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A musical lighthouse, shining a resilient light for everyone that has had to pull themselves up by their bootstraps,Tropidelic has arrived on the national stage. Hailing from Cleveland, Ohio, a city rich in character and music history,
this six-piece performance powerhouse carves their own path with an independent mentality. Front man Roads,
explores feelings more than sounds, seeing where the emotional travel can take him, while valuing being
comfortable and honest.
There is a sense of seeing where the music can go on their 2024 new album. As an everyman-band making music
to overcome life’s obstacles, the “goals” that Tropidelic made when starting the band have all been surpassed.
Roads says of the band’s future, “I’m nose to the grindstone. It’s going great and I am going to keep going.”
The past year has included a first pitch at a Cleveland Guardians game followed by a live performance for the entire
stadium; an adopted highway in their hometown; producing two of their own festivals (Sunny Days and Everwild
Music Festival); tens of millions of streams of Tropidelic’s music; appearances at major US festivals such as Beach
Life and Tortuga; tours with The Dirty Heads, Lupe Fiasco, 311, and Michael Franti; and their first performance at
Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
Through 25 years and eight independent albums, the last four on their own Right Coast Records, Ballyhoo! have earned the exclamation point which marks their
name. Starting in the basement of their mom’s Aberdeen, MD, home, rocking out on guitar and drums respectively, practicing every day, brothers Howi and Donald Spangler formed the proto-punk band in the mold of Green Day and
Nirvana, with an eye towards the emerging ska genre led by Goldfinger, Sublime, 311 and No Doubt.
The group’s eighth and most recent studio album, the breezy, ska-fueled, hook-filled Message to the World, on their own Right Coast Records, finds the self-declared “beach-rockers,” having grown up in public, accepting the responsibilities of adulthood while still hanging on to their dreams of world
domination. Stylistically, their music ranges from the hard-edged punk of 2018’s Detonate, which captured the feelings of anger and depression from dealing with personal loss and the exhaustion generated by over a decade on the road to the island reggae beats of the follow-up, Message to the World. “Whatever you want to achieve, just focus on that and work towards it,” explains
Howi about the Ballyhoo! ethos. “Don’t worry about followers, views, or even money. Just keep making good stuff. One day it may be possible to finally quit that day job and live your dream full time.”Ballyhoo! is still doing just that, purveying good vibes, positivity and fun live shows meant to take you away from
real life...
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1930 Wake Forest Rd., Raleigh, NC, United States, North Carolina 27608
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