BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.4.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Ted Leo X-WR-CALDESC:Portland Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20220313T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20220313T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Ted Leo DESCRIPTION:$20 adv. - $30 at the door | 7pm doors - 8pm show\n\nIt’s a comforting cliché that “you can’t keep a good man down\,” but o f course you can. Good men and women and non-gender-conforming people ar e kept down all the time. The world crushes the good and talented and ho nest and decent unsparingly. We’ve all got our own problems for sure\, and god knows there's a hierarchy of pain\, but let’s not pretend the day to day leans towards “fair.” So\, what do we do\, naked and afr aid\, with nothing but wolves at the door to use as warmth? Huddling hel ps. Songs are useful. Communicating via direct message is pretty good\, but a true song\, sung by someone who stood with us for more than a whil e\, whose lyrics made sense when we were marching in the street or drunk in the bar\, well\, that works too.\n\nTed Leo is one of the finest son gwriters of our generation\, even if it’s not entirely clear what gene ration that is. Starting in New York Hardcore with \;Citizen’s Arr est\, making the ‘90s safe for power-pop and Weller-esque hair with&nb sp\;Chisel\, then singing our turbulent lives like we were smarter than we were with \;The Pharmacists\, and most recently providing equal p arts sweetness and solace with Aimee Mann as \;The Both\, Ted never let us down. Unmentioned in \;Meet Me In The Bathroom \;because he never did coke\, who do you think it was who always made sure we made it home? Every time we’d ask\, “what have you done for me lately? Ted would say\, “this\,” give us another collection of songs incis ive and tour van-ready\, and we’d say\, “oh\, sick” and pass out i n his arms.\n\nBefore this becomes (another) installment of Ted Leo slas h fiction\, what you need to know: Ted Leo\, at long last\, seven years after \;The Brutalist Bricks\, \;has a new solo album. It’s fu cking wonderful.\n\nThe Hanged Man \;(and\, in tandem\, a collection of B-sides) is to be self-released on September 8\, 2017. Let’s just get this out of the way\; it’s self-released because Leo got dropped b y his label\, Matador. He bears the label no ill will\, it’s cool\, it ’s cool. Ted\, blessed/cursed with perspective\, seeing a lifetime’s worth of indie labels (Touch &\; Go\, Lookout!) devoured by Mammon\, and played at every now-shuttered DIY venue in the Western Hemisphere\, knows the ephemeral. If not exactly unbothered\, Ted keeps it moving.\n \nHaving worked on a collection of songs for almost a decade\, through e vents so profoundly painful that I\, given the tone of this one-sheet\, hesitate to detail here\, Leo could have easily given up when initial pl ans didn’t pan out. Instead\, true to his calling and true to the job\ , Ted looked to crowdfunding. His expectations were reasonable. But the result was an outpouring of gratitude and faith from fans for whom Leo s music had always been a refuge and soundtrack to their own trials and /or celebration. It’s gauche to get into exact numbers\, but the money raised shook the cynicism of this writer to the floor. A lifetime of me aningful work coupled with activism\, humor\, and out-of-time generosity of spirit was rewarded in literally minutes. And\, so\, \;The Hange d Man.\n\nThe songs on \;The Hanged Man\, recorded at a home-studio- in-transition in Wakefield\, RI\, with Ted playing almost all the instru ments\, are some of the finest and finely wrought of Ted Leo’s career. I’m not saying this because I’m paid to (I think we’re doing a ba rter deal anyway). I’ve gone behind Ted’s back and discussed this su bject with some of his fellow musicians and some of my privy peers. We re all genuinely giddy at how good this record is.\n\nTed describes the time working on \;The Hanged Man \;as a time of “personal des olation that felt fallow but was actually very fertile” and\, indeed\, lyrically\, \;The Hanged Man \;is suffused with hope of sorts b ut crushingly heavy. The concerns addressed\, whether personal trauma or the national disaster we’re all currently existing in\, matched with the range and vitality of the songcraft is\, forgive my insistence on a needed comfort\, inspiring. Uplifting\, even. There are the sharp bursts of skinny tie pop-punk fury one would expect from Leo (and even these f eel streamlined like never before) but they are offset with an adventuro usness in both tone and structure. The intention was to upend expectatio ns but\, on songs like the bookends of “Moon Out of Phase” and “Le t’s Stay On The Moon\,” the intention never gets in the way of the r esult. There’s no strain of effort in songs that are unlike anything L eo has done previously. This is an album to be played end to end\, blast ing from a car\, in transit in public earbud isolation\, on whatever bed one finds oneself on.\n\nI worry that I’m framing this album release as something we all owe Ted Leo\, because he has solid DIY cred\, hasn t died and is a good dude. Nah. \;The Hanged Man \;is a Rock an d Roll album and Ted would be the first to claim himself lucky for what he’s got and the advantages he’s been given. The world is awash in s ingers who can carry a tune and don’t kick dogs. But \;The Hanged Man \;is a career high\, from a man whose standards never slipped. T ed Leo has made a very fine work of art\, born through industry soul sic kness\, nausea-inducing crisis\, and a talent that feels like secular gr ace. You don’t have to consider it a gift – hyperbole has ruined eve rything – \;but I do and it makes me feel lucky to have received i t.\n\nCovid-19 Protocols:\n\nWe are very excited to be hosting live musi c shows again in our listening room. OLS is committed to providing a saf e environment for all who work\, listen\, or perform live music in our v enue. Because our venue is so small\, we will require all staff\, volunt eers\, performers\, and patrons to show proof of full vaccination agains t COVID-19 when they attend OLS events AND to wear masks indoors unless they are actively drinking\, eating\, or performing.\n\nProof of vaccine must come directly from the health care provider that performed the vac cination and can be a photo or physical copy of the vaccination card or record with an accompanying photo ID. Full vaccination means that the da te of the performance you are attending is:\n\n* at least 14 days after your second dose of an FDA or WHO authorized two dose COVID-19 vaccine\, or\n\n* at least 14 days after your single dose of an FDA or WHO author ized single dose COVID vaccine.\n\nWe hope we can ease these restriction s once further progress has been made reducing transmission of the virus . 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