BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//EVDB//www.eventful.com//EN VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:101.9 RXP Presents The Pretenders in New York City at Hig hline Ballroom - Eventful BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20081007T210000 DTEND:20081007T190000 DTSTAMP:20090806T192357Z SUMMARY:101.9 RXP Presents The Pretenders DESCRIPTION: General Admission / Standing Room Only / All Ages / $10 m in per person at tables / Full dinner menu available------------------ ------ October 7\,2008 ADVANCE TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT. A LIMITED NUMBER OF DAY OF SHOW TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT DOORS. Concert starts @ 9 PM Doors open @ 7 PM Tickets $40.00Buy Tickets Online [more] General Admission Standing Room Only / All Ages Chrissie Hynde - one of the bo ys or femme fatale? Provocateur or force of nature? Tremulous alto or ultimate rock & roll chick? Woman of the world or bandleader? How abou t all of them? Since forming the Pretenders three decades ago\, Hynde has proven to be a one-of-a-kind tough-minded\, outspoken and an utter ly uncompromising artist - yet also capable of moments of heart-wrench ing tenderness. Hynde has recorded just nine studio albums since the original Pretenders lineup cranked out their barrier-smashing debut in 1980 and Break Up the Concrete is but the second album to bear the Pr etenders nameplate in a decade. That makes the arrival of any new Pret enders album something of an occasion and even outright celebration. T hroughout the dozen songs on Break Up the Concrete\, Hynde brings the trademark cool and much of the heat of the early Pretenders albums to a richly American setting. None of the five musicians who comprise thi s set of Pretenders has recorded with her before - but they take to he r songs like they've been waiting all their lives for this moment. Leg endary drummer Jim Keltner needs no introduction. HYNDE “I met Jim whe n we toured with Neil Young and dreamed of working with him ever since . Martin Chambers is the worlds most entertaining rock drummer that’s for sure\, but Keltner is an alchemist\, a magician. I wanted a differ ent groove on this album and Martin had no problem letting Jim take ov er for the project. Although Martin will be with us when we go on the road.” The rest of the crew collectively represents something dynamic and fresh . Added to this is Concrete showing Hynde in peak form as a singer\, engaged as a writer and p performing with the same vitality a nd intimacy of the classics she penned years ago. No guest artists\, no vanity duets\, just five shit-hot players getting down to business\ , bashing out 11 songs in 12 intensive days live off the floor of a vi ntage Hollywood studio. The song-serving urgency Hynde’s new cohorts b ring to the party clearly contributed to the immediacy of her vocal pe rformances\, with her equally compelling tough and tender sides in ful l effect – each imbued with the aching nuance of life experience. Eng lish guitarist James Walbourne has played with indie-rock darlings the Pernice Brothers. High Fidelity author and hard-core music fan Nick H ornby recently described the preternaturally skilled young gun as “an unearthly cross between James Burton\, Peter Green and Richard Thompso n\; Walbourne’s fluid\, tasteful\, beautiful solos drop the jaw\, stop the heart\, and smack the gob\, all at the same time.” On pedal steel is Eric Heywood\, who’s brought his signature overdriven sound to the original lineup of alt-country trailblazers Son Volt\, and to the rec ords of Joe Henry\, the Jayhawks and Alejandro Escovedo\; more recentl y\, he’s been recording and touring with singer/ songwriter Ray LaMont agne. HYNDE “James had worked with Eric and suggested we bring him in. His playing is often more akin to a sound effect. Imagine our surpris e when we heard the jazz flute of “Almost Perfect”.” Bassist Nick Wilk inson\, the longest-tenured Pretender\, poached from a North London pu nk karaoke band\, has toured extensively with The Pretenders over the last few years\, and\, like Walbourne\, has an innate feel for America n roots idioms. The grittily elegant “Don’t Lose Faith in Me” enables Hynde to give her most soulful vocal performance since her 1984 cover of the Persuaders ’ “Thin Line Between Love and Hate\,” and the poign ant but buoyant “Love’s a Mystery” ponders the ongoing challenges of c onjugal commitment on the way to the payoff lines\, “But I’d do it aga in/I’d do it again\,” the impact underscored by her vibrato\, while th e exceedingly offbeat “Almost Perfect” has to be the most-lemon-tart s ong she’s ever dreamed up\, melodically or lyrically (sample lines: “U nemployable\, illegal/You’re a whole film by Don Siegel”). “Boots of Chinese Plastic” opens the album in mind-blowing fashion\, as Chrissie attacks the elliptically metaphysical lyric with the primal intensity she brought to the more earthbound concerns of “Precious” and “Tattoo ed Love Boys\,” while Walbourne sounds like he’s channeling the great James Honeyman-Scott himself. “Don’t Cut Your Hair” hits with the forc e of a Category 5 storm\, the righteously old-school “Rosalee”\, the o nly non Hynde penned song on the album\, written by Robert Kidney\, ro cks out in real time\, right down to Chrissie’s initial throat clearin g and command to the band to crank out one more chorus. They soup up t he Bo-Diddley beat on “Break Up the Concrete\,” inspiring her to spit out a feral speed-chant at the ends of two choruses. Rock’s great ico noclast\, Neil Young\, perfectly summed up what we all know about Chri ssie Hynde: “She’s a rock & roll woman. She’s got it in her heart. She ’s gonna be rocking till she drops.” The truth of that statement is r ight here in the grooves of Break Up The Concrete. The Pretenders hom epage The Pretenders myspace page LOCATION:Highline Ballroom @ 431 West Sixteenth Street, New York, New York 10011 United States SEQUENCE:1249586637 UID:E0-001-015865770-8 URL:http://eventful.com/E0-001-015865770-8 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR