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URL:https://www.jointherevolution.net/concerts/kurt-vile-the-violators/
SUMMARY:Kurt Vile & The Violators
DESCRIPTION:Philadelphia songwriter Kurt Vile was already recording himself
  at home by age 14\, shortly after his bluegrass-loving father purchased h
 im a banjo to encourage his youthful creativity.\nBy age 17\, Vile was sel
 f-releasing cassettes of his home recordings\, which in the earliest days 
 were strongly influenced by the raw slacker pop of the Drag City roster. H
 e would continue to record prolifically\, releasing cassettes and CD-Rs of
  his solo material while holding down a day job as a forklift operator.\nA
 fter a brief move to Boston\, Vile returned to Philadelphia in 2003 and be
 gan collaborating with singer/guitarist Adam Granduciel\, and by 2005 thei
 r duo the War on Drugs was morphing from its nebulous beginnings into a fu
 lly realized band\, growing to include more members\, release albums\, and
  tour to critical acclaim and larger audience. By 2008 Vile was splitting 
 his time between the War on Drugs and his solo material\, with his album C
 onstant Hitmaker seeing release around the same time as tWoD's breakthroug
 h full-length\, Wagonwheel Blues. As tWoD's fame grew\, Vile decided to le
 ave the band\, predicting their increased profile and expansive touring sc
 hedule would ultimately waylay his solo career.\nAmicably parting with the
  band\, but often still sharing members as backup musicians for his own sh
 ows\, Vile concentrated on his own thing and released a steady stream of s
 trong and increasingly more adoringly received albums. A 2009 reissue of C
 onstant Hitmaker on the tastemaking Woodsist label got the ball rolling\, 
 and was followed shortly by God Is Saying This to You...\, a collection of
  older tracks from CD-Rs as well as various EP releases. Childish Prodigy 
 arrived in 2009 and marked Vile's most produced work to date. The lo-fi pr
 oduction and jagged drum-machine rhythms of his earlier self-released fare
  were replaced in part by fuzzy live instrumentation and songwriting that 
 leaned both on his Drag City-emulating roots as well as the influence of D
 inosaur Jr.'s guitar tone wizardry and Bruce Springsteen's blue-collar roc
 k sentiments. The record drew favorable press and respectable sales\, and 
 buzz grew for Vile as he continued to tour.\nBy 2011 he had signed to Mata
 dor for the release of his more subdued fourth full-length\, Smoke Ring fo
 r My Halo. This was Vile's best-received work yet\, charting on Billboard 
 and meeting with across-the-board critical praise. Ever prolific\, Vile re
 leased the So Outta Reach companion EP\; appeared as a guest on his former
  band the War on Drugs' second album\, Slave Ambient\; and toured ceaseles
 sly in the wake of his ever-growing success. A fifth album\, Wakin on a Pr
 etty Daze\, was released in 2013. Shortly following this relatively polish
 ed and well-produced release\, the Jamaica Plain EP surfaced\, a vinyl-onl
 y 10" release of early-2000s collaborative recordings by Vile and Sore Ero
 s. Wakin on a Pretty Daze turned into a breakthrough for Vile\, with its s
 trong reviews and positive word of mouth helping to turn the album into a 
 steady seller\; it wound up peaking at 47 on Billboard's Top 200 and 41 in
  the U.K. Vile returned in the fall of 2015 with the hotly anticipated B'l
 ieve I'm Goin Down.... That same year saw Vile and New York-based guitaris
 t and songwriter Steve Gunn collaborate on the three-song Gunn Vile for th
 e Three Lobed Recordings Parallelogram series. In 2017\, Vile paired up wi
 th Courtney Barnett for the album Lotta Sea Lice. After releasing the albu
 m in October\, they embarked on a brief American tour. His newest project 
 and full-length album\, Bottle It In\, is due in October 2018.
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Concerts
LOCATION:Revolution Live\, 100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Lauderdale\, FL\, 33312\,
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