Belle Roscoe, Adam Masterson, Rene Lopez
with Belle Roscoe, Adam Masterson, Rene Lopez
The Bowery Electric
Tue
September 24
@ 8:00 PM
(Doors: )
21 and up
$20.00
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Belle Roscoe
Siblings Matty and Julia Gurry are Belle Roscoe - A disruptiveband, that donʼt seem to be able to follow the traditional music
industry rules. They admit their social media game is sub-par, they
donʼt like writing songs under 4mins, they have no musical
training, they are highly political (in the rock n roll sense as
opposed to PC) and prefer to ask for forgiveness than permission
and release music at their own pleasure...
Music that is laced with glorious 70ʼs folk/rock undertones that not
only showcases their musicianship and song-writing but shines a
light on those unmistakable soaring sibling harmonies.
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Adam Masterson
Rocking a classic guitar, under tousled hair, and behind vintage shades, Adam Masterson represents a
timeless ideal of what a Rockstar should be—yet he does so for a new age. Unabashedly embracing old
school influences as he updates tradition with heaps of spirit and soul, he taps into the kind of magic we
yearn for, but don’t get enough of. In doing so, Masterson emerges as an outlier built from his own
design, bucking trends and emanating stadium-size charisma at the same time. As a charismatic live
performer, Masterson has shared stages with everyone from Tori Amos and Amy Winehouse to The
Stereophonics at the world-renowned Earls Court and the Cardiff Millennium Stadium. Additionally, he
has guested with Mick Jones of The Clash, Patti Smith, and Joseph Arthur, to name a few, and has
garnered press support from Classic Rock, Billboard, The Guardian, mxdwn, American Songwriter, and
Glide Magazine, among others, throughout his career.
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Rene Lopez
Rene Lopez is a multitalented singer-songwriter, guitarist and drummer who has been on the music scene for many years and has created a consistently stellar body of work that steadfastly charts an independent path reflective of the multicultural New York City environment where he was raised and lives to this day. The songwriter, drummer, timbales and guitar-playing Rene is the son of René López, Sr., renowned Puerto Rican salsa musician and trumpet player who left his mark with Ray Barretto and Típica ’73, and those roots are an integral part of who Rene Jr. is as a musician, though they have not always manifested themselves as clearly as they do now. Today, Rene says, he is “fully embracing the gifts my father passed down to me and hopefully I can do something fresh with incorporating my other musical influences like soul, jazz, funk and rock.” You can definitely hear it all in Rene’s most recent work. Bringing back the Latin instruments like Cuban tres (a guitar with three sets of double strings), timbales, congas, cowbell, baby bass, flute and trumpet as well as the melodies, rhythms and arrangements of the salsa boom he first heard as a kid listening to his father on stage, the radio or on records at home, is a big part of where his new sound is going. As Lopez simply and succinctly puts it, “It just feels so right to incorporate my roots into my songs.”But that’s not the only element in his work that injects the personal into the universal through the creative process of song writing and performance for him. According to Lopez, “there is also a story that I tell in each song that is basically my own way of dealing with stuff going on in my life [and it] helps me face myself when I sing it out loud.” The prolific Lopez has been on a tear of late, what Félix Contreras of NPR’s Alt.Latino calls “a one-man song factory,” releasing a string of ear-catching autobiographical singles that have gotten increasingly more Latinized over time, while still maintaining elements of the funk, rock and soul (and even doo-wop) he has become known for since the 1990s. But the ‘Latinization’ of Rene Lopez, or better put, the return to Rene’s Latin roots, is thematic and situational as well as formal, because the sense of otherness, of being an immigrant or from a certain urban ethnic neighborhood infuses his recent output like a waft of tasty Caribbean cooking from abuelita’s kitchen back on the island or the local Puerto Rican restaurant on the city corner. This is an exciting development that feels as nourishing and authentic as the best meal from your home country can be when you’re feeling nostalgic or in need of some serious replenishing sustenance. What makes these new songs so authentic sounding (when in fact they are more of a fresh hybrid than an old-school replica) is the fact that, as Lopez puts it, he is “being completely honest with who I am, and a big part of that is my Latin roots,” as well as telling stories of personal relationships and experiences in an unflinching way.