Basement, Citizen, Pronoun and Souvenirs have a triple header in the area on their perspective tours. The first concert is Thursday, May 10th at the Outland Ballroom in Springfield, Missouri. The start time is at 6:00 pm and tickets are $20.00 in advance and $22.00 day of show. It is presented by Queen City Productions. Visit HERE for the event details on Facebook.
The following evening on Friday, May 11th the four bands will be at The Castle Theater in Bloomington, Illinois. The doors open at 6,:00 pm and the music begins at 6:30 pm. Tickets are $18.00 in advance and $20.00 day of show. It is an all-ages concert. This show is presented by Kickstand Productions. Visit HERE for the event details on Facebook.
Then on Sunday, May 13th the acts all hit the St. Louis area performing at Delmar Hall in University City, Missouri. The doors open at 6:00 pm and the tunes go from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm. Tickets are $18.00 in advance and $23.00 day of show. It is all-ages and minors incur a $2.00 surcharge at the door. Visit HERE for the event details on Facebook. Continue on below to visit the artists online and to check out their music. Follow on for the latest on these artists.
- Basement: (Ipswich, United Kingdom)
Genre: Alternative, Rock, Punk Rock, Emo
https://www.basementuk.com
https://www.facebook.com/Basementuk
- Citizen: (Toledo, OH, Detroit, MI)
Genre: Indie, Rock, Emo
https://www.citizentheband.net
https://www.facebook.com/Citizentheband
- Pronoun: (Brooklyn, NY)
Genre: Indie, Synth, Gutar-Pop
https://www.musicpronoun.com
https://www.facebook.com/musicpronoun
- Souvenirs: (Carpinteria, CA)
Genre: Emo, Indie, Rock
https://www.youfearandme.com
https://www.facebook.com/SouvenirsCA
* For more on Souvenirs visit:
https://www.otherpeoplerecords.com/souvenirs/
Basement formed in September 2009 in Ipswich, England following the break-up of pop punk band In This for Fun. In This for Fun released The Away from Home EP before they broke-up. The band picked Basement as a name simply because they "wanted a short name that didn't mean much." On 17 May 2010, the band released their debut EP Songs About the Weather and in August, signed to Run for Cover.
They released their first full-length album, I Wish I Could Stay Here, through Run For Cover Records in 2011. The band promoted the release through several tours, including tours to Australia and two American tours with label mates and friends Daylight (now Superheaven).
Before the release of their second album Colourmeinkindness, the band announced an hiatus. The group revealed that the break was "due to a number of personal commitments". Colourmeinkindness was released on 23 October and charted at number 188 on the US Billboard 200 chart. In mid-November, the band played their final shows.Guitarist Alex Henery later revealed it was due to vocalist Andrew Fisher wishing to become a certified teacher. This required Fisher to return to school for a period of a year and a half. Drummer James Fisher, Andrew's younger brother, was graduating from art school, and the rest of the members were working on their respective careers. Henery, meanwhile, was working as a videographer in Boston, Massachusetts for Run for Cover.
On the 29 of January 2014 a tweet was posted on the band's Twitter account simply saying "Hi", and the dates "2008–2012" were removed from their Twitter and Facebook biographies, suggesting the band had returned from their hiatus. The band posted on Facebook later that day confirming that the hiatus was over as well as suggesting that there would be a summer tour.
In June 2014, the band announced that they had secretly recorded a new EP for release in July of that year, entitled Further Sky including two new songs, plus a cover of Suede's "Animal Nitrate". The band toured across Australia, Japan and America between 26 July and 20 August. For the latter, all of the tour dates had sold out. The band then played a trio of shows (London, Leeds and Manchester) in the UK in late October with support from Cloakroom and Newmoon.
Guitarist Alex Henery noted in an August 2014 interview with The Aquarian that they were writing material for a new album. On 29 January 2016, the band released Promise Everything. On 3 February 2017, it was announced that the band had signed to major label Fueled by Ramen.
Citizen’s As You Please reports from ground zero of an epidemic. Two years removed from their previous Run For Cover LP, Everybody Is Going To Heaven, Citizen’s perspective is far less sublime. As You Please is a confrontational record, incapable of turning a blind eye toward the inescapable strife. And so, songwriter Mat Kerekes pursues the source of discontent that is ravaging his Rust Belt city of Toledo, Ohio with the band’s most dynamic record to date.
On As You Please the epidemic is bigger than addiction and overdoses. There is no longer a Dream to be pursued for the friends and family surrounding Citizen. The band explores that absence and the misguided ways in which it gets filled. On opener “Jet” the kids move slow and there’s a stranger living in the narrator’s home. “In The Middle Of It All” might be Citizen at their most hopeful, but it also reads as agonizing expression of the ruin in the Heartland.
As You Please also showcases the growing versatility of a band seven years deep and still restless. Citizen has churned and ground out their own unique foothold within the greater context of alternative rock. Written over the course of a year, the record is devoid of the brutish and sinister elements found on Everybody Is Going To Heaven. Here, Citizen go beyond their early grunge contrasts and strive for something benevolent.
There’s a spiritual core to the record that manifests in subtle ways like the ethereal vocals echoing in the breakdown of “Control,” the droning organs on “You Are A Star” or the almost operatic refrain on “In The Middle Of It All.” The finespun ways in which Citizen has written this record mark a cataclysmic breakthrough for the band. There is damage and disarray in the band member’s lives, but within this record all the pieces have been restored in an ornate arrangement befitting a stained glass mosaic.
In the end, As You Please tries to give strength to those in need. There are illicit factors that control, but Citizen has written a guiding light of an album out of the debris. It concludes with “You Are A Star” and “Flowerchild;” one an unstable request of confidence set to soaring progressions, the other a blistering finale that subverts expectation. As You Please might read as meek, but it represents Citizen in its most confident and expansive state.
Listen to pronoun's restless new single, 'wrong'
premiering on NPR
+ additional praise from The New York Times, Billboard, NYLON, Stereogum & more
One-woman band, pronoun (Alyse Vellturo) premiered her new single 'wrong' (Rhyme and Reason Records) recently on NPR. 'wrong' is the second single from her debut album, set to drop in 2018.
Back in 2016, pronoun released her debut EP, 'There's no one new around you,' an ode to the Tinder message one receives once they've reached the end of all eligible contenders on the app. The four track EP is filled with delicate rock tracks that were all written, recorded, and produced by Vellturo herself after a strenuous breakup. She has since toured stateside with the likes of Turnover and Elvis Depressedly, launched her own record label, played SXSW twice (and threw an official showcase at SXSW 2018), and released 'run,' the lead single from her forthcoming album which premiered onStereogum and has garnered attention from The New York Times, Billboard, NYLON and more.
'wrong' maintains the niche, lo-fi sound that pronoun channels in each of her tracks while embodying all the emotions she feels towards an ex-girlfriend. In Alyse's words, "For the longest time I was so angry at her, and the news that should have been the final straw actually just made me feel really bad for her which spun me in to the weird emotion of how can you feel sorry for some one you "hate"? How is that even possible, do other people feel this way? I guess in a way it's what I would want to say if i wanted to talk to her–which obviously I don't–so i wrote this song instead."
