BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Orange Co. Arts Commission - ECPv6.17.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://artsorange.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Orange Co. Arts Commission REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210901T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210902T000000 DTSTAMP:20210805T184114Z CREATED:20210805T184114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210805T184114Z UID:26015-1630522800-1630540800@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Bayside DESCRIPTION:Links: Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/bayside/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Bayside_with_Senses_Fail_Hawthorne-3NMoUA.tmp_.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210829T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210829T235900 DTSTAMP:20210805T184113Z CREATED:20210805T184113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210805T184113Z UID:26013-1630260000-1630281540@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Tim Carless Among Friends: A Memorial Concert DESCRIPTION:North Carolina Artists Come Together for Memorial Concert at the Cat’s Cradle Celebrating the Life & Music of Esteemed Artist\, Songwriter & Guitarist Tim Carless \n“Tim Carless Among Friends: A Memorial Concert” will be an evening of performances of Carless’ original music and songs he loved presented at the Cat’s Cradle \nLine-Up Includes Skylar Gudasz\, Rachel Kiel\, Jeff Crawford\, Brett Harris\, Django Haskins\, Angela Winter and Anne-Claire \nShow on August 29\, 2021 at the Cat’s Cradle at 6 PM.\nPrior to the concert\, a gallery of Tim’s paintings will be available for viewing in the lobby of the Carrboro ArtsCenter.\nOn Sunday\, August 29th\, Cat’s Cradle will be hosting “Tim Carless Among Friends\,” a memorial concert celebrating his life and work presented by the musicians who knew and loved him. Admission is free and the concert will be at 6 PM. Performers include: Skylar Gudasz\, Josh Moore\, Rachel Kiel\, Jeff Crawford\, Angela Winter\, Brett Harris\, Anne-Claire\, Mark Williams\, Dale Baker\, Daniel Fields\, Casey Toll and Brad Porter. \nThough Tim Carless always described himself as simply a “jobbing musician\,” he was a prolific and gifted guitar player; touring\, writing\, and recording with artists like Wreckless Eric\, Aufgehoben and Paul McCartney. An internationally sought-after and sensitive producer\, he founded the UK-based Mockin’ Bird Recording Company\, blooming as a songwriter and recording artist with several solo releases to his name. After selling his studio and relocating to the US in 2000\, with stints in Los Angeles and NYC\, he eventually settled in Carrboro to become a staple of the NC arts scene. Through his soundtracking of films\, solo performances and live film scores at The ArtsCenter\, his radio spots on WCOM and WXYC\, his collection of guitar\, piano\, and composition students\, and his work as impresario and showrunner to a community of musicians across the state\, Tim Carless was a vibrant\, constant presence over the last 15 years. \nEarly in the morning on June 14\, 2021\, Tim passed away at the age of 55 following a shockingly short battle with esophageal cancer. Artists across the state of North Carolina and around the world lost an invaluable colleague and collaborator. Budding musicians in Carrboro lost an inspiring teacher. So many of us lost a brilliant and compassionate friend. And two young girls lost a beloved father. \nBefore the concert\, there will also be an opportunity to view some of Tim’s paintings\, which will be hung next door at the The ArtsCenter. Please join us for a wonderful evening of music in celebration of a man who gave us so many such evenings. \nTo read more about Tim’s work and to support his songs\, please visit https://www.timcarless.com/. \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/tim-carless-among-friends-a-memorial-concert/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Tim-CarlessFullSizeRender-1000-1SafEJ.tmp_.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210822T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210822T235900 DTSTAMP:20210805T184111Z CREATED:20210805T184111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210805T184111Z UID:26006-1629637200-1629676740@artsorange.org SUMMARY:School of Rock Chapel Hill’s End of Season Shows DESCRIPTION:School of Rock Chapel Hill’s End-of-Season Shows Live from Cat’s Cradle! \n1 pm – The Best of Weezer (1/1)\n1:45 – The Best of The Beach Boys (1/2)\n2:30 – The Best of The Beach Boys (2/2)\n3:15 – Stevie Ray Vaughan vs. ZZ Top (1/1)\n4:00 – Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy (1/1)\n4:45 – Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti (1/2)\n5:30 – Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti (2/2)\n6:15 – Strike \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/school-of-rock-chapel-hills-end-of-season-shows/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/SchoolOfRock2021-1000-pwozqM.tmp_.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210821T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210822T000000 DTSTAMP:20210805T184110Z CREATED:20210805T184110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210805T184110Z UID:26002-1629561600-1629590400@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Abbey Road LIVE! – Family Matinee DESCRIPTION:You loved Beatles music when you were a kid. Now it’s time for YOUR kids to experience the magic of the Beatles LIVE in concert. On Saturday June 22nd at Cat’s Cradle\, Abbey Road LIVE! will be playing a special all-ages family matinee show. \nAbbey Road LIVE! is well known in the Southeast for their energetic concerts at clubs\, theaters and festivals. This time\, the focus will be on the kids. Expect fun classics such as “Octopus’ Garden”\, “Yellow Submarine”\, and “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”. Does your child have a favorite Beatles tune? Abbey Road LIVE! loves to take requests\, and has often been known to invite kids on stage to sing along. \nThis rare event will be big fun for the whole family. \nLinks: Website | Facebook \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/abbey-road-live-family-matinee-2/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Abbey_Road_LIVE_-_Family-sbCxcD.tmp_.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210821T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210822T000000 DTSTAMP:20210805T184110Z CREATED:20210805T184110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210805T184110Z UID:26004-1629576000-1629590400@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Abbey Road LIVE! DESCRIPTION:“one of the world’s premier Beatles cover bands” -US News and World Report \n“unquestionably expert at what they do” -Indyweek \nSince 2002\, Abbey Road LIVE! has been rocking the music of The Beatles. Initially a tribute to the monumental “Abbey Road” album\, the band has expanded its repertoire to include more than 150 Beatles tunes\, from all eras of the Fab Four’s career. \nAbbey Road LIVE! is not your typical Beatle look-alike tribute act; don’t expect mop-top haircuts and fake British accents. Rather\, an Abbey Road LIVE! show is about bringing to life some of the more mature and complex Beatles material in a raw & spirited fashion\, while remaining true to the original recordings. Combining attention to detail with a creative exuberance\, the band always delights its audiences with its diverse repertoire of hits and more obscure favorites. \nA splendid time is guaranteed for all! \nLinks: Website | Facebook \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/abbey-road-live-2/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Abbey_Road_LIVE-kFnYNP.tmp_.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210815T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210816T000000 DTSTAMP:20210805T184100Z CREATED:20210805T184100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210805T184100Z UID:25991-1629057600-1629072000@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Paul Thorn DESCRIPTION:Paul Thorn has created an innovative and impressive career\, pleasing crowds with his muscular brand of roots music – bluesy\, rocking and thoroughly Southern American\, yet also speaking universal truths. Among those who value originality\, inspiration\, eccentricity and character – as well as talent that hovers somewhere on the outskirts of genius\, the story of Paul Thorn is already familiar. Born in Tupelo\, Mississippi\, raised among the same spirits (and some of the actual people) who nurtured the young Elvis generations before\, Paul Thorn has rambled down back roads and jumped out of airplanes\, worked for years in a furniture factory\, battled four-time world champion boxer Roberto Duran on national television\, performed on stages with Bonnie Raitt\, Mark Knopfler\, Sting\, and John Prine among many others\, and made some of the most emotionally restless yet fully accessible music of our time. He’s also appeared on major television shows\, received numerous National Public Radio features and charted multiple times on the Billboard Top 100 and Americana Radio Charts. \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/paul-thorn/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Paul_Thorn1623090023-7eyltm.tmp_.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210814T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210815T000000 DTSTAMP:20210805T184058Z CREATED:20210805T184058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210805T184058Z UID:25989-1628956800-1628985600@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Psychic Hotline Block Party DESCRIPTION:Psychic Hotline Block PartyArtists performing at Cat’s Cradle\, Cat’s Cradle back room\, and Cat’s Cradle’s outdoor stage \nLINEUP:Mountain ManAndy JenkinsBangzzYoung BullGendel / Sanborn / WesterlundDante HighBlack HausHelado Negro (DJ Set)Sylvan Esso (DJ Set)Uwade& Secret Special Guests !   \n LOOK OUT1-888-PSY-HTLNhttps://www.psychic-hotline.net/ \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/psychic-hotline-block-party/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Psychic_Hotline_Block_Party_with-70tnv0.tmp_.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210804T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210805T000000 DTSTAMP:20210706T184136Z CREATED:20210706T184136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210706T184136Z UID:25576-1628107200-1628121600@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Alesana DESCRIPTION:Positive Mental Attitude. This is the mantra that is not only a driving force for Raleigh\, North Carolina based Alesana\, but also a way of life. Celebrating eleven years as a band\, the pop-metal sextet is always in high spirits and accustomed to playing their hearts out every night when on the road. Countless US tours\, several trips around the world\, and seven major releases later\, Alesana is living proof that hard work and dedication to dreams can go a long\, long way. Calling Revival Recordings their home\, the band released the conclusion to their Annabel Trilogy in April 2015 with Confessions. Released in December of 2013\, the stand-alone single Fatima Rusalka progressed the band’s conceptual trilogy en route to its conclusion with Confessions. The song does what has come to be expected of the storytelling rock machine which is to draw from past influences while incorporating new possibilities\, dynamics\, and sonic exploration. Having spent time on Tragic Hero Records\, Fearless Records\, and Epitaph Records\, Alesana’s entire catalogue\, consisting of Try This With Your Eyes Closed\, On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax\, Where Myth Fades To Legend\, The Emptiness\, A Place Where The Sun Is Silent\, and Confessions\, has charted on the Billboard Top 200. In summer 2016\, Alesana released a special edition of Confessions including two new tracks along with a novella\, entitled Annabel\, which inspired The Annabel Triology. The album is available on all digital outlets now and the novella is available for purchase on Amazon Kindle now. \nIn 2017\, Alesana began working on the ulitmate fan project which they called Origins. Filled with hours worth of behind the scenes and never before seen footage\, demos\, and a brand new EP The Lost Chapters\, Origins was born as a visual history of the past thirteen years of the band. In early 2018\, Alesana released The Lost Chapters EP digitally. Origins bundles are currently available on the Revival Recordings shop page. The Lost Chapters EP is available to stream on all digital platforms and to purchase on iTunes now! \nLinks: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Apple Music \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/alesana-2/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Alesana_with_Picturesque_Veio_A-1-Mr2Cj2.tmp_.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210730T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210731T000000 DTSTAMP:20210706T184135Z CREATED:20210706T184135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210706T184135Z UID:25574-1627675200-1627689600@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Eric Gales Band DESCRIPTION:On 8th February 2019\, Eric Gales returns with his brand new album ‘The Bookends’ on Provogue/Mascot Label Group and it features collaborations with B. Slade\, Doyle Bramhall II and Beth Hart. \nThe challenge for making ‘The Bookends’ was for Gales to challenge himself. “As a guitar player it’s been established that I can play a little bit\, just a little bit\,” he smiles. But for this album he not only wanted to push himself as a musician\, but also as a vocalist\, to build up his vocal discography. “What spearheaded that was the artists that I have on the record\,” he says. \nWritten over a nine month period\, the album was recorded at Recorded at Studio Delux\, Van Nuys (CA)\, The Dog House\, Woodland Hills (CA)\, Blakeslee Recording\, North Hollywood (CA) and the day before he was due to fly to LA for pre-production the original producer David Bianco tragically died. It was Bianco’s management who then suggested Matt Wallace. “I heard his work and the kind of people he has produced such as Maroon 5\, Faith No More and all these sorta cats. When we met up together it was just perfect. I just trusted the guy and it ended up being great\, I love Matt Wallace\,” says Gales. \nThree-time Grammy nominated and Emmy Award winning vocalist B. Slade appears on two songs\, ‘Something’s Gotta Give’ and bonus track ‘Pedal to the Metal.’ “When he came in during pre-production and we were writing\, it was so intense. At first I was a little afraid to sing in front of this guy\, because this is what this dude does\, he’s a phenomenal person and he just brought it out of me\,” he says before continuing. “I don’t know if he was really aware of who I was before we met\, but the day that he walked in and he heard the songs\, his mind was blown. That was before he even saw me playing guitar\, so when he saw me playing he said ‘in my life I ain’t never seen nobody that can play like this.’” \nThe notions of change (‘Reaching for a Change’\, ‘Somebody Lied’) and love (‘How Do I Get You’\, ‘Whatcha Gon’ Do’) are throughout the album. On ‘Something’s Gotta Give’\, Slade’s and Gales vocals take turns to yearn “I tell ya people have lost their mind\, happy children so hard to find\, desolation all in the streets\, plenty babies don’t have food to eat\, hey\, I ain’t preaching\, that’s not my thang\, I just know we’ve got to make a change.” ‘It Just Beez That Way’ features Gales beatboxing and playing Slide guitar on record for the first time. \nTalking about being in the studio he elaborates; “The whole vocal thing was something I consciously wanted to push and Matt was on the same page\, saying\, ‘there’s gonna be sometimes you might not like me because I’m gonna push you because I feel that I know what you can do\, and its more than just guitar playing’. It was just really powerful and moving.” \nDoyle Bramhall II and Gales’ friendship dates back to the 1990s and Eric Clapton’s right hand man features on the triumphant ‘Southpaw Serenade’\, while powerhouse vocalist Beth Hart joins Gales on a rousing rendition of ‘With A Little Help From My Friends.’ “Why that song? Well we both have similar stories\,” he says. “We’re survivors you know\, drug addiction and her from depression. If you’ve got the right support and you can have help from your friends it will all be awesome.” \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Spotify | YouTube \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/eric-gales-band/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Eric_Gales_Band_with_Mix-F5Praa.tmp_.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210726T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210727T000000 DTSTAMP:20210706T184134Z CREATED:20210706T184134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210706T184134Z UID:25572-1627329600-1627344000@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Japanese Breakfast DESCRIPTION:Out of an abundance of caution\, and with this being our first full capacity concert since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic\, these safety measures will be in place for the Japanese Breakfast concert: \n\nTicket holders will need to provide proof that they have been vaccinated against Covid-19 prior to entry. \nMasks will be required inside the venue. \nAdditional standard Covid precautions will be observed.\n\nFrom the moment she began writing her new album\, Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner knew that she wanted to call it Jubilee. After all\, a jubilee is a celebration of the passage of time—a festival to usher in the hope of a new era in brilliant technicolor. Zauner’s first two albums garnered acclaim for the way they grappled with anguish; Psychopomp was written as her mother underwent cancer treatment\, while Soft Sounds From Another Planet took the grief she held from her mother‘s death and used it as a conduit to explore the cosmos. Now\, at the start of a new decade\, Japanese Breakfast is ready to fight for happiness\, an all-too-scarce resource in our seemingly crumbling world. \nHow does she do it? With a joyful noise. From pulsing walls of synthgaze and piano on “Sit\,” to the nostalgia-laden strings that float through “Tactics\,” Jubilee bursts with the most wide-ranging arrangements of Zauner’s career. Each song unfurls a new aspect of her artistry: “Be Sweet\,” co-written with Wild Nothing’s Jack Tatum\, is a jagged\, propulsive piece of ‘80s pop that’s followed by a sweetly melancholic ballad in “Kokomo\, IN.” As she rides a crest of saxophones and synthesizers through “Slide Tackle\,” a piece of nimble pop-funk run through a New Order lens\, Zauner professes her desire to move forward: “I want to be good—I want to navigate this hate in my heart somewhere better.” \nIn the years leading up to Jubilee\, Zauner also took theory lessons and studied piano in earnest for the first time\, in an effort to improve her range as a songwriter: “I’ve never wanted to rest on any laurels. I wanted to push it as far as it could go\, inviting more people in and pushing myself as a composer\, a producer\, an arranger.” She pours that sentiment into the album from the very beginning\, weaving a veritable tapestry of sound on the opening track “Paprika.” \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Bandcamp \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/japanese-breakfast/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Japanese_Breakfast_with_Mannequin_Pussy-5eFI0m.tmp_.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210712T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210713T000000 DTSTAMP:20210706T184133Z CREATED:20210706T184133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210706T184133Z UID:25567-1626120000-1626134400@artsorange.org SUMMARY:John R. Miller DESCRIPTION:John R Miller is a true hyphenate artist: singer-songwriter-picker. Every song on his thrilling upcoming debut solo album\, Depreciated\, is lush with intricate wordplay and haunting imagery\, as well as being backed by a band that is on fire.  One of his biggest long-time fans is roots music favorite Tyler Childers\, who says he’s “a well-travelled wordsmith mapping out the world he’s seen\, three chords at a time.” Miller is somehow able to transport us to a shadowy honkytonk and get existential all in the same line with his tightly written compositions. Miller’s own guitar-playing is on fine display here along with vocals that evoke the white-waters of the Potomac River rumbling below the high ridges of his native Shenandoah Valley. \nMiller grew up in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia near the Potomac River.  “There are three or four little towns I know well that make up the region\,” he says\, name-checking places like Martinsburg\, Shepherdstown\, Hedgesville\, and Keyes Gap.  “It’s a haunted place.  In some ways it’s frozen in time. So much old stuff has lingered there\, and its history is still very present.” As much as Miller loves where he’s from\, he’s always had a complicated relationship with home and never could figure out what to do with himself there. “I just wanted to make music\, and there’s no real infrastructure for that there.  We had to travel to play regularly and as teenagers\, most of our gigs were spent playing in old church halls or Ruritan Clubs.”  He was raised “kinda sorta Catholic” and although he gave up on that as a teenager\, he says “it follows me everywhere\, still.” \nHis family was not musical—his father worked odd jobs and was a paramedic before Miller was born\, while his mother was a nurse—but he was drawn to music at an early age\, which was essential to him since he says school was “an exercise in patience” for him. “Music was the first thing to turn my brain on. I’d sit by the stereo for hours with a blank audio cassette waiting to record songs I liked\,” he says. “I was into a lot of whatever was on the radio until I was in middle school and started finding out about punk music\, which is what I gravitated toward and tried to play through high school.” \nLinks: Website | Spotify | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/john-r-miller/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/John_R._Miller1620872998-nRrL5R.tmp_.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210723T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210724T000000 DTSTAMP:20210706T184133Z CREATED:20210706T184133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210706T184133Z UID:25569-1627070400-1627084800@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Graham Sharp and Woody Platt of Steep Canyon Rangers DESCRIPTION:This is a seated show. \nLinks: Website | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | Spotify | Apple Music \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/graham-sharp-and-woody-platt-of-steep-canyon-rangers/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Graham_Sharp_and_Woody_Platt-T1g5ir.tmp_.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210504T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210504T235900 DTSTAMP:20210407T184024Z CREATED:20210407T184024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210407T184024Z UID:24114-1620158400-1620172740@artsorange.org SUMMARY:The Airborne Toxic Event DESCRIPTION:Links: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Bandcamp | SoundCloud | Spotify | YouTube | Apple Music \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/the-airborne-toxic-event/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Airborne-Toxic-Event-1000-lJyJvv.tmp_.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210501T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210502T000000 DTSTAMP:20210407T184022Z CREATED:20210407T184022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210407T184022Z UID:24110-1619902800-1619913600@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Tennis DESCRIPTION:I never learned how to swim. \n​In years of sailing\, I never let the water touch me. The ocean was an abstract dread\, an obliterating void as untenable as outer space. \n​In January 2018 we went on tour. After years of scraping by\, we found our footing with our fourth record Yours Conditionally. It was a commercial success that set us up to to play the biggest rooms of our career. But three shows in\, I developed a raging case of influenza. Each night I dragged myself onstage and croaked out the set in a delirium. After a particularly bad soundcheck\, Patrick asked me if we should cancel the show. I couldn’t imagine giving up the thing we’d work so hard to achieve. “I’ll be on stage even if you have to mic my coffin\,” I joked. \n​​The next morning I fainted and had a seizure while grocery shopping for breakfast. Patrick carried me through the check-out lanes screaming for a doctor. I woke later in a hospital bed. Patrick leaned over me\, crying. “That’s it\,” he said. “I’m canceling the tour. I thought you were dead. We’re quitting the band. I’m going to be an accountant.” But I was on the mend. We missed two shows and pressed on. \n​​During sound check at the 930 club\, Patrick stepped out to take a phone call. His father had been in the hospital all week\, but he had cancer and brief hospitalizations were routine. Back at the hotel that night\, Patrick poured two shots of whiskey and handed me one. “I’d like to toast my dad.” He said. “The doctors offered to put him on life-support to give me a chance to fly out there\, but I didn’t want him to suffer. Instead I said goodbye.” \n​​Patrick went home to grieve with his family and rejoined us on the road two days later. I couldn’t believe how quickly our lives had unraveled in the midst of what was supposed to be a milestone in our career. As the tour continued\, we found refuge in playing music together. Songwriting had always been an extension of our inner-world. Now we retreated to that world every time we stepped onstage. \n​After the final show of our tour in Austin\, we received another phone call. Patrick’s mother Karen was in the hospital on the brink of a stroke. We got on a plane and went straight to her bedside. Her recovery took weeks. In the hospital waiting room\, I wrote the opening line of “Matrimony II”: I only have certainty when you hold my hand. \n​On a hot July day\, after Karen’s return to good health\, we sailed as a family into the Pacific and scattered Edward’s ashes at sea. I marked our position on the chart with a small x. The album was already well under way. In that moment\, I realized what I wanted to call it. \n​Swimmer is a tour of the darkest time in our lives. But it is not a dark record. Named for the feeling of suspension and upendedness that characterized this period\, it is the story of deep-rooted companionship strengthened by pain and loss. These songs carried us through our grief. It is us at our most vulnerable\, so we kept a small footprint\, recording everything ourselves in our home studio. I set out to describe the love I have come to know after ten years of marriage\, when you can no longer remember your life before that person\, when the spark of early attraction has been replaced by a gravitational pull. \nSwimmer is available everywhere February 14\, 2020. \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Spotify | SoundCloud \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/tennis-2/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Tennis_with_Molly_Burch-youBMj.tmp_.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210422T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210423T000000 DTSTAMP:20210407T184020Z CREATED:20210407T184020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210407T184020Z UID:24104-1619121600-1619136000@artsorange.org SUMMARY:JoJo – Good To Know Tour – CANCELLED DESCRIPTION:Every ticket purchased online for JoJo includes your choice of a CD or digital copy of the new album\, Good To Know\, released in spring 2020. You’ll receive instructions via email on how to redeem your album within 7 days of your ticket purchase. US/CAN residents only\, offer not valid on resale tickets. \nJoJo [born Joanna Levesque] is a chart-topping\, award-winning singer\, songwriter\, and actress who\, at just 28 years old\, is already a veteran of the music industry – but she is ready to write her next chapter. Now signed to Warner Records through a joint venture with her own Clover Music\, JoJo has begun with new releases “Joanna” and the Doc McKinney-produced “Sabotage (feat. CHIKA)\,” and is looking ahead to her new album to come in spring 2020. Having released her self-titled debut album when she was just 13\, JoJo’s breakout smash “Leave (Get Out)” made JoJo the youngest-ever solo artist to have a debut #1 single in the U.S. and to be nominated for “Best New Artist” at the MTV Video Music Awards. The album went on to sell over four million copies and became the singer’s first Platinum record\, which she followed with a string of additional hits\, most notably the Top 3 single “Too Little Too Late” from sophomore album The High Road. In 2016\, JoJo made a heralded return to music with her first new album in 10 years\, Mad Love. – debuting Top 10 on the Billboard Top 200 and earning her unanimous critical acclaim from the likes of TIME\, Pitchfork\, Rolling Stone\, Cosmo\, Entertainment Weekly and more. Last year\, JoJo re-recorded and re-released her first two albums (JoJo and The High Road) under her own label Clover Music\, after years of legal battles with her former label that prevented the albums from existing on digital platforms. She has also pushed herself outside the confines of genre\, recently collaborating with artists ranging from PJ Morton [on the GRAMMY-winning R&B hit “Say So”] and Jacob Collier [lending her vocal stylings to the jazzy “It Don’t Matter”] to Tank on his latest “Somebody Else.” \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Spotify | YouTube | Apple Music \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/jojo-good-to-know-tour-cancelled/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210311T000000 DTSTAMP:20210308T184128Z CREATED:20210308T184128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210308T184128Z UID:23570-1615406400-1615420800@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Stephen Malkmus DESCRIPTION:Message from Mr Malkmus: \n“While things seem to be moving in the right direction with vaccines\, etc.\, it appears unlikely that tours will be able to resume safely by next Spring. Unfortunately\, the shows scheduled for March and April are cancelled. Refunds will be available point of purchase. Rest assured that Stephen will be back on the road in 2022\, hopefully with even newer music!” \n  \nStephen Malkmus\, Traditional Techniques \nIs that a goddamn bouzouki? you may ask. A pedal steel guitar? What kind of Stephen Malkmus album is this\, anyway? \nIt’s called folk music\, and it’s taking the country by storm. Stephen Malkmus is only the latest popular artist to apply this old new approach to their rock and roll sounds. \nTake the name Traditional Techniques with as much salt as you’d like or dig the Adorno reference\, Malkmus’s third solo LP without the Jicks (or Pavement) is as organic as they come. It’s packed with handmade arrangements\, modern folklore\, and 10 songs written and performed in Malkmus’s singular voice. An adventurous new album in an instantly familiar mode\, Traditional Techniques creates a serendipitous trilogy with the loose fuzz of the Jicks’ Sparkle Hard (Matador\, 2018) and the solo bedroom experiments of Groove Denied (Matador\, 2019). Taken together\, these three very different full-lengths in three years highlight an ever-curious songwriter committed to finding untouched territory. Perhaps some of these “folk” musicians could take a lesson or two. \nCreated in the spontaneous west coast style adopted so infectiously by young American musicians in this time of global turmoil\, Malkmus took on Traditional Techniques as a kind of self-dare. Conceived while recording Sparkle Hard with the Jicks at Portland’s Halfling Studio\, Malkmus had observed the variety of acoustic instruments available for use. The idea escalated within a matter of weeks into a full set of songs and shortly thereafter into a realized and fully committed album. When he returned to Halfling\, Malkmus drew from a whole new musical palette–including a variety of Afghani instruments–to support an ache both quizzical and contemporary. Stephen Malkmus isn’t one of those “hung up” musicians one reads about so frequently these days\, sequestered in a jungle room of the heart. The jukebox in Malkmus’s private grotto remains fully updated. Not only is the artist present\, but he’s on Twitter. \nTraditional Techniques is new phase folk music for new phase folks\, with Malkmus as attuned as ever to the rhythms of the ever-evolving lingual slipstream. Instead of roses\, briars\, and long black veils\, prepare for owns\, cracked emojis\, and shadowbans. Centered around the songwriter’s 12-string acoustic guitar\, and informed by a half-century of folk-rock reference points\, Traditional Techniques is the product of Malkmus and Halfling engineer/arranger-in-residence Chris Funk (The Decemberists). Playing guitar is friend-to-all-heads Matt Sweeney (Bonnie “Prince” Billy\, Chavez\, and too many other to count)\, who’d previously crossed paths with Malkmus on the opposite end of the longhairs’ map of the world\, most lately gnarling out together back east in the jam conglomerate Endless Boogie. \nBut\, buyer beware\, no matter how these recordings might be tagged by your nearest algorithm\, the expansive and thrilling folk-rock sounds of Traditional Techniques aren’t SM Unplugged. One might even question his commitment to acoustic instruments\, but we’ll leave that for somebody else’s hot take. All we’re saying is watch your head. Because alongside all that gorgeous folk music (“The Greatest Own in Legal History\,” “Cash Up”)\, there are also occasional bursts of flute-laced swagger (“Shadowbanned”)\, straight-up commune rock (“Xian Man”)\, and mind-bending fuzz in places you least expect it (“Brainwashed”). \n– Jesse Jarnow \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Twitter \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/stephen-malkmus-2/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Stephen_Malkmus_with_Qais_Essar-qcIm7D.tmp_.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210219T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210220T000000 DTSTAMP:20210206T184040Z CREATED:20210206T184040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210206T184040Z UID:23059-1613761200-1613779200@artsorange.org SUMMARY:We Came As Romans DESCRIPTION:This show has been postponed – details TBD. \nBrotherhood lasts forever. \nNo matter what happens\, those bonds endure in memories and moments. We Came As Romans hold a similar link between them. After nearly 15 years together\, countless sold out shows\, critical acclaim\, and over 250 million streams\, the Michigan quintet-Joshua Moore [guitar]\, Dave Stephens [vocals]\, Lou Cotton [guitar]\, Andy Glass [bass]\, and David Puckett [drums]-weather their darkest time and emerge stronger in the name of a fallen brother and member: Kyle Pavone. \nThe group soldier ahead with a sixth full-length opus befitting of his memory. \n“When Kyle passed away\, it changed everything for us personally and\, as a byproduct\, everything for the band\,” says Joshua. “An earth-shattering event puts a lot of things in perspective. We’ve spent so much time together. We’ve been doing this since we were kids. The one thing that won’t change is the way Kyle affected my life. Before we were bandmates\, we were essentially brothers. In order to be genuine to our fans and ourselves\, we had to write about what we dealt with losing him. At the same time\, this isn’t just a bunch of songs soaking in depression. We want to celebrate what we built.” \nTogether\, We Came As Romans built a burgeoning empire. Merging chugging metallic force\, skyscraping melodies\, off-kilter electronic experimentation\, and hardcore spirit\, the group quietly claimed a place at the forefront of modern heavy music. They put up unbelievable numbers with the likes of “Hope” [17 million streams]\, and “The World I Used To Know” [15 million Spotify streams] as well as multiple top ten records on the Billboard Top 200. Meanwhile\, 2017’s Cold Like War represented a career peak. The title track “Cold Like War” and “Wasted Age” both surpassed 9 million Spotify streams as the band received its best career reviews to date. Alternative Press cited the album as “a milestone\,” and Metal Hammer praised their penchant for unpredictability by affirming\, “This record is never boring.” Beyond tours with everyone from A Day To Remember\, Bring Me The Horizon\, I Prevail\, The Used\, Sleeping With Sirens\, Parkway Drive\, and more\, they packed houses on headline dates around the world. \nAfter Kyle’s death in 2018\, they made a careful decision to push forward\, returning to the road with Bullet For My Valentine before gathering themselves in the studio with longtime collaborator Nick Sampson [Asking Alexandria\, Born Of Osiris] and seeking perspective from Drew Fulk [Motionless In White\, Lil Peep]. \n“Nick has been part of the family forever\, because he was an engineer on our first record\,” Joshua continues. “We also had to involve Drew. He produced Cold Like War\, and it was Kyle’s favorite record. It felt like it needed to happen\, since that was the last great memory Kyle made with us. Everyone was a big part of the process.” \nWe Came As Romans introduce this next chapter with a pair of singles\, “Carry The Weight” and “From The First Note.” Evocative clean guitar echoes at the beginning of “Carry The Weight” before giving way to a hammering groove and cathartic screams that culminate on a hypnotic chant-one of the band’s most irresistible. \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Spotify | YouTube | Apple Music \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/we-came-as-romans/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/We_Came_As_Romans_with-GenIdL.tmp_.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201208T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201208T235900 DTSTAMP:20201208T182633Z CREATED:20201208T182633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201208T182633Z UID:21452-1607459400-1607471940@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Andy Shauf DESCRIPTION:This show has been rescheduled from December 8th. \nFew artists are storytellers as deft and disarmingly observational as Andy Shauf. The Toronto-based\, Saskatchewan-raised musician’s songs unfold like short fiction: they’re densely layered with colorful characters and a rich emotional depth. On his new album The Neon Skyline (out January 24 via ANTI-)\, he sets a familiar scene of inviting a friend for beers on the opening title track: “I said\, ‘Come to the Skyline\, I’ll be washing my sins away.’ He just laughed\, said ‘I’ll be late\, you know how I can be.’” The LP’s 11 interconnected tracks follow a simple plot: the narrator goes to his neighborhood dive\, finds out his ex is back in town\, and she eventually shows up. While its overarching narrative is riveting\, the real thrill of the album comes from how Shauf finds the humanity and humor in a typical night out and the ashes of a past relationship. \nHis last full-length 2016’s The Party was an impressive collection of ornate and affecting songs that followed different attendees of a house party. Shauf’s attention-to-detail in his writing evoked Randy Newman and his unorthodox\, flowing lyrical phrasing recalled Joni Mitchell. Though that album was his breakthrough\, his undeniable songwriting talent has been long evident. Raised in Bienfait\, Saskatchewan\, he cut his teeth in the nearby Regina music community. His 2012 LP The Bearer of Bad News documented his already-formed musical ambition and showcased Shauf’s burgeoning voice as a narrative songwriter with songs like “Hometown Hero\,” “Wendell Walker\,” and “My Dear Helen” feeling like standalone\, self-contained worlds. In 2018\, his band Foxwarren\, formed over 10 years ago with childhood friends\, released a self-titled album where Pitchfork recognized how “Shauf has diligently refined his storytelling during the last decade.” \nThe Party earned a spot on the Polaris Music Prize 2016 shortlist and launched Shauf to an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden as well as glowing accolades from NPR\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, and more. “That LP was a concept record and it really made me want to do a better album. I wanted to have a more cohesive story\,” says Shauf. Where the concept of The Party revealed itself midway through the writing process\, he knew the story he wanted to tell on The Neon Skyline from the start. “I kept coming back to the same situation of one guy going to a bar\, which was basically exactly what I was doing at the time. These songs are fictional but it’s not too far off from where my life was\,” Shauf explains. \nFor The Neon Skyline\, Shauf chose to start each composition on guitar instead of his usual piano. He says\, “I wanted to be able to sit down and play each song with just a guitar without having to rely on some sort of a clever arrangement to make it whole.” The resulting album finds its immediacy in simplicity. While the arrangements on folksy “The Moon” are unfussy and song-centered like the best Gordon Lightfoot offerings\, his drive to experiment is still obvious. This is especially so on the unmoored relationship autopsy “Thirteen Hours\,” which boasts an arrangement that’s both jazzy and adventurous. \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Spotify \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/andy-shauf-2/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Andy-Shauf-Press-Pic-2-2020.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201008T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201009T000000 DTSTAMP:20200909T172507Z CREATED:20200909T172504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200909T172507Z UID:19032-1602187200-1602201600@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Emancipator Ensemble DESCRIPTION:A sleeping giant of the electronic music world\, Douglas Appling — more commonly known as Emancipator — has quietly established himself as a mainstay in the electronic music scene since the release of his debut album\, Soon It Will Be Cold Enough in 2006. Classically-trained as a violinist from an early age\, Appling’s organic approach to electronic music production draws inspiration from a wide range of international cultures and musical genres\, culminating in a refreshingly authentic brand of electronic music that has infiltrated global consciousness. 2015 was a busy year having released Live In Athens in June\, and Dusk to Dawn Remixes — a remix album featuring massively-popular contributions from the likes of ODESZA\, Little People\, Eliot Lipp\, and more — in July\, 2015 and now his first full length album in three years\, Seven Seas. Seven Seas is the product of over two years of work\, collaborations\, experiences\, and live performances all culminating in a cohesive collection of songs that solidifies that Emancipator is only getting better with age. \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | SoundCloud \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/emancipator-ensemble/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201002T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201003T000000 DTSTAMP:20200909T172507Z CREATED:20200909T172503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200909T172507Z UID:19029-1601668800-1601683200@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Sleaford Mods DESCRIPTION:As one of the most important\, politically charged and thought-provoking bands in music today\, Sleaford Mods have been running crass but clever commentary on The People’s discontent\, combining the revolutionary fury of punk and hip-hop with the bleakness of austerity-era Britain\, their five critically acclaimed albums a pre-Boris crystal ball of impending doom. \nOn paper it shouldn’t work. Andrew Fearn’s clever minimalistic beats\, post-punk bass\, intentionally cheap sounding keyboard riffs and wafts of guitar underpin lyricist Jason Williamson as he rants against stagnation\, injustice and pop culture with outrage and scathing humour\, capturing the spirit of their time with a blunt eloquence. \nOn stage there is no pretence. An antithesis to the approach of many electronic artists\, Andrew simply presses play on his laptop and steps back to bob his head\, drink his beer and watch as the spectacle of Jason moving from angry to hypnotic unfolds. \nStumbling into the music scene in 2013\, their breakthrough album Austerity Dogs caught the moment. Described by The Quietus as ‘a brutally brilliant slice of working-class culture… soaked in the impossible realities of the everyday’\, their surprise success spearheaded a punk renaissance\, paving the way for a generation of new artists to follow. \nMore success followed with 2014’s critically acclaimed Divide & Exit and interspersed with Prodigy and Leftfield collaborations\, subsequent albums\, 2015’s Key Markets and 2017’s English Tapas charted top 20 in the Official UK Album Charts. 2019’s Eton Alive finally saw the band gain a top 10 hit\, offering a more sombre soundscape and underscoring the reality of Sleaford Mods’ subject matter. The result is exhilarating\, cathartic and brutally brilliant proving time and time again that Sleaford Mods are as vital politically as they are artistically. \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Spotify | YouTube \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/sleaford-mods/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200921T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200922T000000 DTSTAMP:20200909T172506Z CREATED:20200909T172502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200909T172506Z UID:19025-1600718400-1600732800@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Oh Sees DESCRIPTION:Psych-punk psychic warrior\, ear worm-farmer\, and possessor of many stamped passport pages John Dwyer does not let up. His group Oh Sees (aka Thee Oh Sees\, OCS\, The Oh Sees\, etc) have transmogrified to fit many a moment – from hushed druggy folk to groovy demonic pop chants to science fictional krautrock expanse and beyond – to suit his omnivorous whims. \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Bandcamp \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/oh-sees/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200918T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200919T000000 DTSTAMP:20200909T172505Z CREATED:20200909T172456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200909T172505Z UID:19015-1600459200-1600473600@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Bikini Kill DESCRIPTION:Bikini Kill is a feminist punk band that was based in Olympia\, WA and Washington\, DC\, forming in 1990 and breaking up in 1997. Kathleen Hanna sang\, Tobi Vail played drums\, Billy Karren (a.k.a. Billy Boredom) played guitar and Kathi Wilcox played bass. Sometimes they switched instruments. Bikini Kill is credited with instigating the Riot Grrrl movement in the early 90’s via their political lyrics\, zines and confrontational live show. \nThe band started touring in June 1991. In addition to touring the US several times\, they also toured Europe\, Australia and Japan. Bikini Kill recorded and released a demo tape\, two EP’s\, two LP’s and three singles. Their demo tape was self-released\,while their first two records came out as a full length CD/Tape and their singles were posthumously collected on CD. \nBikini Kill believed that if all girls started bands the world would change. They actively encouraged women and girls to start bands as a means of cultural resistance. Bikini Kill was inspired by seeing Babes in Toyland play live and attempted to incite female participation and build feminist community via the punk scene. They used touring as a way to create an underground network between girls who played music\, put on shows and made fanzines. This independent media making and informal network created a forum for multiple female voices to be heard. \nTicket delivery will be delayed to arrive one week before the show. This is to prevent scalpers\, resellers\, and other forms of ticket fraud. \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Bandcamp | Spotify \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/bikini-kill/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/BikiniKill-f2oQvf.tmp_.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200822T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200823T000000 DTSTAMP:20200810T172456Z CREATED:20200810T172456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200810T172456Z UID:18360-1598126400-1598140800@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Bob Schneider (solo) DESCRIPTION:This is a seated show. \nBlood and Bones \nOne of Austin’s most celebrated musicians\, Bob Schneider\, released his 2018 album\, “Blood and Bones” – his 7th studio album since his 2001 solo debut Lonelyland – via his Shockorama Records imprint. “Blood and Bones” captures Schneider at a unique\, and distinct place. “Most of the songs are about this phase of my life\,” he admits. “I’m re-married\, I have a 2-year-old baby daughter who was born over two months premature because my wife had life threatening preeclampsia. So dealing with that traumatic event while getting older and looking at death in a realistic\, matter of fact way\, experiencing the most joy I’ve ever experienced along with feelings of utter despondency in a way that would have been impossible to experience earlier in my life\, all comes out in the songs. My relationship with my wife is the longest committed relationship I’ve ever been in\, so there was a lot of unchartered territory there to write about.” The songs on “Blood and Bones” reflect this. Recorded quickly with producer Dwight Baker\, who has worked with Schneider on 6 of his previous releases\, the album highlights the chemistry that Schneider and his backing band of Austin’s very best musicians have developed while relentlessly playing live\, most notably at the monthly residency Schneider has held at Austin’s Saxon Pub for the last 19 years. “I didn’t want to overthink the songs\,” Schneider says. “I really respect Dwight’s ability to make great calls when it comes to what works and isn’t working when we are recording the songs. I felt pretty good about the quality of the songwriting\, so I figured that would come through in the end if we just went in and played them the way I do live.” \nWhile the performance and production are stellar\, the songwriting finds Schneider in a particularly reflective mode. Sure\, there are live favorites like “Make Drugs Get Money” and “Texaco” that will get even the most reserved crowds dancing. But more often the album finds Schneider reflecting on marriage\, parenthood\, and mortality. “I wish I could make you see how wonderful everything is most of the time\, but I’m only blood and bones\,” he sings on the title track\, a meditation on the beauty and the limits of marriage. Later\, on “Easy\,” he tells his daughter “it’s always been a scary thing to do\, to let my heart fall down into the endless blue\, but it’s easy with you.” Through it all\, there is a clear sense of mortality\, of just how fleeting all of this is. “The hours and days stack up in the mirror\,” he sings on “Hours and Days”. “We’re just snowmen waiting for the summer” he sings on “Snowmen”\, before adding “we can’t bring them back\, can’t bring nothing back.” \nOne thing Schneider has excelled at in his career is bringing audiences back. Though he has received little national press or major label support\, he has managed to become one of the biggest acts in Austin\, if not in Texas. His fans\, who often discover him from being brought to his shows by their friends\, are fiercely loyal. Many have attended dozens or even hundreds of shows. Thanks to these fans\, Schneider has won more Austin Music Awards than any other musician\, including Best Album\, Best Songwriter\, Best Musician\, and Best Male Vocals\, rounding in at 59 total awards to date. \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/bob-schneider-solo/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200808T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200809T000000 DTSTAMP:20200711T172545Z CREATED:20200711T172545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200711T172545Z UID:17937-1596916800-1596931200@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Weyes Blood DESCRIPTION:A note from Weyes Blood: \nMay 27\, 2020 \nGood day everyone\, \nHere is a video for my song “Wild Time” that was shot on 16mm pre-Pandemic\, then edited together during isolation. Felt like the right time to let this video out into the world\, seeing as we’re all getting saddled down by some pretty grim realities. This song is about yearning for wildness and Mother Nature in a time of chaos. It’s for sensitive people who worry about the fate of humanity and feel powerless to do anything about it. \nI’ve spent a lot of time thinking apocalyptic thoughts and realizing that won’t get you anywhere. What if the world has always been ending? What if the sprawl of our cities are just as wild as the forests? What if climate change and the destruction of our natural habitat is a reflection of the nature within us\, however sublimely horrifying and hard to understand? We’re animals\, we play out a very precarious drama of life\, and we grasp for what’s left of the protective womb – but maybe the notion that we’re somehow separated from her is an illusion. Maybe it is\, truly\, a wild time to be alive. Maybe getting in touch with that as a culture and society would avert the worst case scenarios of ecological crisis and existential dread. \nIf you’ve gotten this far\, wow\, thank you for actually taking the time to read this. In other news\, as you may have assumed\, I am canceling all of my headline shows for 2020\, but I’m beginning to work on my next album that will come out in 2021- a different time\, when hopefully we can see each other face to face once again. \nxo \nNatalie (aka Weyes Blood) \n— \nNatalie Mering\, known professionally as Weyes Blood\, is an American singer\, songwriter\, and musician. Mering was raised in a musical family and began writing songs under the moniker Wise Blood at age 15\, later changing the spelling to Weyes Blood. She spent some formative years in the underground noise music scene\, playing in bands Jackie-O Motherfucker and Nautical Almanac. \nMering released her debut album\, The Outside Room\, in 2011 on Not Not Fun Records\, followed up by 2014’s The Innocents on Mexican Summer. Her breakthrough occurred in 2016 with the release of Front Row Seat to Earth. With this record\, she gained recognition for her distinctive style of melodic\, orchestral\, and melancholic songwriting melded with apocalyptic themes. \nThis is further refined on 2019’s strikingly beautiful and critically-acclaimed Titanic Rising (Sub Pop). The record received high placements on year-end and decade-end lists from publications such as Pitchfork\, Uproxx\, Paste\, Uncut\, Dazed\, The Guardian\, and NPR. Live performance highlights include sold-out tours in the US and Europe\, as well as opening for Kacey Musgraves in the fall and signing with Lana Del Rey at the Hollywood Bowl. \nMering’s voice sounds at once classic and new — her music could exist as comfortably in the ’70s as it does in our current age of anxiety and tension\, making her a unique cultural commentator on society’s current condition. \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Spotify | YouTube \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/weyes-blood/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200731T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200801T000000 DTSTAMP:20200711T172544Z CREATED:20200711T172544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200711T172544Z UID:17934-1596225600-1596240000@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Thao & the Get Down Stay Down DESCRIPTION:After 15 years of recording and performing\, Thao Nguyen\, of San Francisco-based band Thao & The Get Down Stay Down\, was exhausted. She had been touring the band’s 2016 album A Man Alive\, a critically acclaimed\, bone-shaking reckoning about her relationship with her absent father. She was scoring commissions\, guest-hosting the podcast Song Exploder\, and exploring other paths as an artist. She bought a house with her girlfriend; they’re married now. \nIn the past 15 years\, Thao has avoided being fully out in her public career\, having been raised in-and deeply loving-a family and culture distanced from mainstream America’s social progress. As she confronted the division\, shame\, grief\, and silence in her life\, Thao found new ways to live in her own skin\, and forced her own hand to make a new\, different record. In doing so\, she created a space wherein she can finally exist as her full self. \nTemple is the fifth full-length album from Thao & The Get Down Stay Down. Produced by Thao and bandmate Adam Thompson\, who shares songwriting credit on five tracks\, it is also their first self-produced album. Mixer Mikaelin “Blue” Bluespruce (Solange\, Skepta\, Carly Rae Jepsen) widens the band’s register with beat-forward mixes and immersive\, lush tones. \nKaleidoscopic and danceable\, grounded by Thao’s singular voice\, Temple feels boldly dissonant while still highly accessible. Golden\, longing pop meets punk roots. Rock draws from hip-hop\, funk\, and folk rhythms for intricate\, danceable beats. The poetic lyrics are expansive\, yet shatteringly personal\, inspired in part by the work of writers like James Baldwin\, Octavia Butler\, and Yiyun Li.. Rage\, honesty\, clear-eyed regret\, and optimistic wisdom run parallel\, finding a new way forward.  \nA temple is a place of worship and sanctuary. We spend our lives searching for temples where we can belong and be loved\, but those spaces can also be a kind of confinement. Temple is an album that pushes open boundaries for a different kind of sanctuary\, where you don’t have to whisper. \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Spotify | YouTube \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/thao-the-get-down-stay-down/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210725T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210726T000000 DTSTAMP:20210706T184134Z CREATED:20200711T172542Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210706T184134Z UID:17928-1627243200-1627257600@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Built to Spill DESCRIPTION:New Built to Spill lineup features Melanie Radford and Teresa Esguerra. \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Twitter \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/built-to-spill/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Built-To-Spill-2020-1000-kmEy5F.tmp_.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200509T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200510T000000 DTSTAMP:20200412T161210Z CREATED:20200412T161200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200412T161210Z UID:15698-1589058000-1589068800@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Poolside DESCRIPTION:Poolside began as a recording project in a converted Los Angeles backyard pool house in early 2011\, producing sunny tracks of subaquatic indie dance music in this makeshift recording studio. Surfacing first in the form of a YouTube video for the catchy track “Do You Believe?” Poolside were soon gaining local and national attention\, with DJs like James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem\, techno legend Derrick May\, and disco don Todd Terje spinning these tracks at events and a growing online following. Throughout 2011 Poolside continued making waves with a sound called “daytime disco” through tracks like their cover of Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon” and original tunes. In 2012 Poolside worked on a remix for longtime disco punks The Rapture and held fans over with a new single and video for a song called “Slow Down” as they prepared to release their debut album. That album\, Pacific Standard Time\, was self-released in July of 2012. \nAfter the album’s release\, remixes for artists like Matthew Dear\, Little Dragon and Fool’s Gold soon followed\, as well as rehearsing and touring with a live band and doing DJ sets around the world. As thoughts turned to a second album\, Poolside went on ice for a year to regroup\, beginning to work in earnest on another album in the Fall of 2016. While still revolving around the sunny\, laid-back disco sound of PST\, these sessions yielded the additions of up-tempo dance songs and more guitars\, and generally more fleshed-out arrangements. Poolside surprise released their second album Heat in 2017. \nPoolside returned in July of 2019 with “Can’t Stop Your Lovin’ (feat. Panama)\,” their first new music in over two years. They spent the summer and fall touring with Kacey Musgraves and Tycho and released a second standalone single “Greatest City” in October. \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | SoundCloud | Spotify | YouTube \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/poolside/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200930T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201001T000000 DTSTAMP:20200909T172506Z CREATED:20200412T161200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200909T172506Z UID:15699-1601497800-1601510400@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Greg Dulli DESCRIPTION:A message from Greg Dulli: \n“With the continued uncertainty for us to gather together in public places\, I have made the decision to cancel the North American tour and issue full refunds. We were really attempting to make this tour happen\, but you can’t outrun what you can’t see. I’ve now turned my attention to making a new album with The Afghan Whigs. Stay safe everyone and I can’t wait to see you all again on the other side.” \n  \n  \nWithout desire\, most of the world’s problems would be solved and it would be a miserable place to live. For the last 30 years\, Greg Dulli has been the poet laureate of the bizarre whims and cruel tangents of desire. A foremost authority on the sell-your-soul rewards of carnal lust\, the high voltage epiphanies of chemical enhancement\, and the serotonin lows left in their wake. The front man of the Afghan Whigs has long been on a first-name basis with his demons\, most of whom eventually relented and let him pour them a shot. But then there are the known unknowns at the heart of our nature\, the intractable difficulties of love and death\, and the recurring human desire for survival and rebirth. \nTherein lies Random Desire\, the first solo album under Dulli’s own name\, following canonized stints at the helm of The Afghan Whigs and The Twilight Singers. The title is a play on “random selection\,” which refers to a process that researchers use to pick participants for a study. When using this method\, every single member of a population has an “equal chance of being chosen as a subject.” Recontextualized\, it allows us to realize the randomness of existence\, the odd alchemy of emotions\, chemistry\, and circumstance that baffle us to no end. The reasons why artists write songs and why listeners need them. And even if the answers are evasive\, that’s no excuse to quit searching. \nRandom Desire started in the aftermath of the last Whigs record\, 2017’s In Spades\, which Pitchfork named one of the best rock records of the year\, hailing it as a “heavy\, menacing work of indie rock majesty…thrilling and unsettling.” Drummer Patrick Keeler was about to take a short sabbatical to record and tour with his other band\, The Raconteurs. Dulli’s longtime collaborator\, bassist John Curley went back to school\, and there was the tragic death of the band’s guitarist\, Dave Rosser. \nIn response\, Dulli returned to his teenage bedroom roots\, finding musical inspiration via the model of one-man-band visionaries Prince and Todd Rundgren. The Los Angeles-by-way-of-Hamilton Ohio native wrote nearly every part of the record from piano lines to drums to bass riffs. As always\, the music came first and the lyrics were completed later. Recording and writing way stations included his home in Silver Lake\, the village of Crestline high up in mountains above San Bernardino\, and New Orleans. But the bulk was finished amidst the arid beauty and stark isolation of Joshua Tree at the studio of engineer Christopher Thorn. Dulli handled most instrumentation\, but an all-star cast of characters appear across the track-listing including The Whigs’ guitarist Jon Skibic and multi-instrumentalist Rick G. Nelson\, Mathias Schneeberger (Twilight Singers)\, Mark McGuire (Emeralds)\, pedal steel wizard\, upright bassist\, and physician Dr. Stephen Patt\, and drummer Jon Theodore (Queens of the Stone Age\, The Mars Volta). \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Apple Music \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/greg-dulli/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200511T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200512T000000 DTSTAMP:20200412T161210Z CREATED:20200412T161200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200412T161210Z UID:15700-1589227200-1589241600@artsorange.org SUMMARY:Barns Courtney DESCRIPTION:The title of Barns Courtney’s new album will no doubt be familiar to anyone who’s ever searched for something online and found themselves face to face with nothing. But 404 is an album that explores feelings of loss and bereftness inspired by life’s habit of throwing up its own error pages\, with Barns exploring absence\, frustration\, and the never-ending search for something that seemed like it would always be there until one day\, suddenly\, it wasn’t: his childhood. “It’s painful knowing that something has gone\, whether it’s a good time\, a good feeling\, a pleasant section of existence\, or something physical. I’m always wondering: if you were to go back and find places you knew as a child\, what would they look like?” Barns says. \nThere was a time not so long ago when a 16-year-old kid who’d spent his teens ricocheting between Seattle and Ipswich thought he was about to be the biggest star in the world. He and some mates got a deal with the biggest of all the big labels\, then spent three years working with one of the planet’s hottest producers. What could go wrong? Well\, plenty. “My entire life since I was 14 had been an upward trajectory\,” is how Barns remembers it. “Then suddenly at the age of 22 I’m dropped\, I’m totally\, woefully unprepared for the real world. No qualifications. I didn’t bother learning to drive\, because I thought I’d be driven everywhere. Thank God I didn’t have any success – I would have been a complete ass.” \nThe years in the wilderness that followed formed the basis of Barns’ 2017 debut album The Attractions Of Youth\, a blistering shot of blues-driven rock that got this singular pop performer’s foot back in the door. Songs like Glitter & Gold and Fire became viral smashes\, prompting a swell of support on both sides of the Atlantic that saw Barns performing on Conan O’Brien and opening for everyone from The Who\, to Blur\, to Ed Sheeran. Which brings us to 2019 and a body of work that finds this reflexive\, meticulous pop storyteller delivering a minutely crafted album with big tunes\, flashes of humour and no shortage of ambition. Kickstarted by 2018’s sparky\, Atari-referencing single 99\, it’s an album that delves back beyond the arrested development of Barns’ early-20s and into the teens he spent in Seattle and then Ipswich. \n“The record’s partly about the bizarre modern formalisation of fun\, and the strange ritual that we all go through from childhood into adulthood\,” is how Barns describes one aspect of the music. And layered on top of that all\, because there really is quite a lot going on in this album\, is Barns’ experience of being out of town – and taking time out of real life – then coming back down to earth with a bump. “You go off and live this fantastical existence\, play these shows and have fun\, and you come back and you expect everyone to be the same as they were when you left\,” he notes. “But they’ve all grown up. It’s like Peter Pan coming back from Neverland.” \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Spotify | YouTube \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/barns-courtney/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200512T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200513T000000 DTSTAMP:20200412T161210Z CREATED:20200412T161200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200412T161210Z UID:15701-1589313600-1589328000@artsorange.org SUMMARY:JoJo – Good To Know Tour DESCRIPTION:Every ticket purchased online for JoJo includes your choice of a CD or digital copy of the new album\, Good To Know\, released in spring 2020. You’ll receive instructions via email on how to redeem your album within 7 days of your ticket purchase. US/CAN residents only\, offer not valid on resale tickets. \nJoJo [born Joanna Levesque] is a chart-topping\, award-winning singer\, songwriter\, and actress who\, at just 28 years old\, is already a veteran of the music industry – but she is ready to write her next chapter. Now signed to Warner Records through a joint venture with her own Clover Music\, JoJo has begun with new releases “Joanna” and the Doc McKinney-produced “Sabotage (feat. CHIKA)\,” and is looking ahead to her new album to come in spring 2020. Having released her self-titled debut album when she was just 13\, JoJo’s breakout smash “Leave (Get Out)” made JoJo the youngest-ever solo artist to have a debut #1 single in the U.S. and to be nominated for “Best New Artist” at the MTV Video Music Awards. The album went on to sell over four million copies and became the singer’s first Platinum record\, which she followed with a string of additional hits\, most notably the Top 3 single “Too Little Too Late” from sophomore album The High Road. In 2016\, JoJo made a heralded return to music with her first new album in 10 years\, Mad Love. – debuting Top 10 on the Billboard Top 200 and earning her unanimous critical acclaim from the likes of TIME\, Pitchfork\, Rolling Stone\, Cosmo\, Entertainment Weekly and more. Last year\, JoJo re-recorded and re-released her first two albums (JoJo and The High Road) under her own label Clover Music\, after years of legal battles with her former label that prevented the albums from existing on digital platforms. She has also pushed herself outside the confines of genre\, recently collaborating with artists ranging from PJ Morton [on the GRAMMY-winning R&B hit “Say So”] and Jacob Collier [lending her vocal stylings to the jazzy “It Don’t Matter”] to Tank on his latest “Somebody Else.” \nLinks: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Spotify | YouTube | Apple Music \n\n\n Related URL:https://artsorange.org/event/jojo-good-to-know-tour/ LOCATION:Cat’s Cradle\, 300 E Main St.\, Carrboro\, NC\, 27510\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://artsorange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JOJO-Credit-Dennis-Leupold-Press-1-1000.jpg GEO:35.910023;-79.0688137 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cat’s Cradle 300 E Main St. Carrboro NC 27510 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=300 E Main St.:geo:-79.0688137,35.910023 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR