{"id":28751,"date":"2018-06-09T14:32:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T18:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=28751"},"modified":"2018-06-09T14:32:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T18:32:12","slug":"on-stage-get-some-joy-from-hate-tour-at-the-troc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=28751","title":{"rendered":"On Stage: Get some joy from ‘Hate’ tour at The Troc"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Denny Dyroff<\/strong>, Entertainment Editor, The Times<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Night Club<\/p><\/div>\n

On June 9, the Trocadero (10th and Arch streets, Philadelphia, 215-922-6888, www.thetroc.com<\/a>) is hosting the \u201cEverybody Still Hates You Tour.\u201d Obviously, it will not be an evening filled with Americana, smooth jazz or sensitive singer\/songwriters.<\/p>\n

The tour features Combichrist as the headliner along with Wednesday 13, Night Club, Prison, and Death Valley High.<\/p>\n

Night Club is an electronic duo from Los Angeles featuring Emily Kavanaugh and Mark Brooks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe met in L.A. a few years ago through mutual friends,\u201d said Brooks, during a recent phone interview form a tour stop in Michigan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shared eclectic music tastes. So, we started making music together. The thing that\u2019s great about this band is that there is just two of us. It\u2019s very self-contained. If we like it, we put it out. There is no outside pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Night Club released its first single \u201cLovestruck\u201d in July 2012 and its self-titled debut EP in September 2012. A video for “Lovestruck” was released in September 2012 in conjunction with the release of the EP. Night Club released a video for the second single \u201cControl\u201d in February 2013 and then put out its second EP \u201cLove Casualty\u201d in June 2013. In conjunction with the EP release, the band released three videos \u2013 \u201cPoisonous,\u201d \u201cStrobe Light\u201d and \u201cGive Yourself Up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Th band\u2019s third EP \u201cBlack Leather Heart\u201d came out in September 2014 along with three videos \u2013 \u201cNeed You Tonight,\u201d \u201cShe Wants To Play With Fire\u201d and \u201cNot In Love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, Night Club released its first full-length LP \u201cRequiem for Romance\u201d with three accompanying videos \u2013 \u201cBad Girl,\u201d \u201cDear Enemy\u201d and \u201cShow It 2 Me.\u201d The album reached #2 on the CMJ RPM chart and was voted best non-metal album by Metal Injection in 2016.<\/p>\n

The duo has been staying busy ever since its inception. Kavanaugh and Brooks also scored the Comedy Central series \u201cMoonbeam City\u201d as well as the film \u201cNerdland\u201d starring Paul Rudd & Patton Oswalt.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have our own studio and have always made our recordings ourselves,\u201d said Brooks.<\/p>\n

Night Club has a new album ready to see the light of day very soon \u2013 \u201cScary World.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe album drops on August 24,\u201d said Brooks. \u201cThe main difference between this one and our earlier recordings is that this is a little more personal record. We put more of ourselves into it \u2013 personal stuff, mental illness, personal problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kavanaugh said, \u201cWe\u2019ve taken it to the next level \u2013 tapping into our depressions. \u2018Scary World\u2019 is really about the internal scary world. Both of us deal with depression constantly. And, we\u2019ve had a history of mental illness in our families.<\/p>\n

Brooks said, \u201cThe music here is industrial and pop. It\u2019s complicated. We\u2019ve always liked minor key stuff — and it\u2019s pop and catchy. We usually write the instrumentals first. The darkness and the weirdness start with the instrumentals. The development of the music starts most of the time with chords or a melody line.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe band is 50-50. We write everything together. We go in-and-out with bursts of creativity. We go on a journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Night Club\u2019s journey during the current shows is a relatively short one.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in the middle of five bands and we have a 30-minute set,\u201d said Brooks. \u201cWe\u2019re eclectic and the others are hard rock. We could play a longer set obviously but 30 minutes is great when you have five bands. I think a half-hour is pretty good for us. We\u2019ll be playing three tracks from the new album.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for Night Club — https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ckTkBY6t2Dc&feature=youtu.be<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Death Valley High<\/p><\/div>\n

There is no Death Valley High in Death Valley, California. Death Valley High is alive and well.<\/p>\n

Death Valley Unified School District\u00a0(DVUSD) is a public-school district in\u00a0Inyo County, California. DVUSD is the largest school district in California in terms of square miles covered, but one of the smallest in terms of student enrollment. In 2012, the entire district served only 60 students.<\/p>\n

There is a Death Valley Elementary School and a Death Valley Academy<\/a> \u2013 but no Death Valley High.<\/p>\n

Death Valley High does exist in Northern California. It is a goth\/alternative band from the Bay Area featuring Reyka Osburn – vocals, guitar, Adam Bannister \u2013 drums, Huffy Hafera \u2013 bass, and Sean Bivins \u2013 guitars.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started 13 years ago doing shows locally in San Francisco,\u201d said Osburn, during a recent phone interview from a tour stop in Minneapolis, Minnesota.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe released our first record in 2008. The band became a permanent thing in 2010 and we made our second record. The line-up we have now \u2013 me, Adam, Huffy and Sean \u2013 has been together since 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crafting the perfect soundtrack to a romp in the dark, Death Valley High merges traditional goth music and modern alternative music and then throws cinematic rock, new wave, and dance music into the mix. It all came together on the band\u2019s 2016 full-length \u201cCVLT [AS FVK]\u00a0,\u201d which was released on minusHEAD Records.<\/p>\n

Death Valley High has toured almost non-stop since the album\u2019s release \u2013 since the release of its \u201cPositive Euth\u201d album in 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re pretty much done with the tour cycle for \u2018CVLT [AS FVK],\u2019\u201d said Osburn. \u201cWe\u2019re basically coming off that full cycle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m always writing. I\u2019ve got eight new songs that we\u2019re working on. One of them will be released as a non-album single after this tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year was a rocky year in some ways for the Bat Area band.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did a European tour last March and April and it made us broke,\u201d said Osburn. \u201cIn the middle of the tour, it imploded. We came back without any money. I had a broken foot. I was ready to come home and heal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Death Valley High fans are ready for a new album, but it won\u2019t be coming real soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cNone of the eight new songs are cut yet,\u201d said Osburn. \u201cI\u2019ve been writing with an old producer friend Eric Stenman. \u201cWe\u2019ll probably make the record with him in Malibu.\u201d<\/p>\n

Death Valley High recorded \u201cCVLT [AS FVK]\u201d several years ago in Los Angeles with iconic producer Ulrich Wilde, who is known for his work with White Zombie and the Deftones.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecording \u201cCVLT [AS FVK]\u2019 with Ulrich was a great experience,\u201d said Osburn. \u201cWe learned a lot from him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, Death Valley High is bringing its music to its originals fans and a whole lot of new listeners on the \u201cEverybody Still Hates You Tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur main audience is hardcore and death rock,\u201d said Osburn. \u201cBut, when we tour, we can fit with bands from a lot of metal genres.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for Death Valley High \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/p10KU2yKv0Y<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show at the Trocadero will start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25.<\/p>\n

Other upcoming shows at the Trocadero are \u201cSecond Annual Summer Scorcher\u201d on June 10 and awakebutstillinbed on June 13.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Judah Kim<\/p><\/div>\n

Judah Kim & The Assassination\u00a0just released their debut album \u201cDark Circles\u201d and celebrated with a CD Release Party last month at<\/p>\n

MilkBoy Philly. Now, they are they are performing on June 9 at \u201cThe Top Of The World Concert Series\u201d for Philly Beer Week at Whole Foods \u2013 Plymouth Meeting (500 W Germantown Pike, Plymouth Meeting, www.wholefoodsmarket.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started recording \u2018Dark Circles\u2019 back in November,\u201d said Kim, during a phone interview Friday afternoon from his home in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I first started writing for the album, I really tried a different approach. Instead of strumming on guitar and letting songs come out, I incorporated a looping station as a way to get me started \u2013 drum or guitar parts that I couldn\u2019t usually play.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I did a whole month working with ideas. I\u2019d get ideas and then pull them from the loops. I was writing with the idea that I\u2019d eventually have a band. I didn\u2019t have one at the time. I thought about how I could re-create the songs on stage with a band.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eventually, Kim did put a group together.<\/p>\n

Band members Bob Cahill (ex-Downtown Harvest, Pocket Deal) on bass, Isaac Windle (The Strange Heat, Pocket Dial) on guitar, Jon McNally (Agent Moosehead) on drums and percussion and Kim (Stonethrown) on songwriting and vocals, all attended Plymouth Whitemarsh High School in Plymouth Meeting. The only non-PW grad is Kevin Cox on guitar, keyboards and background vocals.<\/p>\n

\u201cJune 9 will be the anniversary of our first performance,\u201d said Kim. \u201cOur first gig was at the start of summer and then we recorded the album in November.<\/p>\n

\u201cBob Cahill and I grew up together but always were in different bands. I was doing guest vocals for another artist at Top of the World back in 2016. Bob called me the next day and said we should put a band together. I was apprehensive at first because we had different styles of writing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the new year came around, we had begun to play together. We were looking for a guitarists and Isaac Windle had played in one of Bob\u2019s bands. Then, we added multi-instrumentalist Kevin Cox who was a friend of Isaac\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once the band was set and the songs were ready, the next step was to make an album.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cut the album at Kawari Sound in Wyncote,\u201d said Kim. \u201cI wanted to try something different. A friend referred me to this studio. I produced the album there and did some at my own studio — Scarlet Oak Sound.<\/p>\n

Citing influences such as Muse, Rooney and the Strokes, Kim wrote all the songs on the new album with the \u201cshuffle mentality\u201d of contemporary listeners in mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to not think about having a certain theme or vibe for the album because it becomes paralyzing,\u201d said Kim. \u201cI wrote a bunch of stuff and then pulled the best pieces together.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith music, I like to mix things up as a nod to the way people listen to music today \u2013 to try to step out of the box a little. With music styles in this time era, it\u2019s not as black-an-white as it has been. Everything is different. The thing is to try to find a way to be accessible without being boring. I just try to write \u2013 to write all the time \u2013 to write songs about independent thought and being who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for Judah Kim \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/uhKQwgUGOKA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The \u201cThe Top Of The World Concert Series\u201d will run from 8 p.m.-midnight. Tickets are free.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dom Flemons\u2019 latest musical project — \u201cDom Flemons\u00a0Presents\u00a0Black Cowboys\u201d — is interesting, very listenable and very educational.<\/p>\n

On June 10, Flemons will perform his new album in concert at the Sellersville Theater (24 West Temple Avenue, Sellersville, 215-257-5808,\u00a0www.st94.com<\/a>) will have Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams on June 7, Blues Beatles on June 8, The Soul Survivors on June 9, Dom Flemons on June 10, Gaelic Storm on June 11, Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett on June 12, and Geoff Tate\u2019s 30th Anniversary of \u201cOperation: Mindcrime\u201d on June 13.<\/p>\n

\u201cDom Flemons\u00a0Presents\u00a0Black Cowboys\u201d pays tribute to the music, culture, and the complex history of the golden era of the Wild West. In this single volume of music, Flemons explores and reanalyzes this important part of our American identity. The songs and poems featured on the album are meant to take the listener on an illuminating journey from the trails to the rails of the old west. This is a century old story that follows the footsteps of the thousands of African American pioneers that helped build the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flemons previously was in\u00a0Carolina Chocolate Drops, a Grammy-winning group that focused on the music of African-American string bands from a century ago. He was featured on bones,\u00a0jug, guitar, and four-string banjo.<\/p>\n

The instruments featured on \u201cDom Flemons\u00a0Presents\u00a0Black Cowboys\u201d include six-string banjo, cow \u201crhythm\u201d bones, fiddle;\u00a0fife, Fraulini Angelina six-string guitar, Fraulini Angelina six-string guitar-banjo, guitarr\u00f3n, harmonica;\u00a0Hawaiian guitar, kazoo, mandolin, marching bass drum, Original Hound Dog resonator guitar, plectrum four-string banjo, quills (musical instrument, snare drum;\u00a0Stella 12-string guitar, and upright bass.<\/p>\n

The first album of its kind, \u201cBlack Cowboys\u201d takes the listener on an illuminating journey \u201cfrom the trails to the rails\u201d of the Old West. The 18-song set traverses a varied soundscape featuring string blues, old-time square dance music, and cowboy poetry. Flemons is joined by a celebrated group of backing musicians throughout the record, such as GRAMMY-winning bluesman Alvin \u201cYoungblood\u201d Hart, Jimbo Mathus (Squirrel Nut Zippers), and decorated folklorist and Folkways\u2019 director emeritus Dan Sheehy, who co-produced the album.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack cowboys have been under-represented,\u201d said Flemons, during a phone interview Friday afternoon from his home in Silver Spring, Maryland.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re still around \u2013 and they\u2019re still under-represented in the popular image of the American cowboy.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy research was a combination of library research and field research. Two important research items I found were the book \u2018The Negro Cowboys\u2019 by Philip Durham and a recording called \u2018The Black Texicans.\u2019 Black cowboys were called \u2018Black Vaqueros.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack Texicans: Balladeers & Songsters\u201d is an album of field recordings made in the 1930s by noted American musicologists John Lomax and his son Alan Lomax. The album has 29 performances from 1933-1940, most of them previously unreleased. It reflects various aspects of black Texas repertoire, particularly cowboy songs (Texas had a higher percentage of black cowboys than other regions did), but also some blues, work songs, and tunes identified with the songster and minstrel traditions, performed a cappella or with guitar and harmonica accompaniment.\u00a0It features one track by the legendary blues master Leadbelly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had been very casually collecting material on black cowboys,\u201d said Flemons. \u201cMy search also came from family interests. I\u2019m half-black and half-Mexican. I knew it was time to do this project and that the Smithsonian Institute and the National Museum of African American History and Culture would put it out.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing from the South, I knew it was a good idea. The era it focuses on mostly is the mid-1860s to the 1890s and up to the 1920s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe black cowboys were working-class people working the ranches and building their communities. They were in Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana and then migrated west to Arizona and Oklahoma. In the Southwest, it mixed with Mexican culture and blended those cultures. People wanted land and wanted to be able to do their own thing. The music they had was a shared tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flemons\u2019 new album delves into the wide variety of traditions on black cowboy music.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe well-known songs \u2018Home on the Range\u2019 and \u2018Goodbye Old Paint\u2019 were black cowboys songs,\u201d said Flemons, who has been working as a solo artist since 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe songs on the album represent a lot of styles including North Carolina Piedmont music, blues, old-time music, steel pony blues and East Texas blues. It is musical anthology. Music connects everybody. It opens doors in many ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for Dom Flemons \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/qVJVOmMBNug<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show at the Sellersville Theater will start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $21.50 and $30.<\/p>\n

Other upcoming shows at the Sellersville Theater (24 West Temple Avenue, Sellersville, 215-257-5808,\u00a0www.st94.com<\/a>) will have Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams on June 7, Blues Beatles on June 8, The Soul Survivors on June 9, Dom Flemons on June 10, are Gaelic Storm on June 11, Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett on June 12, and Geoff Tate\u2019s 30th Anniversary of \u201cOperation: Mindcrime\u201d on June 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times On June 9, the Trocadero (10th and Arch streets, Philadelphia, 215-922-6888, www.thetroc.com) is hosting the \u201cEverybody Still Hates You Tour.\u201d Obviously, it will not be an evening filled with Americana, smooth jazz or sensitive singer\/songwriters. The tour features Combichrist as the headliner along with Wednesday 13, Night Club, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7529],"tags":[10330,10332,6518,10331,10329],"class_list":["post-28751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-d-arts-entertainment","tag-death-valley-high","tag-dom-flemons","tag-featured","tag-judah-kim","tag-night-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28752,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28751\/revisions\/28752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}