The New Jersey based post hardcore band just signed with Hopeless Records and is preparing to release their first full length album,
"Familiar Faces" on March 15. Listen to our first single “Role Play” off our debut album.
“Look, we just write pop songs that make us feel things,” laughs Dane Allen, trying to explain the motive behind his alternative/pop
group, Loyals. “We aren’t congealed with this big message. Obviously we
can change our minds down the road, but that’s not who we are now.”
The band’s lack of pretension is as refreshing as it is uncommon, their self-assuredness a most likely side effect of the years
they’ve spent playing together. “We met when we were teenagers,” explains Allen of fellow bandmates Andrew Gomez and Evan
Thon. “We’ve stuck with each other ever since.” The decade long friendship not only earned them their moniker, but—through
practice and experimentation—aided in the cultivation of a pop group that masters the genre.
Their self titled record—brimming with buoyant melodies and standout hooks—is a playful demonstration of everything pop. The
self-titled debut pays homage to their R&B and alternative rock influencers while maintaining an attitude all its own. “This
record is a byproduct of our daily lives,” explains Allen. “It’s therapeutic to write what you feel in the moment, whether
you’re sad, or you’re in love, or you just don’t care. We aren’t curated, we just write what we feel.”
Forming in early 2012, As We Are has been active in the music industry nationally
and internationally. From DIY tours, to big ticket festivals, the band has kept a consistent tour schedule. As We Are's
feet on the ground approach has gained them recognition world wide and has helped them brand their own style and sound.
In 2017, the band was listed in several publications as one of the top bands to get to know in 2017.
2018 brought Raven Faith Records to As We Are, via the band's latest self titled EP. Raven Faith will be re-releasing the EP,
along with bonus tracks, in the fall of 2018. By the end of 2018, As We Are will have also played 200+ shows making 2018 the
busiest year for the band to date.
#DressUp
Transylvanian Lip Treatment presents Midnight Picture Show US 1975 | digital | Dir: Jim Sharman | 100min | R
Midnight / doors 11:00p | $7
17+ unless accompanying parent or adult guardian
This campy cult classic (which unfortunately, we can't name here, but you can watch the trailer over there) is the most popular
midnight movie of all time. A corn-fed all-American couple stumbles onto a creepy castle one night when their car breaks
down, entering a world they never dreamed existed. The castle turns out to be inhabited by a collection of kinky Transylvanian
freaks led by a mad bisexual transvestite. The film gained notoriety as the most successful midnight movie ever, in which
hundreds of cult fans show up in costume and act out scenes from the movie.
You are not allowed to bring your own props. Prop kits are available at the show. Prop kits include rice
(during the wedding scene at the very beginning, throw yours in celebration), a newspaper (during the rain scene, keep dry),
noise maker (during the creation speech, celebrate and MAKE SOME NOISE), toilet paper (when the doctor breaks through the
lab wall, hurl your "scotts" tissue), and toast (make your toast during the birthday dinner...toss it), will be available at
the show for $4. YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO COME IN COSTUME.
Doors open at 11:00pm. Virgin sacrifice before the show. The movie begins at Midnight.
Next Midnight Picture Show - Saturday, February 16
#SongwritersCircle
the Irving Theater welcomes Songwriters Circle featuring Wayne Pennington
(Indianapolis) Daisy Abercorn
(Layfayette) Paul Hollard
(Indianapolis) Shawn Bryant
(Indianapolis)
8:00p / doors 7:30p | free ($5 suggested)
Wayne Pennington is an Indianapolis based Folk singer-songwriter. Wayne
travels throughout Central Indiana playing coffeehouses, breweries, pubs, and private events. His style has a dwon-home free with
a western flare.
7:00p / doors 6:30p | $13 advance / $15 day of show
Chin Up, Kid was formed in 2013. They shortly after released their debut
EP, Home Advantage. They showed success throughout playing many shows in Indiana including their local stop of the
2015 Vans Warped Tour. In 2016, the band again self released another EP titled, The Way You Live Is Common. After a
few lineup changes, Chin Up, Kid began writing for what would become their full length label debut, Swing With Your Eyes
Closed.
Multi-Platinum Recording Artist and Founding Member of Taking Back Sunday Eddie Reyes collides with Multi-Instrumentalist/Singer
Michael Drum to form a brand new Post Hardcore band called Fate's Got A Driver. Eddie and Michael quickly added Vocalist
Randolph Shulz, Drummer Javi Torres, and Bassist Adam Evans to write and record their Debut EP in an Ohio lake house.
Welcome to Dagger's Ball III, the second installment of Bad Dagger's
annual event! Joining the bill once again is Kaleidoscope Jukebox
along with Double Negative Design, Herm Productions, and Goedde Lights & Sound! The team has been hard at work planning this and you're not going
to want to miss what it has in store. See you at the Ball!
Carrie Newcomer is a Grammy-winning songwriter, recording artist, performer
and educator. She has been described as a "prairie mystic" by the Boston Globe and one who "asks all the right questions" by
Rolling Stone. Recent appearances include PBS Religion and Ethics and National Award Winning Krista Tippett's On
Being. In the fall of 2009 and 2011 Newcomer was a cultural ambassador to India invited by the American Embassy of India,
resulting in her interfaith collaborative benefit album Everything is Everywhere with world master of the Indian Sarod, Amjad Ali
Khan. In June 2012/13 Carrie Newcomer traveled to Kenya, Africa and The Middle East, performing in schools, spiritual
communities and AIDS hospitals. Carrie has 16 nationally released albums on Available Light & Concord/Rounder including The
Beautiful Not Yet, A Permeable Life and Everything is Everywhere. Newcomer has also released two companion books of poetry
and essays, A Permeable Life: Poems and Essays and The Beautiful Not Yet: Poems, Essays & Lyrics. Newcomer's first theatrical
production, Betty's Diner: The Musical was produced as part of the Purdue University 2015/2016 theatrical season and is now
available to interested theaters, universities and spiritual communities. In 2016 Carrie presented the Commencement address and
was awarded an honorary degree in Music for Social Change from Goshen College. Her 2017 PBS special, An Evening with Carrie
Newcomer is currently playing in 200 markets across the USA, featuring songs from The Beautiful Not Yet and special commentary and
conversation with Parker J. Palmer. Other collaborations with Parker J. Palmer include Healing the Heart of Democracy:
A Gathering of Spirits for the Common Good and What We Need is Here: Hope Hard Times and Human Possibility. Other special
collaborations include productions with neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor, author, Rabbi Sandy Sasso, environmental author Scott
Russel Sander. Carrie tours internationally performing and presenting workshops and retreats. In June of 2018 Carrie
joined again with Parker J. Palmer for anew project, The Growing Edge, with a new website, podcast and retreat.
#DressUp
Transylvanian Lip Treatment presents Midnight Picture Show US 1975 | digital | Dir: Jim Sharman | 100min | R
VALENTINE SHOW
Midnight / doors 11:00p | $7
17+ unless accompanying parent or adult guardian
This campy cult classic (which unfortunately, we can't name here, but you can watch the trailer over there) is the most popular
midnight movie of all time. A corn-fed all-American couple stumbles onto a creepy castle one night when their car breaks
down, entering a world they never dreamed existed. The castle turns out to be inhabited by a collection of kinky Transylvanian
freaks led by a mad bisexual transvestite. The film gained notoriety as the most successful midnight movie ever, in which
hundreds of cult fans show up in costume and act out scenes from the movie.
You are not allowed to bring your own props. Prop kits are available at the show. Prop kits include rice
(during the wedding scene at the very beginning, throw yours in celebration), a newspaper (during the rain scene, keep dry),
noise maker (during the creation speech, celebrate and MAKE SOME NOISE), toilet paper (when the doctor breaks through the
lab wall, hurl your "scotts" tissue), and toast (make your toast during the birthday dinner...toss it), will be available at
the show for $4. YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO COME IN COSTUME.
Doors open at 11:00pm. Virgin sacrifice before the show. The movie begins at Midnight.
Kings Kaleidoscope and Special Guests embark on their first nationwide
tour, covering 25 US cities promoting their newest album, "ZEAL".
Kings Kaleidoschope has a history of breaking convention. The band first met at church, reimagining hymns and ecclesial
melodies. But what started under lofted ceilings soon broke through, reaching the ready ears of crowds and critics. Five EPs
and two critically-acclaimed LPs later (both landing in the top 10 on Billboard's gospel chart), King's continues to reinvent their
medium. Genre-bending rhythms, bold arrangements, and soaring melodies underscore the diverse influences within the band.
Chad Gardner leads the collective of friends; up to ten members strong, and all hands stretch the canvas until it sings.
Their latest project, “The Beauty Between,” is another transformation, but what remains true—and what resonates with fans—is
the creative core: an honest expression of the ache, love, and color of a life redeemed.
