BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Royale Boston - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Royale Boston X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://royaleboston.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Royale Boston REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160424T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160424T190000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160111T180038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160111T180038Z UID:10001627-1461524400-1461524400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Behemoth DESCRIPTION:Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nBLASFEMIA AMERIKA 2016 \nThis event is 18 and over.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/15 at noon! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n“The Satanist is magic. It’s dangerous. It’s adventurous\, and it’s organic\,” states Nergal\, the driving force behind Behemoth since their inception in 1991\, and brief exposure to the band’s tenth album more than supports this statement. While instantly recognizable as the work of the Polish blackened death quartet it takes their sound in previously unimagined and riveting directions. A writhing\, densely layered\, brutally violent and sinister record\, it is quite unlike anything ever unleashed within the canon of heavy music. As such it demands attention\, offering ever greater sonic and emotional depths with every listen. “You may hear the title and think it’s very primitive and one-dimensional\, and yes it is\, but when you look beyond that it’s as primitive as it is complex and multidimensional\, and that applies to everything about the record.” \nIt has been a rocky road leading to the realization of the album. Having dropped 2009’s Evangelion to almost universal critical acclaim they saw it top the chart in their native country and dramatically expand their following around the world\, and playing some of the best shows of their lives the band seemed truly unstoppable. But\, in August 2010 Nergal was diagnosed with leukemia\, stopping them in their tracks. Forced to abandon their ongoing tour in support of Evangelion Nergal was hospitalized\, and both he and Behemoth faced an uncertain future. With the search for a bone marrow donor ultimately successful Nergal underwent a transplant\, leaving the hospital after six months and beginning down the long road to rehabilitation. “I knew I was pretty much fucked and there was a battle to be won\, and I had no fucking idea if it was going to take six months or twelve months or maybe four years\, because with cancer you never know. I learned from being in the hospital that there are things in life that you can control and things that you can’t control. The sooner you realize which is which it’s going to make your life so much easier\, and since then I started to focus on the right things. I could be determined\, I could have discipline\, I could have faith\, but everything else is not under my control\, and it really was a case of just crossing fingers for the best possible outcome. I was fortunate enough that that recovery period was relatively fast\, and that I was really strong and very determined to get back into shape made a real difference.” \nRather than immediately getting down to working on a new album\, the band – also comprised of drummer Inferno\, bassist Orion\, and guitarist Seth – set out to complete the abandoned touring cycle for Evangelion\, hitting the road for the aptly titled Phoenix Rising Tour. Wanting to prove they were stronger than ever the first show was the only time doubts crept into Nergal’s mind. “I was a fucking wreck\, and I almost didn’t make it to the end of the set. The venue was really smoky\, and that was stuffing my nose and my lungs\, and physically I felt that I couldn’t pull it off. I did\, but I was close to passing out on stage. I was literally shocked by this\, I remember thinking while we were playing shit\, what if I can’t do this anymore? I’m just a human being after all. Going into the next show I had no sleep because of all the nerves and anxiety\, but it was fucking amazing. With every following show I would get stronger and stronger and grow more confident\, and aware of the fact that yes\, we will do this.” \nHaving returned to full force the band were ready to once more move forward\, and they began work on what would become The Satanist. While many bands might be concerned with how to follow up a record as devastatingly powerful – and successful – as Evangelion Nergal faced no such doubts. “I don’t race myself\, and I don’t need to prove anything to anyone. Evangelion was a very important record to us\, and yes\, it was very successful too\, but in making The Satanist it wasn’t a point of beating that. The point was to do what was organic\, and make a natural and honest and sincere album\, and that’s it. Now the record is finished I like to think of it as an album that is just so different that you can’t really compare it to our previous works\, which is the best outcome I could hope for.” One thing is inarguable\, and that is the record is the most sonically rich and complex released under the Behemoth name. With layer upon layer of sound it has great sonic density\, but there is intricacy to this\, and nothing is forced or contrived. “I don’t have a kid but I think the process of raising one is comparable: you invest a lot of your energy and effort and wisdom and money and you educate them\, but there’s never a one hundred percent guarantee he’s going to become a lawyer and not a serial killer. It’s the same story with the records – we supply the elements but we just don’t know how these elements mixed together are going to come out\, and I think it’s fortunate that we don’t have one hundred percent control over it! It makes for something special.” \nThe title of the record itself is undeniable in its power\, and Nergal sees it as capturing the primal wisdom that the band have always tried to maintain. “To me it’s not pretentious at all. It’s very straight up\, very sincere\, and a devastating\, conquering statement. There’s no compromise or bullshit or gimmicks. What I love about it is that it just speaks for itself. On one hand it’s a very black and white title: The Satanist is like a fucking nail through the hand of Jesus Christ\, period. No more\, no less. But then again\, as with everything else you put a hundred people together and ask them what the name The Satanist means to them and you’re going to hear a hundred different opinions\, which they can then discuss and fight over.” Likewise\, Nergal views the lyrical content of the record as similarly open to interpretation\, encouraging this. “There’s a lot of symbolism and reflections and impressions in there\, and it’s using millions of metaphors to express a certain very sinister and very captivating atmosphere\, but there are no answers. People always like to have a deeper insight into what we do\, but that’s not what we want to give with this record. The way I see it is that between us we can make a huge fucking pyre and set the world on fire\, but what we’re doing is just giving you the matches\, giving you the spark\, what you want to do with it is up to you. Personally\, if I sat down with the lyrics in front of me I too would probably come up with a lot of different interpretations and concepts\, it’s a never ending process\, and that’s exciting to me.” \nTwenty-three years and ten albums into their career\, that Behemoth is still in the ascendant is a statement to their commitment\, determination and capacity for writing such powerful music. If ever a band was to go out on a high The Satanist would make for one hell of a swan song\, but don’t expect them to disappear any time soon. “I remember before we we had a record deal I was having a conversation with Baal\, the band’s original drummer\, and we said okay\, if one day we manage to record an album and put it out how cool would it be to split up right after that? It would be one record and no more\, and there was something about that that had an appeal\, but y’know what\, it doesn’t work like that for individuals like myself. Hunger has always driven me through life\, and I can never sit in one place and relax for too long because I have the need to explore this whole universe in every possible way. Now\, over two decades later it’s the same story. I can tell you I have no problems with finishing my career after this record. Just say the title itself: The Satanist. How the fuck am I gonna beat that title? It sounds like the ultimate definition of our art – but then again\, I remember that conversation with Baal\, and I know it doesn’t work like that\, so I know there will probably be other incarnations of our artistic identity\, one way or another. All I know is I love being here and now\, and I just want to underline that I couldn’t be more proud and happy with my own music. It really drives me through the day\, and now I just want to sit back and hear any and all opinions of it.” \nBehemoth is:\nNergal – vocals & guitars\nInferno – drums\nOrion – bass\nSeth – guitars URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/behemoth/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Behemoth-Admat-US2016-localized21.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160423T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160423T220000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160419T174837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160419T174837Z UID:10001652-1461448800-1461448800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Liz Ladoux DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/liz-ladoux-2/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ROYALE_LL_APRIL16_600X900.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160422T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160422T220000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160322T160047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160322T160047Z UID:10001644-1461362400-1461362400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:ERICK MORILLO DESCRIPTION:21+ \nMANAGEMENT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ADMISSION. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/erick-morillo/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/4.22.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160421T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160421T183000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160112T215112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160112T215112Z UID:10002155-1461263400-1461263400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Into It. Over It. / The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die DESCRIPTION:Doors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is all ages.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/15 at 10AM! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/into-it-over-it-the-world-is-a-beautiful-place-and-i-am-no-longer-afraid-to-die/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/into-it-over-it-admat-localized-IIOI_TWBP_Admat_FLAT.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160419T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160419T190000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160215T060332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160215T060332Z UID:10001637-1461092400-1461092400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Peter Murphy "Stripped" DESCRIPTION:Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over.\nTickets on sale now! \nA rare opportunity to see Peter Murphy in an intimate setting performing acoustic versions of his music from throughout his illustrious career. \n*** \nPeter Murphy \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nIn his four decades of service in the post-punk culture wars\, PETER MURPHY has confounded fans\, critics\, even himself. As the mainman of the acclaimed outfit Bauhaus\, he helped usher in ground breaking opaque moods and atmospheres into the post-punk landscape. When the band broke up for the first time in 1983\, the singer set off on a solo career that found him challenging his audiences in numerous ways. When the music press tried to tag him as “the new David Bowie\,” he’d close his shows with a vamping of the Thin White Duke’s disco classic “Stay\,” only to switch into a cover of Bauhaus’ funky punch-up “Kick In The Eye\,” followed by a cover of Pere Ubu’s “Final Solution\,” which ended with a burly roadie physically picking up the singer and putting him in an airplane spin. When fans and critics tried to paint him exclusively as “the King of the Goths\,” his response was to encore with Prince’s venerable “Purple Rain.” When the singer began to explore more melodic concerns to distance himself from the gothic-rock culture he helped create\, he accessed both new audiences and successful records. \n“People remember those things\,” the singer says\, laughing at memories of his onstage audacity. “They don’t remember some digital file they downloaded from the Internet that gets lost among the other 3\,000 ones they already have.” \nIt’s doubtful Peter Murphy will be assigned a similar fate. He’s aligned himself with Nettwerk Records to release NINTH\, his first solo album in seven years and the first since the permanent dissolution of Bauhaus in 2009. Produced by David Baron\, Ninth is a culmination of where the singer has been and where he is now\, all imbued with a confidence that has been Murphy’s stock in trade. While countless\n\nperformers and industry types bemoan the demeaning of music in current download culture\, Murphy’s only concern is continuing to connect with his audience with unparalleled honesty. \n“I think younger audiences are just as aware that they don’t have any identity in the music they follow\,” he says\, commenting from a place of aesthetic analysis than any kind of bitterness. “Once they start listening to older music or music that isn’t generically issued\, they start to hold onto things more. That’s why it’s more important for people like myself to connect with an audience. I’m not talking about Facebook—I’m talking about a live show. People can really start to form a congealed idea in their relationship with an artist. That kind of connection is missing in the digital world: You experience things more in a tangible realm than in a virtual existence. I don’t deny or get anxious about being labeled; I can’t really describe what I do\, but it does have an outside effect on an audience. But I mustn’t get stuck holding onto that\, because you mustn’t rest on your laurels.” \nMurphy is hardly the poster child for artistic inertia. His 2004 solo album\, Unshattered\, was doomed not by any artistic shortcomings\, but by the Artful label closing its doorsjust as the record was coming out. The following year\, he once again teamed up with his colleagues in Bauhaus for a co-headlining tour with Nine Inch Nails\, when it was decided that they would reconvene in a recording studio to create new music. After a tumultuous 18 days in an Ojai\, California studio in 2006\, the band came out with Go Away White\, a record displaying both the personal chemistry\, as well as the incendiary aspects of the group dynamic. \n“It was typically Bauhaus\,” says Murphy\, who actively embraced the high tensions within the band. “The tension [on that album] is palpable\, isn’t it? I loved it. People hearabout that record retrospectively. Danny [Ash\, Bauhaus guitarist] would say\, ‘We couldn’t stand to be in the same room together.’ But that’s not my experience. I was always the biggest advocate for that band. We were warming up when it ended. I was still raring to go to complete that album. I was putting my solo career on hold to advocate for Bauhaus. We split up\, I reworked my life—I’m Peter Murphy in or out of Bauhaus\, so it’s not too difficult. I’ve got a band of my own\, but I didn’t have an idea where it’s going to go.” \nUnbeknownst to him\, Murphy’s career arc would take a different turn. In 2005\, he met singer/songwriter Sarah Fimm\, the support act for his tour that year. He did some recording with the electronics-based artist in upstate New York\, with the sessions being helmed by producer David Baron. In Baron\, Murphy found not only a kindred spirit\, but also a person with great jurisprudence with regards to modern technology and how it should be considered within an artist’s work. “I call David an errant genius\,” Murphy says about his collaborator. “He’s like my brother: very perceptive\, very musical. So musical you can’t quantify it. He allowed the music and the ideas to speak for themselves.” Considering the breadth of his career\, conventional wisdom would question why Murphy would need a producer to see his vision through in the first place. But the singer is in service to his songs—not his ego. “I don’t want to be hands- on\,” he says. “It’s distracting for me. I’m hands-on in terms of exchanges\, discussions and various takes. David is superior in that he is super-musical and totally respects the artist. He doesn’t fall for overproduction. He is only concerned with the songs’ needs.” \nProbably the most apparent characteristic of Ninth is the level of intimacy Baron and engineer John Siket captured. The proceedings carry the feeling of a tight\, seasoned band—in this case\, guitarists Mark Gemini Thwaite and John Andrews\, bassist Jeff Schartoff and drummer Nick Lucero—facing each other in a small studio\, playing together. There’s a sophisticated energy and psychic urgency to tracks like “Seesaw Sway\,” “Slowdown” and “Memory Go.” Equally exciting are moments like “Velocity Bird\,” where Murphy gets his swagger on in the same wild kingdom where Iggy Pop’s “streetwalking cheetah” prowled; the rocking “Peace To Each\,” where the singer ramps up his sinister quotient a few notches; the slow grooving head-nodder “Uneven & Brittle\,” and the brooding\, atmospheric noir of “Secret Silk Society.” On the convex\, Ninth also features moments of warm poignancy\, like the lover-comforting “Never Fall Out” and the melancholy closing track\, “Crème de la Crème.” \nBut it’s the album’s first single\, “I Spit Roses\,” that reconciles Murphy’s melodic sophistication with his resignation toward the fate of Bauhaus. Teeming with nautical metaphors of a ship’s crew (i.e.\, the other three members of Bauhaus) and a dip into Lewis Carroll territory (“Shick-shack\, left you in shock/shed poison with a lover’s lock”)\, the song was inspired after Murphy spent a long day in the studio during the making of Go Away White. As the other members were working on an arrangement\, Murphy went home\, having put in a full session. He suspected that his decision would cause more schism when he returned to the studio the next day. “When I went in the next day\, I knew there was going to be some kind of confrontation about my leaving the previous night\,” Murphy recalls. “I was sitting near a rose garden\, talking on the phone to a friend of mine about the situation. She told me not to worry\, to take a rose there as a friendly gesture. Instead\, I took three or four and put them in my mouth. \n“As I walked in\, David [J]\, Kevin [Haskins] and Danny were in conference about the band\,” he continues. “I thought\, ‘Oh dear\, here we go…’ The moment anyone speaks to me\, my response is to spit roses in their face—and that’s what happened. Daniel said\, ‘Peter we need to talk about…’ Pwah! ‘That’s my answer.’ It caused them to think\, ‘Look at him\, he’s crazy!’ And I responded\, ‘Look\, it’s roses\, don’t you get it? C’mon\, let’s just work.'” \nDealing with short-fused tempers (and botanical snacks) are part of his artist mythology\, but it cannot be denied that much of Murphy’s artistic visions have been original and seminal. Fortunately\, he’s not interested in trading on his significant accomplishments. While Ninth marks another chapter in his artistic (and thereby personal) evolution\, the album exists on a plane of its own. Ninth isn’t a “reinvention\,” “return to form\,” or any of the buzzword nomenclature used to herald an album’s release date. For three decades\, Peter Murphy introduced new ways of thinking in the rubric of rock music. He’ll be the first to tell you the work is its own reward and that it’s acceptable if the world at large still hasn’t caught up with him. Well\, maybe… \n“Although people tell me I’m famous\, I don’t feel like it\,” he resigns. “Right now\, it’s quite nice: I feel like I’m 24 with this record and I think a lot of people are going to get to know my music. I have a very hardcore audience who’ve been with me for a long time\, but I do have a great urge to broaden it.” \nHe stops to laugh. “I’d like to play theaters; I’m more able to be lowered from the rafters on a chain than in a club!” URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/peter-murphy-stripped/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/12747262_943427572389809_2978474597867611277_o-copy.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160417T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160417T220000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160331T162524Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160331T162524Z UID:10001648-1460930400-1460930400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Thorgy Thor LIVE DESCRIPTION:Chris Harris & Rafael Sanchez Present Thorgy Thor LIVE with DJ Richie Ladue. Hosted by Fena Barbitall \nFirst 100 people to arrive get to meet Thorgy! \n21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/thorgy-thor-live/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/HOTMESS_04172016-poster.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160416T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160416T220000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160408T171848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160408T171848Z UID:10002328-1460844000-1460844000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:ULTRA VIOLET DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/ultra-violet/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ROYALE_UV_600X900.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160416T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160416T180000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160118T170019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160118T170019Z UID:10002157-1460829600-1460829600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Lissie DESCRIPTION:Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 18+.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/22 at 12pm! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n‘My Wild West begins’ with an overture\, by definition an “introduction to something more substantial.” In this case it is Lissie’s third studio album and her most personal one to date\, a fitting tribute to Lissie’s life in California\, from her arrival as a fresh-faced singer-songwriter till now\, leaving for the Midwest wiser and more self-assured. Bookended by the songs “Hollywood” and “Ojai\,” it brings out the two extremes of the past decade — the dashed hopes and heartbreak of the former and the “stability\, joy and peace” of the latter. ‘My Wild West’ represents both a new beginning and a return to Lissie’s Midwestern roots. \n‘My Wild West’ was recorded with producer Curt Schneider in his Studio City home — he oversaw the project as a whole\, produced 8 tracks on the record and pulled together the additional material from Lissie’s time recording with her band in Ojai and with Bill Reynolds in Nashville. As the album unfolds\, we see a more confident Lissie\, self-assured and coming into her own power. “I want my 40 acres in the sun\,” sings Lissie on “Hero\,” written before she had made the decision to leave California. It details Lissie’s life on the West Coast and the empowerment she felt that she could leave and demand a new adventure from life: “I could have been a hero\, I could have been a zero\, I could have been all of these things.” \nAfter being signed by Sony U.K.\, Lissie’s two previous albums\, 2010’s ‘Catching a Tiger’ and 2013’s ‘Back to Forever\,’ came out on Columbia in England and prestigious indie Fat Possum in the U.S.\, both scoring in the Top 20 of the U.K. charts and Top 5 in Norway\, the former going gold in both countries. Stateside\, the two releases hit the Top 5 in Billboard’s Heatseekers chart\, peaked at #5 and #11\, respectively\, on the U.S. Folk tally and went Top 40 on the Indie chart. \n“There was always a bit of commercial compromise\, like pressure to make the charts and sell units\,” she recalls of her experience on a major label. “I just wanted to be able to move people with this gift I’ve been given… my voice.” \nWhat emerged was a cohesive\, conceptual\, musical whole\, which belied the rather unorthodox manner in which it was created. “The songs turned out to be more personal because I wasn’t adhering to a strict set schedule\,” she realized. “In writing ‘Hero’ and ‘Wild West\,’ I had no idea at the time I was going to leave California and move back to the Midwest. I feel like their very creation was predictive of the changes that were coming. The moment I decided not to make an album was when I really started to make the album. That took all the pressure off!” \nLissie’s tales of triumph and self-propelled adventure were inspired by strong females close and far from home: “Sun Keeps Risin'” was inspired by an aunt of Lissie’s who passed away from ALS\, while “Daughters” is a pro-feminist call-to-arms that took its cue from Liberian peace activist and Nobel Prize winner Leymah Gbowee\, subject of the documentary “Pray the Devil Back to Hell.” The funereal\, dirge-like “Shroud” and the upbeat “Go for a Walk” shed light on the yin-and-yang nature of Lissie’s personality\, the first a meditation on depression and isolation\, the latter a heartfelt affirmation of nature’s power of renewal. “Stay” and “Together or Apart” detail the pain and pleasure of relationships\, while “Don’t You Give Up On Me” is a spiritualized self-pep talk\, urging those around her to hang in there while she figures life out: “Don’t you give up on me/As I dive into the dark/And slip into the endless sea.” There’s also the line “I left you on the coast for something only I can see” and that’s just it\, Lissie has a personal vision and it may be hard for others to understand at times but she has to follow it. \nHaving recently purchased a farm on 10.7 acres in a small Iowa town\, Lissie now boasts her own personal “Field of Dreams\,” just across the Mississippi River from Rock Island\, Illinois\, where Elisabeth Maurus grew up in possession of a strong rebellious streak surrounded by the memory of steamboats and railroads of past. Concentrating on converting the barn into a recording studio\, getting used to her new pick-up truck and setting up beehives\, Lissie is visibly content in her new life\, eager to take on each new adventure and challenge that presents itself. \nWith a career that has seen her open for renowned artist Lenny Kravitz (an early supporter)\, Tom Petty and even been asked to perform at Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore’s wedding\, Lissie has had a wealth of incredible experiences that have made her the confident and determined artist she is today. “I have a loyal\, passionate fan base that every day is growing through its own power\, not just an aggressive marketing campaign\,” she says. “I want to be an artist with longevity\, which is an exciting prospect for me. I feel I’m in a really good place. In fact\, I’m already planning a follow-up album\, ‘My Mild Midwest\,'” she says with a laugh. \n‘My Wild West’ will be released on February 12th\, 2016\, via Thirty Tigers in North America and Cooking Vinyl elsewhere. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/lissie/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/lissie-admat.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160415T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160415T220000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160318T191705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160318T191705Z UID:10001642-1460757600-1460757600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:MATTHEW KOMA DESCRIPTION:21+ \n*Management reserves the right to refuse entry / Admission not guaranteed after midnight / No refunds of any kind all sales are final. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/matthewkoma/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/4.15-Matthew-Koma.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160415T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160415T183000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20151220T042923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151220T042923Z UID:10002126-1460745000-1460745000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:SPLEAN DESCRIPTION:There is hardly a Russian in the world that hasn’t heard of the legendary rock band SPLEAN and its leader Alexandr Vasilyev. \nFor the first time in over 10 years\, the band will be hitting the road for a North American tour in spring of 2016. The SPLEAN will be playing only one show per city\, performing all time favorites. The tour will kick off on April 15th in Boston\, MA and wrap on April 24th in Seattle\, WA. For a complete list of dates\, more details and ticketing information\, visit the US Tour 2016 official website: SPLEAN2016.COM URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/splean/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Boston_600х900_new.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160414T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160414T183000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20151116T181050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151116T181050Z UID:10002016-1460658600-1460658600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:The Decibel Magazine Tour 2016 DESCRIPTION:Doors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:25 pm \nThis event is 18 and over. Patrons under 18 admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \nAbbath\, High on Fire\, Skeletonwitch and Tribulation spearhead metal mag’s ferocious new tour this March. \nOver the last four years\, Decibel Magazine has redefined what a metal tour can accomplish. Creative and ambitious curation has unified artists from far reaches of the extreme universe who would never have the opportunity to tour North America together. The 2016 Decibel Magazine Tour continues that proud tradition\, as Norwegian black metal legend Abbath takes his new band of the same name to war with Bay Area metallic institution High on Fire\, Ohio thrash powerhouse Skeletonwitch and Swedish progressive black/death prodigies Tribulation (with regional openers in select markets to be announced soon). \nThe Decibel Magazine Tour has an impressive history of bringing extreme metal’s most notorious global icons to the stage\, boasting headliners such as Behemoth\, Cannibal Corpse\, Carcass and At the Gates. This year\, Abbath (former frontman of Norwegian black metal legends Immortal) will join that storied legacy to perform songs from not only Immortal’s fabled back catalogue\, but brand new music from January’s self-titled debut as the band Abbath\, on Season of Mist. It will be Abbath the band’s first tour on North American soil. Presented by Randall Amplifiers\, ESP Guitars\, IndieMerchstore.com\, Season of Mist\, eOne\, Century Media and Prosthetic\, the 2016 Decibel Magazine Tour will treat North American audiences to 23 grim and frostbitten dates\, boasting a rich array of metal’s most riotous voices. \nOf 2016’s four mainstage artists\, the two that released new albums in 2015 placed high in Decibel’s notorious Top 40 Albums of the Year list: High on Fire\, with seventh full-length Luminiferous\, and Tribulation\, with third effort The Children of the Night. High on Fire have already been honored with a dB cover and an authoritative Hall of Fame feature on 2002 album Surrounded by Thieves. Skeletonwitch have likewise graced dB’s cover\, and their most recent album\, 2013’s Serpents Unleashed\, also cracked our Top 40. Their original track “Tragedy of Days” was one of the first installments in Decibel’s renowned Flexi Series\, also celebrating its fifth birthday. And Tribulation will soon join them\, recording a track that will appear in the Flexi Series next year. \nWhile there’s plenty of time to stir up your corpsepaint for the 2016 Decibel Magazine Tour\, here’s your chance to score a great deal and avoid standing in line. There will be a number of VIP premium packages available in each market\, providing you with a limited edition T-shirt\, 18 x 24 tour poster\, “Skip the Line” pass\, exclusive digital tour issue of Decibel Magazine and a coupon for 15% off a purchase on Indie Merch’s webstore. The price of this package is less than you would spend on a ticket and a tour shirt at the show! More details\, including ticket info\, are available at www.decibelmagazinetour.com URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/the-decibel-magazine-tour-2016/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/decibel-dB_tour2016_admat_NOdates-localized.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160412T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160412T183000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160115T170047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160115T170047Z UID:10002158-1460485800-1460485800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Magic Man / The Griswolds DESCRIPTION:Radio 92.9 presents \nDoors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:30 pm \nThis event is all ages.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/22 at 12pm! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \nMagic Man \ncjmoyphoto.com \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \n*** \nThe Griswolds\n\n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \n*** \nPanama Wedding\n\n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/magic-man-the-griswolds/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/MM-HOTLINE-SPRING-BOSTON-NOW.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160409T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160409T220000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160405T191812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T191812Z UID:10002293-1460239200-1460239200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Spring Fling Bunny Bash DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/spring-fling-bunny-bash/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ROYALE_PLAYMATE_828x828.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160408T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160408T220000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160204T220038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160204T220038Z UID:10001631-1460152800-1460152800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:AUDIEN DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/audien/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1604920_678368408968705_3733119308658471394_n.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160408T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160408T183000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160108T201929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160108T201929Z UID:10001625-1460140200-1460140200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:DDT DESCRIPTION:DDT returns to Boston with it’s new show “Prozrachnii” and Greatest Hits.\nDDT is one of the most prolific Russian rock band founded by its lead singer Yuri Shevchuk. \n21+\nManagement reserves the right to refuse admission. \nDoors: 6:30\nShow starts: 7:00 URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/ddt/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/4.08-DDT.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="PartytimeBoston":MAILTO:info@partytimeboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160403T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160403T150000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160209T212803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160209T212803Z UID:10001635-1459695600-1459695600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Speed Rack Season 5 New England DESCRIPTION:Serious stirring and shaking is about to happen\, thanks to the return of Speed Rack\, the all-female speed-bartending competition that raises money for breast cancer. We are excited to be in New England for the epic battle for the title of Miss Speed Rack New England on Sunday\, April 3 as these tough babes duke it out. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/speed-rack-season-5-new-england/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/SR_Postcard_BOS-01.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160402T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160402T220000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160331T214751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160331T214751Z UID:10001649-1459634400-1459634400@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Joe Bermudez DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. Admission not guaranteed after 12 AM URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/joe-bermudez-2/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/image2.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160402T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160402T180000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160124T100946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160124T100946Z UID:10002174-1459620000-1459620000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Pokey LaFarge DESCRIPTION:6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm \nThis event is 18+.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/29 at 12pm! \n \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \nPokey LaFarge\n \n[Website] – [Facebook] – [Twitter] \n“It really feels like I’m taking a big step forward on this one\,” Pokey LaFarge says of Something in the Water\, his seventh album and his Rounder debut. “While we were recording it\, I kept thinking\, ‘Hey\, we’re really onto something here.’” \nIndeed\, the dozen-song set marks a new landmark in a career that’s already filled with musical highlights. The St. Louis-based singer\, songwriter\, and multi-instrumentalist draws from a deep well of American musical traditions to create distinctively personal music that’s timeless rather than retro\, transcending the confines of genre in a manner that reflects the artist’s openhearted attitude. \nIncorporating elements of early jazz\, ragtime\, country blues\, Western swing\, and beyond\, LaFarge has created a vibrant\, deeply expressive body of work that embodies an expansive musical vision and vivid storytelling sensibility that are wholly his own. He’s also earned a reputation as a tireless\, uniquely charismatic live performer\, winning a loyal international fan base that regularly packs his rousing\, celebratory live shows. \nSince he began recording in 2006\, Pokey has maintained an indefatigable work ethic that’s yielded a wealth of compelling music. After making a grass-roots splash with his self-released debut album Marmalade and moonlighting as mandolinist with the Hackensaw Boys\, he continued to gain notoriety with his widely acclaimed longplayers Beat\, Move\, and Shake\, Riverboat Soul and Middle of Everywhere—the latter two were both named Best Americana Album by the Independent Music Awards—and the concert set Live In Holland. \nLongstanding admirer Jack White added LaFarge to the roster of White’s Third Man label for the 2011 EP Chittlin’ Cookin’ Time in Cheatham County (which White produced) and the 2013 album Pokey LaFarge\, as well as enlisting Pokey as opening act on the North American tour in support of White’s Blunderbuss album. Also in 2013\, Pokey was featured on the soundtrack of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire\, performing the jazz standard “Lovesick Blues” with Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks. 2014 was LaFarge’s busiest year yet\, with the hard-working artist performing on five continents\, including tours in India\, Australia and New Zealand as well as extensive roadwork in the United States\, Canada\, UK\, Ireland\, and The Netherlands. \nSomething in the Water finds the artist doubling down on his established creative strengths\, expanding and deepening his musical reach on such new originals as the wry\, rollicking title track\, the swaggering ragtime workout “Wanna Be Your Man\,” the infectiously jazzy “Underground\,” the evocative instrumental “Cairo\, Illinois\,” the exotic ballad “Barcelona” and the swinging album-closer “Knocking the Dust off the Rust Belt Tonight\,” whose witty lyrics underline the album’s proudly Midwestern sensibility. Also featured are fresh\, buoyant takes on popular blues standards “When Did You Leave Heaven” and “All Night Long.” \n“The Midwest is at the heart of this record\,” LaFarge asserts. “The people playing on these songs are from Wisconsin and Illinois and Chicago and St. Louis\, and there’s a certain attitude that comes across in the songs and the way that they’re performed. I’m born and raised in the Midwest\, and my family’s been here for generations. This is where I’m from and how I think\, and that’s reflected in the music I make. \n“Americans love to reinvent themselves\, but you can never really get away from the place that you come from\,” he continues. “And in a globalized world\, I think that there are some parts of our regional identity that we should hang onto and cherish. I do buy into that old idea of the Midwestern work ethic\, and it’s definitely something that’s been passed down through my family and something that I feel connected to\, and it influences the way I approach making music.” \nLaFarge teamed with kindred-spirit producer Jimmy Sutton to record Something in the Water at Chicago’s Hi-Style Studio. For the occasion\, he recruited a diverse cast of talented players\, including his own longstanding touring combo as well as members of such notable outfits as NRBQ\, the Fat Babies\, the Modern Sounds\, and the Western Elstons. He designed the sessions’ communal recording approach to push himself creatively\, while bringing several new musical elements—including the more prominent use of drums and vocal harmonies—to the table. \n“I knew that I really had to challenge myself on this one\, and to create a slightly different take on my music\,” LaFarge notes. “The Third Man album put me on the map for a lot of people\, so I was conscious that I wanted to take things to the next level. One thing that I really wanted to do this time was to emphasize the groove\, and I was also thinking a lot about space and about juxtaposition. The ability to work with some different people took me out of my comfort zone\, and Jimmy really challenged me and pushed me into some new places. And as I felt the spirit and the camaraderie that we all had in the studio\, the whole thing took on a life of its own.” \nThe resulting album is the most powerful showcase to date for Pokey LaFarge’s peerless gifts as a songwriter\, performer and entertainer. \n“You try to make something that’s cool\, something that’s sexy\,” he observes. “But when you come down to it\, you can really only make music for yourself\, and I feel like this album is the first time that I was really able to do that. I’m 31 and I’ve been doing this for awhile\, but I feel like I’m only starting to make the music that I’ve always wanted to make. I used to put a lot of pressure on myself when I was younger\, because guys like Hank Williams and Bob Dylan and Otis Redding made so much great music when they were in their 20s. But now I feel like I no longer have that pressure\, so I can just be myself.” \n*** \nThe Cactus Blossoms \n \n[Website] – [Facebook] – [Twitter] \nBrothers Jack Torrey and Page Burkum grew up in northeast Minneapolis and have been blending their voices as The Cactus Blossoms since 2010. Their hypnotic harmonies and unforgettable songs have made them favorites in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul music scene. Their latest album\, Live at the Turf Club\, blurs the line between old and new as they sneak a few originals into their repertoire of early country and Western swing. \n“The brother duet that America is waiting for”\nGarrison Keillor \n“An absolute gem – a completely stunning debut album”\nBob Harris\, BBC Radio 2 \n“The Cactus Blossoms have quickly turned into the Twin Cities’ most beloved new traditional-country act”\nChris Riemenschneider\, Minneapolis Star Tribune \n“It’s true and traditional country\, folks”\nCraig Shelburne\, Country Music Television URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/pokey-lafarge/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pokeyDEC_927_1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160401T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160401T220000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160204T220044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160204T220044Z UID:10001630-1459548000-1459548000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:MARSHMELLO DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/marshmello/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/SOFAKING_MARSHMELLO.png GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160401T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160401T180000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160110T060133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160110T060133Z UID:10002124-1459533600-1459533600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Parachute DESCRIPTION:Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:30 pm \nThis event is all ages.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/15 at noon! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \n  \nBack when they were in high school\, Parachute’s Will Anderson (vocals\, guitar)\, Johnny Stubblefield (drums)\, and Christopher “Kit” French (saxophone\, keyboards) spent nearly every afternoon in Anderson’s basement\, dreaming up songs showing a deep affinity for classic pop\, heart-felt rock\, and tuneful blue-eyed soul. Now\, after a decade of touring internationally and turning out smash singles like “She is Love” (#1 at iTunes) and “Can’t Help” (the first single from the band’s 2013 album Overnight\, which debuted at #15 on the Billboard Top 200 chart)\, Parachute are set to deliver a new album that reclaims the spirit that first sparked their love of music. “Making this record felt just like that one hour after school when we were kids\,” says Anderson of Wide Awake\, the band’s fourth full-length album. “It was like we were all 15 again and just starting to discover that excitement of creating songs together.” \nWith a sound that’s impassioned but sunny\, fresh but timelessly organic\, Wide Awake centers on songs both gracefully arranged and brimming with the boundless energy of Parachute’s live show. Newly pared down from a five-piece to a trio\, the Charlottesville\, Virginia-bred band forged that sound in part by shaking off all creative inhibitions. “We felt like we had no limitations to chase this sound that the three of us have wanted to build for so long\,” says Anderson. “It was as if we were woken up from some sort of slumber\, revitalized and rejuvenated with this new awareness of who we are as a band.” Reuniting with John Fields (the producer behind 2011’s The Way It Was and their 2009 debut Losing Sleep)\, Parachute were also guided by the purest of instincts in the studio. “We knew a song was working when we were all dancing and having a blast with it\,” says Anderson. “And if something didn’t feel good\, we just let it go.” \nThough that commitment to intuition is beyond palpable on Wide Awake\, the album was also born from two and a half years of dedicated writing and exploration. “I don’t know if I’ve ever written more for an album\, or worked so much on any specific song.” says Anderson\, who came up with nearly 100 songs during that time. “It was just very important to me that we got each song exactly to where it needed to be.” \nWith every track on Wide Awake\, Parachute matches their sublime melodies with a refined sense of songcraft. Showing a complex sensitivity shaped in part by lifelong love of artists like Paul Simon and Billy Joel\, Anderson also infuses the album with both carefree warmth and emotional depth. The album’s epic opener “Without You\,” for instance\, captures what Anderson calls “the feeling of meeting someone and knowing that it’s going to happen\,” and harnesses that lovestruck feeling with the help of gorgeous gospel harmonies and soulful horns. The gently devastating “Jennie” wraps its cascading rhythms and wistful vocals around a story of broken opportunity and love lost. “Sometimes you catch a glimpse of they way things could be but end up taking a detour\,” Anderson says\, “only to realize you’ve lost your chance and can’t ever get it back.” \nShifting from joy to heartache and back again Wide Awake\, offers everything from the stomping\, fired-up swagger of “Crave” to the sorrowful piano ballad “What Breaks My Heart” to the hushed acoustic reverie of “When You Move.” And in certain moments Parachute brilliantly embodies both bright and dark\, such as on the swinging and summery anthem “Lonely with Me” (as in: “Baby if you’re gonna be lonely/Be lonely with me”) and on the moody but pop-infused “Love Me Anyway\,” an ode to “knowing you’re inevitably going to mess up\, but having somebody who’s willing to forgive you and move on\,” according to Anderson. \nIn bringing Wide Awake to life\, Parachute made a point of “dialing back our thought process and just doing whatever we could to best serve the songs\,” as Anderson explains. To fulfill that ambition\, the trio returned to the same sense of wonder they felt upon launching their first musical project back in 2002. Starting out while they were still in high school\, the band quickly began landing gigs locally and soon gained a following at the nearby University of Virginia. As their inaugural release under the name Parachute\, Losing Sleep debuted at #2 on the Billboard Digital Albums Chart and climbed to #40 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. Over the next few years\, along with releasing The Way It Was and Overnight (which shot to the #3 spot on iTunes)\, Parachute toured with such artists as Kelly Clarkson and Gavin DeGraw\, in addition to three sold out\nheadlining tours. “One of the biggest highlights over the years is definitely playing all these venues that we dreamed about growing up\,” says Anderson. “Anytime we play a show like that\, it’s just mind-blowing for us.” \nWhile Parachute’s indelibly melodic sound packs more than enough power to electrify an arena- filled crowd\, each song on Wide Awake comes from much more intimate origins. “Most of my writing process for this album was very solitary.” says Anderson. “I’ve written with other people in the past\, but it was fun to go back to the way I used to write when I was a teenager.” And when combined with Parachute’s renewed passion as a band\, that approach ultimately allowed for an honesty and heartfeltness that makes Wide Awake their most thrilling authentic album yet. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/parachute/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/PARACHUTE-admat-WIDEAWAKETOUR-20161-localized2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160329T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160329T190000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160110T060142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160110T060142Z UID:10002122-1459278000-1459278000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Lucius [SOLD OUT] DESCRIPTION:92.5 The River presents \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18 and over.\nThis show is SOLD OUT \n*** \n \n*** \nLucius \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nLucius is a triple-threat of vocal harmonies\, infectious hooks\, and dance-inducing percussion. Pair those traits with the band’s irresistible live show and it’s easy to see why NPR Music calls Lucius “a fabulous band playing such infectious pop songs.” Charismatic co-founders and lead vocalists Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig sing in unison uniquely delivering songs with stories told from the same perspective. Multi-instrumentalists Andrew Burri\, Peter Lalish\, and Dan Molad round out the quintet. \nMarch 2016 brings the release of Good Grief\, the band’s sophomore effort and the follow-up to 2013’s successful debut Wildewoman. The lead song “Born Again Teen\,” which Rolling Stone calls “ebullient” is available now. \nWolfe and Laessig met in 2005 while attending Berklee College of Music. Since forming\, Lucius has toured extensively\, playing headline shows and major festivals including Bonnaroo\, Austin City Limits\, Lollapalooza and Newport Folk Festival. Additionally they have collaborated with the likes of Jeff Tweedy\, David Byrne and Roger Waters and have toured with The Decemberists\, My Morning Jacket\, Jack White and more. \n*** \nPure Bathing Culture \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nTo hear Sarah Versprille and Daniel Hindman tell it\, their Portland\, OR-based band Pure Bathing Culture has always evolved naturally and at a steady pace. “That’s really the path we’ve been on as a band\, always putting one foot in front of the other as opportunities presented themselves\,” Versprille said. “The music just revealed itself to us as we kept going.”\nBut for Pure Bathing Culture’s second album\, Pray for Rain\, the band has taken a big leap forward. You can hear it from the opening notes of their anthemic title track: in Hindman’s clean yet serpentine guitar lines interacting with the live rhythm section and Versprille’s lucid vocals cutting through it all as she asks: “Is it pleasure? Is it pain? Did you pray for rain?” Pray for Rain is the sound of the group confidently taking a step up to the next level and finding their footing as a true band.\n“We needed to make a big step and our version of that was to cut the cord from our previous albums\,” Hindman said of the process\, then confesses: “I was nervous all the way through. It was nerve-wracking and almost antagonizing at times.”\nThe roots of Pure Bathing Culture stretch back to 1999\, when Versprille and Hindman befriended one another on the first day of freshman orientation at William Patterson University in Wayne\, New Jersey. A decade later\, they became bandmates when they both joined Vetiver for their Sub-Pop albums Tight Knit and The Errant Charm. It was while playing in Vetiver that Pure Bathing Culture emerged as its own entity.\n“Dan was working on some instrumentals that he would make on a looping pedal\,” Sarah said. “One night he was out and I just listened to this loop and wrote some lyrics to it. He came home and I showed it to him. We laughed at first\, as we didn’t have some grand plan to start a band. It just happened naturally.” That song “Lucky One\,” wound up in the hands of Richard Swift\, who encouraged the duo to keep writing. “Richard pushed us along and became an inspiration\,” Dan said. Swift wound up producing the band’s first EP and dreamy full-length\, 2013’s Moon Tides at his National Freedom studio.\nFrom there\, PBC evolved from simply being the product of Versprille and Hindman writing songs in their own home to hitting the road as a full touring band. “Sarah and I conceptualize music and then write so it’s a pretty fragile state\,” Hindman said. “Playing live was a huge change for us.”\nWhen it came time to write and record their follow-up to Moon Tides\, the duo knew what they didn’t want. “We didn’t gravitate towards someone making indie dream-pop records\,” Dan said. That was when producer John Congleton (St. Vincent\, Swans\, Angel Olsen\, The Walkmen) reached out to the band and invited them to come record with him in his Dallas\, TX studio.\n“John pushed us to not make clichés\, to not play into the style of other bands\,” Dan said. The challenges came right away as Congleton pressed the group into unfamiliar and at times uncomfortable territory in the studio. “He tricked me with the guitars on the album\,” Dan said. “We got the basic tracks down and he asked me to do scratch guitar and then John wouldn’t let me go back and do the guitars again. He refused to do any layering.” \nAs a result\, everything on Pray for Rain is pretty much as Pure Bathing Culture actually sounds\, all analog gear\, with virtually no plug-ins or effects added afterwards\, no hiding behind multiple layers. “There aren’t a lot of tricks; What you hear is naturally what’s there\,” Dan said. \nIt was a taxing yet ultimately rewarding experience when the album was completed. “It was shocking to hear what the finished product was\,” Sarah said. “It was like being in a vortex and then we came out with this record.” She adds with a laugh something John Congleton told her when all was said and done: “You were very brave.” \nSarah summarizes the Pray for Rain experience as one of “stepping into the realm of discovering who we are as a band and as songwriters\,” echoing a theme of the album itself\, the process of change and transition. “You can find the best version of yourself in those hardest moments\,” she said. To which Dan adds: “You have to be backed up against the wall in order to really feel those feelings and respond to them.” Pray for Rain is the sound of Pure Bathing Culture transforming from who they were to who they will be\, of finding their way\, ready to take steps both small and momentous on their musical path. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/lucius/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Admat-Lucius-localized2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160327T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160327T203000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160205T171148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160205T171148Z UID:10001633-1459110600-1459110600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Thanos Petrelis DESCRIPTION:21+ URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/thanos-petrelis/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/3.27-Thanos-Petrelis.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160326T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160326T220000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160322T183031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160322T183031Z UID:10001643-1459029600-1459029600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:DUDENGUY DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/dudenguy/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ROYALE_DNG_600X900.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160325T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160325T220000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160204T220057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160204T220057Z UID:10002199-1458943200-1458943200@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:SUNNERY JAMES & RYAN MARCIANO DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/sunnery-james-ryan-marciano/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/3.15-SJRM.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160321T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160321T190000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160119T170013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160119T170013Z UID:10002159-1458586800-1458586800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Yung Lean DESCRIPTION:Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is all ages.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/22 at 12pm! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \nYung Lean \n \n[SoundCloud] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nSwedish rapper born in 1996. Yung Lean exists in a universe of instant references to the pop culture that surrounds him. Digimon\, Space Jam\, Nintendo64\, Mindcraft\, Transformers\, Super Smash Bros.\, Pokemon\, Windows screensavers… Musically Yung Lean and his Sad Boys crew\, all born in 1995\, 1996\, works in rap’s freeform tradition. A flowing\, asymmetrical and multicoloured creativity where wrong might as well be right. Emotional laser sword melancholia from Stockholm. \nSo far 2014 Yung Lean has been nominated for a place in the XXL Freshmen Class\, several videos has reached over a million views on Youtube and he’s done a sold out european tour. The next project is on it’s way and it’s finally time to meet the fans in the US and Canada. The Black Marble tour visits around 15 cities in 20 days. \n*** \nAdamn Killa \n \n[SoundCloud] [Twitter] \nChicago\, IL URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/yung-lean/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/YungLean_1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160320T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160320T200000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160118T180020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160118T180020Z UID:10002156-1458504000-1458504000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Pete Yorn DESCRIPTION:92.5 The River presents \n“Arrangingtime Tour” \nDoors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18+.\nTickets on sale Fri. 1/22 at 10am! \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \n \nIt’s hard to think of anything more starkly reliable than the ticking of a clock\, but time is an untrustworthy thing. It feels like ages since we’ve had a proper Pete Yorn LP to dissect\, though it’s been just five years. And it seems like only yesterday that we first heard musicforthemorningafter\, which came out back in 2001. Yorn’s brand new album and Capitol Records debut\, ArrangingTime\, plays with the elasticity of the years both in between and since — it’s not only a culmination of the Los Angeles by way of New Jersey artist’s adventurous latter-day projects\, but a return to his original leaner methods. \nFor the first time since 2003’s Day I Forgot\, producer R. Walt Vincent returns to help Yorn execute his most poised and diverse set of songs yet. ArrangingTime runs the gamut from elegiac folk to wasteland blues to upbeat\, synth-kissed rock. Of course\, some things never change. Yorn still plays the observer\, stepping into characters — or his past selves from previous years — routing wistful poems and beatific visions through the weather-beaten voice of a man who’s seen a few things in his time. \n“I’ll look at pictures of places I went\, or things I did\,” says Yorn\, “and I think\, ‘Look at how great that day was and you just missed it.’ I think about the past and how much of it is a blur. The title of the album is a reminder to be present and within each song is a minor lesson about that. Time only gets faster as you get older.” \nWe blinked and Yorn turned 40\, but he isn’t settling or slowing. If the extra-musical side of his last few years has been about anything\, it is hard work. He’s focused on personal growth\, broken bad habits\, learned to get out of his own way\, and become more lithe to life’s undulations. He got married. He gave the commencement address at alma mater Syracuse University (his speech was about running toward the stuff that makes you uncomfortable in life). And last year\, after completing an acoustic tour without a backing band or a set list\, he welcomed a child into this world. \n“I was taking my life back\,” says Yorn. “It was back-to-back with the records\, and I toured a lot. There used to be just one way to approach the road in my mind: fucking burn it out. I had to realize\, ‘Maybe I’m addicted to some things\, and a little scared of adulthood.’ I said\, ‘I want to tackle this.’ Now\, discipline feels better than excess.” \nAs he prepares to release another album\, it’s clear his music has been shored up too. By one measure\, another trick of time\, Yorn’s first three albums span a single day. The so-called “trilogy” — musicforthemorningafter\, Day I Forgot\, and Nightcrawler (2006) — captures the man’s progression from an unknown songwriter unspooling raw magic at the storied Café Largo\, to the sort of dude who can dial up Dave Grohl for a ripping drum solo and trade twanged verses with Natalie Maines. Those all found Yorn solo with a producer\, building songs in the studio (or garage). \nBut for his last two\, 2009’s Back & Fourth and 2010’s Pete Yorn\, he did the session thing\, stepping into readymade bands under the guidance of Saddle Creek producer Mike Mogis and Pixies genius Frank Black\, respectively. And those were bookended by collaborative projects: 2009’s playful album-length duet with Scarlett Johansson\, Break Up\, and The Olms (2013)\, a sunny\, ’60s-styled retro-pop duo with J.D. King. \n“I went on a run abandoning my first approach\,” says Yorn. “I was molting an old skin in a lot of ways. After that\, it felt natural to come back to just letting it flow with Walt. I have no illusions: You can’t walk through the same river twice. I’m not trying to recreate an album I made in my 20s. I’m revisiting a method. I started off doing watercolors\, then I did sculpting. And now I’m back on watercolors.” \nBut he does bring his experience with him to the looser style of his first producer\, R. Walt Vincent (with work from a couple of others). ArrangingTime opener “Summer Was a Day” drops us into the desert at night — it’s lush with shimmering ambience\, swelling strings\, ringing guitar strum and skittering beats. And while “In Your Head” juxtaposes Springsteen’s heartland chug with Morrissey’s dramatic softness\, a song like “Shopping Mall” is just understated and pretty — spare on instrumentation and generous with emotion. Penultimate track “Tomorrow” is almost a dance cut\, and Yorn’s attempt to buck the singer-songwriter trend of the album-ending slow fade. \nArrangingTime flows like a mixtape with Yorn’s warm voice and perspective as the through-line. These 12 songs are populated by fragmented folks: people waiting for something to happen (the bus-stop sitter in the dreamy “Halifax”)\, or chasing a feeling they once had (the angsty burnout in the raucous “Screaming at the Setting Sun”). But it’s not all so bleak — light seeps through the cracks in “I’m Not the One\,” where our host morphs into a loner coming to terms with his self-imposed isolation. \n“I’m an observer\,” says Yorn. “I’m into subtleties\, the moments between moments\, but I don’t pretend to know where all the ideas come from. I try to clear myself\, create a melody and let that emotion dictate what comes out. I like my own songs when I haven’t even figured them out yet. I’m into the mysterious part of the process.” \nBut we’re still allowed to guess at the hidden lessons of ArrangingTime. In the case of the characters above\, one’s stuck on the future\, one’s trapped in the past\, and the other’s learning to be present. The ambling “Walking Up” acknowledges outcomes both negative and positive as neutral — the titular act is what’s important: facing the challenge\, eyes open\, in the moment. Because as seemingly treacherous as that tick-tock\, tick-tock can be\, it’s not time that’s changeable. It’s the timekeeper. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/pete-yorn/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pete-yorn-admat-localized2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160319T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160319T220000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160315T231848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160315T231848Z UID:10001641-1458424800-1458424800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:GET LUCKY DESCRIPTION:21+ \nManagement reserves the right to refuse entry. Admission not guaranteed after midnight. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/get-lucky/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ROYALE_GET_LUCKY_4X6.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160318T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160318T230000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160204T220047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160204T220047Z UID:10002198-1458342000-1458342000@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:BINGO PLAYERS DESCRIPTION:21+ \n*Management has the right to refuse entry / No refunds of any kind all sales are final. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/bingo-players-2/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Nightclub ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/3.18-BINGO.jpg GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160317T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160317T200000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160207T170012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160207T170012Z UID:10001634-1458244800-1458244800@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:House of Pain Featuring Everlast DESCRIPTION:Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm \nThis event is 21+.\nTickets on sale now \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n***\nSt. Patrick’s Day 2016\nHouse of Pain Featuring Everlast \n \n[Facebook] [Twitter] \nOn the heels of their widely heralded reunion show at KROQ’s ‘Epicenter 2010’\, EVERLAST and DANNY BOY have decided to get the band back together in celebration of their 20th anniversary. That’s right\, HOUSE OF PAIN is back\, more focused than ever and extremely excited to kick-off a worldwide reunion tour in 2011. \nIt’s hard to believe that the rowdy Irish Americans got started way back in 1991\, but for the past 20 years the group has maintained a high profile – topping the Billboard charts as a group and with solo efforts. It was a turn of a new decade when HOUSE OF PAIN changed the face of hip-hop with their self-titled debut album\, going multi-platinum and launching one of the most memorable songs in hip-hop history with “Jump Around”. Now it’s the start of another new decade and HOUSE OF PAIN is ready to do it all over again; the group aims to bring their fiery live show to fans all over the world\, reclaim the throne as hip-hop’s best and celebrate what has allowed their successes over the past 20 years – the fans. \n“It’s been 20 years and we are very excited to go out there and do this again\,” comments Everlast. “The catalyst was definitely the KROQ Epicenter show this past summer. We had already been working together on the La Coka Nostra record and did an event with [UFC President] Dana White but it really came down to seeing the crazy response from the crowd in LA when we went into ‘Jump Around’. After that\, we went home thinking about it and now is the time to act on it. Every show is going to be like an anniversary party. It’s going to be crazy.” \nSince HOUSE OF PAIN disbanded back in 1996\, the members have kept their star power and went on to huge successes. EVERLAST has maintained an incredibly successful solo career that includes a triple platinum album\, multiple Top 10 hits (including the #1 smash hit “What It’s Like”) and a Grammy for the song “Put Your Lights On” which was recorded with Carlos Santana. Danny Boy changed focus from music to art and launched an extremely successful art company\, multiple clothing lines and ultimately brought the reunion about by forming the group LA COKA NOSTRA that featured the original lineup from HOUSE OF PAIN alongside rappers Slaine and Ill Bill. \nAfter experiencing all of the solo success\, it becomes obvious that HOUSE OF PAIN isn’t a group reforming to cash in on current musical trends. HOUSE OF PAIN is reforming because of the passion that they have for their music. They are back to celebrate with their fans across the 20 years that have spawned tremendous success and undying anthems of rebellious teenagers everywhere. They are back to show young fans everywhere just how raucous and dirty hip-hop can be – to prove that it doesn’t matter your age\, race\, religion or whether you’re into hip-hop\, rock or metal. HOUSE OF PAIN has crafted a 20-year legacy that speaks to fans from all walks of life. \nSo get out of your seat and “Jump Around.” \n*** \nRite Hook \n \n[Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] \nRite Hook gives the lost souls of the world a gritty\, honest\, and unique voice. The Boston based alternative artist blends his dense\, lyrical raps with bluesy\, sung rock choruses to capture the struggles of those on the fringe with gruff\, raw emotion.\n“When I first heard Rite Hook\, his choruses and voice stuck in my head weeks later\,” says Ned Wellbery of Leedz Edutainment\, a Boston promotional company. “That’s how I knew he was someone special.” \nRite Hook spent nearly a decade bouncing from band to band and genre to genre\, sharpening his writing\, singing\, and rapping. Whether rapping\, crooning\, or shouting in a hardcore band\, his voice was always a trademark feature: rough\, gritty vocals that reflect a rough\, gritty life.\nHe soon found consistent work crafting hooks for Boston rap legend Slaine\, who also brought him along on tour. A solid emcee himself\, Rite Hook went bar for bar with Slaine and Vinnie Paz on “It Ain’t Easy\,” a breakout track off 2013’s From the Wrong. \nRite Hook grew up in the suburbs of Boston and Worcester\, roaming around the state like a nomad\, before settling in the Hub at 18. No matter what town he found himself in\, he was always part of a generation of blue collar kids who liked to party and cause trouble. That lifestyle followed the artist and his friends from their teen years to adulthood. Fights\, fires\, petty thefts\, and close-knit families that struggled with alcoholism and drugs behind closed doors. As the country grapples with an addiction epidemic\, Rite Hook gives voice to those lost in the struggles of drug abuse\, doubt\, and no place to call home. \nA lost son of Massachusetts himself\, years of hard music and hard living defined Rite Hook’s early career in Boston. In 2012\, he overdosed and died. His heart stopped completely\, and paramedics had to revive him. \nNow a survivor in the truest sense\, he returned to music with a newfound focus\, and churned out the polished album From the Wrong—titled after both the outcasts he grew up with and his fanbase of rock kids with an ear for hard rap styles. The local scene enforced a love of classic rock and the blues\, but as a teen he was also exposed to the raw lyricism of 90’s rap. Never an easy act to pin down\, his art is set to evolve\, driven by dense lyrics\, hard flows\, a rock attitude and a bluesman’s soul. \n“Some people can rap well and sing okay\, others can sing well and rap a bit\, but only a very few can do both extremely well\,” says Wellbery. “Plus\, he looks how he sounds\,” he adds\, commenting on how Rite Hook’s grave vocals match his inked forearms and neck\, blocky build\, and lengthy mane. \nWith more artistic changes to come\, Modify was an easy title choice for his fourth effort—an album that sees the artist inviting others to his story\, sharing his realizations\, struggles\, and triumphs. URL:https://royaleboston.com/event/house-of-pain/ LOCATION:Royale Nightclub Boston\, MA\, 279 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02116\, United States CATEGORIES:Concerts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://royaleboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/house-of-pain-admat2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bowery Boston":MAILTO:info@boweryboston.com GEO:42.3499959;-71.0656288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Royale Nightclub Boston MA 279 Tremont Street Boston MA 02116 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=279 Tremont Street:geo:-71.0656288,42.3499959 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160313T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160313T190000 DTSTAMP:20260417T075611 CREATED:20160112T140010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160112T140010Z UID:10001628-1457895600-1457895600@royaleboston.com SUMMARY:Kyle Kinane DESCRIPTION:Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm \nThis event is 18+. \nThis is a partially seated show and seats are available on a first-come\, first-serve basis. \nTickets available at TICKETMASTER.COM\, or by phone at 800-745-3000. No service charge on tickets purchased in person at The Sinclair Box Office Wednesdays-Saturdays 12-7PM. Please note: box office is cash only. \n*** \nKyle’s new special “I Liked His Old Stuff Better” debuted on Comedy Central in January\, 2015. He’s appeared on @Midnight\, Conan\, Workaholics\, Those Who Can’t and Comedy Bang! Bang! He can be heard as the voice of Comedy Central and in various animated programs such as\, Regular Show\, Aqua Teen Hunger Force\, Bob’s Burgers\, TripTank\, Adventure Time\, and Lucas Bros. Moving Co.. His first one hour special\, Whiskey Icarus\, aired on Comedy Central in 2012. 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