Manic Presents / Premier Concerts Update 06-27-2019

Manic Presents / Premier Concerts Guest Post:

We’re back with our weekly Manic Presents Redscroll Blog! As usual, we’re here to share some exciting show announcements and remind you of the great shows happening. Just announced at College Street Music Hall – CT native and winner of the 14th Season of American Idol, Nick Fradiani on Saturday (8/24), genre-defying electronic duo Thievery Corporation on Saturday (10/19), and actor/comedian Bob Saget on (10/24). At Space Ballroom – thrash crossover metal band Municipal Waste on Friday (7/26) with Intercourse and Kidnapped (record release show), blues/indie rock band Reignwolf with The Parlor Mob on (8/06), and experimental music project Xiu Xiu on Wednesday (10/2). And lastly and as part of as part of our weekly Manic Monday series at Cafe Nine – Columbus noise pop band didi on (8/19) with Hellrazor and SAP. Don’t forget to grab your tickets and RSVP today!

This week’s show schedule begins TOMORROW (6/28) with We The Kings at Space Ballroom with Whatever We Are and Where The Wild Live! On Monday (7/1), Denver doom-metal band Dreadnought comes to Cafe Nine with Sea of Bones and Mourn the Light as part of our weekly Manic Mondays music series. On Wednesday (7/3), folk/soul husband-wife duo The War and Treaty performs at Space Ballroom with Philippe Bronchtein. On the following Monday (7/8), local favorite Ports of Spain will be at Cafe Nine for our weekly Manic Mondays series with Holy Tunic and Shy. On Tuesday (7/9) Scottihs synth-pop band CHVRCHES makes their CT debut at College Street Music Hall with Speedy Ortiz. And finally, on Wednesday (7/10), Detroit indie rocker Stef Chura comes to Space Ballroom with French Vanilla and Steve Harlett (Stove, Ovlov). Make sure to grab your tickets!

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Keep an eye out for more announcements and we’ll see you back here in two weeks!

Upcoming Shows…

 

TOMORROW, Friday (6/28)
We The Kings w/ Whatever We Are, Where The Wild Live

$25 ($20 adv)/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM

Space Ballroom – Hamden

INFO: We The Kings is Hunter Thomsen (guitar), Coley O’Toole (auxiliary/background vocals), Travis Clark (guitar/vocals), Danny Duncan (drums) & Charles Trippy (bass). The band currently resides in sunny Bradenton, FL. Their album releases include Self Titled (2007), Smile Kid (2010), Sunshine State Of Mind (2011), Somewhere Somehow (2013), and The Story of Tonight (2016).
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2RDRpUi

Monday (7/1)
Dreadnought w/ Sea of Bones, Mourn the Light

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

Cafe Nine – New Haven

INFO: Elements of progressive rock, black metal, post rock, doom, and folk band from Denver/Colorado Springs, Colorado. Dreadnought represents a new face for extreme music across the board. The presence of flute, mandolin, and saxophone adds subterranean depth to the sonic palette, while dual female melodies make for a majestic and mystical chemistry.
RSVP HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2HNM7Ua

Wednesday (7/3)
The War and Treaty w/ Philippe Bronchtein

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

Space Ballroom – Hamden

INFO: “You have to have a deep place of love within yourself to be vulnerable,” Tanya says. “With The War and Treaty, we allow people to see two people that are not perfect. We get on stage. We sweat. We’re overweight. We yell. We get ugly, we scream! My hair comes loose. We’re vulnerable––naked––in front of people, and it’s a chain reaction. It allows them to be vulnerable, too.”

The War and Treaty deliver live shows and records that make the hairs on the back of necks stand up. Their music and stories bring tears and goosebumps, but ultimately, more is at work. In the midst of Michael and Tanya’s open, beaming faces and united voices, facades met away. Walls are torn down. “I want people to feel like we care,” Michael says. “When you think about artists, you don’t think about that.” He pauses and grins broadly. “But that’s the way I want the world to feel about The War and Treaty.”
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2Hr4ugC

Monday (7/8)
Ports of Spain w/ Holy Tunic, SHY

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

Cafe Nine – New Haven

INFO: From the back of the bar, Ports of Spain instantly scan as a full band, so it’s a shock to discover their mathy shoegaze-pop is constructed by just two musicians. Ilya Gitelman uses octave pedals and loops to play lead, bass and rhythm guitar simultaneously, while Sam Carlson contributes vocals, keyboards and drums. Don’t be fooled — Ports of Spain are not another band that trades directionless loopy jazz odysseys for pure songcraft. Their equipment never gets in the way of their complex melodies. They write actual songs, consistently avoiding complication for the sake of complication. They juggle tons of ideas in every song, creating a noise that’s consistently about to fall apart. That it doesn’t is incredible by itself. Their brilliant songs may seem like a bonus under these circumstances, but don’t underrate Ports of Spain. Even as these two guys spew chaos into crowded clubs, their songwriting is always there to remind you why a grounding in planned songcraft keeps so many of the best bands tethered to excellence. Ports of Spain belong in their company. Ports of Spain have played with bands like Tera Melos, Hospitality, Beach Fossils, Fang Island, Pissed Jeans, Pile, ONWE, Speedy Ortiz, Morning Teleportation, Kal Marks, The Paper Kites, and Solids.
RSVP HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2HssVdk

 

Tuesday (7/9)
CHVRCHES w/ Speedy Ortiz

$35-$45/All Ages/Doors at 7:00PM

College Street Music Hall – New Haven

INFO: CHVRCHES are Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty. Love Is Dead is the band’s third album, following their top 10 debut The Bones of What You Believe (2013) and its top 5 critically acclaimed follow up Every Open Eye (2015). To date CHVRCHES have amassed well over 1 billion streams of tracks from these three albums. Over the course of their career, CHVRCHES have played countless shows worldwide, with production reaching new heights on the Love Is Dead tour as they called at numerous prestigious venues; LA’s Greek Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, London’s Alexandra Palace and a huge hometown show in Glasgow at the SSE Hydro. The band have now announced an extensive run of summer festivals + US live dates for 2019.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2IDichA

Wednesday (7/10)
Stef Chura w/ French Vanilla, Steve Hartlett (Stove, Ovlov)

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

Space Ballroom – Hamden

INFO: “For most people who create art I would assume there is some kind of deep unanswerable hole in your soul as to why you’re making it…” So says Stef Chura ahead of the release of Midnight, her gritty, vehement new album, recorded and produced by Will Toledo of Car Seat Headrest – and her first new collection of songs for Saddle Creek, out June 7th. Illuminating that search for answers with a fevered sense of exploration, Midnight is a bold leap forward from Messes, Stef’s contagious debut album, with every aspect of her new work finding bold ways to express itself as it rips through twelve restless and relentless new tracks. Today, she also shares the first single, “Method Man, ” a boisterous three-minutes that melds jagged, skewed guitars with a distinctive voice that has a new-found sense of confidence while touching on a vulnerable moment in Stef’s life. She also announces a North American tour in support of the new album.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2EV3q2X

SHOW ANNOUNCEMENTS

Friday, July 26th
Municipal Waste w/ Intercourse, Kidnapped (Record Release)

$20/All Ages/Doors at 7PM

Space Ballroom – Hamden

INFO: So what happens when a band’s riotous reputation catches up with them? Precautionary measures are taken and they – of course – get banished, only this time, it’s into space! When the greedy ship captain hordes the food rations, the crew kicks into survival mode, commit mutiny, and devour their captain skewing the story into a horrific yet fantastic cannibalistic voyage into space that cult movies are made of.

The Fatal Feast, the fifth studio album by Richmond, Virginia’s cross-over kings MUNICIPAL WASTE, not only ponders the type of moral dilemma faced in the title track but also tackles earthly issues that consistently plague humanity (“Covered In Sick/The Barfer,” “Repossession,” “Standards And Practices,” “12 Step Program,” “Crushing Chest Wound”). These 37 minutes of new music consolidate the best of everything the band’s got to offer: their utmost respect for headbang-inducing riffs, their trademarked aggression, their tongue-in-cheek sense of humor, and their talent for extracting meaning out of the absurd.

For fans of metal, punk, and hardcore, MUNICIPAL WASTE’s The Fatal Feast is already being hailed as “an interstellar thrashterpiece” by Decibel magazine. Space may be a noiseless vacuum for amateurs who don’t travel with their own P.A. system, but seasoned veterans of extreme situations MUNICIPAL WASTE always know better than to leave home without it!
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2Xr3IZe

Tuesday, August 6th
Reignwolf w/ The Parlor Mob

$25 ($20adv)/All Ages/Doors at 7PM

Space Ballroom – Hamden

INFO: Reignwolf originated in 2012 and within two short years they toured the world, performed at almost every major festival across the globe and were handpicked to open up for Black Sabbath without even releasing a record.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2K9QD0b

Monday, August 19th
didi w/ Hellrazor, SAP

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

Cafe Nine – New Haven

INFO: With roots in Japan, Colombia, Mexico as well as the US, didi is comprised of four friends who use their varied backgrounds to give context and bring personal depth to the music they make together.

Meg Zakany and Kevin Bilapka-Arbelaez provide the intermingling guitar parts, with Leslie Shimizu on bass and Sheena Mcgrath on drums. Zakany, Bilapka-Arbelaez and Shimizu all lend their voices to songs that seek to explore (among other things) the power of an ambiguous identity as a tool to more fluently navigate difficult or guarded conversations; the pain of forgetting what once seemed to be an unforgettable love; and the sting a woman is capable of in the face of an unchecked man socialized to underestimate her.

didi are touring this August in celebration of Summer and their latest release, “like memory foam”.
RSVP HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2Rx7IlI

Saturday, August 24th
Nick Fradiani

$25-$50/All Ages/Doors at 7PM

College Street Music Hall – New Haven

INFO: Fans fell for Nick Fradiani as he soared through American Idol, claiming the champion title and releasing his debut solo project, Hurricane. Now based in his home state of Connecticut, Fradiani returns to the soul of his work, crafting songs with melody and rhythm that remind him why he chose music in the first place. Fradiani is gearing up for the fall release of his latest EP, Where We Left Off, an independent album available October 13th.

Growing up on the east coast, Fradiani was mesmerized by the live renditions of his heroes: Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel, to name a few. He initially gained recognition fronting trio Beach Avenue before breaking off to pursue his own endeavors. Now settled from the whirlwind of television shows and record deals, the poetic singer/songwriter is focused on translating his next body of work to live performances because, at the root of it all, his fans make him the artist he is today.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2RA0Q74

Wednesday, October 2nd
Xiu Xiu

$15/All Ages/Doors at 7PM

Space Ballroom – Hamden

INFO: It could be handfuls of reds. It could be turning Caravaggio’s Boy with Basket of Fruit to face the wall. It could be a commission by the Guggenheim entitled Deforms the Unborn. It could be the demon Vetis, whose friends call Him The Life  Promiser. It could be that in 1918 a pregnant Mary Turner was hung upside down from a tree by a lynch mob while they cut out her fetus & that this could happen today, as it did then, without consequences for whitey.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2WSSybp

Saturday, October 19th

November 18, 2016 – New York, NY Portrait shoot with Thievery Corporation’s Rob Garza and Eric Hilton credit Jen Maler

Thievery Corporation

$36.50-$50/All Ages/Doors at 7PM

College Street Music Hall – New Haven

INFO: How many highly successful musical artists do you know that have thrived for 20 years without a radio hit, a big budget video, or major label backing? Moreover, have managed to do high-profile TV appearances, own and operate their own independent label since day one, sell several million albums and continue to expand their fan base across the globe each year. They’ve collaborated with such uniquely famed artists David Byrne, Perry Farrell, The Flaming Lips, Anushka Shankar, Femi Kuti, Seu Jorge, Bebel Gilberto, and been featured on major film soundtracks such as Garden State. They’ve headlined top music festivals, such as Coachella and Lollapalooza, and have influenced a whole generation of electronic producers and DJs. If you add these elements together, you can arrive at only one conclusion: Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, aka: Thievery Corporation.

In great anticipation of this exciting new release, and in reflection of an astonishing two decades together, one may be prompted to ask what has been the magic formula behind Thievery Corporation’s great success and what does the future hold from here? Perhaps the answer can be found in Rob Garza’s concluding thoughts: “What inspires us to continue to create this genre of sound is the broad spectrum of collaborators and audience members it continues to draw. We have been extremely privileged to work with artists of all cultural, social and political backgrounds, and our fans display even greater diversity and age differences. The people who have come together through Thievery Corporation are as much an accomplishment as the music we’ve produced to date and will continue to produce in the coming years.”
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2RA0Zr8

Thursday, October 24th
Bob Saget

$35-$50/All Ages/Doors at 7PM

College Street Music Hall – New Haven

INFO: Yes, Bob Saget has starred in many successful television shows, including two of the most family-friendly shows network TV has ever produced (“Full House” and “Americas Funniest Home Videos”) but he’s also an out of his mind, Grammy-nominated standup comedian for over thirty years. From his HBO special “That Ain’t Right” to his scene-stealing cameos in “Entourage,” and “The Aristocrats,” it’s always effective as Saget embraces his dark side. He will continue his extensive stand-up tour from now throughout 2019.
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ticketf.ly/2RCOBqs

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