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Arts Calendar / October 19 / Clubs
20:00 Orishas (Cuba)
With origins in Cuba’s underground hip-hop scene, Orishas burst onto the international stage in 1999, with a self-titled album recorded in Paris that interspersed rap lyrics with Afro-Cuban percussion and the melodies of son, a traditional Cuban song form that influenced salsa. They recorded three studio discs, but disbanded in 2009. Partly because the U.S. trade embargo keeps Cuban musicians cut off from international distribution, no other major band blending traditional sounds with hip-hop stepped into the void when they broke up. All three members of the group say they didn’t need to speak during their long separation, as they spread across three countries. “It was a pause that extended itself a bit,” said Roldán González Rivero, the silver-haired singer who carries the group’s melodies and looks not unlike a Hispanic version of George Clooney. “A group is like a marriage, like a couple,” said Roldán, who is also known by his first name. “It was important to get a bit of distance, to recharge our batteries a bit. I think if we had stayed together, we would have ruined what we’d created.” Now the band is back, riding a wave of new interest in Cuba and touring the world.
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20:00 Scarlxrd (UK)
The dark and intense rapper Scarlxrd was born Marius Listhrop in Wolverhampton, England in 1994. Prior to his music career, he acquired some fame in his teenage years as a YouTube vlogger who went under the alias Mazzi Maz. After several years of his more and more popular YouTube presence, however, he deleted his videos and shifted gears toward a new image, working briefly with the band Myth City before starting the Scarlxrd project in 2015. Also known as Yung Scar, Listhrop developed a sound that moved from dark trap atmospheres on early singles like 2016's "Girlfriend" to more explosive, metal-edged tracks like 2017's "The Purge" and "Heart Attack." A string of mixtapes surfaced along with frequent singles, including 2016's "Rxse" and 2017's "Chaxsthexry," "Cabin Fever," and "Lxrdszn." The next year, Scarlxrd returned with the moody, screaming singles "A BRAINDEAD Civilisatixn" and "We Waste Time FADED" from his debut full-length DXXM, which was released via Island Records. A sophomore effort, Infinity, followed in March 2019.
Izvestiya Hall 
20:00 Suede (UK)
Suede kick-started the Brit pop revolution of the '90s, bringing English indie pop/rock music away from the swirling layers of shoegazing and dance-pop fusions of Madchester, and reinstating such conventions of British pop as mystique and the three-minute single. Before the band had even released a single, the U.K. weekly music press was proclaiming them the "Best New Band in Britain," but Suede managed to survive their heavy hype due to the songwriting team of vocalist Brett Anderson and guitarist Bernard Butler. Equally inspired by the glam crunch of David Bowie and the romantic bedsit pop of the Smiths, Anderson and Butler developed a sweeping, guitar-heavy sound that was darkly sensual, sexually ambiguous, melodic, and unabashedly ambitious. At the time of the release of their first single, "The Drowners," in 1992, few of their contemporaries -- whether it was British shoegazers or American grunge rockers -- had any ambitions to be old-fashioned, self-consciously controversial pop stars, and the British press and public fell hard for Suede, making their 1993 debut the fastest-selling first album in U.K. history. Though they had rocketed to the top in the U.K., Suede were plagued with problems, the least of which was an inability to get themselves heard in America. Anderson and Butler's relationship became antagonistic during the recording of their second album, Dog Man Star, and the guitarist left the band before its fall release, which inevitably hurt its sales. Instead of breaking up, the band soldiered on, adding new guitarist Richard Oakes and a keyboardist before returning in 1996 with Coming Up, an album that returned them to the top of the British charts.
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