Manic Presents / Premier Concerts Update 06-21-2019

Manic Presents / Premier Concerts Guest Post:

The Manic Presents Redscroll Blog is back, and we’re here to share all the exciting announcements from this week! Just announced at College Street Music Hall – The long-running improv podcast hosted by Scott Aukerman (known for his work on HBO’s Mr. Show with David and Bob) Comedy Bang! Bang! Live! the long-running improv podcast hosted by Scott Aukerman (known for his work on HBO’s Mr. Show with David and Bob) featuring guests Lauren Lapkus and Paul F. Tompkins on Friday (8/23) and Los Angeles metal outfit In This Moment on Friday (10/18) with support from Ded and Little Miss Nasty! Just announced at Space Ballroom –  genre-blending multi-instrumentalist Cautious Clay on Thursday (12/12)! Lastly, at Cafe Nine – New York psych-pop act Shana Falana on Monday (9/9) and Athens, Georgia self-proclaimed “nice-guy” rock quintet Walden on Monday (10/7) featuring TAME (The Aspiring Me)! Be sure to grab your tickets to these awesome shows!

This week’s show schedule begins Thursday (6/20) with indie-rockers Sebadoh (fronted by Dinosaur Jr’s Lou Barlow) at Space Ballroom with DIY punks Waveless! The venue won’t stay quiet for long, as Space Ballroom welcomes Kristin Hersh (of Throwing Muses) and her electric trio the very next night, Friday (6/21) with support from former Throwing Muses bandmate Fred Abong! College Street Music Hall opens its doors for low-fi indie rock act Car Seat Headrest on Saturday (6/22) with openers Naked Giants. Only a few tickets left on the floor, more just opened in the balcony!  As part of the Manic Monday series at Cafe Nine, folk-pop group Bombadil shares a co-headlining slot with Chicago folk-rockers Ohmme with support from Daphne Lee Martin on Monday (6/24)! Lastly, Wednesday (6/26) will have Connecticut rocking as College Street Music Hall is set to host a co-headliner featuring ska-punk powerhouse Reel Big Fish and Texas pop-punks Bowling For Soup with openers The Zambonis. Space Ballroom will get in on the action as well, as Spencer Krug (of Wolf Parade and Moonface) will grace the stage, featuring Light Conductor (members of Besnard Lakes / Young Galaxy) as direct support! Do yourself a favor and come check out one of these sure to be fantastic shows!

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Keep your eyes peeled for more announcements, we’ll see you back here next Thursday!

Upcoming Shows…

Friday (6/21)
Kristin Hersh (of Throwing Muses) w/ Fred Abong

$20/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM

Space Ballroom – Hamden

INFO: Influential songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Kristin Hersh, leader of the indie rock band, Throwing Muses and the noise rock power trio, 50 Foot Wave, is on the road with her highly acclaimed Fire Records release, “Possible Dust Clouds.” The touring trio is a hard hitting super group: Fred Abong, bass player from Throwing Muses (who opens solo, promoting his new ep, “Pulsing”) and Rob Ahlers, drummer of 50 Foot Wave. These electric trio shows are loud, tight and intense, featuring material from across Kristin’s thirty year career.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2IqqqJj

Saturday (6/22)

Car Seat Headrest w/ Naked Giants

$22-$30/All Ages/7:00pm Doors

College Street Music Hall – New Haven

INFO: Toledo always knew he would return to Twin Fantasy. He never did complete the work. Not really. Never could square his grand ambitions against his mechanical limitations. Listen to his first attempt, recorded at nineteen on a cheap laptop, and you’ll hear what Brian Eno fondly calls “the sound of failure” – thrilling, extraordinary, and singularly compelling failure. Will’s first love, rendered in the vivid teenage viscera of stolen gin, bruised shins, and weird sex, was an event too momentous for the medium assigned to record it.

Even so, even awkward and amateurish, Twin Fantasy is deeply, truly adored. Legions of reverent listeners carve rituals out of it: sobbing over “Famous Prophets,” making out to ‘Cute Thing’, dancing their asses off as ‘Bodys’ climbs higher, higher. The distortion hardly matters. You can hear him just fine. You can hear everything. And you can feel everything: his hope, his despair, his wild overjoy. He’s trusting you – plural you, thousands of you – with the things he can’t say out loud. “I pretended I was drunk when I came out to my friends,” he sings – and then, caught between truths, backtracks: “I never came out to my friends. We were all on Skype, and I laughed and changed the subject.”

You might be imagining an extended diary entry, an angsty transmission from a bygone LiveJournal set to power chords and cranked to eleven. You would be wrong. Twin Fantasy is not a monologue. Twin Fantasy is a conversation. You know, he sings, that I’m mostly singing about you. This is Will’s greatest strength as a songwriter: he spins his own story, but he’s always telling yours, too. Between nods to local details – Harper’s Ferry, The Yellow Wallpaper, the Monopoly board collecting dust in his back seat – he leaves room for the fragile stuff of your own life, your own loves. From the very beginning, alone in his bedroom, in his last weeks of high school, he knew he was writing anthems. Someday, he hoped, you and I might sing these words back to him.

“It was never a finished work,” Toledo says, “and it wasn’t until last year that I figured out how to finish it.” He has, now, the benefit of a bigger budget, a full band in fine form, and endless time to tinker. According to him, it took eight months of mixing just to get the drums right. But this is no shallow second take, sanitized in studio and scrubbed of feeling. This is the album he always wanted to make. It sounds the way he always wanted it to sound.

It’s been hard, stepping into the shoes of his teenage self, walking back to painful places. There are lyrics he wouldn’t write again, an especially sad song he regards as an albatross. But even as he carries the weight of that younger, wounded Toledo, he moves forward. He grows. He revises, gently, the songs we love so much. In the album’s final moments, in those “apologies to future me’s and you’s,” there is more forgiveness than fury.

This, Toledo says, is the most vital difference between the old and the new: he no longer sees his own story as a tragedy.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2URtVv1

Monday (6/24)
Bombadil & Ohmme w/ Daphne Lee Martin

FREE WITH RSVP (or $5 at the door)/21 and over/Doors at 7:00PM

Cafe Nine – New Haven

INFO:

Bombadil: Bombadil is a long-running folk-pop band from Durham, NC. The band is known for their creative and heartfelt lyrics, lush vocal harmonies, thoughtful arrangements, and engaging live show.

Ohmme: Already celebrated as the “Heart of Chicago’s Music Community” (Noisey) by both fans and tastemakers alike, Ohmme (aka the duo of Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart) amalgamate the aggressive and the meditative on their bold debut full-length album, Parts.

Still in their 20s, Stewart and Cunningham are both classically trained musicians and are established players within the Chicago music scene. They are especially involved in performing and working for venues within the local experimental music scene. They’re constant collaborators and have recorded and toured with homegrown acts as varied as Tweedy, Whitney, Chance The Rapper and Twin Peaks.

Cunningham and Stewart are multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriters with a penchant for two instruments in particular. “The band started because we knew we could sing well together and we wanted to make some noise with the guitar,” says Cunningham. Stewart elaborates, “Sima and I are both trained classical pianists and we know many of the sonic spaces keyboards have to offer. Since we were interested in experimenting and creating something different from what we had both done in the past, we chose guitar as our outlet for this band. We wanted to create both new and uncomfortable parameters for ourselves to force us into a different creative space.” These guitar-heavy experiments are sometimes earthy and resounding, at other times shimmering and buzzing—swirling around the duo’s expertly crafted vocals while creating a chaotic bed of harmony. Cunningham’s smoky alto complements Stewart’s higher-register croon, all underpinned by the restrained yet highly inventive polyrhythmic percussion of drummer Matt Carroll. Think Amber Coffman and Angel Deradoorian-era Dirty Projectors.

Enlisting fellow Chicago cohorts Doug McCombs (Tortoise), Ken Vandermark and cellist Tomeka Reid, Ohmme recorded and self-produced Parts from Cunningham’s Logan Square home studio, Fox Hall. With Parts, Ohmme “wanted to capture a moment in time instead of something perfect.” The results are thrilling: from the pure pop opening track “Icon” to the candied sludge of “Peach” to the skipping rhythms of “Parts” and the dusky closer “Walk Me,” Parts draws from influences as diverse as Kate Bush and Brian Eno’s Here Come the Warm Jets to jazz and improvisational music, making for an electric debut listening experience.

This range from sweetly shiny 2-minute hypnotic bangers to woozy and sprawling 7-minute long tracks boasting moodily atmospheric wafting guitars and piercing feedback shows a band colliding thoughtfulness and creative ingenuity to produce music as unique as it is earworm-worthy. With Parts, Ohmme manage to organically marry a breadth of divergent styles into an album that is cohesive, daring, and distinctly their own.
RSVP HERE:  https://ticketf.ly/2EPUVpQ

Wednesday (6/26)
Reel Big Fish & Bowling For Soup w/ The Zambonis

$32 ($27 adv)/All Ages/7:00pm Doors

College Street Music Hall – New Haven

INFO:

Reel Big Fish: Reel Big Fish was one of the legions of Southern California ska-punk bands to edge into the mainstream following the mid-’90s success of No Doubt and Sublime. The band was distinguished by their hyperkinetic stage shows, juvenile humor, ironic covers of new wave pop songs, and metallic shards of ska. The group cultivated an underground following that broke into the mainstream in summer 1997 when their single “Sell Out” became a modern rock radio and MTV favorite. Their appearance in the movie “Baseketball” as the halftime band also gained them more fans and helped the band’s popularity to grow. Still fronted by original lead singer and songwriter Aaron Barrett, they continue releasing albums and touring relentlessly, playing more and more countries and bigger venues all over the world.

Bowling For Soup: There’s a song on Bowling For Soup’s 2014 Greatest Hits Album (Songs People Actually Liked: Volume 1) – “20 Years, That’s A Lot Of Beers”, a lighthearted autobiographical sprint through all the things the band had achieved together in their first two decades. It’s a song full of fun and camaraderie, which sums up Bowling For Soup perfectly; they have always felt like your friends as well a band, and of course, they are the band you can wave to! Well, you can add a whole load more beers to that, because as the band approach their twenty fifth anniversary in the coming Summer of 2019, the world of Bowling For Soup is a very exciting place to be a part of. Natives of Denton, Texas – which may now hold the record for town or city named dropped in the most songs by any band ever thanks to “BFS,” Bowling For Soup’s unique brand of hooked filled pop punk music has gone all around the world and back again. Songs such as “High School Never Ends,” “Punk Rock 101,” “1985” and of course the Grammy nominated “Girl All The Bad Guys Want” resonate as much today as when they were written and are proving extremely popular in the modern streaming world.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE:  https://ticketf.ly/2IqkoZR

Wednesday (6/26)
Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade/Moonface) w/ Light Conductor

$17/All Ages/7:00pm Doors

Space Ballroom – Hamden

INFO: After fifteen years of writing and performing with projects like Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Moonface, Swan Lake, and Frog eyes, this prolific artist has finally decided to release and tour the music he makes under his own name – Spencer Krug. First gaining attention in the mid 2000s as co-leader of Montreal’s rock’n’roll Wolf Parade, then soon after as the voice and mind behind the chaotic Sunset Rubdown, Krug eventually used the now defunct Moonface as an outlet for his more experimental and sporadic solo material. And while he still writes and sings for the recently reactivated Wolf Parade, there remains in him a need to express something less rock-oriented, something more quiet and strange and introverted. So, returning to his first and favorite instrument, the piano, Krug has ventured back into his own fantastic world of pseudo-classical balladeering; poetic lyricism laced with twisted pop sensibility and jazz mimicry. Using this template, he now releases his solo work, and tours a variety of new songs as well as those from older projects, as Spencer Krug.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2Gfwh3L

SHOW ANNOUNCEMENTS

Friday, August 23rd
Comedy Bang! Bang! Live! Starring Scott Aukerman w/ Lauren Lapkus, Paul F. Tompkins

$35-45/All Ages/7:00pm Doors

College Street Music Hall – New Haven

INFO: Long-running improv comedy podcast hosted by Scott Aukerman.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRI 6/21: https://ticketf.ly/2Rmmn31

Monday, September 9th
Shana Falana

FREE WITH RSVP (or $5 at the door)/21 and over/Doors at 7:00PM

Cafe Nine – New Haven

INFO: Veteran NY psych-pop act Shana Falana just released her new LP Here Comes The Wave, her 2nd with Team Love Records. Emerging from New York’s vast drone/psych scene, Shana combines live looping of reverb-drenched vocals and guitar with tribal drums and stunning visual projections. Her live experience has often been described as transcendental.
RSVP HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2Kf4Usy

Monday, October 7th
Walden w/ TAME, the Aspiring Me

FREE WITH RSVP (or $5 at the door)/21 and over/Doors at 7:00PM

Cafe Nine – New Haven

INFO: In late 2012, four schoolmates joined together to form something that would become much larger than the sum of its parts. Hailing from the musical mecca of Athens, Georgia, Walden emerged as the city’s newest rock sound. The band quickly captured the college town’s attention, taking them from a debut performance at a Pizza Hut to a headline show at the historic Georgia Theatre just two years later.

Comprised of Richard Becker (vocals/guitar), Jamie de Lange (bass), Eric Hangartner (vocals/piano) and Andrew Mendel (drums) the quartet has remained just that ever since. While each share a dream of traveling the world creating music, they are drawn together by a common understanding of what’s truly sacred: the band.

6 years after its inception, Walden has burst onto the scene with many major festival appearances, including two years in a row at Bonnaroo, a main stage performance at Sloss Music & Arts Festival, as well as directly supporting names including Moon Taxi and Twiddle. These four young men have quickly become one of the biggest upcoming musical acts in the southeast, capturing the attention of audiences of all ages with their raw sound, infectious energy, and the undeniable connection they share on stage.

2019 already looks to be the biggest year yet for Walden. In addition to announcing their new EP, The Static, they are slated to play Shaky Knees Music Festival and Kaaboo Del Mar Fest, followed by a subsequent headlining tour in April and May.

Walden’s new EP, The Static, chronicles the band’s attempt to navigate through the perpetual noise that pervades everyday life in search of something else — something of true purpose and meaning which brings one a sense of truly feeling alive. The Static will be available everywhere April 5th, 2019.
RSVP HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2MyCD1Y

Friday, October 18th
In This Moment w/ Ded, Little Miss Nasty

$30 – $40/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM

College Street Music Hall – New Haven

INFO: Throughout history, art rejoices and revels in the wisdom of women.

Within a deck of tarot cards, the High Priestess serves as the guardian of the unconscious. In Greek mythology, the old oracles celebrate the Mother Goddess. William Shakespeare posited portentous prescience in the form of MacBeth’s “Three Witches.” On their sixth full-­length album Ritual, In This Moment—Maria Brink [vocals, piano], Chris Howorth [lead guitar], Travis Johnson [bass], Randy Weitzel [rhythm guitar], and Kent Diimel [drums]—unearth a furious and focused feminine fire from a cauldron of jagged heavy metal, hypnotic alternative, and smoky voodoo blues.

It’s an evolution. It’s a statement. It’s In This Moment
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRI 6/21: https://ticketf.ly/2x1lRy5

Thursday, December 12th
Cautious Clay

$20 ($18 adv)/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM

Space Ballroom – Hamden

INFO: “Ever since I started playing music, it was always about the feel,” says Josh Karpeh, AKA Cautious Clay. “There are a lot of things in art that you can learn by practicing or studying, but feel’s not one of them. It’s something you’ve just got to have.”

It’s that feel, that deep emotional intuition that fuels Cautious Clay’s sound. Blending R&B, hip-hop, and experimental indie, his productions are dark and engrossing, built upon a unique combination of organic instruments, digital programming, and soulful vocals. He writes with unflinching honesty, engaging in deeply personal self-reflection with boldly vulnerable and vividly poetic lyrics. At times recalling contemporaries like James Blake or Sampha, Cautious is a profoundly modern songwriter and a forward- thinking producer, but he’s also steeped in the past, quick to cite Burt Bacharach as an idol and credit Stevie Wonder and Quincy Jones as ever-present influences in his artful arrangements.

“I used to think about songwriting and production as completely separate,” he explains, “but when I learned how to merge those two things, that’s when I was able to start creating music that really connected with people.”

Originally from Cleveland, OH, Cautious began his artistic journey at the age of seven when he picked up classical flute. His studies led him deep into the worlds of blues and jazz, and by the time he hit college in Washington, D.C., he’d added a number of other instruments to his repertoire in addition to songwriting and production. Now based in Brooklyn, Cautious is consistently working on music for both his own project and for others.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 9AM FRI 6/21: https://ticketf.ly/2KXqpxA

**Tickets are available for all these shows in the shop (cash only for ticket sales) without the online fees. **