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Brittany Howard

w/ June McDoom

at Revel

Time: 8:00pm     Day: Monday     Doors: 7:00pm     Ages: All Ages    
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Tags: ABQ Revel

*This event will have partial 1st come 1st serve seating on the floor 

VENUE INFO: Revel

Alcohol: Yes

Seating: Outside of the concert venue, but no seating inside of the concert venue.

Outside Food/Drink: No

Parking: Yes

ADA: Venue is ADA compliant, elevator for mezzanine access and accessible seating for people with disabilities is available.

 

BRITTANY HOWARD

There’s a double meaning to the title of What Now, the revelatory new album from singer/songwriter Brittany Howard. “With the world we’re living in now, it feels like we’re all just trying to hang onto our souls,” says the Nashville-based musician and front woman for four-time Grammy Award-winning Alabama Shakes. “Everything seems to be getting more extreme and everyone keeps wondering, ‘What now? What’s next?’ By the same coin, the only constant on this record is you never know what’s going to happen next: every song is its own aquarium, its own little miniature world built around whatever I was feeling and thinking at the time.”

With five Grammy® wins and sixteen nominations, Howard follows up her massively acclaimed solo debut Jaime—a2019 LP that landed on best-of-the-year lists from the likes of Pitchfork, the New York Times, and Rolling Stone – withWhat Now, drawing an immense and indelible power from endless unpredictability. Over the course of its 12 tracks,Howard brings her singular musicality to a shapeshifting sound encompassing everything from psychedelia and dance music to dream-pop and avant-jazz—a fitting backdrop for an album whose lyrics shift from unbridled outpouring to incisive yet radically idealistic commentary on the state of the human condition. At turns galvanizing, cathartic, and wildly soul-expanding, the result is a monumental step forward for one of the most essential artists of our time.

 

JUNE MCDOOM 

Growing up in South Florida in a Jamaican household, June McDoom was raised around reggae music, which echoed throughout every room of her childhood home. Later, she discovered and nourished her own deep love for folk music and songwriting of the 1960's and 70's. While studying in NYC for a degree in Jazz Performance, her musical palette expanded to include the more intricate influences of jazz and early soul. Realizing that her favorite vintage folk music lacked artists with similar identities as her own, it became increasingly important for McDoom to carve a unique musical space — to push folk music towards a new and different audience.

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