BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:710@jointherevolution.net DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250508T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250508T235900 DTSTAMP:20250410T140943Z URL:https://www.jointherevolution.net/concerts/low-cut-connie/ SUMMARY:Low Cut Connie DESCRIPTION:“This record is all kink and no shame\,” says Adam Weiner o f ART DEALERS\, the tough\, sexy and tender new album coming from Low Cut Connie. “With Low Cut Connie\, I try to create a safe space for you to j ust absolutely get your freak on.”\n\nFor years now\, Low Cut Connie has built its grassroots coalition of oddballs\, underdogs\, and fun-loving\n \nweirdos with songs that celebrate life on the fringes of polite society. The band’s infamously wild\, passionate live shows provide a total rele ase - of stress\, of inhibition\, of shame - working up a primordial rock n roll sweat for fans to get blissfully soaked in. The new album\, and its full-length companion film\, sizzle with that same cathartic sweat\, remi nding us that it's time to get dirty again\, and to feel alive. ART DEALER S sits at the intersection of sleazy and soulful - a collection of risky\, romantic\, life-affirming anthems\, all dedicated to you.\n\n“I think r ock n roll exists to be a red-blooded\, countercultural medium\,” says W einer\, who has performed under the Low Cut Connie moniker for over a deca de\, "You're supposed to get your hair messed-up." That imperative comes t hrough in the adults-only tone of songs like the opening “Tell Me Someth ing I Don’t Know\,” a sinuous\, lurid rocker that sounds like walking through depraved Times Square in 1978 - neon-lit and nasty with a snapping beat. The speedy\, fuzzed-up garage-rocker “Whips and Chains" calls out Trump and the current wave of neo-fascism\, without ever losing its boogi e rhythm section.\n\nBut there’s also tenderness behind the curtain here \, as on the yearning first single "Are You Gonna Run?" and "Call Out My N ame"\, which evoke the sweet sad love that punky boys like the New York Do lls and the Ramones used to have for tough girls like the Ronettes and the Shangri-La's.\n\n \;\n\nThe sounds throughout the record comprise a g rimy modern urban landscape\, a soulful but broken place that Weiner and h is band (including rock n roll guitar hero\, Will Donnelly\, in his 9th ye ar in Low Cut Connie) have been gravitating towards throughout the band's history. Weiner grew up amid the lawns and strip malls of suburban New Jer sey\, and his own teen dreams were lit up by the beacon of the big city\, where he could shed his skin like so many artists before. “If you think about it\, so many great artists who we associate with the city were actua lly bridge and tunnel people\,” Adam said. “Patti Smith\, Lou Reed\, S pringsteen. Debbie Harry\, Robert Mapplethorpe. People who came from the b urbs had this vision of what they could achieve in the city\, what attract ed them to this art life\, who they could turn into and what impressions t hey could make - if they\n\ncould just get there.” ART DEALERS is in man y ways a tribute to that feeling at the pumping heart of the city - that e nlightened buzz that can come in a packed hothouse of creativity and free expression. Songs like the Grace Jones styled "Take Me to the Place" and t he penetrating title song point to all the people who cross those bridges\ , who choose the art life\, who find their liberation on the edges of prop riety.\n\n \;\n\nART DEALERS isn’t constrained by a gender binary\, either. “When I’m onstage\, I am the freest\, most\n\nuninhibited vers ion of myself\,” Weiner explains. “It's total freedom of spirit and bo dy. Over the years\, that freedom has given me more confidence to write so ngs from a perspective that isn't necessarily male. I’ve slowly been wal king toward a more gender-fluid voice with Low Cut Connie." Weiner's first steady gig at age 21 was as a piano-player in a drag karaoke bar in Manha ttan called Pegasus\, a seedy place where trans people\, gay\, straight an d otherwise would gather around Weiner's piano in a benevolent yet fully d ebauched\n\narray. "There are so many songs that came out of that bar for me. Things like 'Shake It Little Tina [the single off of Low Cut Connie's Hi Honey album]" But it wasn't until ART DEALERS that he fully allowed him self to let the gender binary go so completely on songs like the upcoming single "Don't Get Fresh With Me\," "Wonderful Boy\," and "Sleaze Me On" (w ith its sweet refrain "Treat me like a modern girl!"). Says Weiner\, "I ha ve no idea the gender identity of those songs. And that feels real comfy f or me\, the 'not knowing'."\n\n \;\n\nART DEALERS goes out to all the outsiders. On the no-fucks-to-give anthem "King of the Jews\," Weiner gets deep in the weeds of his personal and ethnic outsider identity. “There are just so many entry points these days to antisemitism\, so my absolute unapologetic full-frontal Jewiness feels more needed now\, I guess\,” he says. “My Jewiness gives me an outsider perspective and humor that I wo uldn't trade for any goddamn thing\,\n\n\nand the minute I start hiding th at\, I'm dishonoring myself. Shedding shame is a key element of Low Cut Co nnie.”\n\nWeiner feels like a certain dark prince of rock n roll was a c ompanion to him on this whole album and film project. “I felt like Lou R eed was riding with me the whole time I was making Art Dealers\,” he sai d. “Lou was the toughest motherfucker out there\, a subversive Jew like me - but he had a real rock n’roll heart underneath it all."\n\n \;\ n\nART DEALERS comes on the heels of a few very busy years for Low Cut Con nie. During the height of COVID lockdowns\, Adam and Low Cut Connie guitar ist Will Donnelly did the near-impossible with their “Tough Cookies” l ive-streaming rock and soul variety shows. Even in a bathrobe\, from his S outh Philly guest bedroom\, Adam managed to generate the electricity of a live show - twice a week\, no less - earning him the New Yorker’s newly- minted laurel of “Pandemic Person of the Year” in 2020. The broadcasts drew hundreds of thousands of viewers from more than forty countries\, wh o joined previous appreciators like Bruce Springsteen (who invited Weiner backstage on Broadway in 2018) Barack Obama (an early adopter\, who includ ed the band on his official Spotify favorites playlist in 2015) and Elton John (who both praised the band from his own concert stage and featured We iner as a guest\, twice\, on his satellite radio show) in Low Cut\n\nConni e’s de facto fan club.\n\nIn the midst of all this\, Low Cut Connie also released 2020's acclaimed PRIVATE LIVES album. The album's title track fi nished the year in the top 20 nationally for non-commercial radio and was praised by NPR as "the freak anthem we need right now." PRIVATE LIVES was praised for the vivid interiority and intimate detail of its songwriting a nd was included on many best-of-the-year lists that year (Rolling Stone\, NPR/Fresh Air\, PopMatters\, Glide\, AllMusic\, etc). For that album and A RT DEALERS\, Weiner sat solo in the producer's chair.\n\nFurther exploring new media\, Weiner co-directed (with filmmaker Roy Power) an 80 minute fe ature film that will premiere late this year as a companion piece to ART D EALERS. The film is a hybrid-genre documentary that combines a stellar run of NYC concerts from 2022 shot at Sony Hall and the Blue Note\, as well a s 15 years of performance footage and musical and personal misadventures t hat led up to ART DEALERS. Low Cut Connie released the critically acclaime d LP ART DEALERS in Fall 2023\, with a full-length companion film to be re leased in theaters across the US in September 2024\, and on-demand streami ng on Oct 1\, 2024.\n\n \;\n\nAhead of the release of this new album a nd film\, Adam Weiner aka Low Cut Connie explains what motivates him to ke ep pushing deeper into art life.\n\n“I'm always trying to get back to th e heart and soul of things with the intention of my music and my performan ces\,” says Adam. “I don't know what's hip. I don't know what's in fas hion. I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing to be accepted by whateve r's popular or trending. I have no idea - I don't care anymore. I just wan t to turn people on with what I do. The world is a dirty and broken place … we might as well live it the fuck up while we’re here.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.jointherevolution.net/wp-content/upl oads/2025/01/5-8-low-cut-connie-4x5-1-1.jpg CATEGORIES:All Ages,Concerts LOCATION:Revolution Live\, 100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Lauderdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States GEO:26.121358;-80.1461974 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Laud erdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Revolution Live:geo:26.121358,-80.1461974 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR