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BC5 at Arlene’s Tommy🇬🇧London $5 Rock Show October 11th

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I left my apartment and saw my friend @danielle_cardona_ perform at @arlenesgrocery along with @martinfromnyc! It was a great show and I hate that I had to leave asap but I’m still super glad I was there. I ran into some wonderful friends! #show #daniellecardona #arlenesgrocery (at Arlene's Grocery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkpDYkNtgCy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

That was fun!!! 🤩Thanks for coming out to the show @arlenesgrocery @newcolossusfestival the other day!! Hope to do this again next year!!! (at Arlene's Grocery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpvF6dIu-em/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Photography: Fireplace, Arlene's Grocery 3/10/24

Photography: Fireplace, Arlene's Grocery 3/10/24 @ArlenesGrocery @newcolossusfest

Yesterday was the last day of the 2024 New Colossus Festival. Man, time really flies by when you’re having fun, doesn’t it? I stopped at Arlene’s Grocery to catch British post punks Cucamaras play a set. But a fireplace and a pint of Guinness on a raw day is a wonderful thing ain’t it?

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2.4 @arlenesgrocery . New music. Tickets available online 🖤 (at Arlene's Grocery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoAgIeiOgsG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I'm finna watch this steam several more times before it ends on 8.20. @borabond you done done it again!! 👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾✊🏾💯🔥♥️ Me snapping away during the Livestream of @borabond last night during her set @arlenesgrocery. 💕💥💕💥 Audio: @smileslife #deborahbond #compassLive #liveconcerts #soulmusic #blackmusic #rnb #funkmusic #saveourstages #compass1 #eastcoastshows #soulsingers #bondedsessions #musicunites #arlenesgrocery #livestream #inperson #nyc #music #soul (at Arlene's Grocery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSvv4W_gxbn/?utm_medium=tumblr

Sooooo, where you gonna be on #feb2nd? I'll be at #arlenesgrocery for @thetrainwalkers open mic. Jan 30th I'm featuring at @bluenile_bk! Come see me! Say hi! 📸 @adrianfromthebx #dalenovella #singersongwriter #openmic #BlackGirlMagic #blackgirlsrock #thepoetwillbetelevised #thepoetspodcast #dalenovellapresents #theacousticsessions #thetrainwalkers #poetry #hiphop #soul #livemusic #liveyourlife https://www.instagram.com/p/B7rGbUnFLdr/?igshid=18hrke01s058x

The Gotham Rockets at Arlene’s Grocery NYC on 12/21/19 Great Band, Lots of Fun!! @gothamrockets @mlesswp @mightyjoevincent @real.gone.daddy #gothamrockets #arlenesgrocery #rocknroll #gibsonguitar #fender #photography #photographer #nikon #livemusic #concertphotography #concertphoto #livemusicphotography #livemusicphotographer #singersongwriter #tamronusa #instagram #nyc #lowereastside #les #nikon 📸 @markashephotography (at Arlene's Grocery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6ZCp8fnXDE/?igshid=1jadcp49ejddr

X-Ray Love at Arlene’s Grocery, December 2019 @xrayloveband @fiercefemmefest #band #concertphotography #concert #concertoutfit #skeleton #singer #performer #livemusic #lowereastside #nycmusic #nycmusicscene #arlenesgrocery (at Arlene's Grocery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6JZkH4lMFf/?igshid=1wiihpqhhisf

Off to @arlenesgrocery to see @misscherrydelight @thefms and @villinsofficial #rockshow #demonabouttown #nycnightlife #arlenesgrocery #rockandroll #darkmusic #livemusic #hornsup #clawsout https://www.instagram.com/p/B4I3UrvJnRh/?igshid=1mldxm1sgc4m1

“Pride always exists. It’s something that we constantly have to nurture and honor.” Cory Wade is giving us the perfect end to Pride.

By: Carey Ozmun

I had the absolute pleasure of meeting with musician, activist, and model, Cory Wade this week to talk about his upcoming video premiere party at Arlene’s Grocery on Monday July 1st. As fellow members of the LGBT community, we talked Pride, music, and the human experience as a whole. Cory released his debut album in 2017, and is bringing new life to the song, Love This Hurt. Join us for a beautiful Pride send-off! Buy tickets for the live screening and performance here! 

Carey: “Was your decision to release your new music video on July 1st made with Pride in mind?”

Cory: “It absolutely was. I love this time of year, you know? It’s a time for celebration, and it’s exciting to go to spaces that aren’t traditionally queer and have an awesome party that is inclusive… that is for everybody… that people don’t feel like they have to be afraid to show up at. Yeah, I just think that it was the perfect opportunity to kind of do something Pride oriented.”

CO: “Yeah, I saw that. I had talked to the team at Arlene’s, and have been wanting to have more queer (LGBTQ+) bills, and have it be a more inclusive and more diverse space. And they were all on board, so when I found out about your show happening right after Pride weekend, I was so excited to see such an unapologetically queer artist take the stage.” 

CW: “Every show that I do is a Pride show in essence. All of the art that I am involved in has this undercurrent of “Be yourself with reckless abandon, don’t give a - what anyone has to say about it.” But, this particular time of year, it’s just important that we...all check in. I do emphasize the importance of pride and celebrating Pride. I know so many will say, “we shouldn’t sanction our pride off to one month of celebrating, but that’s not really what we’re doing. What we’re doing is we’re emphasizing it, we’re checking in. We are making a conscious decision to remind ourselves the importance of pride, because there are so many forces out in the world trying to take that away from us.”

 CO: “Exactly. In that space, being a queer person, every day is this struggle. I am so happy to be queer, I wouldn’t want anything else, but it’s a difficult life. We are walking around and we are different!”

CW: “And it’s on us to remember that we are valid in this life. And nobody else is going to give us that validation. That is an inner dialogue. That’s something that we have to find on our own terms. It is hard. And so a Pride celebration allows for that door to open.  It’s a conscious awareness of your dignity. That’s what Pride is.” 

CO: “Yes, and it brings freedom! It brings freedom from this month on to the rest of the year. It brings us forward. It’s World Pride in NYC this year.”

CW: “It’s magical! So we’re gonna celebrate, and we’re gonna have an amazing Pride weekend, but this show is really a send-off. My goal with this show is to leave people in the knowledge that Pride always exists. It’s something that we constantly have to nurture and honor. It’s like a plant that we’re constantly giving life to, and paying very close attention to, because it can so easily be taken away from us. I would really love for it to be… a cute little button on the pride festivities!”

CO: “I love it! So let’s shift the focus a little bit to your new video release for Love This Hurt. This song is coming from your debut album from 2017. It’s got this masochist flare to it, and I’m just curious as to what we can expect as far as how that will be presented in the music video, and in your performance on Monday?”

CW: “It’s definitely got a masochistic flare. That’s something that’s very easy to pick up on in the subject matter, and the video is beautiful. We play with a lot of S&M and bondage themes, but it’s also very fantasy. It’s actually a virtual reality simulation. That’s the theme. It’s about finding the beauty in painful experiences, really. We’re using sexual imagery to...provoke this thought, right? But there’s a deeper meaning to it. This song...this video is really a celebration of pain because pain is so essential to our human experience. And I thought about what it might feel like to have this conscious awareness in the heat of a painful experience, to realize in that moment that that pain is actually helping you. To celebrate that pain. In the heat of that emotionally painful experience, if we had that conscious awareness, we would be so powerful! Nothing would be able to stop us because we would be able to say, this sucks right now, but this is so  important to my growth. This is beautiful. This is what I need.”

CO: “Exactly, the growth aspect of that pain is incredible. And it’s so in the spirit of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. I love that that message shines through.”

CW: “It’s a salute to our pain, it’s honoring that struggle, because that’s everything that we are and it’s so important.”

CO: “Tell me a bit about your goals for your future in music. I know you’re an activist, and model, and you wear many hats. But it’s so cool to see a focus on your music as well. Are there other projects in the works as far as your music goes?”

CW: “It’s a fight to stay in music. And it’s a choice that I have to make because in my career, I’m so often times pulled away from it because of the opportunities that come my way in fashion and in other areas of entertainment. I do consider myself a multimedia entertainer, but music is something that is so special to me. It was my first passionate pursuit. It allows for me to communicate in a way that I really can’t through my modeling or even through my activism.  There are things that I’m able to say in an artful way, with a finesse that I really can’t (say) without music.  I do believe in the spiritual side of music, it’s just a different energy. It’s very hard to describe, but I really do love the language of music, the alchemy of music making. It does a lot for me. I’m never going to stop making music, I can’t. 

“Even if it’s not what most people know me for, it really is me checking in with myself. It’s kind of like that inner dialogue that we were talking about. I have that constantly flowing through my music. I think I would lose myself if I didn’t have it. It’s kind of a conversation with myself. The only way that I can do that is through music, honestly. My goals for it? I don’t know. I did this album way back in 2017 out in London and I’m doing this music video to give this particular song - that I love so much - new life...because I don’t think it got the life that it really deserved. There were a lot of other songs on the album that people attached to because they were very commercial and cute, so they worked. They ended up in different publications - Them. (the Condenast publication) picked up one of the songs, and the song There For You got a great video with Rain Dove, and people really loved that one. But this song is one that I really resonate with, and it didn’t get to fly the way that I always wanted it to.”

CO: “So with music being so close to you, and your part in activism, how would you say that you see your activism in your music?”

CW: “Um...it’s there in the music for the simple fact that our existence as queer people is the resistance. And my music is unapologetically queer. It’s how I perform it, and how I present, and what I wear, and what I say when I’m on that mic! And the very rebellion of us as queer people taking our power and doing something creative...where we are as music makers, in an industry where so many people are quick to shoot us down because of our queerness, I know that. I’ve experienced that in the commercial realm of music as I’ve tried to navigate that. You know, it’s activism because...it just is by default! And that’s a shame, I will say. I don’t think it should be that way. I was talking to another gay artist who just got signed to Sony and I’m not gonna name him… and he literally was told that his label didn’t want him to come out. They didn’t want people to know that he was actually gay. He was told to subdue that to just put on some sort of neutral, hyper-masculine vibe until people got to know who he was and then he would have the freedom to be himself. And I just find that so sad that we’re in 2019 and artists are still struggling to find their authentic voice. And music should be the most free thing, it really should. It’s a medium for us to really communicate in our most authentic voice. And yes, obviously the lyrical content in a lot of the songs is very- “Be Yourself!” and I try not to sound too preachy, but that just comes out naturally.”

CO: “Do you have any other last thoughts for fans that you want to present for the show, for the video release, or anything else?”

CW: “I’m excited for people to see it! I want to encourage other queer artists out there to make their shit! Through everything, just to focus on what they love and to do that. I want to encourage every art maker out there to maintain that relationship with their art, especially when the outside forces try to pull us away from it.”

🚨Pipps Pick of the Week🚨

Come Along for the Ride tomorrow night, Wednesday Rocktober 11th at Arlene's Grocery!

Tommy🇬🇧London's $5 Rock Show

Doors open 7PM, bands start 8PM ☠️ $5 At The Door

The stage will be rockin', the booze will be flowin', and DJ Legend will be spinnin' all night long!

Come early, stay late, & Rock Your Ass Off - NYC: Live Music the way it's supposed to be!

So great to run into #drummer #frankferrer of #mulekick and this other underground band called #gunsnroses at #arlenesgrocery tonight #medialife w #piercingmetal (at Arlene's Grocery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzMkmFgngug/?igshid=9jfvx3e8o5ay

Super excited to be part of the @newcolossusfestival this year!!!! Come see us play @arlenesgrocery on March11th at 7!!! ( Early Show!!! 🎸😬) With so many other cool bands on the bill!!! @dayanddreamband @paledianmusic @punchlovemusic @blushingband @boywithappl Check link in bio for tix!!! 🤩 (at Lower East Side) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpDRhd8OCjP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

News/Announcements: New Colossus Festival Announces Complete 2024 Lineup, Schedule and More

New Colossus Festival Announces Complete 2024 Lineup, Schedule and More @NewColossusFest @dedstrange @kaninerecords @mercuryloungeny @boweryballroom @arlenesgrocery @berlinundernyc @boweryelectric @pianosnyc @planetarygroup @terrorbirdmedia

Co-founded back in 2018 by three New York music industry vets and longtime friends, former Lorimer Beacon founder and head Mike Bell, Kanine Records‘ founder and label head Lio Kanine and Kepler Events‘ and Dedstrange Records co-founder Steven Matrick, The New Colossus Festival over the course of the past couple of years has featured several hundred handpicked, emerging indie bands and artists…

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Let's start 2019 off right, with a high dose of rock 'n' roll! Bring your booty to Arlene's Grocery NYC Wednesday January 9th, where I'll be banging out all my new songs with good friends joining me on the bill. Fun fun fun! See you there.🤘🤩🎸 • • #arlenesgrocery #nyc #live #music #rocknroll #lowereastside @keyofnow @thedarkdoves @jasonconsolacion #edenjames (at Arlene's Grocery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsG9hyzlw0j/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1psbrgx27uo8a