Wed, March 17 & 18, 2010
9:00 pm
$12.00
Venue Information:
Johnny Brendas
1201 N. Frankford Ave
Philadelphia , PA
19125
http://www.johnnybrendas.com/
Is there a market for a punk&b princess with a multi-part concept album about an alien robot falling in love with a human? The Atlanta-via-Kansas City fireball got her start as part of OutKast's crew (she sings on "Call the Law" and "In Your Dreams" from Idlewild and has a couple tracks on Big Boi's second Purple Ribbon mixtape), and signed with Diddy's Bad Boy empire earlier this year. So she certainly has some heavy hitters behind her. But can her genre-mashing sci-fi vision find an audience?
Janelle Monáe's previous whirlwind sets suggest that it just might be a possibility. Backed by a drummer, a DJ, and a guitarist in a wig and formal outfit straight out of the "Hey Ya" video, she delivers Broadway musical moves with hardcore intensity, stage-diving and running around in the crowd.
Nothing about Janelle Monáe's sound fits with any current trends. She blends synth-rock with the kind of retro-futurist oompah OutKast have explored in recent years. She was even nominated for a Grammy in 2008 (best urban performance). Shes about to drop a new album in 2010 and will be performing two nights in a row in a tiny,intimate club setting to debut her new material as well as play a few hits off the old abum
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