105.5 The Colorado Sound Presents Brooks Nielsen (The Growlers)
105.5 The Colorado Sound Presents Brooks Nielsen on Saturday, September 10 — Uncompromising, enigmatic, and wildly ambitious, Brooks Nielsen (co-founder and lead singer of Southern California surf-psych icons The Growlers) is proud to announce his first full-length solo album One Match Left: a double-vinyl, twenty-song journey into the heart of darkness, and toward the light that eventually remains. “There’s happiness in there,” says Nielsen, speaking from his Los Angeles home. “The bands that I like have a sense of humor, like Television Personalities or Jonathan Richman, but there’s tragedy too. That’s the old theatrical tradition.” One Match Left showcases these aspects in epic fashion, with Nielsen playing the role of carnival barker, lullaby crooner, and rock & roll priest, depending on the track. It’s actually Nielsen’s first time around without his partners from The Growlers; he’s now joined by old friends Christopher Darley (guitarist for Father John Misty) and Levi Prairie on songwriting duties. No stranger to the emotional landscapes of modern pop life, producer Michael Andrews expands the songs from the theatrical and into the cinematic. From his Elgin Park Recordings studio in Glendale, Andrews makes chart-topping hits (like the song “Mad World” from his soundtrack to Donnie Darko) and cult favorites (he scored the entirety of Freaks & Geeks and Pete Davidson’s King of Staten Island). “He’s an encyclopedia and extremely talented,” says Nielsen of Andrews. “Which meant he could be a great commander in the studio.” Assembling a core team of himself on guitar and bass, Robert Walter (The Greyboy Allstars) on keys, and Joey Waronker (Beck, Atoms For Peace) on drums, Andrews infuses the material with a lush palette, more akin to Harry Nilsson and Serge Gainsbourg than anything we’ve heard before from Nielsen. Album opener “All That You’ll See is Everything” sets a carnivalesque tone, a loopy and optimistic revelation about the songs that follow. “Virgin Lady Luck” alternately thunders and whispers, a standout single that’s already turning heads on social media. “Long Train” channels Charanjit Singh’s Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat and West African jammers Tinariwen into a driving dance party. “How Do You Like It So Far (This Life)” attempts the impossible: thoughtful reggae pop, free of beach bum clichés, woven together into an atmospheric dub soundscape. – 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
Andrew Duhon Emerald Blue Record Release Tour w/ Patrick Dethlefs
Globe Hall Presents Andrew Duhon Emerald Blue Record Release Tour with Patrick Dethlefs on Thursday, September 22 — Andrew Duhon is a songwriter from New Orleans whose ability to craft a 3-minute novel has earned him comparisons to John Prine and Jim Croce, while the powerful soul of his voice evokes a youthful Van Morrison. He has released four albums, including “The Moorings,” which was nominated for a Grammy for “Best Engineered Album” in 2014. During the quarantine, Duhon wrote and shared twenty-two new songs as a “Quarantine Song” video series, and twenty+ more exclusively on his Patreon site. New album, “Emerald Blue,” features eleven of those songs, and is due out July 2022. – 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
KBCO Presents SYML w/ Portair
KBCO Presents SYML with Portair on Saturday, September 17 –Grief can be messy, painful, and dark, a brutal process that rarely offers straight through its shadows for those mourning the death of a loved one. But for Brian Fennell, the writer, producer and multi-instrumentalist behind SYML, he found comfort not only by leaning into his grief, but writing through it. DIM, his latest EP out March 5, is a “loss exploration” for him, a potent meditation that manages to make even the most personal tragedies feel intimate and universally understood. Fennell –who released SYML’s self-titled album in 2019, which his breakthrough single, “Where’s My Love” –was on the road with Dermot Kennedy in the spring of 2020 and had plans to spend most of the year on tour, but those were abruptly halted due to the merciless spread of the coronavirus pandemic. At his home in Seattle, he revisited some of the lyrical sketches and compositions he had been working through in the preceding months, all interpreting loss in different manifestations. “True,” a captivating R&B groove, ruminates on a disintegrating relationship, while the haunting title track was inspired by survivor’s guilt. His father’s health was declining after a long battle with cancer at that point, and “Stay Close,” the first track on DIM, brims with raw, desperate emotion as he literally pleads for more time while examining his own bond with his children (“One lifetime is never enough / You’re more than my heart, you’re my blood”).“This EP is largely about losing those close to us,” he says. “Calling it DIMreally applies to the light we carry during our time here. When those lights go out, it’s this sort of dimming process, but rather than living in that sadness –even though I think that’s a really healthy thing to do, to stay in that cozy, warm blanket sadness sometimes –it’s about honoring what that light was, and realizing that there’s still that same light in all of us that are still here.” In the following conversation about DIM, Fennell digs deeper into the inspirations that shaped these songs, the growth this EP represents and why he considers it to be one of most fulfilling projects of his career to date.- 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
Riz La Vie w/ Johan Lenox + Gabe James
Globe Hall Presents Riz La Vie with Johan Lenox and Gabe James on Friday, March 10 — – 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
Indie 102.3 presents Illiterate Light & Kind Hearted Strangers w/ Blankslate
Indie 102.3 Presents Illiterate Light and Kind Hearted Strangers with Blankslate on Friday, November 18 — Hailing from all corners of the country, Kind Hearted Strangers began in Boulder, CO – where an impromptu open mic performance by songwriter Marc Townes quickly evolved into something much bigger. With genre bending improvisations from lead guitarist Kevin Hinder and bassist/vocalist Ace Engfer, KHS has become a dynamic full band capable of bridging the gap between all out rock n’ roll and their harmony-driven acoustic roots. The latest addition of Nashville drummer Eggy Gorman sees the band growing into a road-driven force, hungry for live music, delivering high-energy rock shows across the country. Their debut record “East // West” (2021) digs into the places they’ve come from and explores the places they’re going to, with a diverse sound that reflects the broad influences each member brings to the band. Recorded in Denver, CO by Todd Divel of Silo Sound, mixed in Richmond, VA and mastered in Seattle, WA – the album shares a wide-ranging influence and perspective on the relationships we have with one another and the places we call home. Album #2 is currently in the works and will feature a collaboration with visual artist/painter Dylan Lynch. Set to be recorded Live in Richmond, VA on August 20th, the album will feature an accompanying Art Exhibition and a live audience. – 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
Thee Sacred Souls w/ Ritmo Cascabel
Globe Hall Presents Thee Sacred Souls with Ritmo Cascabel on Friday, September 16 — For Thee Sacred Souls, the first time is often the charm. The band’s first club dates led to a record deal with the revered Daptone label; their first singles racked up more than ten million streams in a year and garnered attention from Billboard, Rolling Stone, and KCRW; and their first fans included the likes of Gary Clark Jr., The Black Pumas, Princess Nokia, and Timbaland. Now, the breakout San Diego trio is ready to deliver yet another landmark first with the release of their self-titled debut. “Every step of the way has just been so organic,” says drummer Alex Garcia. “Things just seem to happen naturally when the three of us get together.” Indeed, there’s something inevitable about the sound of Thee Sacred Souls, as if Garcia and his bandmates—bassist Sal Samano and singer Josh Lane—have been playing together for a lifetime already. Produced by Bosco Mann (aka Daptone co-founder Gabriel Roth), Thee Sacred Souls is a warm and textured record, mixing the easygoing grace of sweet ’60s soul with the grit and groove of early ’70s R&B, and the performances are utterly intoxicating, with Lane’s weightless vocals anchored by the rhythm section’s deep pocket and infectious chemistry. Hints of Chicano, Philly, Chicago, Memphis, and even Panama soul turn up here, and while it’s tempting to toss around labels like “retro” with a deliberately analog collection like this, there’s also something distinctly modern about the band that defies easy categorization, a rawness and a sincerity that transcends time and place.- 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
Madi Diaz w/ Caroline Spence
Globe Hall Presents Madi Diaz with Caroline Spence on Wednesday, November 9 — Nashville-based Madi Diaz marks a full restart of her artistic career with ”Man In Me,” her poignant debut single/video for ANTI-. It’s a first taste of how Diaz has worked at perfecting the craft of delivering a full spectrum of emotions via songs stripped to their most confrontational and raw form. This song was produced by Diaz with additional production by Andrew Sarlo (Big Thief, Bon Iver). Across reverberating guitar strums and light piano, Diaz’s voice is evocative as she makes frank observations about a past relationship: “Do you imagine me differently // Cause when I met you swore that you saw me // When you think I might be someone else // Does it turn you on.” As the track continues, Diaz’s vocals swell exponentially, only to be drawn back to a fading note.”’Man In Me’ was the first song I sat down to record for myself in about six years, which is the reason I thought it was so important to release first. It’s a very intimately visceral moment, a sort of play-by-play inner monologue, taking my first steps through a really hard time.” The accompanying video, directed by Stephen Kinigopoulos, “ emphasizes the intensity of a moment held and held and held. For me, this video is like holding a stare for so long that it hurts. It’s like knowing you should let go, but you keep holding on cause you can’t say ‘when,’ and playing with that tension lying right beneath the surface. You know something’s up, but you just can’t put your finger on it.”Diaz was originally raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania surrounded by a family deeply immersed in music: her grandfather was a tenor in the Greenwich City Opera, both of her parents taught music lessons (piano, guitar and ukulele), her father played in a Zappa tribute band and her brother plays in a metal band. She moved to Philadelphia in her teens to have closer access to broader music education, before eventually enrolling in (and dropping out of) Berklee College of Music and moving to Nashville to more seriously pursue a career as a songwriter. After cutting her teeth in writers rooms in Nashville, Diaz moved to Los Angeles honing her songwriting skills and playing in numerous projects. After a very tumultuous relationship and break up, she bought a truck and moved back to Nashville where she became a go-to songwriter. As things slowed down, Diaz felt she had the time and space to fully confront everything in her life with a newfound sense of clarity. Over the next two years, she wrote over 100 songs, one of which is “Man In Me.” The songwriting expertise she had developed over the years is now championed in her own strikingly original and emotional music.- 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
WANNABE: A SPICE GIRLS TRIBUTE
Globe Hall Presents WANNABE: A SPICE GIRLS TRIBUTE on Saturday, November 12 — Wannabe a Spice Girl? Get your exclusive VIP ticket to the Wannabe show and spice up your life with the following add-ons: – Early entry- First crack at the merch table- Commemorative VIP laminate + lanyard- Exclusive Wannabe VIP tour poster- Photo with the girls! – 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
Total Flower Chaos w/ Sonic Alchemy + Lorcaster
Globe Hall Presents Total Flower Chaos with Sonic Alchemy and Lorcaster on Sunday August 14th at 4pm. 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
Scene Queen w/ Holy Wars
Globe Hall Presents Scene Queen with Holy Wars on Sunday, September 18 — – 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian
