Win Tickets ($60): Murder By Death @ Revolution Hall | w/ Laura Jane Grace, Indie Americana
We are giving away a pair of tickets to Murder By Death @ Revolution Hall on June 16. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed June 12.
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From our sponsors:
Murder By Death
June 16, 2023
Doors 7PM, Show 8PM | $30 | All Ages
More info: event.etix.com
Revolution Hall
1300 SE Stark St., Portland, OR
As trailblazers of the early 2000s indie-Americana style, the Louisville, KY-based quintet finds a way of taking tried & true rock-and-roll and knocking it slightly off axis, into tottering revolutions of something eerie, emotional, immediate, lush, and uniquely theirs.
On the surface, Murder By Death is a Louisville, KY sextet with a wry, ominous name. But behind the geography and moniker is a band of meticulous and literary songwriters matched by a specific brand of brooding, anthem-riding balladry and orchestral indie rock.
Murder By Death’s path began in the early 2000s as most Midwestern college-town groups do, by playing to small crowds at ratty venues and frenzied house parties. While many of their formative-year scene-mates failed to make it much further than campustown’s borders, Murder By Death translated their anonymous beginnings into a 20+ year career founded on a bedrock of eight full-length albums, tireless D.I.Y. touring and performing ethics, and, most importantly, a dedicated, cult-like fanbase.
Laura Jane Grace
“These are songs of late night madness and loneliness, orphan songs that came wandering in looking to feed like insects,” Laura Jane Grace says of her new EP.
Half recorded at Grace’s TinyQuietStudio in Chicago and half recorded at Electric Eel in St. Louis, and mixed by her Devouring Mothers bandmate Marc Hudson, At War With The Silverfish finds Grace in a range of stripped-back, poignant modes that amount to an honest and holistic account of our shared humanity. Unafraid to spotlight open wounds and tangled feelings, Grace conveys the distinctive pluck that has defined her work with Against Me! and The Devouring Mothers, but with the intimate energy of home recording with an acoustic guitar. The album is not a clarion call, but a tender invitation. It is a necessary capsule of a woman’s artistic pulse; love, longing and loneliness told in affecting turns of phrase.
Reflecting on the album’s interiority, Grace acknowledges the universal nature of many of its themes — how her highly personal accounts bloom into broader human connection. “I’ve learned that if you share your experience with good intentions that the universe will always surprise you with abundant return,” she says. “Every song is an act of faith; you don’t necessarily know why you’re singing it other than you know you’ve got to sing it.”
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would love to see this pairing
Pick me please!
Will be visiting Portland this summer, and would love to attend!
Murder by numbers
Been listening to Laura Jane Grace since my teens. Would love to see this.
I would love to go!!
oooh ! yessss please
You had me at Murder.
Yes please!
Laura Jane Grace is my favourite performer
Amazing artists. I can’t attend but I would love to send a couple friends from PDX who need to experience this!! Cheers
Time to shred!
These artists are exceptionally talented songwriters in every sense of the word! Oh, and one has a catchy name … they’re both performing at one of my fav venues … Revolution Hall … where I’ll be (hopefully) enjoying some soulful lyrics, sipping on a brew, and blowing out candles on my cake … wishing for a great start to my birthday … (thanks for the opportunity)!!
These artists are exceptionally talented songwriters in every sense of the word! Oh, and one has a catchy name.… they’re both performing at one of my fav
venues … Revolution Hall … Where l’Il be (hopefully) enjoying some soulful lyrics, sipping on a brew, and blowing out candles on my cake ….. wishing for a great start to my birthday …. (thanks for the opportunity)!!
First saw Murder by Death a few years ago and fell in love with them. I’d love to see them again!!!!
Long time Against me fan. Would love to see Laura play a solo set.
This band has a cool sound. Some kinda like Johnny Cash, out back, desolate, find me in the desert sound… Would luv to go!
I really wanna go!!!
I’d love to go!
I’m a big fan of this band. I have been lucky enough to see them in the past and they’re so talented. I knew they were playing but unfortunately tickets weren’t in my budget. When I saw them a friend got us tickets. If I win I’m taking her!