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SUMMARY:Orville Peck
DTSTART:20260924T013000Z
DTEND:20260924T033000Z
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DESCRIPTION:It’d be no small understatement to call this year an artisti
 c renaissance for Orville Peck\, the trailblazing country performer who ha
 s spent the last 11 months soaring to new creative heights. After 2024’s
  beloved collaboration album\, Stampede-which featured such icons as Willi
 e Nelson\, Kylie Minogue\, Elton John\, and more-the masked singer took on
  an entirely new challenge: Broadway. In his mesmerizing\, layered debut a
 s the Emcee in Cabaret\, Peck won legions of new fans and critical acclaim
  in kind during his 128-show run in the celebrated production. \nUprooting
  his life from California to New York City for nearly half a year\, the Po
 ny and Bronco singer-songwriter found newfound musical\, lyrical inspirati
 on wherever he turned. “I was trying to challenge myself with being more
  vulnerable with songwriting\, and I think that experience felt so insanel
 y vulnerable for me\,” he says of the doors Cabaret unlocked. “Obvious
 ly I was performing without my mask\, which was so new for me\, but the na
 ture of the material being so heavy-with me going in really wanting to do 
 a good job-pushed me to even more new levels of vulnerability.” \nSomeho
 w\, between rehearsals\, performances\, and martial arts training for a st
 arring role in a late summer movie shoot (Street Fighter\, due out in 2026
 )\, he kept finding his mind returning to music. So he did what he always 
 does: he started writing\, and linked with Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Ja
 cob Portrait (Alex G\, Porches\, Lil Yachty\, and more) to start crafting 
 the songs that would eventually make up Appaloosa. The seven-song EP reuni
 tes Peck with longtime collaborator Noah Cyrus on “Atchafalaya\;” pays
  tribute to his Cabaret stint with a cover of the Sally Bowles’ number 
 “Maybe This Time\;’ and plumbs new emotional ground with “Oh My Days
 ”-which the artist calls his “first-ever love song\, considering that 
 I always write about heartbreak\, not love.” \n“I always tend to sing 
 and write about what’s going on in my life\, and that felt like a natura
 l\, big part of my life that’s evolved since Bronco-which was very much 
 about coming out of a relationship\,” Peck says. “This is the first ba
 tch of songs that are about the start of this new relationship\, and the f
 ears and doubts and insecurities that come with new feelings for someone\,
  especially after coming out of such a tumultuous time in the Bronco world
 . These songs are about a time when I felt very nervous about being heartb
 roken again\, and what it meant to fall in love again for the first time i
 n a long time.” \nPeck recorded Appaloosa in Brooklyn during rare free w
 indows in his calendar. Its title\, he says\, felt like slipping on a glov
 e. “An appaloosa is a famously spotted horse\, and in some ways\, to me 
 that represents a singularity-a uniqueness\,” he says. “In my mind\, I
  picture a bunch of different horses all standing around\, all different b
 reeds\, but you would notice the appaloosa standing out because their coat
  is so distinct and so unique. These last few years\, since Bronco\, a big
  part of my own path has been really embracing who I am\, realizing that m
 y confidence was always really greatly affected by being insecure about my
  uniqueness instead of embracing it.” \n“I think in some ways\, at the
  moment\, I feel kind of like an appaloosa\,” he adds. “I’ve finally
  accepted I just am and will probably always be or feel different\, I thin
 k. But instead of that feeling alienating like it used to for most of my l
 ife\, now it makes me feel excited and happy and lucky to feel different. 
 I’m in my appaloosa era right now.” \nThat freedom-creatively\, person
 ally\, professionally-unlocked a desire in Peck as he embarked upon the Ap
 paloosa process. “This year\, I got to do so many things that were lifel
 ong dreams\, so much so that I’m actually now adamantly happy that I don
 ’t fit into those rooms and boxes\,” he says. “I made a conscious de
 cision on this album to return to as pure of a place as I could. When I ma
 de Pony\, I didn’t have an audience\; no one knew who I was\, no one car
 ed\, and I didn’t have anybody to answer to. There were no expectations 
 on me whatsoever\, and when there’s no ears or eyes on you\, you can rea
 lly make art for yourself.” \nAppaloosa is\, in every sense\, a project 
 based on “what I wanted to hear\,” Orville says. “It was entirely ab
 out what I wanted it to sound like without caring about how it would be re
 ceived or understood.” In that sense\, he was able to return to his root
 s “in terms of production and songwriting and sound\,” he says. “I w
 as going back to references that I really liked when I was a teenager-ther
 e’s all these shoegaze-y\, alternative moments on the album. It allowed 
 me to pivot to where I came from\, having learned a lot of new things alon
 g the way.” \nFree of expectations\, what Peck created is one of his mos
 t exhilarating and alive bodies of work yet. Throughout Appaloosa’s seve
 n songs\, fans will hear Orville at his most unburdened\, creating for the
  sake of artistic expression. Tone-setter “Dreaded Sundown” opens the 
 project “cinematically\, laying out this new flavor and telling this sto
 ry about being okay being alone with yourself\, especially after a period 
 of pain and betrayal.” \n“Drift Away” follows\, inspired by Orville
 ’s childhood love of alt-rock acts like the Pixies\, the Breeders\, and 
 the Smashing Pumpkins. “I wanted it to be an ode to being an outsider in
  a small town\, me and all my fellow freaky friends living in a sleepy tow
 n\, looking for ways to get up to fun.” Noah Cyrus joins him on “Atcha
 falaya\,” a track that chronicles his journey from California to New Yor
 k for Cabaret\, putting his personal life and the things he loved on hold 
 to “do the other things you love”-all wrapped in lyrics trailing the r
 oute from Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin up to the Big Apple. \nUpon arri
 val in New York\, there’s a heartbreaking cover of what he calls “lyri
 cally a country song in a lot of ways”: “Maybe This Time\,” a salute
  to his debut on the Great White Way. “In the show when Eva Noblezada wo
 uld sing this one\, I would be busy doing a really crazy quick change\,”
  he says. “But I would be adamantly trying to go faster and faster each 
 time so I could run to the side stage and watch her finish. It covers so m
 any nuances of what the human experience.” \n“Oh My Days”-his “fir
 st love song\, I think!”-tells the story of finding his partner and thos
 e feelings that come with the first love after the worst love. “My body 
 was walking towards him\, and my heart and my soul were running in the oth
 er direction because I was so traumatized\,” he says. “‘Oh My Days
 ’ is about talking yourself out of something that you know is making you
  happy because you’re frightened-and overcoming those fears\, too.” \n
 “Oh My Days\,” Peck says\, has been burning a hole in his back pocket 
 for four years\, waiting for the right project to find its home. But “My
  Side of the Mountain” came from more raw experiences\, chronicling a br
 eak with his partner during which both needed “to take some time to work
  on ourselves\,” he remembers. At the time\, both lived literally one ca
 nyon apart in Los Angeles. “I would lay awake at night knowing that he w
 as literally 10 minutes away from me over the other side of the mountain\,
 ” he says. “So this song is an ode to what I was going through at that
  time-that I could probably shout loud enough and he could hear me\, and t
 he idea of letting someone go\, even if it’s just temporarily\, to focus
  on yourself.” \nAppaloosa closes with “It’s the End of the World\,
 ” a song Orville started writing the same day as the 2024 election. “T
 he most important thing I think that we can do sometimes is to try and car
 ve out happiness where and how we can find it\, especially in times when i
 t is just so easy to get disheartened about what’s going on in the world
 \,” he says. “This was my way of grabbing the person next to me and ju
 st saying\, ‘You know? Eff it\, let’s Thelma and Louise it and just tr
 y and find some happiness in all of this despair.'” \n“I’d call this
  one a positively nihilistic anthem about the world burning\,” he adds w
 ith a chuckle. \nPromising a much shorter wait between projects\, Orville 
 says he’s already begun thinking about and writing his next musical chap
 ter. “Even in some of the absolute most hopeless\, hard\, dark times of 
 my life\, art and specifically music has been what has saved my life over 
 and over again\,” he says. And I don’t even mean just making it. I mea
 n getting to enjoy it. So my hope is that even though we are in what feels
  like such bleak times that people will still continue to make art that fe
 els like it is important or matters or helps people.” \n\nSpotify:\nhttp
 s://open.spotify.com/artist/46auOkH1pk28rWrSoUNhLo?si=gwLOf-q9RxyA16bZ7loJ
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SUMMARY:Saying Yes! with Carlton Grew
DTSTART:20260924T023000Z
DTEND:20260924T040000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Playful\, explorative theater\, and sound games.To learn more:
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