AJ Lee & Blue Summit w/ Foggy Mountain Spaceship
KGNU Presents AJ Lee & Blue Summit with Foggy Mountain Spaceship on Friday, February 20th – KITCHEN OPENS AT 5PM! AJ Lee & Blue Summit are an award-winning energetic, charming, and technically jaw-dropping band quickly rising on the national roots music scene. Based in Santa Cruz, California, the group met as teenagers, picking and jamming together as kids at local music festivals and jams until one day, they decided they would be a band. “Our roots go really deep,” explains de facto band leader Lee. “We met when we were young kids… We definitely decided to choose each other as a chosen family band later on in life, but in a lot of ways it was naturally just like that in the beginning.” “It was like one of those late at night things,” she continued. “We were sitting on a trailer at Grass Valley” at the annual Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival held in the Sierra Nevada foothills – “Someone said, ‘All of us right here, we’re a band now.’ We kind of didn’t take it seriously, but we were like, okay, we’ll be a band!” And thank goodness they became a band. Their first gigs were local, small venues, cafes, restaurants, coffee shops, where they’d play for multiple hours honing their set list and learning shared musical vocabularies. Now, as they criss-cross the country performing hundreds of shows a year to larger and larger audiences, you can sense the intention they had back then – to make music together not for just aspirational reasons, but because it’s fun – and it’s all you want to do as young musicians. Currently made up of Lee on mandolin, fiddler Jan Purat, and guitarists Scott Gates and Sullivan Tuttle, the band carries that youthful, festival-parking-lot energy with them still today, but at the same time there’s a genuine ease and confidence to their music making. This is not the bluegrass of ambitious musicians intent on industry success, this is music made firstly for the joy of making it and primarily made for each other. It’s part of why, as they ready their third studio album, City of Glass – their first label release, out July 19th via Signature Sounds – their product feels mature and fully realized, while deep in the Blue Summit pocket. AJ Lee & Blue Summit are an exemplary band so unconcerned with being remembered, with being enshrined, that they have gone about making a set of songs that will surely be held onto and cherished forever. City of Glass may one day crumble, but this music will never fade away. All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
The Bones of J.R. Jones w/ Noah C. Lekas
Globe Hall Presents The Bones of J.R. Jones with Noah C. Lekas on Friday, December 12th. Growing up, Jonathon Linaberry was obsessed with the radio. “I remember sitting there at night, glued to the boombox, cassette player ready to record whenever my favorite songs came on,” he recalls. “There was something so thrilling about it, something romantic that I think we’ve lost now that everything’s available at our fingertips. I wanted to find a way to get back to that place, to recapture those feelings of excitement and anticipation and possibility.” Linaberry does precisely that on Radio Waves, his sixth studio album as The Bones Of J.R. Jones. Recorded in Toronto with producer Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Bahamas), the collection is moody and hypnotic, steeped in the sonic landscape of the ’80s and ’90s as it excavates the past with equal parts nostalgia and curiosity. The arrangements are utterly entrancing here, built on the tension between acoustic instruments and retro synthesizers, and Linaberry’s performances are raw and visceral, at times aching in their vulnerability. Put it all together and you’ve got a poignant exploration of memory and longing delivered by a relentless searcher, a revelatory work of personal reflection steeped in the endless beauty, pain, and chaos of youth. “I’ve never really resonated with the idea of ‘the good old days,’” Linaberry reflects. “Your understanding of the past and your relationship with it change as you get older, and I’ve always been more interested in the evolution of those feelings than in wearing any kind of rosecolored glasses.” Linaberry got his start playing in hardcore and punk bands before becoming enamored with the field recordings of Alan Lomax, who documented rural American blues, folk, and gospel musicians throughout the 1930s and ’40s. Inspired by the unvarnished honesty of those vintage performances, Linaberry launched The Bones of J.R. Jones in 2012 and, operating as a fully independent artist, began releasing a series of critically acclaimed albums and EPs. “Our lives are an endless series of revolving doors,” Linaberry reflects. “Even the smallest decisions can change our entire trajectory. What kind of arrogant fool doesn’t look back and wonder?” That sense of lostness, of uncertainty as to who we are and where we belong turns up throughout the record. The blistering “Drive” devours itself from the inside out in the tedious solitude of the road; “The Devil” grapples with identity, intimacy, and dependence; and the breezy “Catching You” wonders what we were ever trying to prove with all the debaucherous nights and bad decisions of youth. “I think so many of us live in the past because it’s easier to face than the future,” Linaberry explains. “But I’m not interested in going back. I’m interested in understanding the feelings and experiences that made us who we are: the passion and the hunger, the faults and the failures, the hopes and the fears. Truth be told, those feelings never really go away. They’re all still out there, floating in the ether, drifting through eternity on an endless sea of radio waves. All you have to do is tune in All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
quannnic
Globe Hall Presents quannnic on Wednesday, September 24 — All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
Cracked Ribs w/ Hydrangea, 39 Buried + Ashes In Braille
Globe Hall presents Cracked Ribs with Hydrangea, 39 Buried and Ashes In Braille on Saturday, December 27th. KITCHEN OPENS AT 5PM! All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
Borrowed Feathers w/ Parky Jobbins + Sniff
Globe Hall presents Borrowed Feathers with Parky Jobbins and Sniff on Saturday, October 11th. All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
Hostile Signal w/ Rubber Goddess + Ebony Dark’ness
Globe Hall presents Hostile Signal with Rubber Goddess and Ebony Dark’ness on Sunday, October 5th. All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
Black Moon Howl w/ Flyin’ Hot Saucers + Lonely Choir
Globe Hall presents Black Moon Howl with Flyin’ Hot Saucers and Lonely Choir on Sunday, October 19th. All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
RADO w/ The Sonic Souls
Globe Hall Presents RADO with The Sonic Souls on Saturday, November 8th. All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
Dan Deacon w/ Mr. Knobs
Globe Hall Presents Dan Deacon with Mr. Knobs on Friday, November 14 — All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
HATED w/ Abstract Delusions, Ransom Note + Under Society
Globe Hall presents HATED with Abstract Delusions, Ransom Note and Under Society on Friday, October 17th. All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
