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:498@jointherevolution.net DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230925T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230925T234500 DTSTAMP:20230613T145020Z URL:https://www.jointherevolution.net/concerts/nothingnowhere/ SUMMARY:nothing\,nowhere. DESCRIPTION:Existence is without meaning\; to exist is to suffer. For Joe M ulherin\, a man who’s spent a life and career trying to make a friend ou t of pain\, that’s the whole beauty of it. For almost a decade\, Mulheri n has been applying these Buddhist and Taoist-derived principles to his pr oject nothing\,nowhere.—a moniker inspired by the philosopher Alan Watts ’ famous lecture on the importance of nothingness. On his latest album V oid Eternal he embraces the pointless pain and chasm of consciousness like never before\, venturing down into the basement of his being to present h is rawest and most challenging work yet. On first listen\, the album might sound like a suicide note. In reality\, it’s the very opposite. Void Et ernal is the ultimate peace pact with pain. It takes you by the hand\, sho ws you that the beauty of suffering is in the lessons it offers\; that the beauty of meaninglessness is in how we create our own meaning.\n\n \; \n\nVoid Eternal isn’t so much a death but a total rebirth for nothing\, nowhere. Now that he’s turned his depression into positive aggression\, Mulherin is entering into a new\, heavier era—one that’s the truest re presentation of the artist yet. Having gained critical and commercial succ ess\, as well as respect from the titans of the emo adjacent scene—inclu ding Pete Wentz who signed nothing\,nowhere. to his DCD2 label upon first hearing him\, and Travis Barker\, with whom he made a collaborative EP in 2019—Mulherin is stepping into a totally new chapter. But the pain-befri ending philosophy of nothing\,nowhere. remains the same.\n\n \;\n\nThe story of nothing\,nowhere. can be traced back to Mulherin’s first panic attack. “That’s what I always come back to\,” he says today\, snow streaming behind him on his multi-acre Vermont home. A 7 year-old in small town Foxborough\, Massachusetts\, Mulherin began hyperventilating in his s chool cafeteria\, everything around him spinning\, nausea overtaking him. The attacks kept coming. There was no one he could relate to\, no salve to help cope with the pain. Then\, he discovered Linkin Park. “I remember crying when I first heard them\,” he says. “I had never cried from mus ic or known that that was even possible because before Linkin Park. It was such a powerful and poignant and important pivotal moment in my life that I could never ever forget.” After Linkin Park came Underoath and Silver stein—the singers of which appear on Void Eternal\, alongside Pete Wentz \, who broke his 10 year screaming hiatus for the sake of this album.\n\n& nbsp\;\n\n“I can’t believe the features we got. It’s a dream come tr ue for me. This is my DNA. If I were to take a time machine and tell 6th g rade me that these bands would be on my record I would probably lose my mi nd. This record is me. It’s Joe Mulherin in my very purest form.”\n\n& nbsp\;\n\nVoid Eternal is a total 180 from 2020’s Trauma Factory. While the latter was recorded in LA\, with the intention of flirting with the ma instream (which it did\, having placed on numerous Billboard charts) Void Eternal is a wholly homespun affair\, built without an audience in mind. R ecorded in his self-built studio—a restored barn overlooking the woods o n his property—Mulherin mostly created in isolation\, only inviting in f ormer Counterparts’ guitarist Blake Hardman\, engineer Brody McKeegan\, producer Taylor Morgan\, and a few other close friends.\n\n \;\n\nThe result is filthy\, in-your-face\, pit-opening. It’s the sound of Mulheri n’s musical upbringing. “I’ve always been a fan of heavy music but I ’ve never\, as nothing\, nowhere.\, been in that space\,” he says. “ But with this album\, I’m more or less just saying ‘fuck it’\, I wan na just make stuff that I like and stuff that I’m influenced by and grew up on. I’m here in the heavy music space now and that’s where I wanna be\, that’s where I’m gonna stay. It feels like I came home.”\n\nVo id Eternal is Mulherin’s boldest offering yet\; its 12 tracks a journey into the darkness—a path that Mulherin walks down as far as it will go. “I wanna be what bands like Linkin Park were to me. I wanna provide that level of inspiration and comfort and I wanna be a safe haven to a kid who is struggling\,” says Mulherin\, the snow settling\, a cat curling its tail around his neck. “I made it exactly how I wanted to with 0 outside influence. This is the purest expression I could put down in audio form. T his is the music that made me and I want to return the favor.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.jointherevolution.net/wp-content/upl oads/2023/06/REV_VE2_11X17_-copy-scaled.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:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR