and Dave Fridmann (Mercury Rev). Romantica was followed by the mini-LP Close Cover Before Striking. \n2004 Luna record their final album\, Rendezvous\, in Brooklyn\, NY. Produced by Bryce Goggin with minimal overdubs\, it captures the band more-or-less live. \n2005 February 28 the band play their last shows at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. \n*** \nSam Evian \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nSam Evian is a new music project from New York City\, and the latest signing to Saddle Creek. \n“Sleep Easy” is the first track to be shared from Premium\, the debut Sam Evian LP\, scheduled for release in 2016. The limpid ease of Premium was captured in just a handful of days at Figure 8 studio in Brooklyn\, where Sam is a resident engineer and producer. \nWatch the music video for “Sleep Easy“. (Video cleared to post and share). \nGlowing lead guitar\, aching pedal steel\, Wurlitzer keys and iconic 20th-century synths coalesce over a sublime\, supportive rhythm section\, guiding Sam’s melodies through a semi-familiar mist: the post-’60s zeitgeist\, a sun-baked cassette of Pet Sounds\, the modern struggle for emotional involvement in the internet age. \nGet “Sleep Easy”: iTunes\, Apple Music\, Spotify\, Soundcloud \n“Sleep Easy” is available on limited edition 7 inch vinyl backed with “You Have To Hydrate” – ready to ship in September and available for pre-order now at the Saddle Creek Online Store. \n“Someone once told me that having one penny is 100% better than having no pennies. Making Premium was like picking a lucky penny up off the street. I wrote the songs ten days prior to my first show\, though the ideas had been living under the surface for some years. Sometimes a deadline is all you need. The band came together effortlessly and we found ourselves in the studio on borrowed time\, smiling a lot. The use of ‘Premium’ is funny to me. Bottled water is funny to me. We’re all hustling the same thing and packaging it in different ways. Stay hydrated\,” says Sam. \n‘Oh\, it was wonder of wonders. And then\, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal\, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship\, gravity all nonsense now\, came the violin solo above all the other strings\, and those strings were like a cage of silk round my bed. Then flute and oboe bored\, like worms of platinum\, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss\, my brothers.” -Anthony Burgess URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/luna/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Luna_StefanoGiovannini_2.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:20160930T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160930T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160810T151134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160810T151134Z UID:10001703-1475272800-1475272800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Gareth Emery DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry/ Admission not guaranteed after 12AM URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/gareth-emery/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/9.30.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:20161001T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161001T180000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160712T143656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160712T143656Z UID:10001690-1475344800-1475344800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Majid Jordan DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is All Ages.\nEvery purchase includes a digital download of the new album.\nTickets on sale Fri. 7/15 at 10AM! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nMajid Jordan \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nFor Majid Jordan\, music and motion become one in the same.\n“A lot of the process of making music is driving to it\,” affirms Jordan. “There’s something to be said about that movement. You don’t have an end point. When we’re driving around and listening to songs\, we’re not going somewhere per se; we’re just driving.” \nMajid continues\, “Our music is definitely about being on and navigating a journey. This path leads towards love.” \nThe Toronto pair—Majid Al Maskati\, 25\, and Jordan Ullman\, 21—have definitely made the most of their ride thus far. In 2011\, the Bahrain-born Majid linked up with the Canadian Jordan\, while attending the University of Toronto. Bonding over a mutual passion for music\, they started recording under the name GOOD People\, releasing the afterhours mixtape. Their chemistry yielded a powerful dynamic with Jordan handling instrumentation and production and Majid assuming mic duties. \n“We both have two younger sisters\,” says Majid. “In a sense\, we each assume the role of the brother we never had. That’s what makes this so special: the brotherhood we share.” \nProducer Noah “40” Shebib heard their music on Soundcloud in 2013 and invited them to meet him and Drake. Soon after\, the duo inked a deal with OVO Sound/Warner Bros. Records. Majid Jordan featured on and co-produced Drake’s triple-platinum #1 hit “Hold On\, We’re Going Home” from Nothing Was The Same. Their next collaboration with the hip-hop superstar was “Mine” for Beyoncé’s self-titled fifth offering. Solidifying their sound and identity\, 2014’s EP A Place Like This would see them construct the framework for their self-titled full-length debut\, Majid Jordan\, in 2016. \n“Once we began working on the album\, we had more room for experimentation and exploration\,” adds Majid. “We’ve learned so much over the past few years\, and that experience enabled us to make this music. Everything was a stepping stone to where we are now.” \nIn early 2015\, the guys moved to a rented house in Van Nuys\, CA to begin work on what would become Majid Jordan. In between soaking in the Southern California sun and cruising the Pacific Coast Highway\, they hit the studio with the likes of Illangelo [The Weeknd] and Nineteen85 [Drake\, Nicki Minaj]. \n“The surroundings really played a role in the recording\,” says Jordan. “It helped inform the sound and direction. You can really feel that up-tempo energy in some of the songs.” \nMajid Jordan gave listeners a taste of the album with the airy\, tribal bounce of “My Love” [feat. Drake] in August 2015. Its icy\, sexy video would open the gateway into their latest body of work. The first 2016 single “Something About You” sees Jordan and Illangelo conjure an echoing groove and ethereal percussion punctuated by Majid’s show-stopping falsetto and expansive range. \n“Chronologically\, it came out after ‘My Love\,’ and they both follow a theme\,” explains Majid. “In ‘My Love\,’ you’re unsure\, and you’re questioning the intentions of somebody’s love for you. That unsettled feeling comes through. Then\, you get to ‘Something About You\,’ and you don’t let the past experience jade the way you look at the world. You’re no longer scared of love. You’re moving forward.” \nElsewhere\, “Learn From Each Other” sees Majid’s voice glide over a lush instrumental backdrop\, while “Shake Shake Shake” stands out as a seductively upbeat and undeniable dancefloor anthem.\n“Our chemistry really carries through this music\,” exclaims Jordan. “There’s a real synergy that we’ve had since day one\, and it’s only growing.” \nNow\, everybody can move with them. \n“Ultimately\, I want this to pique people’s interest\,” Jordan concludes. “This is a project we’ve really been working towards for most of our lives. I hope they can’t wait to see where we go next.”\n“This is the first step of the journey\,” Majid agrees. “This is Majid Jordan.” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/majid-jordan/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/majid-jordan-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:20161001T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161001T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160927T163841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160927T163841Z UID:10002425-1475359200-1475359200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Little Black Dress Party w/ Liz Ladoux DESCRIPTION:21+ \nVIP: 617-733-0505 URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/little-black-dress-party-w-liz-ladoux/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/101-Liz-Ladoux.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:20161003T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161003T190000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160713T140444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160713T140444Z UID:10001692-1475521200-1475521200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Kishi Bashi DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is All Ages.\nTickets on sale Fri. 7/15 at noon! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nKishi Bashi \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \n“Sonderlust” is an album forged through heartbreak. After his two previous studio albums (“151a” & “Lighght”)\, Kishi Bashi was at a musical impasse. “As I sat down to write songs last summer\, I went to all my usual conduits of creation: violin loops\, guitar\, piano\, and I came up with the musical equivalent of fumes”\, says K Ishibashi. “I tried to create orchestral pop recordings that I assumed were my forte\, and in turn I found myself standing in front of a creative wall of frightening heights.” \nAt this very same moment of musical uncertainty\, K’s personal life was falling apart… He and his wife of 13 years had briefly separated and were struggling to keep their marriage together. In his own words\, “Touring and its accompanying lifestyle took a heavy toll on my soul and my family”. As an outlet\, K submerged himself in a new musical direction. “Sonderlust” emerged as a direct result of this personal struggle taking place at an artistic crossroads. \nWith the help of producer Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear)\, engineer Pat Dillet (Angelique Kidjo\, David Byrne) and drummer Matt Chamberlain (Morrissey\, Fiona Apple\, of Montreal)\, Kishi Bashi has created his most personal and artistically adventurous work to date. “This album is straight from my soul. I questioned everything about what it means to love and desire. The difference between loving someone and being in love.” \n*** \nTwain \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nSir Kitchen Boy E.P. by twain URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/kishi-bashi/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/KishiBashi_Layered2.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:20161004T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161004T190000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160516T120046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160516T120046Z UID:10002378-1475607600-1475607600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:The Temper Trap DESCRIPTION:Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is All Ages.\nTickets on sale Fri. 5/20 at 10AM! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nThe Temper Trap \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nWith their choir boy vocals and panoramic pop/rock sound\, The Temper Trap began building an audience in Melbourne\, Australia\, where the band first rose to local acclaim after playing St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival in March 2006. The Temper Trap released their debut EP that same year\, and word of the group’s potential soon spread to other continents. Veteran British producer Jim Abbiss (who previously worked on the Arctic Monkeys’ debut) saw enough promise in The Temper Trap’s material to fly to Australia\, where he gathered the musicians into Melbourne’s Sing Sing Studios and helped ready their debut album\, Conditions\, for a 2009 release. Conditions Remixed “Sweet Disposition\,” a U2-styled anthem\, was released that September as the band’s first single. It cracked the Top 40 in multiple countries and appeared in the Zooey Deschanel film (500) Days of Summer\, which helped the band increase its following in America. The Temper Trap responded by touring heavily\, making stops at festivals like Glastonbury and Bonnaroo along the way. They also reached out to a number of DJs\, producers\, and bands\, asking them to remix material from the group’s debut. The result\, Conditions Remixed\, was released during the band’s fall tour in 2010. In 2012\, the band returned with its sophomore effort\, the eponymously titled The Temper Trap. Produced by Tony Hoffer (Beck\, Air\, Goldfrapp)\, the album featured the single\, “Need Your Love.” \n*** \nCoast Modern \nCoast Modern photographed on July 6\, 2015 in Los Angeles\, California. \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nSometimes the only way to get ahead is to stop following the leader\, and start running your own race. Coast Modern flies out of the pack with a refreshingly uninhibited sound for disenchanted dreamers everywhere. Building on an admiration for the spirit of misfit alternative bands and the fearless ethos of modern hip hop\, the duo creates alternative pop with a wink that aims to push the genre into the future. \nSeattle-native Luke Atlas and LA-local Coleman Trapp met while working as Los Angeles-based songwriters\, fellow rats in the race to land songs with mainstream pop artists. After more than two years of peddling some great\, some terrible\, and some very weird creations at the gates of the mainstream\, they received little more than fleeting glances. Watching so many of their creations die on the operating table left the two burnt out and questioning their path. \nWith just a backpack and a tape recorder\, Coleman escaped his over-saturated hometown for the mountainous serenity of Denver\, CO. What was meant to be a quick\, head-clearing vacation soon turned into months as Coleman blended into the community\, taking a job at a family restaurant\, and enjoying the simple pleasures of a “normal” life. \n“I realized I didn’t desire the trappings of music industry success that drove me for years\,” recalls Coleman. “I actually started thinking I might never go back.” Without the pressure of writing-on-demand\, he began messing around on a borrowed acoustic guitar and recording tossed-off ditties on an old cassette recorder. The pure\, child-like enjoyment of writing only for himself led Coleman to a realization: maybe he’d overlooked a path that was right in front of him the whole time. \nSoon\, warbly tape recordings began appearing in Luke’s inbox. “At first I didn’t think much of them because they were so different\, but they kept randomly getting stuck in my head” says Luke\, who further encouraged Coleman’s experiments. On a whim\, Luke created a production around one of the acoustic demos and sent it back. Coleman was thrilled. “It felt like this could be something\,” says Luke. “I told him to get his ass back to LA.” \nReturning with renewed vigor and a rusted-out car hood after a Mile-High winter\, Coleman quickly called a meeting with Luke. With their new musical experiments buzzing in their heads\, the pair discussed creating a personal project based purely on the whims of their creative spark\, wherever that led them. “After we stopped shooting at an invisible moving target and had no agenda\, that’s when the sound came\,” explains Luke. And Coleman\, who had not so much as even sung “Happy Birthday” until a few years prior\, began finding the confidence to take frontman status\, lending his vocals to the tracks that began to take form through a playful\, stream-of-consciousness process. \nOne of the first songs they plucked from the ether together was “Hollow Life.” An anthem for restless souls everywhere\, the lyrics drip with the same frustration the duo once felt for their city\, while Coleman yearns for a simpler life away from it all. “Racing towards a dream on the horizon / Gimme something better than this Hollow Life\,” he sings over plinking marimba mashed up with angular fuzzy bass and booming 808 kick drums. \n“The song is about finding distance from what is hindering you\, whether it be physical or mental distance\,” explains Coleman. “But we’re no gurus. We’re just trying to let people know that we’re here figuring this shit out too.” \nOn the other end of the duo’s musical spectrum is the bouncy tribute to nascent romance\, “Dive” and the psychedelic\, “Comb My Hair.” Digging deeper\, there is the group’s wistful meditation on the passage of time\, “Wild Things\,” and\, “Frost\,” crackling with imperfection from Coleman’s original Denver basement tapes. Clearly Coast Modern are capable of covering a large swath of musical territory\, yet a strong\, self-aware voice and a sense of groove tie them all together. \nWith their destiny now grasped firmly in their own hands\, the duo are reveling in the freedom of their newfound artist status. At the will of their muses instead of the tidal flow of the pop world\, the group can create the genuine\, self-assured music that had been locked inside. Coast Modern is what happens when you let go of what you always thought you wanted and embrace the unexpected; when you stop chasing and start taking the lead. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/the-temper-trap/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/the-temper-trap-admat-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161005T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161005T193000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160711T143125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160711T143125Z UID:10001688-1475695800-1475695800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Goldroom + Autograf DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:30 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.\nTickets on sale Fri. 7/15 at 1PM! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nGoldroom \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nUnder his professional nom de plum Goldroom\, Legg’s found considerable success as a producer. But at heart\, he’s a songwriter. His influences (the non-electronic ones) veer toward the likes of Tom Petty\, Al Green and Ryan Adams. In his own music you can hear hints of French disco\, bass lines inspired by New Order and angelic vocals layered over (as Legg describes) his “nostalgic production tones.” It’s sonically grand\, sure. But at heart: real songs\, with real emotions\, evoking loneliness\, the ocean\, the West Coast. \nLive\, Goldroom has brought his music to life both in live form\, with full live band\, and in the more traditional form of DJ appearance. 2015 was a landmark year for Josh\, with the first year of his High Seas tour\, festival performances around North America through the summer (including LA’s FYF at sunset) and his Waiting To Ignite Tour of North America. \nHaving signed to Downtown Records in 2015\, Goldroom is currently working on his debut album which he intends to release in the second half of 2016. \n*** \nAutograf \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nIt’s about leaving your mark on the world. It’s about leaving your Autograf. \n*** \nEau Claire \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nEau Claire’s journey has been nothing short of exciting in the past year between chart topping releases and performances at clubs and music festivals throughout the US and Mexico. She stands out with her captivating stage presence and unique musical style combining her own blend of house\, nu-disco\, and indie dance. \nWith several major label remixes to her name including releases on Warner Brothers Records and Elektra/Atlantic\, Eau Claire has established herself as a standout producer and DJ\, creating a special niche with her unique blend of indie-dance\, house\, and nu-disco.\nShe’s received support from major music outlets including DJ Mag\, Idolator/SPIN\, Indie Shuffle\, and LessThan3 and has been quoted by MOARRR magazine as “one of the most talented US newcomers this year”. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/goldroom-autograf/ 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/2016/07/goldroom-autograf-admat2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161006T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161006T190000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160614T110001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160614T110001Z UID:10001680-1475780400-1475780400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:[SOLD OUT] Descendents DESCRIPTION:Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is all ages!\nSOLD OUT! \n*** \n \n*** \nDescendents \nDescendents at The Standing Room. Photograph by Lisa Johnson. \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nHot off the announcement of Hypercaffium Spazzinate\, their first new album in 12 years\, Descendents have shared the details of a headlining North American tour this fall. The dates kick off September 15 in Minneapolis at First Avenue and wrap up November 12 in Portland at Roseland Theater. Tickets go on sale June 17 at 10am local venue time. Descendents will also perform at both Riot Fests in Denver and Chicago. Hypercaffium Spazzinate is set for release on July 29. \nAs previously reported\, Descendents have shared a new song “Victim of Me”. Click here to listen. Descendents’ first Epitaph release since Everything Sucks in 1996\, Hypercaffium Spazzinate\, began taking shape after the band ended an extended hiatus to play live in 2010. Though still tight\, they lived apart: singer Milo Aukerman — whose cartoon rendering famously serves as the band’s logo — was now living in Delaware\, bassist Karl Alvarez and founder and drummer Bill Stevenson were in Colorado\, and guitarist Stephen Egerton had settled in Oklahoma. So the album came to life over three years as the band sent tracks back and forth\, occasionally meeting up in Karl and Bill’s adopted hometown of Fort Collins. Adopting such a protracted process meant not having to rush things\, allowing for some of their sharpest songwriting yet. \nEvery Descendents album is an event. Formed in 1978\, the band’s first releases have proven historic\, and all the ones since have only further refined the Descendents concept. Punk\, pop\, buzzing\, summery\, heartfelt\, defiant\, adolescent\, and wise all at once — the Descendents. Twelve years have passed since there’s been new Descendents music. Finally\, here comes their long-awaited album\, Hypercaffium Spazzinate. \nPre-orders for Hypercaffium Spazzinate are available at https://lnk.to/descendents. \n*** \nBeach Slang \n\n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nWe’ve been waiting for a while and finally it’s here. Over the past two years Beach Slang have proved themselves as a band who can write memorable songs\, share that energy live and create a community of like-minded fans but they’ve always been missing one important element: An album. Luckily the band’s full-length The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us is the culmination of their collective career and picks up where their two critically acclaimed 7-inches\, 2014’s Cheap Thrills On A Dead End Street and Who Would Ever Want Something So Broken? left off. The feelings of youth and vulnerability lie at the core of Beach Slang’s music\, which is part punk\, part pop and all catharsis. It references the ghosts of the Replacements but keeps one foot firmly rooted in the present. It’s fun and it’s serious. It’s sad but it isn’t. It’s Beach Slang. This Philadelphia-based act have built their hype the old-fashioned way\, without any gimmicks or marketing teams\, which makes sense when you consider that frontman and writer James Alex cut his teeth in the celebrated pop-punk act Weston while drummer JP Flexner\, bassist Ed McNulty and guitarist Ruben Gallego also played in buzzed about projects such as Ex-Friends\, Nona and Glocca Morra respectively. However there’s something indefinable about Beach Slang’s music that evokes the spirit of punk and juxtaposes it into something that’s as brutally honest as it is infectiously catchy. “By and large we subscribe to the idea of “if it isn’t broken\, we’re not going to fix it’ so\, yeah\, we came at this recording in very much the same way\,” Alex explains when asked how they approached the new songs from a sonic perspective. “I mean\, we had more time to make this album\, which is a cool thing\, but time can also be a strange overthinker. Really\, we’ve just always wanted to make our things sound like well recorded live records.” he continues\, adding that the biggest difference this time around is the fact that engineer Dave Downham stepped up to co-produce this album and the fact that the band has finally found a full-time fourth member in guitarist Ruben Gallego. “Having both of them and their ears involved definitely helped a lot. I hardly listen back to things in the studio. For me\, if it feels right\, it’s a keeper. But\, yeah\, there’s something pretty alright about striking a balance.” Obviously there has been demand for a Beach Slang album since they exploded onto the scene\, however the band was very careful not to rush out something before it was totally ready. “I write every day regardless of what else is happening. And what we wanted to make happen was as many live shows as possible. There’s an importance in that\, a necessity. Rock & roll isn’t meant to exist on computer screens\, you know?” Correspondingly the hundreds of shows that the band played between this album and the EP is all now automatically embedded in their recorded output. “I’m hardly concerned about our music being technically precise. I want to make sure it has soul\, that it’s honest. The imperfections…that’s the really good stuff. We don’t ever want it to be perfect.” While The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us further expands on Beach Slang’s unique sound\, it also showcases their sonic diversity. From the shoegazing sheen of “Noisy Heaven” to the downbeat dreaminess of “Porno Love” and refracted rage of “Young & Alive\,” the album is a fuzzed-out masterpiece that takes influence from the past while staying rooted in the present. “Certainly we are going to sound like Beach Slang because\, you know\, we are but we didn’t want to make this record a xerox of anything we’ve done. That stuff has no guts\, you know?\,” Alex explains. “Even if you go from the first EP to the second EP there’s a nice\, little arc and range of things happening. I think that’s even more true of this record.” “There’s a line in that first song ‘Throwaways’ that goes ‘there’s a time to bleed and a time just to fucking run”: I’ve sung that line so many times between developing and writing the thing and I still get that little-hair-standing-up-on-my-arm moment every time I say it\,” Alex says. It’s probably because the sentiments that he’s expressing have never been a choice. “Certainly there’s an element of nostalgia inherent in the writing because a good bit is reflective but it never lodges in the past; it’s more of a battle cry to now and where we’re going. Look\, growing up and getting serious is wildly overrated stuff. Don’t listen to it. Jump around with a guitar. Play records loud. Never retire from being alive. Move on it.”That movement is alternately beautiful and crushing. It’s blazing and plodding\, silent and deafening but always progressing and pushing toward that barely visible beacon in the horizon. The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us is just a giant step closer to our destination. \nNight Birds \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nNight Birds is comprised of four thoroughly modern morons from the New Jersey shore. After one listen it will only seem right that these guys spawn from the same state that brought you such class acts as the Misfits and Adrenalin OD. This high-octane surf-inspired punk rock band formed in the spring of 2009 following the demise of bassist Joe Keller’s band\, The Ergs! While perhaps best known for their extensive touring and electrifying live performances\, Night Birds continue to excel in the studio – crafting fresh\, powerful recordings influenced by punk/hardcore greats of yore. To date\, the band has released a handful 7″ EPs as well as three full-length albums; their 2011 debut album\, The Other Side of Darkness\, 2013’s Born To Die In Suburbia (both on Grave Mistake Records)\, and 2015’s Mutiny at Muscle Beach on Fat Wreck Chords. Tuneful and aggressive\, yet far from formulaic\, the music of Night Birds is both attuned to the times and rooted in the classics. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/descendents/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Descendents-Local-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:20161007T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161007T180000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160908T180344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160908T180344Z UID:10001709-1475863200-1475863200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Corey Fest DESCRIPTION:18+ URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/corey-fest/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CoreyFest-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:20161007T223000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161007T223000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160609T143254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160609T143254Z UID:10001674-1475879400-1475879400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Tritonal DESCRIPTION:21+ \n*Management reserves the right to refuse entry / Admission not guaranteed after midnight / No refunds of any kind all sales are final. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/tritonal-2/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/10.7.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:20161008T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161008T180000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160620T142443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160620T142443Z UID:10002397-1475949600-1475949600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Tom Odell DESCRIPTION:92.5 The River presents \nDoors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over.\nTickets on sale Fri. 6/24 at noon! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nTom Odell \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nTom Odell will release his second album ‘Wrong Crowd’ on June 10 via RCA Records (USA) and Columbia Records (UK). The album is the follow up to 2013’s million selling\, number 1 record ‘Long Way Down\,’ a record that led to Tom being given the highly prestigious Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year. \n‘Wrong Crowd’ consists of 11 new songs; a deluxe edition of the album featuring four extra tracks will also be available. The album was produced by Jim Abbiss\, who has also produced records for artists including Arctic Monkeys\, Kasabian\, Adele. \nThe video for “Wrong Crowd\,” shot in South Africa\, was directed by George Belfield (Arthur Beatrice\, Richard Hawley\, Kwabs) and features a brief section of another unreleased track from the album — “Constellations.” \nWinner of the 2013 BRIT Awards Critics’ Choice\, Tom Odell released his debut album ‘Long Way Down’ in 2013. The album has sold over 1 million copies to date. His singles “Another Love” and “Real Love” both hit the UK Top 10\, with the latter — a cover of a track by The Beatles — used for John Lewis’ Christmas TV ad campaign of 2014. \nTom said of the new album\, “I wanted the songs to sound big and dramatic; big strings and melodies emphasizing the songs further — rich in musicality and holding nothing back. The album follows a narrative of a man held at ransom by his childhood\, yearning for it\, yearning for nature- a desire for innocence in this perverse world in which he now lives. It’s a fictional story but the emotions and feelings are obviously ones I have felt — though the stories are elaborated and exaggerated. I wanted to create a world with a heightened sense of reality.” \n*** \nBarns Courtney \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nOriginally born in Ipswich\, Barns Courtney spent most his childhood in Seattle before returning to his native UK aged 15. He was recently spotted by The Libertines’ Carl Barat\, with whom he’s collaborated on a track; he will be supporting on forthcoming Libertines shows. He’ll also be supporting fellow local Ed Sheeran this autumn. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/tom-odell/ 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/2020/01/Tom-Odell-admat_sp16_bc.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:20161008T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161008T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20161003T212358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161003T212358Z UID:10002427-1475964000-1475964000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:"Make America Rave Again" w/ DJ Breeazy & DJ NRG DESCRIPTION:21+ \nVIP: 617-733-0505 URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/make-america-rave-again-w-dj-breeazy-dj-nrg/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/1008-Make-America-Rave-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:20161009T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161009T220000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160908T172907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160908T172907Z UID:10001707-1476050400-1476050400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Hot Mess Sundays! Detox Live! DESCRIPTION:21+\nFirst 100 people to arrive meet Detox! URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/hot-mess-sundays-detox-live/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Gay-Mafia-109-Detox-poster.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161011T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161011T190000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160620T100021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160620T100021Z UID:10002395-1476212400-1476212400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Marian Hill DESCRIPTION:Bowery Boston presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over.\nTickets on sale Fri. 6/24 at noon! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nMarian Hill \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nAct One\, the debut full-length from songwriting duo Marian Hill\, was written and produced in its entirety by Jeremy Lloyd (music/lyrics/production) and Samantha Gongol (music/lyrics/vocals). The multi- talented duo\, who have been collaborating in one form or another since high school\, have shifted the classic paradigm of a woman on a stage and a man with a piano to a woman on a mic and a man with a laptop — and the results are seductive and vivid. Tempting paradox with a blend of blues and bass\, acoustic and digital\, classic and modern\, Marian Hill have arrived. \nTwo years ago Sam and Jeremy wrote and recorded “Whisky” over spring break in Jeremy’s parents’ basement. When they released it for free on Soundcloud later that summer it was the only song they’d written for the project\, and in a little over a year’s time they had recorded their first EP in a bedroom\, amassed millions of plays on various platforms\, sold out shows across the country and featured in high profile commercials. They signed to Republic Records in early 2015\, released the Sway EP\, and settled in to write and record their debut album over the course of the following year with a plan to push their unique sound to its fullest potential. \nFor the first 50 seconds of “Down” you might think you’re at a supper club in the 1920s\, but when the bass drops out of nowhere you couldn’t be anywhere but 2016. Act One then takes you on a journey through the complexities of modern relationships\, with each song inhabiting a specific and charged relationship lyrically\, melodically\, and sonically. “I Know Why” constantly transforms and reinvents itself as the vocals grapple with a secret while “Mistaken” is the hardest of sax trap with a classic songwriting backbone. “Same Thing” is the saddest part of the album\, a haunting ballad depicting serene resignation of a doomed relationship\, but castanets rise from the ashes as “I Want You” closes out the night in a pure moment of optimistic electricity\, a glance across a crowded room that changes everything. \nMarian Hill’s one of a kind sound is present throughout — blues harmonies blend with sparse hip hop drums\, horns blast under classic vocal melodies\, and soloistic vocal chops sit side by side with clear\, intimate lyrics. You’ve never heard this before\, yet it’s surprisingly familiar. And it’s only the beginning. \n*** \nVÉRITÉ \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nIt’s been less than two years since VÉRITÉ performed her first live show\, but she’s already packed in a career’s worth of highlights. Performing at massive festivals like Lollapalooza and Firefly\, surpassing 12 million streams on Spotify with a pair of critically acclaimed EPs\, crisscrossing the US and Europe for her own headlining shows\, and opening for big names like Stars\, MS MR\, and Tove Lo; she has amassed a mountain of media praise everywhere from Buzzfeed and Billboard to Nylon and SPIN. \nVÉRITÉ began her music career while working full-time as a waitress at Applebee’s in Times Square. Over the course of nearly two years\, she crafted the ‘Echo EP\,’ a stunning debut which showcased her unique brand of poignant\, emotionally intense alt-pop. SPIN praised her “incredibly strong club-ready cuts\,” naming her one of five new artists to watch\, while BuzzFeed hailed lead single “Strange Enough” as one of the best songs of the summer. Upon its release\, the track hit #1 most viral on Twitter and earned her the #1 spot on Hype Machine\, along with additional love from Harper’s Bazaar\, Refinery29\, Idolator\, and more. She followed it up with the ‘Sentiment’ EP\, which TIME called “gorgeous\,” with “complex electronic arrangements” and “rich and ethereal vocals.” \nVÉRITÉ self-funds every aspect of her career\, following her own design and operating outside of the major label system as a truly independent success story. She’s about to hit new heights with the release of her most mesmerizing collection yet\, the ‘Living EP.’ Recorded with an all-star cast of producers including Stefan Graslund (Charli XCX)\, Tim Anderson (Banks)\, Zach Nicita (MS MR)\, Peter Thomas (Betty Who)\, and James Flannigan (Kodaline)\, the EP showcases VÉRITÉ’s remarkable growth and sophistication\, as she spins dark\, vulnerable confessions into infectious\, danceable anthems. Opener “Underdressed” reveals a new edge to her haunting\, silky vocals\, while the reverb-laden guitars of “Constant Crush” give way to pulsing percussion and hypnotic melody lines\, and the minimalist “Gesture” strips everything back down to its absolute rawest\, ending with a gorgeous stack of a cappella harmonies.” It’s hard to believe we’ve only just met VÉRITÉ considering all she’s already accomplished\, but as she continues to reveal new depth and nuance with each release\, it’s clear we’ll be getting to know her for a long time to come. \n*** \nSHAED \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nSHAED is the exciting newest edition to the Photo Finish Family. A Washington DC based head-bobbing pop project comprised of multi-instrumentalist twin brothers Max and Spencer Ernst and powerhouse vocalist Chelsea Lee. Lee’s vocals weave divinely through the Ernst twin’s pop-sensible production that can make anyone move. Their debut single\, “Just Wanna See”\, is a genre bending slow jam that has received international praise and favorable comparisons to bands like Florence & The Machine\, Sia\, Justin Timberlake\, and Sylvan Esso. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/marian-hill/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/marian-hill-admat-localized-2.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:20161012T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161012T193000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160606T144502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160606T144502Z UID:10001672-1476300600-1476300600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:KONGOS DESCRIPTION:Doors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:15 pm \nThis event is all ages.\nTickets on sale NOW! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nKONGOS \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nThe brothers KONGOS — multi-cultural\, multi-faceted\, multi-instrumentalists — craft a unique and irresistible sound spawned from shared DNA\, diverse influences and spot-on melodic and lyrical sensibilities. On “Lunatic\,” their 12-song Epic Records debut\, the band’s talent shines on “Come With Me Now”; the title an impossible-to-resist aural summons\, the rock-alt crossover tune kicking off with the accordion\, jumping into foot-stomping\, staccato rhythms\, slide guitar\, and soaring epic soundscapes reminiscent of U2. “I’m Only Joking\,” whose lyrics hint at the album’s title\, hits the mark with decisive tribal rhythms and Pink Floyd-esque mysterious modern rock. Thanks to an earlier self-release of “Lunatic\,” KONGOS are already stars overseas\, playing their numerous hits off “Lunatic” for crowds of up to 65\,000 at South African festivals and touring the Republic with Linkin Park\, and the UK and Europe with AWOLNATION and Dispatch. With a Feb-March North American tour with Airborne Toxic Event and alternative and rock radio hot on “Come With Me Now” and “I’m Only Joking\,” (not to mention “Come With Me Now” in promos for NFL\, NBA and ESPN)\, 2014 is quickly shaping up as the year the U.S. catches KONGOS fever. \nKONGOS’ life story is as cinematic and captivating as their songs. The siblings\, who range in age from 25 (Danny) to 32 (Johnny)\, were born to popular ’70s South African/ British singer-songwriter John Kongos (“He’s Gonna Step On You Again\,” “Tokoloshe Man”). Spending their early childhood in London (all were born there except Danny)\, then South Africa before settling in Phoenix in the mid-90s\, the boys were exposed to a wide variety of sounds. “We listened to everything from classical and opera like Puccini to African tribal music to 60s and 70s pop and rock\,” says Dylan\, who cites African bassist Richard Bona\, Béla Fleck’s Victor Wooten\, and singing players like Sting and Paul McCartney as influences. His rhythm section partner\, Jesse\, who studied Jazz at ASU (as did Johnny)\, remembers learning boogie-woogie and classical piano as a child before getting into African drums\, then jazz greats like Jack DeJohnette. As KONGOS grew together as a rock band\, Jesse loved the vibe and feel of Zeppelin’s John Bonham\, and currently admires gospel and hip hop drummers like Aaron Spears and Carlos McSwain. Danny also boasts a myriad of influences\, ranging from Jeff Beck to Mahmoud Ahmed — “the James Brown of Ethiopia” — for his use of unconventional pentatonic scales. Johnny\, who is a student of jazz and classical piano\, cites Keith Jarrett as a hero\, while his accordion playing draws from various world styles\, including South African maskandi and Qawwali music. \nDespite the immense and wide-ranging familial talent\, the brothers were never groomed to be a “family band\,” and as Jesse notes\, “our parents wanted us to learn music like you do Math or English.” But the siblings joke\, “we got to a point where we didn’t want to get a real job so we stuck with music.” Johnny adds\, “Hey\, most of the family bands everyone knows have been hugely successful!” Of course\, the Jackson 5\, Beach Boys\, the Osmond Brothers and more recently minted family bands like Kings of Leon do seem to have an advantage inherent in the DNA. That said\, despite inborn talent\, KONGOS are all about hard work and humility. Interestingly\, each brother writes separately and brings completed songs to the group. Additionally\, they don’t necessarily sing their own songs. Live\, Jesse and Dylan share lead vocals\, while on “Lunatic\,” Johnny and Danny also sing: “It depends on whose voice works for that song\,” says Dylan. “It’s a lot of rehearsing to find where each voice fits; like Danny has a high register that’s nice.” To make the family and musical dynamic smooth\, Johnny notes with a laugh: “We are a democracy with an occasional dictator. Everything band-wise is done together\, but recording we give the power to the songwriter. As for the day to day organization and business\, it’s a total democracy.” \nClearly\, it’s a formula that works\, and on “Lunatic\,” they put all the pieces together into a cohesive whole. The brothers use a family recording studio — Tokoloshe Studios — named after their father’s hit song. Completely self-contained\, they write\, produce\, engineer and mix/master their music as well as direct\, shoot and edit all their own music videos. Hardly hermits\, since debuting at a high school talent show in 2003 (covering “Eleanor Rigby”!)\, beginning in 2007 KONGOS played out incessantly\, focusing on building a following in Phoenix\, garnering local airplay\, West Coast tours\, and eventually coveted slots at SXSW and CMJ. The years of dedication paid off: In 2011\, hanging in the studio\, the brothers decided to email a few songs to South African radio stations. 5FM\, the biggest Top 40 station in South Africa\, playlisted “I’m Only Joking\,” which hit No. 1 on the rock chart and was the most requested song for 11 weeks in a row. “In retrospect it was one of those crazy stories; the guy opened the email and played it on the radio and it changed everything for us in South Africa\,” recalls Johnny. “We didn’t expect anything like what happened.” \nWhile live is where KONGOS’ uplifting\, universal musicality reaches the masses\, the studio is indeed a second home for the brothers — as kids\, at their father’s home studio in London\, Elton John’s or Cat Stevens’ group was often the house band\, while the elder Kongos worked with Mutt Lange to program Def Leppard’s drums for “Pyromania.” The total lifelong musical immersion makes “Lunatic” — and KONGOS — a rare breed of band. Fluent in numerous styles and eras\, still\, at the end of the day\, a rock band. “We’re making rock and pop music and our more obscure influences may only come out when we are attacking an extended solo\,” they explain. “But we definitely relate to bigger bands like Daft Punk\, Coldplay and Queens of the Stone Age.” \nThe band also agreed that they were happy with “Lunatic” being a diverse record: “We each have different styles and personalities\, so we embrace that. We have a KONGOS sound which is not exactly assigned\, but we have an essence\, a picture in our mind of what it will sound like.” The press concur\, praising the band’s “classic rock elements\, African rhythms and Balkan beats” and their “incontestable youthful talent…[and] emotional outpourings.” The bottom line? KONGOS “want to write music that we like listening to.” Fortunately\, with tastes as diverse as theirs\, that’s a winning proposition for fans of all ages and predilections. \n*** \nThe Joy Formidable \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nThe Joy Formidable have never been one to shy away from a challenge. Proving that time and again by holding their own as support for legendary artists and acts from Sir Paul McCartney to The Foo Fighters and The Black Keys. \nOnce described by Rolling Stone as “wickedly bracing and Himalaya-huge;” the fantastic live band would now face the self-appointed challenge of ensuring their onstage energy and ability to connect with audiences translated via recording. That is the challenge that TJF took on for their upcoming third release. “We realized we needed to build a space and do it ourselves\, go back to being three people in a room again” said Ritzy (Rhiannon) Bryan regarding the band’s decision to self-produce the new record. \nTwelve months later\, the band have made an album that has “musically and emotionally put them through the wringer” but as the band explains\, “it’s fine for it to hurt\, to finish a record feeling exhausted\, we needed a good purge” \nContinuing on the path of taking matters into their own hands\, the group set out to build the right team around the new music by getting the legendary Alan Moulder to mix the album (The Killers\, Nine Inch Nails\, The Smashing Pumpkins\, etc) and by starting their own label and teaming up with Caroline Records as new partners for the release. \n” We wanted to work with people who feel as strong as we do about music\, who listen to albums\, love the art and let that take control.” “On this album\, we’ve been lucky enough to feel that same enthusiasm from everyone involved.” This self-starter approach has been a staple of TJF for quite some time\, building consistently since the band moved back to North Wales. \nThe Joy Formidable started right away by launching Aruthrol – a unique 7” vinyl singles club\, showcasing a series of new songs sung in Welsh; built a studio – The Red Brick – in the hills they roamed when they were growing up. They have since used that studio to write and record an astonishing new album\, an evolutionary step forward from its predecessors The Big Roar (2011) & Wolf’s Law (2013). \nThey also completed their first short film score for Greg Jardin’s ‘Floating’\, an urban love story about a character made entirely of balloons. It’s an emotionally resonant score\, with all the underpinnings of The Joy Formidable\, Ritzy’s atmospheric guitar work\, and Rhydian’s piano-led melodies\, interlaced together to compliment the themes of loneliness\, vulnerability\, persistence and humanity at the film’s core. \nThe band’s love for soundtracks is highlighted by their recently recorded and released interpretation of Angelo Badalamenti and Julee Cruise’s iconic theme for Twin Peaks. “It started off as a distraction in the studio that gathered momentum\,” says Ritzy. “It’s a great and unusual piece of music and a great and unusual piece of television; we’re excited about the new episodes.” \nAudiences will be treated to a preview of some new material during the band’s later summer / early fall festival appearances. A full worldwide tour will follow and the album itself will be here for us all to enjoy in early 2016. \n*** \nArkells \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nArkells met in school. They are a critically acclaimed rock n roll band\, known for their classic songwriting\, electric live show\, and workman like touring ethic. Their new album\, High Noon\, was produced by Tony Hoffer (Beck\, The Kooks\, M83) and these collection of songs are the band’s most unabashed effort yet – politically charged\, heart on your sleeve lyrics combined with adventurously modern and throwback production stylings. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/kongos/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/kongos-admat-localized3.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:20161013T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T200000 DTSTAMP:20260413T123139 CREATED:20160517T140020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160517T140020Z UID:10001663-1476388800-1476388800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Beats Antique DESCRIPTION:Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over.\nTickets on sale Fri. 5/20 at noon! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n*** \nBeats Antique \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nCelebrating its tenth anniversary with its tenth studio release\, the Bay Area’s wildly innovative performance dynamo Beats Antique emerges from the studio with a brand new album and stage show to mark the milestone. With legendary sets at some of the most iconic venues and festivals around the world and collaborations with superstars from Les Claypool to Bassnectar\, the next chapter in the trio’s story takes them back to a mysterious world. \nWhen multi-instrumentalists David Satori and Tommy Cappel and choreographer Zoe Jakes dove into development of the new Beats Antique era\, the concept of Shadowbox emerged. Driven by the infinite wonders of the deceptively simple design\, the narrative of shadows and light\, of darkness and contrast\, of reality and surreality propelled the music and vision into new territory. \nCapturing the heart of the Beats Antique sound means skirting that divide between the electric and the acoustic. Balkan melodies strung over crashing cymbals and marching band horn lines run smack into contemporary electronic grooves. It might be the drums and brass or the sweeping psychedelic strings that will take you for a ride down the rails of a steampunk circus. It’s chaos and cacophony on a very tight leash. \nAll three members shared production duties to harness the sound they first stumbled upon a decade ago: far east meets wild west. Bringing in sarod master Alam Khan (son of Ali Akbar Khan) Jakes was able to take her study of Indian classical dance from the stage to the studio. Russian singer Tatiana Kalmykova resurrected an ancient folk language to evoke a haunting fairy tale that feels at home in the shadows. Beats Antique also recruited rising stars of brass house TOO MANY ZOOZ for the horn-fueled funk and punk central to their sound. \nAs always\, Tommy Cappel focused his efforts on the beats and bass production\, while David Satori assembled an armory of stringed\, plucked\, and bowed instruments from far-flung lands to adorn the low-end foundation. All samples were created live in the studio—a hallmark of the lush warmth of a Beats Antique record. \nThe Shadowbox stage show will be teased at Red Rocks and Electric Forest before its full unveiling this fall. Taking the theme of shadow play and expanding the concept forward and backward in time\, the core members dove deep\, influenced by ancient practices of Indonesian shadow puppetry\, falling into the world of wayang kulit\, the eons long tradition of storytelling where epic tales unfold into the wee hours of the morning. \nEnormous lanterns adorn the stage\, casting light upon a maze of curtains where playful new characters dance and fight and rejoice and mourn. Beats Antique is breaking the boundaries of conventional wisdom. Why can’t an electronic music performance encompass a range of emotion? \nThis isn’t a nuclear-powered laser light show from the ever-intensifying optical arms race of the EDM industry. This is one of the earliest methods of storytelling brought from the past into the present. “The digital is there to enhance the analog\,” notes Jakes. “We’re here to tell a story\,” Satori adds. \nBringing an album from the shadows of the studio to the brightly lit stage is what Beats Antique does best. These are storytellers for a digital age—equipped with the newest technology and ancient traditions. This is where the Beats meet the Antique. \n*** \nThriftworks \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \n*** \nErica Dee \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \n“A honey laced voice with peachy summerday melodies over stick-to-your-ribs beats & sub-synth harmonies”. The daughter of Bostonian jazz musicians\, Erica Dee was saturated in music her entire childhood.\nGrowing up on the west coast of Canada she captured her soundscape amongst an eclectic underground hip-hop and rave culture. Erica began performing with DJs and bands when her desire for understanding the full spectrum of her craft led her to study music in college alongside new pop sensation Kiesza. \nErica began DJing her live set in 2007\, which lead to an invite to write and record in Los Angeles by DJ Nu Mark of Jurassic 5. In 2010 she embarked on her first Nation Wide tour with DJ Shadow and released her classic mixtape ‘Golden’\, which combines 90’s R&B flavors with nu house and beat music. She has since captivated audiences from Brazil to Israel\, and supported artists such as Justin Martin\, Thievery Corporation & Quest Love. \n2014 was a big year for Erica\, Berlin inspired 6 new releases with producers Nicone\, Sasha Bremer & Lars Moston on Danze\, Suara & Street King records. Erica has started off 2015 working hard to complete her first solo album which will be released with BBE\, as well as a new project underway with Lars Moston & Daniel Beaumann. 2015 brings new releases including co labs with Chris Lorenzo\, Jason Burns\, & Teeko. Erica’s live show is a refreshing experience; she’s an international soultress that’ll lead you to discover the depths of your own heart\, swooning you with melody\, rhythm\, standout ccapella segments\, and tastefully selected productions. Catch Erica Dee in a city near you! 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