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• 9 years ago
• Brassland recording artists People Get Ready will open for Blonde Redhead on upcoming dates including  Tuesday (November 26th) night at The Bowery Ballroom. The Brooklyn based band released a new album (Physiques) this past June to exciting reviews. The band is known for high energy live performances which showcase a blend of rock and performance art.  NPR's Bob Boilen, placing their performances among his top 5 concerts two years running, put it best: "No single show took my breath away the way this one did- part rock concert, part performance art, part dance, all perfectly melded together. Having seen so many dudes with guitars ... it was incredibly refreshing to find a group challenging and changing the norm." The first thing I thought was- sounds like an Art for Progress event! I caught up with Steven Reker from the band to learn more about these multidisciplinary artists, and here's what he had to say. How did the band come up with the name People Get Ready? I was at a play and one of the actors said ‘...people get ready...' in his dialogue - the phrase stayed with me. Then I named the first piece I did at The Kitchen (before the band was a band) People Get Ready and as the project developed we just kept the name. Are the band members originally from New York or are they transplants? We're transplants - mostly. Jen and I are from Arizona - James comes from California - and Booker is from Nyack, NY. Which artists/bands have been the most[...]
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