Win Tickets ($100): Explosions In The Sky – The End Tour (Night 1) @ Revolution Hall | Post Rock, Featuring Support From Exit Angles
We are giving away a pair of tickets to Explosions In The Sky – The End Tour (Night 1) @ Revolution Hall on September 26. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed September 23.
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From our sponsors:
Explosions in the Sky
September 26, 2024
Doors 7PM, Show 8PM | $50 | All Ages
More info: etix.com
Revolution Hall
1300 SE Stark St., Portland, OR
End, the enigmatic seventh album by Explosions in the Sky, was inspired by darkness, but became a loud, dramatic, wild rumination on life and death.
“Our starting point was the concept of an ending—death, or the end of a friendship or relationship. Every song comes from a story, or an idea one of us has had that we’ve all expanded on and made its own world. Maybe it’s our nature, but we kept feeling that the album title was ultimately open to a lot more interpretation—the end of a thing or a time can mean a stop, but it can also mean a beginning, and what happens after one thing ends might pale in comparison to what it becomes next,” says the band about the album.
End is perhaps the “grandest” Explosions in the Sky album – melding the quiet restraint and crushing feel of their early releases with the sonic texturing and ornate experimentation of their later releases, and their increasingly deep film and television scoring catalog, influenced by personal tastes stretching from classical to soul to experimental ambient music.
The title “End” furthers a story arc reflected in the album titles that started with the “innocence” of their first album (How Strange, Innocence), progressed through the idealism and romanticism of their second and third albums (Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever and The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place), followed by the introspection (All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone and Take Care Take Care Take Care) and big-picture focus (The Wilderness) of their most recent albums.
They are currently scoring a new, undisclosed, television series that will premiere in 2024. End is the band’s seventh, but not final, studio album.
Explosions in the Sky are an iconic instrumental rock band from Texas that have become the gold standard for bold, emotional, cinematic music and are known for their incendiary live concerts. They’ve slowly grown from playing DIY spaces and opening for Fugazi to having headlined Radio City Music Hall, Royal Albert Hall, the Greek Theatre, and the Sydney Opera House.
Over 24 years of being a band (with the same four members the entire time), they’ve achieved remarkable commercial success from an especially non-commercial corner of the music world, selling more than 1.3 million copies over six studio albums, and scoring five major motion pictures in the process. They’ve become the sound of modern sports films, documentaries and television, due largely to their genre-defining Friday Night Lights score, and they’ve been asked to tour with artist fans as diverse as Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins, The Flaming Lips, and Death Cab for Cutie, while managing to not sound like any other popular artist.
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My daughter is only in town for one week. Please let me be the COOL dad!
Would love to take my partner to this, he’s a huge fan
I would love to take my best friend to this!
You guys are awesome giving persons a night out,love to go
Please give me the tickets! I have nothing good in my life!
I have loved this band for decades! I hope to win tix!
I’ve been listening to this band for over 15+ years, so winning these would be a very happy ending indeed!
My partner loves Explosions in the Sky 💥 but has yet to see them live. Would love to win!
boom! 💥
Whoa this would be rad!!! Love a chance to see them. Ty pdx pipeline
I would DIE to see these guys at Rev Hall. I can’t afford tickets right now and seeing them free would make my damn month.
Such an amazing band. Would love to be able to acquire tickets for this.
First Explosions in the sky show Berbati’s Pan 2003 then meow meow 2004 gotta see them again
Would love to go to this!
when I was 18 I first visited Portland and bought one of my first lp’s downtown, I later got a Portlandia twist of a tattoo of the album art (put the bird and the falling autumn leaves on my left wrist) it would mean the world to me to see Explosions In The Sky perform live
September has been rough as my car has been totaled ( an “End” of a relationship if you will, eh?) As well as getting a bad concussion and having to go to the hospital for a couple nights. Winning tickets would be a lovely little treat and I’d be sure to share some joy.
Sounds fun
Love EitS!