Manic Presents / Premier Concerts Guest Post:
We’re back with our weekly Manic Presents Redscroll blog and have a bunch of exciting announcements! Just announced at College Street Music Hall – Comedian Nick Kroll on (7/18)! At Wall Street Theater in Norwalk – Boston-based funk/soul band Ripe on (11/17)! At Space Ballroom – Martin Courtney (of Real Estate) & Ryley Walker on (7/23), Richmond indie artist Lucy Dacus on (9/11), Australian psych/grunge band Psychedelic Porn Crumpets on (10/5), Mike Watt (Minutemen/fIREHOSE) + The Missingmen on (10/10), and Louisville garage rockers White Reaper on (11/3)! At Cafe Nine and as part of our weekly Manic Mondays music series – Seattle dream-pop artist Hibou on (8/5) and Boston alt/folk duo The Western Den on (8/26)! Don’t forget to RSVP and grab your tickets this weekend!
This week’s show schedule begins tomorrow Friday (5/31) with Frank Iero (My Chemical Romance) and the Future Violents at Space Ballroom! The weekend features R&B artist India.Arie on Saturday (6/1) at College Street Music Hall with Javier Colon and finally, on Monday (6/3), Brooklyn-based rockers A Deer A Horse comes to Cafe Nine with James Mauri and The Blackriver Stones and Kid Sistr as part of our weekly Manic Mondays music series! These are DO NOT miss shows – hope to see you there!
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Keep an eye out for more announcements and we’ll see you back here next Thursday!
Upcoming Shows…
Friday (5/31)
Frank Iero and the Future Violents w/ Reggie and the Full Effect (solo)
$25/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM
Space Ballroom, Hamden
INFO: Frank Anthony Thomas Iero, Jr. (born October 31, 1981) is an American musician who was the rhythm guitarist and backup vocalist of the rock band My Chemical Romance and post-hardcore band Leathermouth.
Following the recent announcement that Frank Iero has signed to UNFD and formed his latest band FRANK IERO AND THE FUTURE VIOLENTS, the first track from his upcoming album BARRIERS (out May 31, 2019) “Young and Doomed” is now available via DSPs and streaming services. Premiered on BBC Radio1 with Annie Mac, the insistent, dark rock n’ roll anthem flails with a wild and uncontrollable angst and energy. Its accompanying video is a visceral performance piece that captures the frenetic and frantic energy that bursts from the track with guitar, bass and drums with Frank’s plaintive vocals anchoring the hopeless emotion. Directed by Steve Pedulla from Thursday, the video features childhood photos of Frank Iero and The Future Violents.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2HscDkH
Saturday (6/1)
India.Arie w/ Javier Colon
$49-$69/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM
College Street Music Hall – New Haven
INFO: It’s no secret to India.Arie fans that the word ‘worthy’ has been an empowering expression of self-love for her and her audience over the years. Faithfully repurposed as the title and theme of her brand new 16-track album, including 13 songs and 3 interludes, India’s first full-length offering in five years is set to impact a world finally attuned to the kind of empathic sea-change the humanitarian singer/songwriter has embraced her entire career.
Recognized as a major influence for a new generation of socially aware artists, India is both ahead of her time and of it – an evocative creative force on a mission to spread healing, peace, love and unconditional self-acceptance through the power of words and music.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2GvsNcC
Monday (6/3)
A Deer A Horse w/ James Mauri and The Blackriver Stones, Kid Sistr
Free with RSVP (or $5 at the door)/21 and over/Doors at 7PM
Cafe Nine – New Haven
INFO: From their roots in Brooklyn’s DIY scene, A Deer A Horse has grown into a relentless touring act over the years. The band has clocked in nearly 250 shows across the country since 2017.
ADAH is comprised of Rebecca Satellite (vocals/guitar) and Angela Phillips (bass/vocals), and Dylan Teggart (drums). Their debut EP, _Backswimmer_, drew praise from the AV Club, who noted the band’s unlikely marriage of doom metal dirges with vocal earworms.
In 2018, ADAH released singles “Cold Shoulder” and “Double Wide” in anticipation of their new EP, Everything Rots That Is Rotten. The EP aims to reflect upon the current socio-political moment, offering the possibility of catharsis in the midst of systemic corruption. Everything Rots That Is Rotten was recorded at Silver Cord Studio, home-base of French metal pioneers, Gojira, and will be released on Detroit’s Corpse Flower Records on June 21st.
RSVP HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2KefijE
SHOW ANNOUNCEMENTS
Thursday, July 18th
Nick Kroll
$39-$49/All Ages/Doors at 7PM
College Street Music Hall – New Haven
INFO: Nick Kroll is an actor, writer and producer. He most recently co-created and voiced numerous roles on the Netflix animated series BIG MOUTH, which has been heralded by the Hollywood Reporter as “sweet, progressive and breathtakingly filthy,” and was nominated for an Annie Award for “Best General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production.” Nick can next be heard in SECRET LIFE OF PETS 2 set to be released in June 2019, and as ‘Uncle Fester’ in MGM’s THE ADDAMS FAMILY set to be released in October 2019. He also can be seen in MGM’s OPERATION FINALE opposite Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingley, and in Lionsgate’s UNCLE DREW. In January 2017, he wrapped his Broadway debut with the critical and financial hit ‘Oh, Hello on Broadway’. Recent film credits include Jeff Nichols’ critically acclaimed film LOVING, Seth Rogen’s SAUSAGE PARTY and Illumination’s SING. Nick had his own Comedy Central sketch show KROLL SHOW and starred as Ruxin in the hit FX show THE LEAGUE.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRI 5/31 HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2WsZqAa
Tuesday, July 23rd
Martin Courtney (of Real Estate) & Ryley Walker
$15/All Ages/Doors at 7PM
Space Ballroom – Hamden
INFO:
Martin Courtney: Martin Courtney is the frontman of beloved band Real Estate and, with the release of 2015’s LP Many Moons, a solo recording artist in his own right. Many Moons was written in the wake of 2014’s Real Estate album, Atlas, and was Courtney’s chance to explore a more concise, straightforward style of writing, something that felt innately his. The resulting album is a collection of soft psychedelia that recalls the Kinks and Big Star even as it probes the depths of his own life as a family man, father, and touring musician.
Courtney last performed solo at a very special Cafe Carlyle residency in 2018, and this new run of upcoming dates will be a rare chance for fans to hear him perform songs from Many Moons, amongst other surprises.
Ryley Walker: Ryley Walker is a singer/songwriter from Chicago, IL and currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. He’s released 10+ full length records under his own name, and with various ensembles ranging from folk rock, to drone, to free improv.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRI 5/31 HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2KaDFP6
Monday, August 5th
Hibou w/ The Penniless Wild, Big Fang
Free with RSVP (or $5 at the door)/21 and over/Doors at 7PM
Cafe Nine – New Haven
INFO: Amidst an atmosphere of melancholia, Peter Michel has thrown himself into a lifetime’s worth of writing, recording and touring belied by his young age. At just 17, the Seattle-based musician toured extensively with dream pop outfit Craft Spells, and most recently met critical acclaim with his personal project, Hibou. In ‘Halve’, Hibou’s third full length album, Michel creates a characteristically ethereal record addressing the dichotomies between childhood and adulthood, self and society, authenticity and superficiality. The outcome is a work filled with swooning, hazy reflections on loss, love, nostalgia, and joy from a 10,000 foot view. Michel’s vocals comfortably twist from echoing whispers to punkish accusations; his guitar from dizzying surf hooks to lush 80s-inspired chords. Control—and the lack of it—reverberates throughout the album, and the consequence is a set of ten deeply vulnerable songs that will find you romanticizing your own childhood, your own teenage years, your own morning.
RSVP HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2Hx97pw
Monday, August 26th
The Western Den w/ Minor Moon, Lil Sluggers
Free with RSVP (or $5 at the door)/21 and over/Doors at 7PM
Cafe Nine – New Haven
INFO: To find a musical soulmate, someone with whom to explore your innermost feelings, unite artistic languages, and craft a shared voice is a daunting, even mysterious, undertaking. Some writers spend years searching and never uncover the other half they seek; for others, a partnership just flicks on like a light. The origin story of the hauntingly beautiful duo The Western Den is wonderfully curious in just this way: Deni Hlavinka, an introspective pianist from small town Virginia, posted a song idea on a college forum for accepted students. Chris West, a bright-eyed guitarist from Bermuda, sent back the song the following day in finished form. Upon meeting in person, they discovered their musical—and personal—bond was eerily close; there was never a discussion of forming a band, never a conscious choice, it just happened, fueled by a sheer desire, a necessity to pursue what felt right.
The act of reaching out in search of a common creative haven—that same force which brought Hlavinka and West together seven years ago—is a theme of ‘A Light Left On’, their forthcoming debut record. A careful labor of love, it emerged over the course of two years as a set of demos, which the pair then tracked meticulously over a six-month span. This restraint stands in stark contrast to their previous releases, two EPs which they hurried to release with the same speed and enthusiasm of Hlavinka and West’s initial long-distance collaboration. The result of their patience this time around is an ornate emotional garden, lovingly cultivated and ready for company. In their songwriting, arrangements, and production choices, the band leaves behind the folk label, which always felt like a safe descriptor yet never quite like home, pushing out into orchestral, ethereal, and chordally complex territory, while preserving their sweeping vocal harmonies, at once lush and modest, unmistakably the foundation of their partnership.
‘A Light Left On’ details a coming-of-age search—for purpose, for an environment that feels authentic. From its inceptive command to “raise it up, give a name / call it close, temporary though all the same”, the album announces its creators’ desire to define themselves within a turbulent landscape of thoughts, to have a light left on somewhere that feels permanent. Absent of that flag-planting resolution, the record offers up the belief that a light is still out there—‘I’m still holding on, still, still I’m holding on’—as if spoken to themselves as a mantra, on repeat, to reassure and encourage.
The Western Den showcases a mature pursuit of beauty that is all their own, and yet they capture the emotional soul-searching that exists in all of us, whether we hide it from the world or share it. In Hlavinka and West’s case, they have chosen to share it, extending their trust in each other to their audience.
RSVP HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2K4NdLt
Wednesday, September 11th
Lucy Dacus w/ Quinn Christopherson
$18 ($15 adv)/All Ages/Doors at 7PM
Space Ballroom – Hamden
INFO: Lucy Dacus is done thinking small. Two years after her 2016 debut, No Burden, won her unanimous acclaim as one of rock’s most promising new voices, Dacus returns on March 2 with Historian, a remarkably assured 10-track statement of intent. It finds her unafraid to take on the big questions — the life-or-death reckonings, and the ones that just feel that way. It’s a record full of bracing realizations, tearful declarations and moments of hard-won peace, expressed in lyrics that feel destined for countless yearbook quotes and first tattoos.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRI 5/31 HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2GoGTw8
Saturday, October 5th
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets w/ Meatbodies
$15/All Ages/Doors at 7PM
Space Ballroom – Hamden
INFO: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – a powerful, melody driven psychedelic rock band from Perth who’ve been quoted as “resembling Jimi Hendrix fresh off the end of a light globe” – The Music. Highlights so far include supporting King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Dune Rats, Black Mountain, Goons of Doom, Skegss, releasing their debut album “High Visceral {Part 1}”, releasing their sophomore album “High Visceral {Part 2}” and completing a national tour around Australia.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRI 5/31 HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2KcltVh
Thursday, October 10th
Mike Watt + The Missingmen
$20/All Ages/Doors at 7PM
Space Ballroom – Hamden
INFO: Bassist Mike Watt was the living embodiment of the punk rock spirit. As a founding member of the highly influential Minutemen, he created one of the most important bodies of work in the American underground canon, delivering adventurous, fiercely polemical music informed by such disparate traditions as funk, folk, and free jazz. Although his subsequent material — most notably his records with the trio fIREHOSE, as well as his latter-day solo efforts — lacked the sheer impact of his earliest outings, Watt remained true to the D.I.Y. ethos that originally inspired him, emerging as one of the most highly respected figures in contemporary music.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRI 5/31 HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2WvNzBz
Sunday, November 3rd
White Reaper w/ The Nude Party, Wombo
$18 ($15 adv)/All Ages/Doors at 7PM
Space Ballroom – Hamden
INFO: From the increasingly fertile Louisville, KY, DIY scene emerges White Reaper – an incandescent four piece who is ready and willing to blow out eardrums far and wide.
After signing to Polyvinyl in early 2014 and releasing a self-titled EP that blasts through six tracks in a breakneck 15 minutes, the Reapers — guitarist Tony Esposito, keyboardist Ryan Hater, bassist Sam Wilkerson, and drummer Nick Wilkerson — followed suit in 2015 with their debut full-length, White Reaper Does It Again.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRI 5/31 HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2KeuTzt
Sunday, November 17th
Ripe w/ Castlecomer
$20 ($17 adv) /All Ages/Doors at 7PM
Wall Street Theater – Norwalk
INFO: On a primal level, we react to music through movement.
A head-nod, a foot-tap, or a handclap certainly shows appreciation, but dancing seals the eternal bond between audience and musician. Siphoning the spirits of rock, funk, R&B, jazz, and pop through a kaleidoscope of unpredictable and virtuosic improvisation, Boston-based seven-piece Ripe consistently bring people to their feet. Most importantly, they prove that “dance music” in its purest form doesn’t have to come from computers and synthesizers. It can be an unstoppable groove or an extended moment of ecstatic release. Like those bodies moving on the floor, it’s the result of the energy, friction, and communication between living and breathing people. An inimitable and indefinable chemistry has separated and singled out Ripe since day one. Subverting any and all standard genre boundaries once again, their latest offering confidently continues that tradition. These seven musical soulmates —Robbie Wulfsohn [vocals], Tory Geismar [guitar], Jon Becker [guitar], Sampson Hellerman [drums], Josh Shpak [trumpet], Calvin Barthel [trombone], and Nadav Shapira [bass]—once again incite listeners to move on their independent full-length debut, Joy In The Wild Unknown.
TICKETS AVAILABLE 10AM FRI 5/31 HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2Wr9mdv
**Tickets are available for all these shows in the shop (cash only for ticket sales) without the online fees. **