{"id":26629,"date":"2015-09-11T09:45:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T13:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=26629"},"modified":"2015-09-11T08:52:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T12:52:08","slug":"on-stage-demarks-oh-land-comes-to-philly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=26629","title":{"rendered":"On Stage: Demark’s Oh Land comes to Philly"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Denny Dyroff<\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Staff Writer, The Times<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Oh Land, one of Denmark’s top acts, comes to Philadelphia this week.<\/p><\/div>\n

Oh Land, one of Denmark\u2019s top music exports, is returning to Philadelphia for a special show this month.<\/span><\/p>\n

The international producer and songwriter extraordinaire\u00a0, also known as\u00a0Nanna \u00d8land Fabricius, \u00a0is currently touring with Of Monsters and Men. The tour touches down in Philadelphia on September 15 at the Mann Music Center (Mann Center, 5201 N. Parkside Avenue, Philadelphia, 215-566-7900, http:\/\/manncenter.org<\/span><\/a>). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll do a four-week American tour followed by six weeks in Europe,\u201d said Oh Land, during a phone interview last week. \u201cThen, I have a Danish tour. It\u2019s something special for me to play there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh Land has been tirelessly on tour globally in support of her fourth album, \u201cEarth Sick\u201d on Tusk or Tooth. The critically-acclaimed album is a soundscape of lush vocals, rich string arrangements, and infectious melodies. Earth Sick also marks a full-circle return to Oh Land\u2019s bedroom production style.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt the time I started working with \u2018Earth Sick,\u2019 it felt very natural to go back to my roots — the way I did my first album in an apartment in Denmark,\u201d said Oh Land. \u201cOnly people I know very well worked on the album.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ironically, Oh Land never anticipated a career in music. Oh Land was born in Copenhagen, the daughter of Bendt Fabricius, an organist, and Bodil \u00d8land, an opera singer. Following her parents\u2019 path wasn\u2019t a plan she wanted to have.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was dance that became serious early,\u201d said Fabricius. \u201cIt was important for me that music was not my ambition. Music was fun. No kids I knew wanted to be the same as their parents. I did dancing but I always loved music. I\u2019m happy that I started music later in life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh Land is a former student of the Royal Danish Ballet and the Royal Swedish Ballet schools.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI injured my back dancing back in 2006,\u201d said Oh Land. \u201cI had just turned 19 and was a very ambitious dancer. The dance environment is very competitive. You keep dancing through pain or you lose your role. I ignored the warning signs, kept dancing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The result was a fractured spine, a slipped disc and an early exit from the world of ballet and contemporary dance.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI stared doing music because it\u2019s such a solitary life as a dancer,\u201d said Oh Land. \u201cI\u2019d stay after (ballet) classes and play piano in the studio by myself. When I got injured, I started joining the musicians — playing piano and accompanying my classmates.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt took a few years until I made my first album. Eventually, I stopped dancing. It wasn\u2019t until I was 22 before I really started taking music seriously. I made my first album \u2018Fauna\u2019 when I was 23.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh Land followed with the \u201cOh Land\u201d album in 2011, \u201cWish Bone\u201d in 2013 and \u201cEarth Sick\u201d in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI write all the time,\u201d said Oh Land. \u201cWhen I was touring with \u2018Wish Bone,\u2019 I had already started writing for \u2018Earth Sick.\u2019 A lot of was written while I was away — missing family, boyfriend and home. That feeling really inspired the theme for \u2018Earth Sick\u2019 — a lot of longing and wanting to be home.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI came up with the title in a hotel room somewhere in America. It came from astronauts describing what it felt like to look down on earth and wonder what people were doing back home and about getting used to gravity back on earth. \u2018Earth Sick\u2019 meant a lot to me metaphysically.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI did a PledgeMusic campaign to raise the money to make the album. I raised more than my monetary goal so it was great. It took a lot of work. Funding something by yourself takes a lot and the money was needed for things like scores and costumes for the videos. I really worked a lot to collect the money so it was really rewarding when it paid off.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was in Denmark and would do arrangements with my dad and then we\u2019d go into a studio with a string quartet. I used an uncle, an aunt and two cousins in that string quartet. We have a ton of musicians in our family. \u00a0My mom, who was a mezzo-soprano with the Royal Danish Theater, sang on one track.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLooking back, I\u2019m very happy to be in music rather than dance. I have a very vivid imagination and ballet was the opposite of that with all its discipline.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Video link for Oh Land — https:\/\/youtu.be\/Lh-KioVFXDo<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The show at the Mann Music Center will start at 7 p.m. General admission tickets are $35.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another act with a Scandinavian link will be playing in Delaware this week.<\/span><\/p>\n

IVA, a singer-songwriter from Wilmington who will be performing September 10 at World Caf\u00e9 Live at the Queen (500 North Market Street, Wilmington, 302- 994-1400,\u00a0www.queen.worldcafelive.com<\/span><\/a>),has more layers than an onion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Born Emily Tepe, IVA (pronounced EE-vah) established herself as a strong classical singer who was well-versed in opera and performed with Opera Delaware when she was just nine.<\/span><\/p>\n

A graduate of Wilmington\u2019s Tower Hill School and Princeton University, IVA, whose ancestry is Swedish, also studied at Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music.<\/span><\/p>\n

Later, after graduating from Princeton, IVA began to play the New York clubs and Off-Broadway venues.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just over a decade ago, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and went to Stockholm to study Scandinavian classical music. It was in Sweden where IVA embraced her opera side and quickly found herself singing with the Royal Opera of Stockholm.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, IVA is focusing her energy on being a singer-songwriter crafting and singing smart, intelligent contemporary music. In that capacity, IVA has just released a new EP tiled \u201cLeap.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted my artist name to be something that was inspiring and push me to go farther than classical,\u201d said IVA, during a phone interview last week from her home in Delaware. \u201cIva (Iwa) was my music teacher in Sweden. IVA sounds like a woman standing on a mountaintop.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI had an opera voice from a young age — loud and focused. A friend got me involved in children\u2019s productions at Opera Delaware. I studied classical music and it suited me. I was also doing Sancta Lucia Fests at Old Swede\u2019s Church in Wilmington ever since I was little and I was Sancta Lucia when I was a senior in high school.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

During her several years abroad studying, writing and performing music, IVA returned to the States where, thanks to an appearance on \u201cLate Night with Conan O\u2019Brien,\u201d she caught the ear of bandleader Max Weinberg.\u00a0 Weinberg liked her voice and she was invited to return to the show multiple times as a singer and actress.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy friend Joshua Bell introduced me to Maneesh de Moor, a producer of ambient electronic music whom he knew from Sony Classical,\u201d said IVA. \u201cManeesh produced my first album \u2018IVA\u2019 which was more ambient electronic sound. On my second album \u2018Ivalution,\u2019 I worked with an excellent team of songwriters and producers in Sweden. I had been writing songs with other people in Sweden so the album, which came out in 2006, had more singer-songwriter songs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThen, I started writing my own songs. I was singing with the Royal Opera of Stockholm at the time. After that, I came back to the states to look for a band. It took me a couple years to write the songs for the new record. And, I did a Kickstarter campaign to finance the recording.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Soon, things began falling in place.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI started playing with people and found the right musicians. Sam Nobles is an amazing bass player. I got Tim Sonnefeld from Milkboy Studio as my producer and he got drummer Matt Scarano. The next addition was Nate Gonzalez, an amazing guitarist and pianist who also plays accordion.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTim has a great ear and we had a good rapport right from the start. Tim is an amazing producer and person. I played some of my songs for him on piano and he convinced me o play piano on the album. Adjusting to playing piano on stage took some time.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI recorded \u2018Leap\u2019 last February and finished it last September. It just came out in July. I\u2019m still doing classical too. In June, I toured Germany, Poland and Sweden with pianist Julie Nishimura. I was singing Scandinavian songs, Chopin, Copland and Debussy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, IVA was awarded the\u00a0\u00c5rets Svensk Amerikan\u00a0(Swedish-American of the Year) — an annual award presented by the Vasa Order of America since 1960.\u00a0Recipients, either Swedish or American by birth, have made significant contributions to the relationship between the two countries. Past honorees, including astronaut Buzz Aldrin and actress Ann-Margret.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m the youngest person to ever win the award,\u201d said IVA. \u201cIt was a great honor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Video link for IVA — https:\/\/youtu.be\/N5PynD7r61I<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

IVA will headline the September 10 show on the Upstairs Stage. The show will start at 8 p.m. and tickets are $10.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also on September 10 at the Queen, there will be a show on the Downstairs Stage with Wesley Stace opening for the Nighthawks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many of Stace\u2019s fans started as fans of the music of John Wesley Harding, a veteran British singer-songwriter who has released over 20 albums in the last 25 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Actually, Wesley Stace is John Wesley Harding. Stace adopted his stage name from a Bob Dylan album of the same name a long time ago. Now, he has reverted to the name given him when he was born in East Sussex back in 1965.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stace\u2019s most recent album — \u201cSelf-Titled\u201d — was his first album featuring his given name. Released by Yep Roc in 2013, it featured 16 songs recorded in Philadelphia with The English UK as backing band. It was produced by longtime collaborator Chris von Sneidern.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stace also has had several novels published as Wesley Stace, including \u201cMisfortune\u201d in 2005, \u201cBy George\u201d in 2007, \u201cCharles Jessold, Considered As A Murderer\u201d in 2010 and \u201cWonderkid\u201d in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI decided to go back to my real name for a lot of reasons,\u201d said Stace, during a recent phone interview. \u201cI\u2019ve had it in my mind to do for some time. My novels are done in my own name. I do readings as Wesley Stace and I teach at Swarthmore College as Wesley Stace.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI write autobiographical and true songs. I wrote 50 songs for the album and referred to myself in the New York Times style as Mr. Stace. So, it would be ludicrous to have an album referring to myself as Wesley Stace and using a different name as the recording artist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The New York Times\u00a0premiered \u201cSelf-Titled\u201d with an exclusive \u201cPress Play\u201d album stream.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t been in the studio since \u2018Self-Titled\u2019,\u201d said Stace. \u201cI had a couple book projects and I\u2019m working on another one now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Stace has also been very involved with another project — \u201cCabinet of Wonders Podcast\u201d on Salon. A recent announcement from Salon.com<\/span><\/a> stated — \u201cSalon is proud to partner with Cabinet of Wonders on this podcast. Since 2009, Wesley Stace has curated the best variety show in America, featuring hundreds of pioneering musicians, writers and comedians. We think that the format and talent will be well received by our devoted readers and are honored\u00a0to swing open the Cabinet doors to a wide audience and archive this amazing artistic genius.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCabinet of Wonders started a few years ago when I wanted to do an album release party,\u201d said Stace. \u201cSo, I got writers and friends together for a presentation. I\u2019ve done 65-70 Cabinet of Wonders since then and just got picked up by Salon.com<\/span><\/a>. There will also be NPR broadcasts of the shows. I\u2019ve done six with Salon already.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a fantastic show in London earlier this year and we did one last year during a West Coast tour. Most are done n New York. It works best in entertainment capitols. Everybody comes through New York so that works best for a show like this. It\u2019s really a fun show.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI do all the work but I don\u2019t record it or edit it. That\u2019s not my end of the production.. To me, the process is doing the live show and having it be excellent — a once-in-a-month experience. My motive is to have a night that is fantastic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Stace has three very different shows this weekend. In addition to the show at the Queen on September 10, he will do a Cabinet of Wonders show in New York on September 11 and then perform at the Haverford Music Festival (Oakmont Field Stage, 51 East Eagle Road, Havertown, http:\/\/haverfordmusicfestival.org<\/span><\/a>) on September 12.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Wilmington show will just have me as a solo artist,\u201d said Stace. \u201cThe next day I\u2019ll do the Cabinet of Wonders show with a lot of artists and then the show on Saturday at Haverford will have me with my band.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Video link for Wesley Stace — https:\/\/youtu.be\/0UhYM-xjjAs<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tickets for the Downstairs show, which starts at 8 p.m., are $40.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other Downstairs shows in the next week are Civil Holdup (CD Release Show), Widow Maker Social Club, RFA and The Real Feel on September 11 and Pat McGee with Frank Viele on September 12. The Upstairs schedule includes The Show Ponies on September 11 and Jazzy Ash and the Leaping Lizards on September 12.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Downstairs Stage at the WCL will also feature Dustbowl Revival and Dirty Dollhouse on September 14 and Tony Lucca with Hey Monae and Castle Creek on September 15.<\/span><\/p>\n

The schedule for the Upstairs Stage includes Melissa Mitchell and The Sociables with Thom McCarthy on September 12, Mipso and Dan Mills on September 13, Kat Pace on September 15 and Crooks on Tape and Teen Men on September 16.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mipso is a rising young string band from the Chapel Hill\/Durham area in North Carolina. The group is currently touring in support of its new album \u201cOld Time Reverie,\u201d which will be released via Robust Records on October 2, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Spawned from the ongoing renaissance currently enriching and expanding the traditional vocabularies of old time and bluegrass music, \u201cOld Time Reverie\u201d finds Mipso putting time-honored tools to work on new terrain. The album is a collection of thoughtful, poetic ruminations on the moral complexities of the New South, using a mix of a traditional and more contemporary instrumentation.<\/span><\/p>\n

After years as a trio, Mipso added fiddler and vocalist Libby Rodenbough to the existing lineup of Jacob Sharp (mandolin), Joseph Terrell (guitar), and Wood Robinson (bass). All were students at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJoseph was one of the first people I met in school,\u201d said Rodenbaugh, during a phone interview last week from her home in Saxaphaw, North Carolina. \u201cThe only music I had played before that was classical violin.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe asked me to jam with him. It was terrifying — but I caught the bug. I left school and went to a folk music school in Chicago. I was studying banjo, mandolin and guitar — and I brought my fiddle along to jam.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhile I was gone, the three boys started the band. When I gotr back, I just played local shows with them as a featured guest. Then, they asked me to join the band on a permanent basis. I was hesitant at first because it was three boys singing love songs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere wasn\u2019t a particular moment that made me decide to do it. I just started having so much fun playing with them. And, it was either join a band or take a lousy entry-level job somewhere. I was also starting to really enjoy playing live and writing songs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mipso played a lot in the Golden Triangle area (Chapel Hill\/Durham\/Raleigh), built up a strong fan base and eventually began to spread out to new areas. The band released its debut album \u201cDark Holler Pop\u201d in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re an all-acoustic instrument band,\u201d said Rodenbaugh. \u201cOur songwriting is more poppy than traditional. We\u2019re a very versatile band. We can play quiet cubs or rock-our rooms — even without a drummer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWith our songwriting, there is generally a single songwriter and then we do the arrangements communally. A lot of adjustments are made during the arrangements. Our songs have a lot of four-part harmonies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Video link for Mipso — https:\/\/youtu.be\/_Tghe2lD4YM<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mipso\u2019s show at the World Caf\u00e9 Live will start at 8 p.m. with opening act Dan Mills. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 day of show.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another interesting show in Delaware on September 11 will take place at The Grand Opera House (818 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware, 302-652-5577,<\/span><\/p>\n

delawaresymphony.org<\/a><\/span>) \u00a0when the Delaware Symphony Orchestra presents \u201cRemembrance & Redemption.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The orchestra, under the baton of David Amado, will perform George Tsontakis\u2019 \u201cLaconika,\u201d C\u00e9sar Franck\u2019s \u201cLe chasseur maudit\u201d and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart\u2019s \u201cRequiem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The featured performers will be soprano Mary Wilson, mezzo-soprano Meg Bragle, tenor Brian Downen, baritone Grant Youngblood and the Mastersingers of Wilmington with director David Schelat.<\/span><\/p>\n

The concert is slated to begin at 7:30 p.m. with tickets priced at $66.<\/span><\/p>\n

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GWAR<\/p><\/div>\n

Based on the true definition of the word \u201cunique,\u201d there are really very few things that can claim to be unique — especially in the world of popular music where copycat acts and songs are more the rule than the norm.<\/span><\/p>\n

But, unique is the perfect word to describe GWAR. There is, never was and never will be a band like GWAR. The Virginia-based costume-wearing thrash metal band, which will perform a show on September 16 at Reverb (1402 North Ninth Street, Reading, 610-743-3069, www.reverbconcerts.com<\/span><\/a>, exists in a universe all its own.<\/span><\/p>\n

The tour — \u201c30 Years of Total World Domination Tour\u201d — also features Battlecross, Gloominous Doom \u00a0and Butcher Babies as the opening acts.<\/span><\/p>\n

When GWAR first arrived on the scene back in the 1980s, no-one would have — or could have — ever imagined that the group would still be playing to packed houses on a 30th anniversary tour in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

GWAR was a metal band with music performed by outrageous characters that looked and acted as if they had stepped out of a horror film done science fiction style. Wearing elaborately grotesque foam latex costumes, the band\u2019s live shows were best described as raunchy, graphic, obscene and over-the-top.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the band\u2019s mythology, GWAR is a group of alien monsters who were banished to Earth millions of years ago as punishment for their cosmic crimes. GWAR was frozen in the wasteland of Antarctica, to wait for the cosmic summons that would herald their return to the stars. But fate intervened, and GWAR was de-thawed by global warming.<\/span><\/p>\n

Led by pig-nosed lead singer Oderus Urungus, they began wandering the world, where they were quickly discovered by music mogul and mob boss Sleazy P. Martini. Transformed into the ultimate heavy metal band, they set about the business of destroying the human race with this savage sound, throwing great \u201cconcerts\u201d where thousands of humans would be lured to their deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2013, GWAR has released \u201cBattle Maximus,\u201d the band\u2019s most mind-melting musical masterpiece to date. GWAR\u2019s current lineup includes Beefcake the Mighty (bass), Pustulus Maximus (guitar), Balsac the Jaws of Death (guitar), Jizmak Da Gusha (drums) and Blothar (vocals, occasional bass guitar).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re working on material for a new album — writing new songs to make a new record,\u201d said Blothar, during a phone interview last week from a tour stop in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what GWAR does. But, records don\u2019t mean much. It\u2019s all about the live show. GWAR has the best live show. People come to watch the destruction onstage every night. And, not many people survive. Humans are ground into cat food. We kill all enemies of GWAR who attack us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A number of people are \u201cbeheaded\u201d in every show — including personalities from the news. Victims have included O. J. Simpson, John Kerry, Mike Tyson, Jerry Springer, Osama Bin Laden, Michael Jackson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Adolf Hitler, Lady Gaga, Sarah Palin, and every American President since Ronald Reagan.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe do kill one presidential candidate — but not Donald Trump,\u201d said Bliothar. \u201cHe says a lot of funny things so we keep him around.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a lot of (fake) blood in our shows — 100 gallons of blood every night and we shoot it all at the audience. There aren\u2019t too many safe distances in a club. Just ask our soundman. We empty the tanks at the end of the show and turn the hoses on the humans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

GWAR\u2019s\u00a0 founding member Oderus Urungus (Dave Brockie) was found dead by a roommate in his Richmond, Virginia apartment in March 2014. The cause of death was later confirmed to be a heroin overdose.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOnerus is missing,\u201d said Blothar. \u201cHe left us a little more than a year ago. Everything we do is an homage to Onerus and his slave Dave Brockie.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Video link for GWAR — https:\/\/youtu.be\/Dbnm-0r3suM<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Battlecross is an intense metal band from Detroit featuring Kyle \u2018Gumby\u2019 Gunther (vocals), Tony Asta (guitar), Hiran Deraniyagala (guitar) and Don Slater (bass). The band\u2019s fourth album \u201cRise to Power\u201d was just released in August on Metal Blade Records.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first time we\u2019ve gone out with GWAR on an extensive tour,\u201d said Deraniyagala, during a phone interview last week from a tour stop in Baton Rouge. \u201cIn 2013, we did a few dates with them, including a New Year\u2019s Eve show.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBattlecross has been around for awhile. Tony and I grew up together. We\u2019ve known each other since we were kids. We got a band together in high school. In 2007, this form of Battlecross started. It was more heavy guitars and we just played the local scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThen, we signed with Metal Blade and put out our second album \u2018Pursuit of Honor.\u2019 The rest is history.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe had toured our first album for awhile. We did some smaller tours and then jumped on whatever tours we could. In summer 2012, we did the Metal Hammer’s Trespass America Festival Tour and that was a big move for us.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2013, we were on the Orion Music + More Festival with Metallica and later did the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. Last year, we did shows in Brazil in August and went to Europe with Killswitch Engage.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe started working on the new album last fall. We did the writing in September and October and then recorded the album in February at Audiohammer Studio in Florida. Everything about \u2018Rise to Power\u2019 was very organic and natural. We just started writing songs and letting everything flow.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe agreed to shut out everything around us. We wrote what we felt and then let everything come together naturally. We had Jason Suecoff as our producer. He was awesome to work with. It was a great experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Video link for Battlecross — https:\/\/youtu.be\/oIWZsP1Wm40<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The show at Reverb will start at 7 p.m. and tickets are priced at $16.
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\"Uncle-Acid\"<\/a>

Uncle Acid<\/p><\/div>\n

Regarded by many as one of the United Kingdom\u2019s greatest cult bands, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats are back with their fourth full-length studio album and a North American tour — a tour that brings them to this area on September 13 for a show at Union Transfer (1026 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, 215-232-2100, www.utphilly.com<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Night Creeper,\u201d which was just released on September 4 via Rise Above Records, features a lead single titled \u201cWaiting for Blood.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats were formed in Cambridge, England by Kevin Ryan Starrs several years ago. The band\u2019s influences draw heavily from the late 1960s and early 1970s and they are known for using vintage instruments and recording equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt actually started out as a solo project,\u201d said Starrs, during a recent phoneinterview from his home in London.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI had songs I wanted to record and was unemployed at the time. That was the \u2018Volume 1\u2019 album that I made in Cambridge with a lot of different musicians. My next album was \u2018Blood Lust\u2019 in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI put a band together around the time of \u2018Blood Lust\u2019 but it didn\u2019t last long. It ended up being just me and the drummer. It was too difficult so we decided to call it quits. Then, the album blew up.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople really wanted to hear the band. There was no promotion. It was all word-of-mouth. It was only on sale at our website. I just sort of snowballed. Rise Above Records decided to release it on vinyl. That\u2019s when the success of the band really started to happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe put out the \u2018Mind Control\u2019 album in 2013, toured with Black Sabbath and did festivals all around Europe. The album reached to a lot of genre\u2019s fans — metal, old rock, pop music and psychedelic. \u2018Mind Control\u2019 was a lot different than \u2018Blood Lust.\u2019 It showed that we were willing to change. It allowed us to do whatever we wanted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Recorded at Toe Rag Studios in early 2015 with engineer Liam Watson, \u201cThe Night Creeper\u201d sounds like \u201cBlack Sabbath meets Phil Spector.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Starrs, \u201cThe idea is that this album could have started life as an old cheap, grime-covered 25 cent pulp paperback like the type sold at news-stands outside train stations. But then perhaps it is adapted into a film noir, which itself is then re-made twenty years later as an ultraviolent, slasher Italian Giallo film. The album follows this aesthetic lineage as it descends from trash to noir to something discernibly darker.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Night Creeper\u201d is definitely an album with its own very distinct vibe.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a tour of the United States last October, we came home and started writing songs. It took us three days to track the whole album — all of us in the same room playing together,\u201d said Starrs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWe did all the basic tracks live and then I\u2019d work on it at home at my own pace — adding harmonies and keyboard parts. All the layering took time. All the mixing was completed in May. We\u2019re doing four or five songs in our shows on this tour.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Video link for Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats — https:\/\/youtu.be\/m1yrtGaIkcI<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The show at Union Transfer, which has Ruby The Hatchet and Ecstatic Vision as the opening acts, will start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20.<\/span><\/p>\n

Upcoming shows at the Sellersville Theater are Lisa Loeb and Ben Kessler on September 11, Who\u2019s Next on September 12, Corb Lund & Whitehorse on September 14, In the Bar on September 15 and Jeff Daniels on September 16.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tommy Keene, who will perform on September 15 at Boot and Saddle (1131 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, 215-639-4528, www.bootandsaddlephilly.com<\/span><\/a>), is a L.A.-based Maryland native who has been writing and performing tasty, guitar-driven power pop music for over three decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

He has recorded 11full-length albums, four EPs, three compilations and one live album over the course of his career. In the last six years, Keene has released four studio albums.<\/span><\/p>\n

His new album \u201cLaugh in the Dark\u201d is the latest in a fruitful partnership with North Carolina\u2019s\u00a0Second Motion Records\u00a0label and was released on September 4. Keene\u2019s previous album \u201cExcitement at Your Feet\u201d was an album of all cover songs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a lot of fun making a cover album,\u201d said Keene, during a phone interview last week from his home in L.A. \u201cI had such a plethora of material to draw from. I just picked songs that I could Tommy Keene-ize.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI started writing for the new album in January 2014 and wrote until October. I recorded the drums in Memphis in November and then finished the album here at my house. I have my own studio and I have a lot of keyboards, guitars and basses. I can do everything here except the drums and mixing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI go through periods where I don\u2019t write songs or even pick up a guitar for maybe as long as nine months. The covers record took about a year-and-a-half to make. So, I was fresh at the time to start writing. I usually get about 20-30 ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll come up with a guitar figure — a modal pattern. Then, I flesh out a song around it. It can take a while until I see if good songs are coming. I always overwrite. With the new album, I had 15 songs done with lyrics and then picked 10 for the album. Right now, there are six of the new songs in my live set.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Video link for Tommy Keene — https:\/\/vimeo.com\/27493943<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Keene\u2019s show at Boot & Saddle will start at 8:30 with opening act Hurry. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 day of show.<\/span><\/p>\n

Boot & Saddle will also host a twin-bill on September 16 with a pair of great female artists — Ambrosia Parsley, former lead singer of Shivaree, and headliner Holly Miranda.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Destructo___West_Coast_EP_Download_389_389\"<\/a>On September 11, Destructo will be getting dance music fans whipped into frenzy when he does his show at Rumor Nightclub (1500 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, rumorphilly.com<\/span><\/a>, 215-988-0777).<\/span><\/p>\n

Destructo is actually Gary Richards, a music business veteran from Los Angeles who is a DJ as well as a music executive and concert promoter.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI just do shows on weekends,\u201d said Richards, during a phone interview Wednesday afternoon from his West Coast office.\u201dI\u2019m in L.A. during the week. I run a festival company. That\u2019s my day job.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI started Destructo a while ago. I\u2019ve been clubbing and making music for about 20 years. I\u2019ve always been into electronic music going back to Kraftwerk and Afrika Bambaataa. In the early 1990s, I put Destructo onstage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Destructo has not been a constant on the touring scene since its inception but it has always been there.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI never put it to bed but I went back-and-forth between DJing, managing artists and putting on shows,\u201d said Richards. \u201cAround 2007, I realized people weren\u2019t buying EDM (electronic dance music).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey weren\u2019t buying music at all because they can get it for free. I used to have record labels that were with Interscope and A&M but not anymore. For EDM artist, it\u2019s all about performing live for the fans.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I go onstage, I have my music and a full visual package. I won\u2019t have screens with me for this East Coast trip. It depends on the configuration of the clubs or the festivals. I never do the same show from night to night.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have all my tunes. Some shows are more house and some more hip hop. Last weekend, I was in Europe. In Ibiza, they wanted house. Paris was hip hop and trap and Manchester was more rave. Then, there is g-house which is a blend of electronic house and hip hop.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t get caught up in labels and genres. You just have to make good tunes. It\u2019s either good music or it\u2019s not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Destructo\u2019s most recent recording is the \u201cWest Coast EP,\u201d which features YG, Ty Dolla $ign, Too $hort, Kurupt, Problem, and Warren G.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll the guys on my mixes are West Coast hip hop guys,\u201d said Richards. \u201cFor my live performances, it\u2019s just me. It\u2019s a lot different than being out with a band. When I go on the road for shows, there is only one person.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Video link for Destructo — https:\/\/youtu.be\/K7Vvpqddhv8<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The show at Rumor will start at 10 p.m. Tickets are $10.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Poor Yorick. Night, Tithonos and Bad Metaphor on September 11 and Mercury Radio Theater, Kitty Rotten and Lettuce Prey on September 12.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Steel City Coffee House (203 Bridge Street, Phoenixville, 610-933-4043, www.steelcitycoffeehouse.com<\/span><\/a>) will host Cliff Hillis and Amy Fairchild on September 10, Amy Correia on September 11 and Jim Boggia on September 12.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chaplin\u2019s (66 North Main Street, Spring City, 610-792-4110,\u00a0http:\/\/chaplinslive.com<\/span><\/a>) will present Zach Alex, Eric Reavey, Sarah Kervin and Jake Currie on September 11.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ardmore Music Hall (23 East Lancaster Avenue, Ardmore, 610-649-8389,\u00a0www.ardmoremusic.com<\/span><\/a>) will present Dumpstaphunk and Royal Southern Brotherhood on September 10, Splintered Sunlight and Dirk Quinn Band on September 11, and Snarky Puppy and House of Waters on September 16.<\/span><\/p>\n

Burlap & Bean Coffeehouse (204 South Newtown Street Road, Newtown Square, 484-427-4547,\u00a0www.burlapandbean.com<\/span><\/a>) will have Charlie Phillips on September 11,<\/span><\/p>\n

JD Malone with John Beacher on September 12 and Johnny Boy Whaler Hootenanny on September 16.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Keswick Theater (291 N. Keswick Avenue, Glenside, 215-572-7650,\u00a0www.keswicktheatre.com<\/span><\/a>) presents Little Feat on September 11, Sinbad on September 12 and Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell <\/b>on September 13.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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