CANCELED – The Get Up Kids
In the two and a half decades since the release of their landmark second album Something to Write Home About, the four core members of The Get Up Kids —Matt Pryor, Jim Suptic, Rob Pope, and Ryan Pope —have explored side projects, helmed solo ventures, and held stints in high-profile bands. They’ve also started businesses, found spouses, and raised kids. Still, run into them on the streets of Lawrence, Kansas, these days, and you’ll find that —perhaps beneath a beard —each has retained the high-spirited, unwavering authenticity that fans stood feet from at basement shows before the band’s sophomore breakthrough. Something to Write Home About has landed in a similar place: recognizable as the same electrifying, scrappy album it was upon release, but also transformed by time into one of the most seminal records of the band’s scene. And to mark 25 years since itsarrival, The Get Up Kids will perform the album in full throughout a lengthy North American headline tour. Released in September of 1999, Something to Write Home About has been established as an important late-millennium rock-and-roll document; a convergence of power pop, alternative rock, and punk, it provided the parameters for emo’s Midwest-centered second wave. Youthful yet assured, the album expands and refines the sound of the band’s 1997 debut Four Minute Mile. Amplified and acoustic guitars by Pryor and Suptic are coupled with keys and synths provided by former member James Dewees. Throughout, strings and celeste mesh with pop-indebted harmonies as the Pope Brothers’ rhythm section propels each song. The lyrics, carried primarily by Pryor’s pugnacious vocals, use relationships as a springboard to explore betrayal, conviction, and ambition. His plainspoken poetry is in turn direct and oblique, all kindling for fresh fires in addition to those already burning for decades of faithful listeners. The upcoming Something to Write Home About anniversary tour will be a chance for fans to rediscover the album or to revel in a classic they’ve never forgotten, and experience it live with the brash, big-hearted band that loves it as much as them. “Anybody can start a band when you’re 20 and go on tour and have a couple of years of fun with that. But what it became, at least to us, is the reason that we can still do this now,” says Pryor. “We are doing this as a celebration, and we’re going to have a party every night on stage.”
After Midnight: Chappell Roan Dance Party
Join us for a night of bubblegum pop disco with DJ Redline!
Homeward Bound for the Heartland Benefit Concert
Homeward Bound in the Heartland Animal Rescue, Inc helps seniors and low-income residents keep their pets at home and out of the shelter system. Helping homeless/abused/neglected/abandoned animals. Learn more at www.hbith.org Pick up some handmade baked comfort classics from the Pie Fairy! With performances from: Steve Monroe (Acoustic) Dr Webb (Acoustic) Jeff Moore (Acoustic) The Dive Kings Save the Hero Virgin Mary Pistol Grip
Damones New Years Party
NYE with Secret Weapon
Criteria
The Conduit Live Friendsgiving 2024
Featuring Matt Cox and Aly Peeler as Special Musical Guests DJ: Mr. West on the 1’s & 2’s Mentalism & Magic by Tricky Trev A night of music, dancing, fun, magic, and more!! A Can’t miss night to usher in the holidays! Friendsgiving 2024! Assembly Of Assassins: Kris Lager on Guitar/ Vocals Joe Donnelly from Gallivant on Bass Matt Wallace on Sax Travis Potter on Trumpet Michael Pujado on Percussion Justin Fischer from Omaha Street Percussion on Drums Alex Olsen on Keys
SPELLLING
Emo Nite
Real Estate
A band for 15 years now, with a half-dozen records to its canny name, Real Estate knows how the press cycle inevitably goes: Someone somewhere at last had a realization about what their songs needed to say and how they should sound, so (at least according to brief biographies like this one) they finally made the best album of their career. But here’s the thing: Real Estate has been so consistently compelling for those 15 years, with their coruscant indie rock shuffles perfectly reflecting the spellbinding glow of suburban ennui, that they know when they have done it. That is, they know when they have written songs that shimmer and fetch and radiate despite or because of the gloom lurking in their grooves. It is the gift and curse of self- awareness, of sticking together since childhood. So Real Estate, in turn, needs you to know that Daniel—their sixth full-length album, recorded in an ebullient nine-day spree in RCA Studio A, in Nashville with celebrated producer and songwriter Daniel Tashian—is quite possibly their best album. In 11 compulsively tuneful songs, they connect the uninhibited wonder of their earliest work with the earned perspective of adulthood. What more could you need from Real Estate at 15? — Heaven Schmitt, the front person of Grumpy, keeps their friends close and their exes closer. The keyboardist and bassist are Heaven’s ex girlfriends, the drummer is their ex-husband (the guitar player and Heaven never dated but there was one night when Heaven thought they might kiss but they didn’t). Originally based in Nashville, where Schmitt studied songwriting at Belmont University, before relocating to Chicago, Schmitt released a debut LP called Loser under the Grumpy name in 2020. Although it garnered a cult audience, Schmitt felt that due to a lack of confidence during the recording process the album never truly represented what they thought their band should be. It all fell into place when Schmitt moved to New York in 2022. On the East Coast Grumpy has transformed, leveling up adjacent to a buzzy corner of the Brooklyn scene. The current Grumpy backing band includes Austin Arnold on drums, Lane Rodges on keys, Anya Good on bass, and Diego Clare on guitar. Being in an act with numerous exes isn’t always easy. However, Schmitt feels that it leads to an honest, nurturing dynamic. “I’m really drawn to people who — no matter what they’re going through, or what we’re going through — have a clear baseline of respect and care and love,” Schmitt says of their bandmates.