MANIC PRESENTS / PREMIER CONCERTS UPDATE 01-31-2019

Manic Presents / Premier Concerts Guest Post:

Welcome the weekly edition of the Manic Presents Redscroll Blog! We’re back with a bunch of awesome announcement and not-to-miss shows! Just announced at College Street Music Hall, Twiddle on Friday, (4/12), Death Cab for Cutie on Friday (6/14) and Tash Sultana on (5/21)! At Space Ballroom, Aaron Lee Tasjan on (2/19), Sean Bonnette of AJJ on Saturday (3/2), Willie Nile on Friday, (3/29), Sheer Mag on (4/25), and Loma Prieta with Jeromes Dream on (7/24)! At Cafe Nine, Plague Vendor on (3/18) as part of our Manic Mondays music series! And lastly at Wall Street Theater in Norwalk, The Music of Cream on Saturday, (3/23)!

This week’s show schedule begins TONIGHT (1/31) with Umphrey’s McGee at College Street Music Hall with special guest Robert Walter’s 20th Congress! The weekend fun continues at College Street Music Hall with Get The Led Out on Friday, (2/1) and the almost sold out WALK THE MOON with Bear Hands on Saturday, (2/2)! On Monday (2/4) as part of our weekly Manic Monday series at Cafe Nine we have Weeknight with Reduction Plan and Pleasure Beat. Be sure to grab your tickets and RSVP today!

CONTEST TIME! Enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to Upstate at Space Ballroom (Front Room) on Saturday, February 9th and a copy of their album “Healing” which will be out the day before!
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Stay warm and stay alert for more exciting announcements and we’ll see you back here next Thursday!

Upcoming Shows…

TONIGHT Thursday, January 31st
Umphrey’s McGee w/ Robert Walter’s 20th Congress

$26.50/All Ages/Doors at 6:00PM

College Street Music Hall – New Haven

INFO: The music of Umphrey’s McGee unfolds like an unpredictable conversation between longtime friends. Its six participants—Brendan Bayliss [guitar, vocals], Jake Cinninger [guitar, vocals], Joel Cummins [keyboards, piano, vocals], Andy Farag [percussion], Kris Myers [drums, vocals], and Ryan Stasik [bass]—know just how to communicate with each other on stage and in the studio. A call of progressive guitar wizardry might elicit a response of soft acoustic balladry, or a funk groove could be answered by explosive percussion. At any moment, heavy guitars can give way to heavier blues as the boys uncover the elusive nexus between jaw-dropping instrumental virtuosity and airtight songcraft.

The conversation continues on their eleventh full-length album, it’s not us [Nothing Too Fancy Music]—which was released January 12, 2018.

“It represents the band, because it basically runs the gamut from prog rock to dance,” says Brendan. “We’ve mastered our ADD here. The record really shows that.”

“No matter what you’re into, there’s something on it’s not us that should speak to you,” agrees Joel. “This is a statement album for Umphrey’s McGee. The sound is as fresh as ever. The songs are strong as they’ve ever been. We’re always pushing forward.”

It is also how the band is celebrating its 20-year anniversary. Instead of retreading the catalog, they turn up with a pile of new tunes.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: http://bit.ly/2sYQthO

Friday, February 1st
Get The Led Out

$25-$40/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM

College Street Music Hall – New Haven

INFO:From the bombastic and epic, to the folky and mystical, Get The Led Out (GTLO) have captured the essence of the recorded music of Led Zeppelin and brought it to the concert stage. The Philadelphia-based group consists of six veteran musicians intent on delivering Led Zeppelin live, like you’ve never heard before.

Utilizing the multi-instrumentalists at their disposal, Get The Led Out re-create the songs in all their depth and glory with the studio overdubs that Zeppelin themselves never performed. When you hear three guitars on the album, GTLO delivers three guitarists on stage. No wigs or fake English accents, GTLO brings what the audience wants, a high energy Zeppelin concert with an honest, heart-thumping intensity. Dubbed by the media as “The American Led Zeppelin,” Get The Led Out offers a strong focus on the early years. They also touch on the deeper cuts that were seldom, if ever heard in concert. GTLO also include a special “acoustic set” with Led Zeppelin favorites such as “Tangerine” and the “Battle of Evermore” being performed in its’ original instrumentation with guest singer Diana DeSantis joining the band. GTLO has amassed a strong national touring history, having performed at major club and performing arts center venues across the country.

GTLO’s approach to their performance of this hallowed catalog is not unlike a classical performance. “Led Zeppelin are sort of the classical composers of the rock era,” says lead vocalist Paul Sinclair. “I believe 100 years from now they will be looked at as the Bach or Beethoven of our time. As cliché as it sounds, their music is timeless.”

A GTLO concert mimics the “light and shade” that are the embodiment of “The Mighty Zep.” Whether it’s the passion and fury with which they deliver the blues-soaked, groove-driven rock anthems, it’s their attention to detail and nuance that makes a Get The Led Out performance a truly awe-inspiring event!
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: http://bit.ly/2sXgP3p

 

Saturday, February 2nd
WALK THE MOON w/ Bear Hands

$35-$40/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM

College Street Music Hall – New Haven

INFO: Hailing from Cincinnati, OH, WALK THE MOON consists of Nicholas Petricca (singer/keyboardist), Kevin Ray (bassist), Eli Maiman (guitarist), and Sean Waugaman (drummer). In 2015, the band catapulted to stardom when their hit single “Shut Up and Dance” became a multi-platinum global smash that peaked at No. 1 on the Alternative, Hot AC, AC charts, No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, aand went to No. 2 at Top 40 radio. The track also broke the record for consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart at the time. “Shut Up and Dance” racked up over six million downloads and 850 million streams in the process leading to a slew of honors including winning two Billboard Music Awards, a nomination for an MTV Music Video Award for Best Rock Video, American Music Award nominations for Favorite Pop/Rock Duo Or Group, New Artist of the Year, and Favorite Alternative Rock Artist. They were also nominated for an iHeart Radio Music Award for Best Duo/Group of the Year, Song of the Year, and Alternative Rock Song of the Year for “Shut Up and Dance”. WALK THE MOON has been praised by music industry tastemakers across the board since their explosive first single “Anna Sun” was released in 2012, as Interview Magazine proclaimed, “There’s something about WALK THE MOON that’s absolutely out of this world. Their music is addictive, energetic, and fun.” Rolling Stone also raved about the band’s live show, “The precocious Ohioans stack melodies upon melodies in new-wave-infected songs that attack the ear like a starving Mike Tyson.”
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: http://bit.ly/2UypZzo

Monday, February 4th
Weeknight w/ Reduction Plan, Pleasure Beat

Free with RSVP (or $5 at the door)/21 and over/Doors at 7PM

Cafe Nine – New Haven

INFO: WEEKNIGHT is a dark synth pop band from Brooklyn, NY that formed in 2012. Leading up to and following the release of their debut LP, Post-Everything, in 2014, the duo, longtime couple Andy Simmons and Holly MacGibbon played hundreds of shows, sharing the stage with Phantogram, Amanda Palmer, Bear in Heaven, Frankie Rose, Moonface, School of Seven Bells and Crystal Stilts. In 2017, they welcomed two new band mates, bass guitarist Russell Hymowitz and drummer Jasper Berg. Their long awaited follow-up record Dead Beat Creep will be released on Dead Stare Records on February 1, 2019. It is an album truly of the moment: both a statement of resilience and an emotional refuge. In these harrowing times, Weeknight stand firm in their resolve to create beauty in the void.
RSVP HERE: http://bit.ly/2sXjk5N

SHOW ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

Tuesday, February 19th
Aaron Lee Tasjan w/ Seth Adam, Stef Austin

$15 ($12 adv) /All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM

Space Ballroom (Front Room) – Hamden

INFO: Aaron Lee Tasjan’s music is most often identified as Americana while critics point to his rock’n’roll influences, dropping names like Tom Petty, The Beatles and David Bowie. The East Nashville based singer-songwriter and ace guitarist has made a habit of defying genre classification. As a teen, Tasjan won a scholarship to Berklee School of Music to study jazz guitar. He quickly dropped out to start a glam punk band with friends then hit the road as an in-demand sideman, playing guitar for several well-known rock bands before relocating to Nashville where he focused on his own songs. Tasjan’s early solo recordings showcased his thought provoking lyrics in relatively traditional acoustic settings. His first full length release, “Silver Tears” found him exploring new sonic landscapes and earned rave reviews from fans and critics alike. Tasjan’s latest release, “Karma For Cheap” finds him blurring the lines between genres even further. Rolling Stone calls the new album “…a trippy stunner full of swirling, immersive rock songs that evoke both the effervescence of the Sixties and the grit of today.” Touring relentlessly, Tasjan is known for his fiery live performances which combine blazing guitar work with first rate songcraft and witty storytelling.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: http://bit.ly/2UpJKca

Saturday, March 2nd
A Fun and Cool Evening with Sean Bonnette of AJJ

$15/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM

Space Ballroom – Hamden

INFO: AJJ is a band from Phoenix, Arizona. We try our best.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: http://bit.ly/2sSOPhu

Monday, March 18th
Plague Vendor w/ Videodome, Witch Hair

Free with RSVP (or $5 at the door)/21 and over/Doors at 7PM

Cafe Nine – New Haven

INFO: Time as a band breeds experience, yielding commitment to a cause and cementing a career path. This is something Plague Vendor has learned. The foursome, who emerged from a practice space in Whittier, CA in 2009, started by playing endless live shows around Southern California, filling everywhere from backyard parties to clubs to festivals with their raucous, formidable music. At the heart of every show, no matter the venue, was sincere energy and spirit, always resulting in a snarling, frenetic performance. The shows stacked up, accumulating every year, and eventually birthed Plague Vendor’s 2014 debut album Free To Eat, a dark, thrashing collection that clocked in at less than twenty minutes.

But the album, brash and aptly terse, was just an appetizer to the main course. The band’s sophomore effort, BLOODSWEAT, vastly expands on the sonic territory explored in their debut. Recorded over the course of two weeks in April of 2015 with producer and engineer Stuart Sikes (The Walkmen, Cat Power, Modest Mouse), the album takes a natural approach to Plague Vendor’s music. The musicians aimed to capture each track in as few takes as possible, avoiding many overdubs and embracing the same minimal production they bring to their live performances. Nearly all of the eleven songs on BLOODSWEAT were heavily road-tested, imagined and re-imagined live before ever making it into the studio.

Plague Vendor’s live show has shifted as they’ve developed new songs, too. They’ve swapped out shock value for raw vulnerability onstage and the four musicians aim to create the most sound and the most intensity with the least possible utility and equipment. Palpable tension comes from the sense that anything could happen, but mostly Plague Vendor is interested in simplicity and the sort of expressive nakedness that can come from stripping everything away. It’s clear the band has sacrificed their formative don’t-give-a-fuck punk attitude for sincerity and gratitude, acknowledging the fans who’ve helped them arrive here now.
RSVP HERE: http://bit.ly/2sW1ksw

Saturday, March 23th
Music of Cream

$25-$55/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM

Wall Street Theater – Norwalk

INFO: THE PEDIGREE OF CREAM IN A NEW MULTI-MEDIA CONCERT EXPERIENCE

Ginger Baker. Jack Bruce. Eric Clapton.

Cream was a chemical explosion like no other, the blueprint for every supergroup to follow and the heavy blues precursor to Hendrix, Zeppelin and so much more. Fifty years since their earth-shaking debut album, the bloodlines of that hallowed trilogy come together to pay tribute to Cream’s legendary four-album reign over the psychedelic frontier of the late 1960s. Kofi BAKER (son of Ginger) and Malcolm BRUCE (son of Jack) unite with Will JOHNS (Eric’s nephew by Marriage and son of Zeppelin/ Stones/ Hendrix engineer Andy) to unleash the lightning that electrified a generation. Feel the fire and the freedom of “Spoonful”, “Strange Brew”, “Sunshine of Your Love”, “White Room”, “Crossroads” and “Badge” — performed by master musicians whose lives have been steeped in the Cream spirit and legacy.

EXPERIENCE a Once-In-a-lifetime concert salute to the most innovative and explosive supergroup of all time, in the hands of those that knew them best.

WATCH as they interplay live with their fathers on the big screen; classic moments in rock history brought back to life.

LISTEN as they share personal insights and stories, complete with rare, yet to be seen family footage and photographs.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2sHGYn0

Friday, March 29th
Willie Nile

$25 ($22 adv)/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM

Space Ballroom – Hamden

INFO: The New York Times called Willie Nile “one of the most gifted singer-songwriters to emerge from the New York scene in years.” His album Streets Of New York was hailed as “a platter for the ages” by UNCUT magazine. Rolling Stone listed The Innocent Ones as one of the “Top Ten Best Under-The-Radar Albums of 2011” and BBC Radio called it “THE rock ‘n’ roll album of the year.”

Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Lou Reed, Lucinda Williams, Jim Jarmusch, and Little Steven are among those who have sung his praises. His album, American Ride, won “Best Rock Album of the Year” at the Independent Music Awards. It appeared on over one hundred year-end Top Ten lists for 2013 and Bono called it, “One of the great guides to unraveling the mystery that is the troubled beauty of America.”

In November 2014 he released an album of piano-based songs, If I Was A River, to universal critical acclaim. “One of the most brilliant singer-songwriters of the past thirty years” said The New Yorker. No Depression raved “Willie Nile’s artistic renaissance continues unabated.”

His 2016 album World War Willie appeared on numerous year end top ten lists as did hid his live shows. As American Songwriter said “Nile cranks up the volume and tears into these tunes with the same hunger, passion and exuberance he displays in his legendary sweat-soaked shows.” World War Willie was voted “Album Of The Year” by Twangville Magazine and the song Forever Wild was named “Coolest Song In The World” by Little Steven’s Underground Garage. In 2017 he released the critically acclaimed album “Positively Bob – Willie Nile Sings Bob Dylan”.

Willie has toured across the U.S. with The Who and has sung with Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band. As the induction program from the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame says: “His live performances are legendary.” His 12th studio album ‘Children of Paradise’ was released in the summer 2018 to universal acclaim. He is currently bringing his dynamic live show and amazing rock and roll band to enraptured audiences worldwide!
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRI 2/1 HERE:: http://bit.ly/2Uu7dcc

Saturday, April 6th
Old Sea Brigade

$12/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM

Space Ballroom (Front Room) – Hamden

INFO: It really feels like coloring outside of the lines. For as much as the music of Old Sea Brigade remains rooted in Americana, indie, country, rock, and ambient soundscapes, it blurs and breaks barriers, tossing and turning between analog cinematic flourishes and provocative lyricism based on hard-won wisdom. Amidst this mélange of textures, Atlanta-born and Nashville-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Ben Cramer allows the emotion to resound loudest on his full-length debut, Ode To A Friend [Nettwerk].
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRI 2/1 HERE: http://bit.ly/2UxD3oK

Thursday, April 25th
Sheer Mag w/ The Smarthearts

$16 ($14 adv)/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM

Space Ballroom – Hamden

INFO:

A tear in the firmament.

Beyond the noxious haze of our national nightmare – as structures of social justice and global progress topple in our midst – there lies a faint but undeniable glow in the distance.

What is it?

Like so many before us we are drawn to the beacon. But only by the bootstraps of our indignation do we go so boldly into the dark to find it.

And so Sheer Mag has let the sparks fly since their outset, with an axe to grind against all that clouds the way. A caustic war cry, seething in solidarity with all those that suffer the brunt of ignorance and injustice in an imbalanced system.

Both brazen and discrete, loud yet precise, familiar but never quite like this – SHEER MAG crept up from Philadelphia cloaked in bold insignia to channel our social and political moment with grit and groove. Cautious but full of purpose.

What is it?

By making a music both painfully urgent and spiritually timeworn, SHEER MAG speak to a modern pain: to a people that too feel their flame on the verge of being extinguished, yet choose to burn a bit brighter in spite of that threat.

With their debut LP, the cloak has been lifted. It is time to reclaim something that has been taken from us. Here the band rolls up their sleeves, takes to the streets, and demands recompense for a tradition of inequity that’s poisoned our world. However, it is in our ability to love – our primal human right to give and receive love – that the damage of such toxicity is newly explored.

Love is a choice we make. We ought not obscure, neglect, or deny that choice. Through the tumult and the pain, the camaraderie and the cause, the band continues to burn a path into that great beyond.

But where are we headed?

On NEED TO FEEL YOUR LOVE, they makes their first full-length declaration of light seen just beyond our darkness. Spoken plainly, without shame:

It is love.

This – is SHEER MAG.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: http://bit.ly/2t1ypTS

Wednesday, July 24th
Loma Prieta, Jeromes Dream

$15/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM

Space Ballroom – Hamden

INFO: Loma Prieta – Formed in 2005, Loma Prieta have been a mainstay of the Bay Area hardcore community for more than half a decade. In that time they have released four 12 inch records and two 7 inch records mostly on their own label, Discos Huelga. They have also toured the U.S., Japan, Canada, and Mexico numerous times, all while members play in several other hardcore bands (Punch, Beau Navire, Archeopteryx, Us Haunted Bodies).

While Loma Prieta’s sound is difficult to describe, it is clear that they come from the rich tradition of creative Bay Area hardcore bands such as Mohinder, Funeral Diner, Bread and Circuits, Yaphet Kotto, and Indian Summer. Eschewing sub-genres in favor of organically writing songs that are personally fulfilling, each Loma Prieta record is substantially different from the last. Nonetheless, Loma Prieta have managed to forge a distinctive form of expression that is entirely their own.

Jeromes Dream – It was September 13, 1997, when we played together for the first time. We met at Nick’s mom’s house and set up our shabby equipment in the basement. It was dirty. The ceilings were made up of dust, exposed electrical equipment, and splintered wood. We could barely see each other’s faces because it was so dark; the only light that worked was across the room, hindered by a wall. But it didn’t matter — all that did was that we got to play.

We soon realized that what started as a spontaneous meeting was going to become the epicenter of our lives. Jeromes Dream allowed us to be liberated from all that hurt us. It also served as a base for our friendship. The three of us never knew what we’d end up creating together, but it was clear that we needed each other to make what we made.

It was in a way unsettling how well we got along and how we seemed to not care about anything but being able to play music. We basked in the blissful ignorance of youth. It was the only way to live during a time where we saw little hope in anything else. We invested in our music. We invested in each other. It didn’t matter how good or bad we were as a band; we believe JD is an accurate representation of what was going through our hearts and minds between 1997 and 2001.

2018-19

In 2018, we’ve decided to make new music. We are currently writing an LP and will record it in March, 2019.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRI 2/1 HERE: http://bit.ly/2Uq85yG

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