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Pink Turns Blue “Black Swan Tour 2025” with Some Days Are Darker + Obsidian – West Palm Beach – 9/14/25

March 14, 2025 heroesliveent
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Heroes Live Entertainment presents Pink Turns Blue “Black Swan Tour 2025” with special guests Some Days Are Darker and Obsidian on Sunday, September 14, 2025 @ Respectable Street in West Palm Beach.
Tickets: https://pinkturnsblue.eventbrite.com

7:00PM (Doors) | 8:00PM (Show) | 18+

Pink Turns Blue
Website: https://pinkturnsblue.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/Pink.Turns.Blue.Official
Instagram: https://instagram.com/pink.turns.blue
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/47oP5alMot58ggzcFwldky

Pink Turns Blue is an influential post punk band from Berlin, Germany.

After their worldwide success with their album ‘Tainted’ and their often-sold-out club concerts in America and Europe, the post-punk legends from Berlin present a new studio album. The new album and the tour are titled “BLACK SWAN”, the term for an unexpected event, which in retrospect is justified as if one could have prepared for it.

With their last album and accompanying tour, Mic Jogwer (vocals, guitar), Luca Sammuri (bass) and Paul Richter (drums) have cleared pretty much everything you could wish for as a band. Album of the Year at Byte FM, best of 2021 at Post Punk Com, singles at number 1 in the German Alternative Charts as well as the Indie Disco Top 40, excellent reviews in the worldwide music press and very well attended, if not sold-out club concerts from Los Angeles to Yerevan.

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Some Days Are Darker
Website: https://somedaysaredarker.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/somedaysaredarker
Facebook: https://facebook.com/somedaysaredarker
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5wbLdfDQwuzP4mOD2ETKo2

TV-MA, the latest release from New York City pop-flecked gloom rock consortium Some Days Are Darker, stands as an enthralling, eminently engaging declaration of intent.

A conceptual art piece in five sonic chapters, the record melds shimmering guitar, ethereal synths, and propulsive rhythm into work that is at once timeless and very much of the moment. Strip away the noir darkwave atmospherics and one finds deeply catching melodies lifting frontman / songwriter Lear Mason’s yearning, melancholic baritone.TV-MA is a concept album that unfolds like an anthology, and at its core is a deeply human meditation on love, loss, and rebirth.

Obsidian
Website: https://obsidian.band
Instagram: https://instagram.com/obsidian_officialband
Facebook: https://facebook.com/officialobsidian
Bandcamp: https://officialobsidian.bandcamp.com

Obsidian is a Gothic/ Post-Punk band from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Obsidian was originally formed as a creative outlet for the various members to deal with their traumatic experiences and existential epiphanies. The group was originally formed in 2018. The band has evolved into the current four-piece version consisting of Missy Mortis (Guitars, Vocals, Primary songwriter), Kathy D (Synths and Keyboards), Ryan Rivas (Bass Guitars), and Danny Drums (Drums and Percussion). The group’s style has been described as “post-punk,” “goth,” and “death rock” and combines a fierce love of rock music with darker electronic and esoteric elements. Obsidian currently has 3 EP releases: 2018’s four-track EP “A Swamp,” which was followed by the 2019 EP “Living Dead,” and 2020’s “Vultures.” Finally released in 2024 was the band’s first full-length album, “19 Dead,” on Bat-Cave Productions – Available on all major streaming platforms. Obsidian has toured the United States and has shared the stage with The March Violets, Pink Turns Blue, She Past Away, Drab Majesty, Twin Tribes, Solar Fake, Aurelio Voltaire, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Astari Nite, Vision Video, Wing Tips, Tears for the Dying, AL1CE, Scary Black and so much more.

Dancing Plague + Violent Vickie + L.U.S.T (Lucid Ultra Seduction Technique) – West Palm Beach – 5/9/25

February 8, 2025 heroesliveent
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Heroes Live Entertainment presents Dancing Plague with special guests Violent Vickie + L.U.S.T on Friday, May 9, 2025 @ Respectable Street in West Palm Beach.
Dancing Plague makes broodingly intense and emotional dark electronic music. Since the solo project’s inception in 2015, Dancing Plague has released four albums and four EPs, solidifying them in the world of darkwave and body music.
Tickets: https://dp.eventbrite.com

7:00PM (Doors) | 8:00PM (Show) | 18+

Dancing Plague
Website: linktr.ee/dancingplaguemusic
Instagram: https://instagram.com/dancingplaguemusic
Bandcamp: https://dancingplaguemusic.bandcamp.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/dancingplaguemusic

“Portland’s Dancing Plague masterly combines gloomy and brooding goth-tinged darkwave moods with intensely turbulent and uncompromising EBM and techno-driving rhythms peppered with emotionally charged lyrics and haunted by his unmistakable profound baritone. Depression, anxiety, and a solid understanding of mortality give his music an authenticity felt in the highly cathartic transference that takes place during his expulsion of inner demons.”

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Violent Vickie
Website: https://violentvickie.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/violentvickie
Facebook: https://facebook.com/ViolentVickieMusic
Twitter: https://twitter.com/violentvickie

Violent Vickie is a Dark SynthRiot artist and DJ, originally from Los Angeles and now based in West Palm Beach, FL. Vickie has toured with Hanin Elias of Atari Teenage Riot and shared the stage with Pastel Ghost, Trans X, Missing Persons,  Assemblage 23, and Them Are Us Too.  Violent Vickie recently played Absolution Fest where she shared the stage with Traitrs, Vision Video, and Creux Lies.

Vickie has been featured in Post Punk, EDM Joy, Medium, and Curve Magazine.  Vickie’s tracks have been selected for Fresh on the Net (UK) and she recently released a DJ mix for Rinse France. Vickie has toured the US, Europe, Mexico and Canada and played Occupy Oakland, Insted Fest, Shoutback Fest, Gay Prides & Ladyfests.

Violent Vickie’s music has been released by Crunch Pod (LA), Emerald & Doreen Recordings (Berlin), Riot Grrrl Berlin, and LoveCraft Bar (PDX). Her track “The Wolf“ was featured in a National Organization for Women film. She was interviewed for the documentary “GRRRL”, part of the museum exhibit “Alien She”. Her LP “Monster Alley” was voted best album by KALX and her tracks have been remixed by 30+ artists.

Vickie’s sophomore LP Division was released in September 2020 on Crunch Pod, a remix album for her song “Under the Gun” was released in February 2021 on Emerald & Doreen Recordings, and she released Division Remixes LP in 2022 featuring remixes by Fragrance, Kontravoid, Dimension 23, and Maduro.

L.U.S.T (Lucid Ultra Seduction Technique)
Website: https://allmylinks.com/lust-music
Instagram: https://instagram.com/lustmusik
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@Lustmusikofficial
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3ZcktCI7Hu8zPiaFpT8ErC

Armando Doval Keyboardist/Drummer + Raquel Pupo Vocalist/Keyboardist

L.U.S.T (Lucid Ultra Seduction Technique) A duo collective project that was founded circa 2023 formed by Armando Doval and Raquel Pupo based out of Miami, Florida. Their music is infused with sensual lush vocals, mesmerizing and dark hypnotic beats in the darkwave/synthwave realm. Debut Album to be released March 22, 2024. Now accepting booking submissions for US tours.

Urban Heat + Blood Orchid + Violet Silhouette – West Palm Beach – 3/30/25

January 21, 2025 heroesliveent
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Heroes Live Entertainment presents Urban Heat with special guests Blood Orchid + Violet Silhouette on Sunday, March 30, 2025 @ Respectable Street in West Palm Beach, Florida. Urban Heat received multiple Austin Music Awards nominations including Band of the Year.
Tickets: https://urbanheat.eventbrite.com

7:00PM (Doors) | 8:00PM (Show) | 18+

Urban Heat (“Dark 80s stylings with the energy of the now”)
Website: https://urbanheatband.com
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Dc9FlL6znNOM7854ghaRp
Instagram: https://instagram.com/urbanheatband
Facebook: https://facebook.com/urbanheatband

“…Urban Heat has taken Austin’s clubs and America’s goth underground in such a blitz that it feels like it suddenly arose from the ether.” – Andy O’Conner, SPIN

“A lightning rod of dark electro/proto-punk/new wave/synth wave/part goth/part industrial sound that is all the things but… simultaneously transcending them into something fresher.” – Laurie Gallardo, KUTX 98.9

Austin is known as the music capital of the world — and Urban Heat is one of its greatest exports. The band, formed only five years ago as the brainchild of singer/multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Horstmann, has quickly become known for their fiery live shows and infectious darkwave anthems that harken back to the ‘80s with a modern sensibility. Powered by the magnetic Horstmann’s melodic baritone vocals & the pummeling rhythm section of Kevin Naquin and Paxel Foley, UH has won over fans show by show.

Appearances at major California festivals like Cruel World and Darker Waves saw Urban Heat play to their biggest audiences, with their set pointed as one of the best of the day. At home, Urban Heat has long been the talk of SXSW & graced the stage of the Austin City Limits Festival.

Now, with The Tower, we see the band at its absolute peak. Songs like the arena-ready “Seven Safe Places” and the intricately steady “Take it to Your Grave” show the band’s sonic versatility. The latter, which best exemplifies the majority of the record, is about feelings of unworthiness and fears of self-sabotage. Introspectiveness dots Horstmann’s lyrics, driving home their power and relatability.

With a headlining show at Los Angeles’ famed El Rey Theater under their belt, a North American tour, & Fall European tour with Molchat Doma, Urban Heat is ready to show the world what anyone who has seen them already knows: they’re a band that is going to dominate the airwaves for years to come.

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Blood Orchid (Multi-instrumentalist from Miami, FL)
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6HKQlmergzUB4c9Eo1KxpG
Instagram: https://instagram.com/bloodorchid
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@BloodOrchidMusic
Facebook: https://facebook.com/BloodOrchidMusic

Blood Orchid is an American alternative rock & indie pop project formed in 2019 in Miami, Florida. It was founded by multi-instrumentalist Niko Javan.

“I am a musician and visual artist from Miami, Florida. I play guitar, bass, synthesizer, sing, produce, and create all the visuals to accompany my music.”

“From a very young age, my parents began to teach me that in life, I would be better off taking my own path rather than following a path that somebody else sets for me. “Be your own man, build your own world, work for yourself… or you’ll get stuck working for people who don’t respect you…” – CanvasRebel Magazine

Violet Silhouette (West Palm Beach trio with “the sound of the Neuromantic”)
Instagram: https://instagram.com/violetsilhouetteofficial
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/violetsilhouetteofficial
Bandcamp: https://violetsilhouette.bandcamp.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/violetsilhouetteofficial

What happens when you mix brooding existentialism with a love of synthesizers and noise-rock? — Violet Silhouette may have an answer, in fact, it has all of them. Born from a tropical depression, Violet Silhouette is an American musical duo or group that may or may not sound like how dusk feels but with more reverb. Their live shows have been called “very good” and exist with the intent of giving the viewer and performer a shared catharsis. The first EP titled SEMIPERMANENTDEREALIZATION has been considered appropriate for all mood levels, intimate settings, and night driving.

“…the dance-punk/postwave triumvirate embarks on a fresh voyage, diving deep into the multifaceted realm of “Neuromanticism.” This exotic medley of sensory experimentation, paired with our recurrently perilous quest for the quintessence of truth and love, pushes boundaries in the genre-bending musical landscape. Imbued with kaleidoscopic undertones and a brooding romanticism, their sound provokes thought, smears the lines, and adds a new dimension to the continually evolving realms of alternative music.” Alice Teeple (Post-punk.com)

Violet Silhouette is:

  • Zaii Valdes [vox•guitars•synthesizer•drum programming]
  • Dan Potvin [synthesizer•guitar•vox•sequencing]
  • Justin Gianoutsos [bass]

Rosegarden Funeral Party “Spring Tour 2025” with Astari Nite + Summore – West Palm Beach – 5/10/25

January 16, 2025 heroesliveent
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Heroes Live Entertainment presents Rosegarden Funeral Party “Spring Tour 2025” with special guests Astari Nite + Summore on Saturday, May 10, 2025 @ Respectable Street in West Palm Beach. Winner of five Dallas Entertainment Awards including Artist of the Year.
Tickets: https://rfp.eventbrite.com

7:00PM (Doors) | 8:00PM (Show) | 18+

Rosegarden Funeral Party
Website: https://rosegardenfuneralparty.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/rosegardenfuneralparty
Facebook: https://facebook.com/rosegardenfuneralparty
Bandcamp: https://rosegardenfuneralparty.bandcamp.com

Rising from the inferno of heartbreak with a determination towards gentility, humility, graciousness, and kindness, Rosegarden Funeral Party takes influence from life’s tragedies and spins chaos into beauty.  Leah Lane fronts the band with a voice like that of the lovechild between Morrissey and Siouxsie Sioux and her guitar playing has been compared to that of Daniel Ash. with bass playing that takes obvious inspiration from Peter Hook.  With synths trapped in the loving arms of the 1980’s, rhythmic percussion and drums inspired by dark dance floors, Rosegarden Funeral Party prove to be the second-coming of traditional goth.

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Astari Nite
Website: https://linktr.ee/AstariNite
Instagram: https://instagram.com/astarinite43
Facebook: https://facebook.com/astarinitemusic
YouTube: https://youtube.com/user/AstariNite

With a blend of shadowy atmospheres, powerful rhythms, and innovative soundscapes, Astari Nite invites listeners into a world where conventional boundaries dissolve, and the unexpected thrives. Resolution of Happiness transcends traditional genres, showcasing nineties inspired alternative music with elements of dark wave, industrial and glam.

Having performed alongside acts such as Peter Murphy, The Damned, Psychedelic Furs, She Wants Revenge, Cold Cave, Vowws, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Modern English, 3teeth and Bestial Mouths, they have established themselves as contemporaries of the post-punk / gothic rock scene. Astari Nite also performed at Wave Gotik Treffen, Out from The Shadows Festival, A Murder of Crows, among others.

Summore
Website: https://linktr.ee/summore
Instagram: https://instagram.com/summore.music
Facebook: https://facebook.com/summore.music
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6x10rjW6ZXjJGc8CbuYU8J

SUMMORE is a synth-pop/darkwave duo from central Ohio. Julie (vocals / lyrics) and Justin (synth / production) weave their hearts into a sound that is brooding and hypnotic. Their brighter sounds are often laced with hidden meanings and other interpretations just beneath the surface. Their darkest and most bleak tracks have trickles of optimism that create a balance that opens them to a state of meditation, self-reflection, and healing.

In September 2022, after playing to a packed house at an intimate venue in Columbus, they stopped for a late night bite. As they sat parked, a drunk driver lost control, became airborne, and hit them like a missile. The impact blasted the car from one side of the parking lot to the other within a second. In an instant, their lives were changed but one stayed the same: their dedication and love for creating music.

They have not stopped. In spite of everything, they found enough strength through their recovery to chronicle their harrowing experience on their second LP, New Pain. Despite their long-term physical and emotional injuries, they continue to persevere in their musical journey.

We’ve only just begun.

Drab Majesty + Jacuzzi Boys & More **FREE SHOW** Respectable Street 37th Anniversary Block Party – West Palm Beach – 11/2/24

August 9, 2024 heroesliveent
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Respectable Street + Heroes Live Entertainment present Drab Majesty, Jacuzzi Boys, and many more on Saturday, November 2, 2024 @ Respectable Street 37th Anniversary Block Party at 500 Block of Clematis St in West Palm Beach, Florida.

6 STAGES – OPEN BAR 8-9PM – FREE PIZZA – FREE PARTY – RAIN OR SHINE

NOTE: The Block Party is All Ages only for the 500 Block Street Stage and Metal Stage (upstairs at Lost Weekend). You must have a valid 21+ ID to enter Respectable Street Inside and Patio Stages, Hullabaloo Stage, and Lost Weekend Stage.

Upgrade to VIP! Two options.
$28: Includes Respects 37th Anniversary T-Shirt, Key Chain, Open Bar, and Free Pizza 8pm to 9pm, no line no wait
$48: Includes Respects 37th Anniversary T-Shirt, Key Chain, Free Pizza 8pm to 9pm, no line no wait, and Free Drinks @ Respectable Street
Please visit: http://RSC37Oblivion.Eventbrite.com
Thanks for joining us in the celebration!
RSVP: RSC37.Eventbrite.com
VIP Upgrade: RSC37Oblivion.Eventbrite.com

6 stages with 37 artists:

Drab Majesty, Jacuzzi Boys, Ben Katzman’s DeGreaser, Moon Destroys (Debut show feat. ex-Torche and Royal Thunder members), CRUCIFICTION (Album release show on Rise Records), The Requiem, Cathedral Bells, Palomino Blond, Cannibal Kids, Camp Blu, Donzii, Obsidian, Shivva, HADEE., J.L.G, Blood Orchid, Rux Vendetta, MOLD!, Fallen God, Staircase Spirit, Violent Vickie, Dirty Rivals, Foxgloves, Romani, Burning Glass, JaggN, Turbo Kid, Broot McCoy, VETA CETI, The Lab, The Flirt, Chaos In The Veil, Final Warning, All Out Panic!, SUMO, Machine Poetry, and D-Gens.

Drab Majesty
Website: https://linktr.ee/drabmajesty
Instagram: https://instagram.com/drabmajesty
Facebook: https://facebook.com/drabmajesty
Bandcamp: https://drabmajesty.bandcamp.com

Marked by its androgynous visual identity, eerie themes, and melancholic synth pop, Drab Majesty is a project led by Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Andrew Clinco, who records under the alter ego Deb DeMure. Mixing the sonic aesthetic of early 4AD artists with elements of goth and new wave, Clinco issued a scattering of indie releases before signing with DAIS Records. After 2015’s Careless, he was joined by collaborator Alex Nicolaou (aka Mona D) on subsequent releases including 2017’s mass suicide-themed concept album The Demonstration and 2019’s dense, synth-driven Modern Mirror. Drab Majesty returned in 2023 with the four-song mini-album An Object in Motion which featured a collaboration with Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell.

Jacuzzi Boys
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Jy8DN56YeZwPFUjdPa0QB
Facebook: https://facebook.com/jacuzziboys
Instagram: https://instagram.com/jacuzziboys
Bandcamp: https://jacuzziboys.bandcamp.com

Hatched inside a vulture’s nest, Jacuzzi Boys emerged from deep within the Florida wilds, three radioactive chicks cawing for their piece of electric rock pie. Since then, they’ve released four full-length LPs, multiple singles, and most recently, two EPs Dipped and Glue via their imprint MAG MAG. And it’s with this bag of tunes in tow, that they’ve toured the world, and Europe, and even the United States, with some of the most infamous names in rock like King Khan and the Shrines, Man or Astroman?, Vampire Weekend, the Raconteurs and their adopted uncle Iggy Pop. So the next time they’re in your town, don’t say we didn’t warn you.

EYEHATEGOD + Iron Buddha + Seven Serpents – West Palm Beach – 10/26/24

June 3, 2024 heroesliveent
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Heroes Live Entertainment presents EYEHATEGOD with special guests Iron Buddha and Seven Serpents on Saturday, October 26, 2024 @ Respectable Street in West Palm Beach.

Tickets: https://ehg2024.eventbrite.com

“The quintessential Southern sludge band” – PITCHFORK

“This [is] a band built on a narrative about doing the opposite of what it thought people wanted: playing slow and messy music in a fast and virtuosic time, the 1980s speed-metal moment.” – NY TIMES

“…True musical pioneers in every sense of the word.” – THRASHER MAGAZINE

ROLLING STONE:

Take As Needed For The Pain – #92 on the “Greatest Metal Albums of All Time” list

One of “America’s great live bands”

New Orleans’ EYEHATEGOD is the snarling, bilious sound of dead-end America. Since 1988, they’ve been a soundtrack for the troubled masses. Ugly music for ugly times. That’s the sense of disenchantment and disease that lies at the heart of their latest and sixth full-length album, A History of Nomadic Behavior. Anyone familiar with EHG’s story knows this is survivor’s music, a sound unto itself where Sabbathian riffs are meted out with caustic anger that goes beyond punk. That’s been the blueprint since guitarist Jimmy Bower (also of NOLA supergroup, Down) founded the band in 1988 with vocalist Michael IX Williams joining not long after. With a discography including sludge-punk mainstays like In the Name of Suffering (1990), Take as Needed for Pain (1993) Dopesick (1996), or 2014’s eponymously-titled LP, released in the US through Housecore Records, EHG laid the cracked foundation for their infamous and influential sound. A History of Nomadic Behavior finds the band, now slimmed to a four-piece rounded out by bassist Gary Mader and drummer Aaron Hill, leaner and meaner than ever; road-hardened by recent tours with Black Label Society, Corrosion of Conformity and Napalm Death in the US, and abroad. From the bitter pill of opener “Built Beneath the Lies” to the hypnotic haze of closer “Every Thing, Every Day” it’s clear that EYEHATEGOD hasn’t slowed or mellowed with time. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. This is disorienting, uneasy listening. Music that still very much hurts.

EYEHATEGOD
Website: http://eyehategod.ee/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/OfficialEyeHateGod/
Instagram: http://instagram.com/EyehategodNola
Twitter: http://twitter.com/EyehategodNola

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Iron Buddha
Website: https://linktr.ee/ironbuddhariffs
Instagram: https://instagram.com/iron_buddha_band
Facebook: https://facebook.com/Ironbuddha666
Bandcamp: https://ironbuddha.bandcamp.com

Iron Buddha is a three-piece sludge metal band from South Florida making waves in their underground scene. Iron Buddha is rooted in strong tradition while also breaking new ground with crushing riffs, earth-shattering grooves, and powerful distortion and fuzz.

Drawing inspiration from legendary sludge metal and post-metal acts like Neurosis, Mastodon, ISIS, and YOB, Iron Buddha has created a heavy and dynamic sound unique to themselves. Their EP, “Raze//Repose,” is a new push in a new direction, showcases the band’s evolution as musicians, and solidifies their reputation as a formidable up-and-coming act.

Seven Serpents
Website: https://linktr.ee/Sevenserpents
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sevenserpents666
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sevenserpents/
Bandcamp: https://sevenserpents.bandcamp.com

Hailing from the swamps of South Florida since 2016. Mixing hardcore and modern metal backgrounds with sludge and stoner metal roots, the band hopes to provide a dismal, visceral experience with each track.

PIG (ex-KMFDM alumni) “Heroin for the Damned Tour” with Unitcode:Machine + Wicked Playground – West Palm Beach – 11/1/24

May 18, 2024 heroesliveent
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Heroes Live Entertainment presents PIG (ex-KMFDM alumni) “Heroin for the Damned Tour” with special guests Unitcode:Machine and Wicked Playground on Friday, November 1, 2024 @ Respectable Street in West Palm Beach. First South Florida show since 2017!
Tickets: https://pigband.eventbrite.com

7:00PM (Doors) | 8:00PM (Show) | 18+

PIG – the venerated project of head hog Raymond Watts & his herd of swine – returns in top form on Red Room. Watts & Co tease, taunt, tempt & tantalize with PIG’s singular blend of hook laden, genre bending, electronic tinged rock & roll, full of malevolent reverence, glitz, glamour, sleaze, sin & swing.

Guest appearances by Alexis Mincolla (3Teeth), Chris Hall (Stabbing Westward), and the PIG Choir: Chris Connelly (Revco, Ministry etc), Emily Kavanaugh (Night Club), I Ya Toyah, Marc Heal (Cubanate) and Burton C Bell (Fear Factory), En Esch, Susannah Doyle, Anita Kyoda, Mark Alan Griffiths, Mike Watts, Jimmy Livingstone, and more!

<PÎG> is Raymond Watts, a British musician whose brand of electronic rock is danceable and deadly serious in turn. Watts’s words spring from the well of gallows humour in a world of corruscating cruelty and truth. <PÎG> climbs peaks and mines troughs, and musical genres slide and collide like tectonic plates.

In 1986 Raymond Watts awoke in West Berlin. It was a time of terror and turmoil, in a city so depraved and decadent that the East Germans had walled it in. Watts had cut his teeth on tape loops in London and Hamburg, but inspired by Berlin’s fetid air and his first 8-bit sampler, Watts gave birth to <PÎG> in 1988, when <PÎG> was cut from his belly with a rusty screwdriver in a basement opposite The Wall. The first squeals were committed to tape, and saw the light of day as A Poke in the Eye. Wax Trax! jumped to release it.

A year earlier, in Hamburg, he was bludgeoning the first KMFDM album into shape with En Esch and Sascha Konietzko. He had also helped deliver the sonic slaughter of Einsturzende Neubauten, Psychic TV and most of the Berlin and Hamburg underground, as both live and studio sound engineer, and producer.

After writing the music for the second KMFDM album, Watts then slipped away to tour with Foetus, playing keyboards and guitar.

When The Wall collapsed, the party was over. Watts returned to London and <PÎG> albums poured forth: Praise the Lard, A Stroll in the Pork, Shit For Brains, Red Raw & Sore and The Swining. Watts programmed, produced and performed, ploughing a lone furrow until Karl Hyde, singer and sinner with Underworld, came to his assistance on guitars followed by Steve White.

Watts had also developed a taste for all things Japanese. His label was based there, his morals were parked there and <PÎG> had toured there many times. He was soon involved with a highly successful bunch of ne’er-do-wells called Schaft. Their album Switchblade, and a sold-out tour, followed.

In 1994, <PÎG> opened for NIN. This led to <PÎG>’s Sinsation album being released on Nothing Records — and then a return to Wax Trax! for Wrecked.

Watts also rejoined KMFDM in 1994, for the <PÎG> v KMFDM EP Sin, Sex & Salvation. On the ensuing album Nihil Watts resumed writing and vocal duties and several heaving tours followed, with Watts orchestrating the chaos from centre stage like a rampant ringmaster armed only with talent and tequila.

When not on tour, Watts could be found in his Ranch Apocalypse studios in London, working on <PÎG>’s No One Gets Out of Her Alive, Prime Evil, Disrupt Degrade & Devastate and the KMFDM albums Symbols, Attak and WW111. On the album Genuine American Monster, Watts reunited with legendary guitarist Guenter Schulz.

While in Toyko, Watts gave birth to the band Schwein with Sascha Konietzko and the Japanese musicians Sakurai and Imai. The albums Schweinstein, Son Of Schweinstein and a sold-out tour ensued.

After releasing the <PÎG> album Pigmartyr (Pigmata on Metropolis), Watts spent time in London indoctrinating his piglets and initiating them into the parish of the pork. When not leading his children down the path of righteousness, he could be found writing music for fashion and films for Alexander McQueen, Chloe, Marios Schwab, Halston, The Row and others. He also wrote music and did sound design for Punk: Chaos to Couture, the exhibition at the Met in New York.

In the final show before his death, Alexander McQueen commissioned Watts and John Gosling, Watts’s old partner-in-crime from Psychic TV days, to embellish the serene instrumental track Inside, from <PÎG>’s Genuine American Monster album. This became the soundtrack to what is seen as McQueen’s masterpiece, Plato’s Atlantis. This show was reprised as the finale of Savage Beauty, the McQueen retrospective that broke all records at the Met in New York and the V&A in London. He also wrote other original music and did sound design for the show.

Last year, in 2015, <PÎG> dipped his trotter in the trough once more, and released both the much lauded <PÎG> v Primitive Race EP Long in the Tooth, and the Compound Eye Sessions: <PÎG> v MC Lord of the Flies (aka Marc Heal, of Cubanate).

The Primitive Race collaboration brought together Watts and Mark Thwaite, of The Mission, Tricky and Peter Murphy fame, amongst many others. Together they set about writing what would become the main column of misery around which the new <PÎG> album, The Gospel, has been built. Watts’ newest partner in swine, Z. Marr of Combichrist fame, shared production and writing duties.

The new <PÎG> album, The Gospel, is a collection of twelve songs of ruin, redemption, resolution and resurrection. Across this tale of grime and punishment En Esch and Guenter Schulz leave their unmistakable trail of greasy fingerprints.

Support:

Unitcode:Machine
Bandcamp: https://unitcode.bandcamp.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/unitc0de
Instagram: https://instagram.com/unitcode_machine
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/unitcode

Starting 2000, UNITCODE:MACHINE is a project from Texas Native Eric Kristoffer. Following in the steps of other Texas electronic artists, Eric’s style of electro-industrial takes from many inspirations to create a sound unique to the project. Ever changing, UNITCODE:MACHINE’s list of comparable projects changes from album to album.

NEW ALBUM PRODUCED BY CHRIS HALL OF STABBING WESTWARD:

“It was a real honor and pleasure to work with Eric. He put his heart on soul into this album both musically and lyrically. He was willing to truly expose his inner demons and flaws and turn them into beautiful emotional lyrics that really moved me. this is not easy to do. and it’s scary as hell to put yourself out there in such a painfully honest way. In a world of fake social media perfection, it’s a shocking and wonderful thing to experience true humanity. This is one of those rare albums that I can listen to all the way through and not skip any tracks. I am incredibly proud to have had a hand in bringing these songs to life. I hope that you will give it a listen and if you like it buy a copy to support indie music and musicians. thanks Chris”

Wicked Playground
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@wickedplayground3394/videos
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wickedplaygroundmusic
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0R6cpc6UNLQMDhmpxLAjy1

Miami band fusing alternative, metal, industrial and rock.

For fans of: Deftones, Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein, Korn, Marilyn Manson, Alice In Chains, Meshuggah, Tool, Rage Against The Machine, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, The Used, Chevelle, Evanescence, Disturbed, Sevendust

Chameleons Performing the Album: Strange Times + The Veldt + Violet Silhouette – West Palm Beach – 10/28/24

March 19, 2024 heroesliveent
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Heroes Live Entertainment presents Chameleons Performing the Album: Strange Times with special guests The Veldt and Violet Silhouette on Monday, October 28, 2024 @ Respectable Street in West Palm Beach.

7:00PM (Doors) | 8:00PM (Show) | 18+

Tickets: https://chameleons.eventbrite.com

Chameleons
Facebook: https://facebook.com/wearethechameleons
Instagram: https://instagram.com/chameleonsbandofficial
Website: https://thechameleonsofficialonlinestore.bigcartel.com

’80s post-punk take note, Chameleons will be touring in 2024. This marks a reunion between The Chameleons frontman Mark Burgess and guitarist Reg Smithies, who had not toured together under Chameleons name in nearly two decades until 2023’s tour with The Mission UK. The band formed in Greater Manchester UK and is known as one of the genre’s greatest bands.

As bass player, singer and songwriter in iconic post-punk outfit The Chameleons, Mark Burgess can lay claim to having influenced a multitude of artists worldwide. Previously cited by the likes of Interpol, Editors and The National, The Chameleons might not have enjoyed the same levels of commercial success as some of their peers but the band’s legacy lives on.

Having formed in 1981 only to split in 1987 before briefly reforming in 2000, the Mancunian four-piece left behind a flawless back catalogue including three of the most pioneering long players of the post-punk era in Script Of The Bridge, What Does Anything Mean? Basically and Strange Times.

Support:

The Veldt
Website: https://theveldt.supertape.site
Instagram: https://instagram.com/_Theveldt
Facebook: https://facebook.com/VeldtThe
Bandcamp: https://theveldtmusic.bandcamp.com

Identical twins Daniel and Danny Chavis originally hail from Raleigh/ Chapel Hill, North Carolina programmer Hayato Nakao, originally from Japan, hooked up with the Chavis brothers while living in New York. Along with Drummer Dale Miller, Micah Gaugh Keyboardist/Saxophone, Bassist Alex Cox and guitarist Martin Newman make up the current line up.

Lifting their band’s name from a Ray Bradbury science fiction story, their own life stories have also been quite fantastic. After signing to Capitol Records in 1989, The Veldt were soon in the studio with dream-gaze guru Robin Guthrie working on their initial recordings, playing American concert halls with Cocteau Twins and The Jesus and Mary Chain, and recording ‘Marigolds’ with Lincoln Fong (Moose). Not long after, they would record their classic ‘Afrodisiac’ (1994), produced by Ray Shulman (The Sundays, Bjork, Sugarcubes) and released via Mercury Records.

They have also collaborated with TV On The Radio, Mos Def and Lady Miss Kier (Deee-Lite), and shared the stage with The Pixies, Throwing Muses, Echo & The Bunnymen, Cocteau Twins, Manic Street Preachers, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Oasis, Chuck D, Living Colour, and Schooly D.

This past year has also been pretty monumental, with highlights including sold-out tours with Phantogram and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, a European tour, two separate Canadian tours, appearance at some of North America’s and Europe’s hottest psych fests, a spotlight feature on Time Warner Cable TV and being named as east coast support for Modern English. Performing since they were children, the Chavis brothers’ musical roots lead back to the church and southern juke-joints, and listening to music that included gospel, Motown and Pink Floyd. The Veldt formed in the late 80’s in Raleigh amongst the royalty of the legendary North Carolina music scene, including bands such as Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, The Connells, Dillon Fence, The dBs, Squirrel Nut Zippers, and Ryan Adams. Pitchfork recently included their album ‘Afrodisiac’ in the top 50 shoegaze albums ever released. Their sound also inspired future generations of alternative artists, including TV On the Radio.

This latest EP sees the band returning to their roots, albeit with plenty of distortion, programmed beats and pedal effects. They’ve also involved A.R.Kane, who produced ‘And It’s You’. Borrowing the title ‘The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur’ from an E.E. Cummings poem, this EP includes five tracks with a raging sound influenced equally by the emotional soul of Marvin Gaye, free jazz warriors Sun Ra and Pharaoh Sanders, various Drake hip-hop tracks, long-term musical kin Cocteau Twins, and their own fertile electric imagination.

Violet Silhouette
Instagram: https://instagram.com/violetsilhouetteofficial
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/violetsilhouetteofficial
Bandcamp: https://violetsilhouette.bandcamp.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/violetsilhouetteofficial

What happens when you mix brooding existentialism with a love of synthesizers and noise-rock? — Violet Silhouette may have an answer, in fact, it has all of them. Born from a tropical depression, Violet Silhouette is an American musical duo or group that may or may not sound like how dusk feels but with more reverb. Their live shows have been called “very good” and exist with the intent of giving the viewer and performer a shared catharsis.The first EP titled SEMIPERMANENTDEREALIZATION has been considered appropriate for all mood levels, intimate settings, and night driving.

“…the dance-punk/postwave triumvirate embarks on a fresh voyage, diving deep into the multifaceted realm of “Neuromanticism.” This exotic medley of sensory experimentation, paired with our recurrently perilous quest for the quintessence of truth and love, pushes boundaries in the genre-bending musical landscape. Imbued with kaleidoscopic undertones and a brooding romanticism, their sound provokes thought, smears the lines, and adds a new dimension to the continually evolving realms of alternative music.” Alice Teeple (Post-punk.com)

Violet Silhouette is:

  • Zaii Valdes [vox•guitars•synthesizer•drum programming]
  • Dan Potvin [synthesizer•guitar•vox•sequencing]
  • Justin Gianoutsos [bass]

The March Violets + Rosegarden Funeral Party + Astari Nite – West Palm Beach – 8/24/24

February 13, 2024 heroesliveent
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Heroes Live Entertainment presents The March Violets with special guests Rosegarden Funeral Party and Astari Nite on Saturday, August 24, 2024 @ Respectable Street in West Palm Beach. Building on their 40 year legacy, come see the legendary UK post-punk/goth band.
-First-ever South Florida show!
-New album, “Crocodile Promises” on Metropolis Records
-Featured in the classic John Hughes film, “Some Kind of Wonderful”
-Sisters of Mercy label-mates on Merciful Release
Tickets: https://TMV.eventbrite.com

7:00PM (Doors) | 8:00PM (Show) | 18+

October 7th 2022 marks the digital release of the Walk into the Sun 7” (unavailable since the 80’s). The perfect time to announce The March Violets reunion!

Since the last March Violets tour in 2015 we’ve been shocked at how many musical friends have passed over and out. And after Simon Denbigh’s life-changing stroke, it’s no surprise we all thought that was it for the Violets.

When, in 2021, Jungle Records released Big Soul Kiss (The BBC Sessions double album) for Record Store Day 2021 it sold out its entire pressing in 24 hours. We were amazed at the response, absolutely amazed. We faced a choice – to fade away quietly or go out with a celebration.

We feel for Simon, and honour his massive artistic contribution & intense vision as one of The March Violets founding members. He’s irreplaceable, so we’re not going to try. We believe the legacy of The March Violets deserves a far better conclusion than sinking into silence, and now is the right time to do it.

There are many surprises to come. For the first time The March Violets are releasing our full back catalogue, with worldwide distribution via Jungle Records.

Founder-members Rosie Garland and Tom Ashton are joined again by William Faith (musician and vocalist with Faith & the Muse, Conflict and The Bellwether Syndicate) and we are excited to be back in the studio creating brand new material & planning live dates for 2023- 2024.

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Rosegarden Funeral Party
Website: https://rosegardenfuneralparty.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/rosegardenfuneralparty
Facebook: https://facebook.com/rosegardenfuneralparty
Bandcamp: https://rosegardenfuneralparty.bandcamp.com

Rising from the inferno of heartbreak with a determination towards gentility, humility, graciousness, and kindness, Rosegarden Funeral Party takes influence from life’s tragedies and spins chaos into beauty.  Leah Lane fronts the band with a voice like that of the lovechild between Morrissey and Siouxsie Sioux and her guitar playing has been compared to that of Daniel Ash. with bass playing that takes obvious inspiration from Peter Hook.  With synths trapped in the loving arms of the 1980’s, rhythmic percussion and drums inspired by dark dance floors, Rosegarden Funeral Party prove to be the second-coming of traditional goth.

Astari Nite **Record Release Show**
Website: https://linktr.ee/AstariNite
Instagram: https://instagram.com/astarinite43
Facebook: https://facebook.com/astarinitemusic
Twitter: https://twitter.com/astarinite

Pre-order “Resolution of Happiness” released June 21 on Negative Gain Productions.

With a blend of shadowy atmospheres, powerful rhythms, and innovative soundscapes, Astari Nite invites listeners into a world where conventional boundaries dissolve, and the unexpected thrives. Resolution of Happiness transcends traditional genres, showcasing nineties inspired alternative music with elements of dark wave, industrial and glam.

Having performed alongside acts such as Peter Murphy, The Damned, Psychedelic Furs, She Wants Revenge, Cold Cave, Vowws, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Modern English, 3teeth and Bestial Mouths, they have established themselves as contemporaries of the post-punk / gothic rock scene. Astari Nite also performed at Wave Gotik Treffen, Out from The Shadows Festival, A Murder of Crows, among others.

Black Lips + Jacuzzi Boys – West Palm Beach – 3/30/24

February 7, 2024 heroesliveent
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Heroes Live Entertainment presents Black Lips + Jacuzzi Boys on Saturday, March 30, 2024 @ Respectable Street in West Palm Beach. One of the Peach State’s wildest bands returns to South Florida with Miami garage rockers Jacuzzi Boys.

Tickets: https://blacklipswpb.eventbrite.com

7:00PM (Doors) | 8:00PM (Show) | 18+

 

Playing garage-flavored punk rock with a Southern accent, a messed-up and bluesy undertow, and the gleefully destructive impact of a 15-year-old with a bag of firecrackers, the Black Lips are a combo who, after their debut in 1999, soon developed a reputation as one of the Peach State’s wildest bands.

Garage punk saviors the Black Lips transform from austere country pioneers into a set of Lynchian surrealists, hellbent on recalibrating the history of 21st Century rock ‘n’ roll. Their new album ‘Apocalypse Love’  cryogenically mutates all recognized musical bases; it spins yarns about vintage Soviet synths, Benzedrine stupors, coup de’ tats, stolen valor, certified destruction and the creative use of quicksand, all set against a black setting sun.

 

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Jacuzzi Boys
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Jy8DN56YeZwPFUjdPa0QB
Facebook: https://facebook.com/jacuzziboys
Instagram: https://instagram.com/jacuzziboys
Bandcamp: https://jacuzziboys.bandcamp.com

The year, 2007. The Boys, Jacuzzi. Hatched inside a vulture’s nest, Jacuzzi Boys emerged from deep within the Florida wilds, three radioactive chicks cawing for their piece of electric rock pie. Since then, they’ve released four full-length LPs, multiple singles and most recently, two EPs Dipped and Glue via their own imprint MAG MAG. And it’s with this bag of tunes in tow, that they’ve toured the world, and Europe and even the United States, with some of the most infamous names in rock like King Khan and the Shrines, Man or Astroman?, Vampire Weekend, the Raconteurs and their adopted uncle Iggy Pop. So the next time they’re in your town, don’t say we didn’t warn you.