Flobots Live Performance @ Twist & Shout

Location(s)

Twist & Shout
2508 E. Colfax Ave
Denver, CO, 80206
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Event Date: 
03/16/2010 - 6:00pm - 03/16/2010 - 7:30pm

FLOBOTS

Live performance at Twist & Shout

Tuesday, March 16 at 6 p.m.

Twist & Shout finally gets to host a Flobots performance and it’s happening on the day their new album is released to the world. March 16 at 6 p.m., come down to Twist & Shout for a chance to get your party on with the Flobots. Fans will be able to pre-purchase the new album Survival Story starting February 23. Those who do so will get a wristband that guarantees entry into this popular event, as well as a specially made poster.

Survival Story is the follow-up to their 2008 game-changing, 300,000-plus selling debut album, Fight With Tools. The new album was helmed by noted producer Mario Caldato Jr. (Beastie Boys, Beck, Jack Johnson, Moby), and finds the group at yet another turning point of inspiring transformation. Flobots garnered across-the-board critical, cultural and commercial acclaim in 2008 with their grassroots-waged kickoff single, the rousing Top 5, platinum-plus smash "Handlebars." The song became the mind-bending clarion call of both the rap and rock worlds, with the spirited anthem soaring to #1 on the alternative radio chart as the format's most requested song of the year.

The six-member band was also recognized as innovative agents of massive cultural change during their mainstream rise, with media outlets such as USA Today praising their "stinging social commentary," and the Boston Herald calling them "rap's most singular breakthrough act in years." Flobots became a symbol of a new generation shifting priorities at the decade's close, thanks to the hands-on and highly charged social-activism embedded in their music and their vigorous community networking. Their uplifting calls to action mirrored the communal reawakening taking place throughout the entire country. The band's galvanizing live presence rocked late night TV (The Tonight Show, Conan O'Brien, and others,) and saw them 'own' the stage at the Democratic National Convention in their hometown of Denver, as well as on election night. The group also logged several sold-out tours across the U.S. and inspired audiences throughout the world with their incredible live show.

Survival Story finds the band invigorated by the range of life-experiences that flowed through the Flobots' global collective the past two years (their extremely effective non-profit organization, flobots.org, has mobilized fans to become change-agents in their own communities throughout the world). But, the sophomore album also arrives in 2010 as a vision of hope for a world pondering its limits: Flobots' unique birds-eye view of a world changed and rearranged -- both inside and out.