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SUMMARY:RANDY TRAVIS The More Life Tour
DESCRIPTION:Much of the success of modern country music can be traced to one man\, Randy Travis. His arrival signaled the start of the “new country” sales explosion of the mid-1980s. Travis was the first country artist to go Platinum with his disc debut\, and the first debut country artist to go Multi-Platinum. With lifetime sales in excess of 25 million\, Travis is one of the biggest multi-genre record sellers of all time. His honors include seven Grammy Awards\, 11 Academy of Country Music statuettes\, 10 American Music Awards\, two People’s Choice awards\, seven Music City News awards\, eight Dove Awards from the Gospel Music Association and five Country Music Association honors.  \nNow\, Travis is bringing the magic back in 2025 with his highly anticipated More Life Tour! Following a successful 2024 run\, Travis\, his original touring band\, and special guest vocalist James Dupré are set to deliver an extraordinary musical experience to fans across the country. \nThe More Life Tour promises a memorable journey through Travis’ extensive catalog of chart-topping hits\, enhanced by video highlights showcasing his celebrated career in music\, film\, and television. Although Travis will not perform vocally due to the stroke he suffered in 2013\, his presence on stage will be a cherished highlight of the tour. Joining him will be his wife\, Mary\, as they engage with fans and interact with the band\, bringing the iconic songs to life once again. \nJames Dupré will take the stage alongside Travis’ original touring band to perform some of his most beloved No. 1 hits\, including classics like “On the Other Hand\,” “Forever and Ever\, Amen\,” and “Three Wooden Crosses.” \nIn reflecting on the tour\, Randy Travis shared\, “The More Life Tour celebrates something so much more than a musical moment in time—it’s a gift to me to spend time with my fans\, and my band\, as James Dupre perfectly presents the songs that best define my career. We look forward to seeing you all somewhere along the way.”
URL:https://www.mikebrowngroup.com/event/randy-travis-the-more-life-tour/
LOCATION:Morrison Center\, 2201 West Cesar Chavez Lane\, Boise\, Idaho\, 83725
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:DIRT MONKEY x SMOAKLAND - SUPER BASS BROS TOUR
DESCRIPTION:Dirt Monkey\, aka Patrick Megeath\, has carved his uplifting\, bouncy\, and unique sounds within the Denver\, Colorado dubstep scene and has gained international acknowledgement with his punchy and playful sound design. His tracks have gained support and captivated audiences via many pioneers\, such as: Skream\, Benga\, Rusko\, Datsik\, Excision\, A-Trak\, Virtual Riot\, Anna Lunoe\, Annie Nightingale (BBC Radio 1)\, Downlink\, Ganja White Night\, and Protohype. Dirt Monkey’s Remix of Rusko’s “Woo Boost” has recently hit the world by storm\, was released on Subcarbon Records\, and to top it all off\, is supported by the don himself\, Rusko. Although this eclectic music junky enjoys a wide-variety of music\, he has gravitated towards the trippy\, crisp sounds of IDM and the wonky\, high-energy sounds of old school dubstep and strives to fuse the two together. \nHe has worked with a wide-variety of artists including: DMVU\, Space Jesus\, Illenium\, Party Wave\, Run DMT\, AMP Live\, and Jantsen. Dirt Monkey has performed at a countless number of breathtaking venues\, including Red Rocks Amphitheatre\, clubs in France\, and Beta Nightclub in Denver\, CO (where he has held a residency for the last 5 years). Also\, for the past four years\, he established and ran the record label\, Kairos Audio\, with the help of co-founder\, Jantsen. \nIn the future\, expect this virtuoso to continue carving a niche that does not exist yet in the music scene and stay on the look out for a 5-song EP coming out in Spring 2017 on one of the most reputable labels in the world. Although\, Dirt Monkey is extremely versatile to say the least\, his true wobbly greatness will continue a movement within clubs\, both boutique and world-class venues\, and the colorful festival scene.
URL:https://www.mikebrowngroup.com/event/dirt-monkey-x-smoakland-super-bass-bros-tour/
LOCATION:Knitting Factory\, 416 S 9th St\, Boise\, Idaho\, 83702
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SUMMARY:Tennis w/ Real Estate
DESCRIPTION:Face Down In The Garden\, Tennis’ seventh album\, is both culmination and reflection of their career. From the perspective of fifteen years on the road and ten thousand miles at sea\, frontwoman Alaina Moore attempts to distill the arc of a life into vignettes: a first moment of connection\, a conversation at a wedding\, a night offshore\, a sprawling tour diary. \nThe album is succinct but potent\, highlighting Tennis’ concise songwriting and unconventional arrangements. Self-produced and recorded in their studio\, Tennis builds upon their early minimalist girl-group sound\, expanding into more mature synth-pop and rock elements. \nThe duo met in the University of Colorado’s philosophy department in 2008\, when Patrick Riley recognized Moore as the waitress from a diner he frequented. (This moment was later immortalized in their song Hotel Valet.)  After graduating\, they spent eight months living aboard a small sailboat\, voyaging along the eastern seaboard–a practice that would become integral to their creative process. Their debut album Cape Dory (2011\, Fat Possum) documents that experience. Tennis booked their first tour through the help of a robust DIY scene. While on the road\, their lead single “Marathon” went viral\, gaining them sudden notoriety. Cape Dory debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Heatseeker chart and transitioned Tennis from house shows to main stages in the course of a year. \nTennis recorded their sophomore effort Young & Old (2012) with Patrick Carney of the Black Keys\, marking their first collaboration with an outside producer and their television debuts on The Tonight Show\, The Late Show\, and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. \nIn 2013\, Tennis spent sixteen days recording with Richard Swift in his home studio in Cottage Grove\, Oregon. Moore and Riley were heavily influenced by Swift’s distinctive approach to engineering. This prompted the duo to build their own studio and take over production and engineering roles on future releases. \nMoore and Riley solidified their creative autonomy by forming the label Mutually Detrimental in 2016. Yours Conditionally\, their first self-release\, became their most commercially successful album\, charting on Billboard’s top 50 vinyl sales and proving their DIY roots as a cornerstone to their sound and narrative. \nSwimmer (2020\, Mutually Detrimental) marked a sonic evolution. Moore and Riley expanded their palette with unique time signatures and arrangements\, stepping fully into their roles as songwriters and producer-engineers. But with nearly every show sold out\, Swimmer’s momentum was cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic. The duo spent the time at home exploring their role as producers by making records for other artists. \nTennis has continued to thrive by operating on the fringes of the music industry. They’ve survived the flash-in-the-pan fate of so many bands from the early ‘00’s blog-era. Their sixth album\, Pollen\, saw them grow into the biggest tour of their career\, with sold out shows at historic venues like The Beacon Theatre and The Palladium. \nFace Down In The Garden is Tennis’ most fully realized work. Crafted entirely by their own hands and guided by their fierce independence\, it stands as testament to a band unwavering from their original vision. Tennis embarks on the first leg of their North American Tour in May. \n\n \n\nReal Estate\nA band for 15 years now\, with a half-dozen records to its canny name\, Real Estate knows how\nthe press cycle inevitably goes: Someone somewhere at last had a realization about what their\nsongs needed to say and how they should sound\, so (at least according to brief biographies like\nthis one) they finally made the best album of their career. But here’s the thing: Real Estate has\nbeen so consistently compelling for those 15 years\, with their coruscant indie rock shuffles\nperfectly reflecting the spellbinding glow of suburban ennui\, that they know when they have\ndone it. That is\, they know when they have written songs that shimmer and fetch and radiate\ndespite or because of the gloom lurking in their grooves. It is the gift and curse of self-\nawareness\, of sticking together since childhood.\nSo Real Estate\, in turn\, needs you to know that Daniel—their sixth full-length album\, recorded in\nan ebullient nine-day spree in RCA Studio A\, in Nashville with celebrated producer and\nsongwriter Daniel Tashian—is quite possibly their best album. In 11 compulsively tuneful songs\,\nthey connect the uninhibited wonder of their earliest work with the earned perspective of\nadulthood. What more could you need from Real Estate at 15?\nMartin Courtney knew he wanted to write a pop record\, a set of instantly accessible songs where\nthe chorus arrived in\, say\, the first 40 seconds. During the last decade\, or essentially since\nmaking Atlas\, Real Estate did what was only natural for any beloved and freshly aging indie rock\ninstitution: They gently pushed back against praise as an effortlessly melodic and quietly radiant\nband. Colors darkened. Textures curdled. Songs stretched toward the six- and even seven-minute\nmark. But what if\, as Courtney and cofounder Alex Bleeker often say these days\, they again just\n“Let Real Estate be Real Estate\,” to shimmer and fetch and radiate without hesitation or second\nguesses?\nCourtney actually learned of Tashian through his daughter\, who adored an album he’d produced\,\nKacey Musgraves’ Golden Hour. The band reached out and spotted an instant connection despite\ntheir distinct wheelhouses—the Grammy-winning Nashville country-pop guy who’d helmed\nseveral smashes and the Northeast indie rock quintet with narcotic guitars. Real Estate had never\nreally worked with anyone who wasn’t already a bud. There in Dave Cobb’s famous Nashville\nlair\, Tashian was not shy with his outsider advice about how to boost this song or that one\, even\nplayfully throwing the occasional candy bar to emphasize he wanted to hear more. Real Estate\nhad been thinking about R.E.M.’s Automatic for the People and ’90s “soft-rock radio\,” the\nbackground music of their youth. Tashian helped lead them back toward it\, toward an improved\nedition of the less self-conscious band they’d been at the start.\nDaniel certainly sounds like classic Real Estate\, simply leveled up with the subtle but unabashed\ntouches of a producer who has actually lived inside pop powerhouses. The chiming guitars and\nplaintive verses of “Haunted World” summon the band that first emerged to acclaim in 2009\,\nwith Courtney doing his best to sing his way around existential confusion. But in the chorus\,\ndexterous instrumental harmonies (that’s Nashville ace Justin Schipper on pedal steel) and faint\nbacking vocals propel the song anew\, its tight hook snagging in a second. Tashian suggested they\nfortify the refrain\, and he was right.\nOr there’s the marvelous thrum of “Airdrop\,” with Bleeker’s busy bass and Sammi Niss’ insistent\ndrums pushing Courtney into the wistful chorus as if he’s riding a hang glider. “The sun went\ndown/We let it\,” he sings four times to end the song\, the lines essentially built to be cooed back\nat him from a crowd. “Never been so contented/I won’t ever forget it.” That’s Real Estate’s long-\nrelatable smiling sadness\, lifted in proper Music City style. Listen\, too\, for Real Estate’s\nsquiggly versions of classic Nashville licks during “Flowers\,” where the mercury of pedal\nsteel and the twinkle of a Wurlitzer illuminate acoustic strums like stars in the night sky. A\nsong of dislocation and constancy\, it’s a reminder of the common way we use music no\nmatter the genre or scene—to find our way forward.\nDaniel is a complete string of these compulsive moments: the crisscrossed harmonies of “Water\nUnderground\,” the delightful sway and rise of “Market Street\,” the enchanting but deceptive\nsimplicity of “Interior.” Real Estate manages the rarest of pop tricks here—to sound effortless\nbut be artful\, with all the flourishes and tricks tucked so smartly into songs that you only spot\nthem when you unpack what makes all the tunes so winning and sticky.\nBut this\, of course\, is not the Real Estate of their MP3-blog salad days. Four members are\nmarried\, with Niss in a long-term relationship. There are actual kids in the equation now. And the\nworld outside has darkened considerably in 15 years\, in all those ways that require no recounting\nhere. Time and again\, Daniel wrestles with that juxtaposition—external alienation and madness\,\ninternal responsibility and hope. These are songs of confusion\, of trying to find a way to be\npresent and better in broken times. “Now and then\, I can pretend the sun is shining\,” Courtney\nadmits during “Freeze Brain\,” the keys of Matthew Kallman and guitars of Julian Lynch framing\na lambent haze around him. “Let’s let some light in.” Ain’t that the struggle\, to find some joy\ndespite all the forces that filch it from us?\nIn Nashville\, all five members of Real Estate shared a rental\, cutting up in close quarters after the\nimposition of separation of these last few years. Several days into recording\, they were\ndiscussing album titles when someone suggested “Daniel\,” simply because it seemed funny to\nbestow a human name upon a record. Was it for Daniel Tashian? Maybe. Was it a nod to The\nReplacements’ Tim? Possibly. Was it the sign of a band that has now been around long enough to\ntake its music seriously without taking itself or its perception too seriously? Absolutely.\nDaniel is a record of wonderful pop songs\, its string of hooks and stream of worry irresistibly\nconnected in the way few bands have ever done better than Real Estate. But perhaps just as\nimportant\, it is an expression of the self-acceptance that can come with maturity\, with realizing\nit’s enough to be who you want to be. “What is it that you want to hear? There’s only so much\ntime\,” Courtney croons during “You Are Here\,” Daniel’s ingenious and strutting finale. “Best we\ncan do is be happy here/Sing another line.” It is a mission statement for Real Estate at 15\, a\nreminder that they are the band of their childhood dreams and that is cool. To that end\, they’ve\nnever been better at being Real Estate than they are right now\, on Daniel\, their new best album\nyet.
URL:https://www.mikebrowngroup.com/event/tennis-w-real-estate/
LOCATION:Treefort Music Hall\, 722 W. Broad Street\, Boise\, ID\, 83702\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:TOTO + Christopher Cross
DESCRIPTION:TOTO + Christopher Cross\nFord Idaho Center Amphitheater\nThursday\, August 28th
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LOCATION:Ford Idaho Center
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