X Ambassadors
X Ambassadors will visit Spain after the great success of their first album. They will play on February 14th at Arena in Madrid and on the 15th at Bikini in Barcelona, with Kelvin Jones as a guest artist. "Renegades", their first single, is a bouncing folk-rock ode to the misfits and adventurers. The music video, directed by ENDS and Alex da Kid, depicts several people with disabilities working to overcome their challenges
Tickets for both shows are already on sale through doctormusic.com and ticketmaster.es, also at FNAC, Viajes Carrefour and Halcón Viajes or by telephone at 902 15 00 25 and other Ticketmaster outlets. Ticket price is 22 Euros (booking fees not included).
Under 16 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Download and print the responsibility sheet for Barcelona and Madrid.
Music had always been a friend to Sam and his older brother Casey Harris (X Ambassadors’ keyboard player) even when actual friends were few. The brothers grew up with instruments and lessons and hand-me-down Beatles, Stones, Billy Joel, and Joni Mitchell records. The Johnny Cash and Woody Guthrie albums that their film-maker father favored gave Sam a sense of storytelling and narrative. But everything else around them pointed to a certain kind of faded American glory that screamed: There is no future for you here.
Nearly a decade ago, three of the four young members of Ithaca, New York, quartet X Ambassadors left home with great ambition, vowing not to look back. Like so many small-town kids before them, they yearned to find fame and fortune in the city. They wanted, as they confess in one of their most powerful new songs, to “go big.” And after years of hustling and overcoming personal challenges, rock stardom felt imminent. But something was missing. Some bands never get that missing piece back, but the potentially great ones go looking for it. More often than not, the search leads them right back home.
X Ambassadors’ stomping, syncopated full-length debut, VHS, is all about that exploration. Ironically it proved to be a journey — as the antiquated technology name-checked in the album’s title indicates — through the past. VHS’s main ingredient is unapologetically hard rock, like “Superpower,” and soulful, moody pop like “Renegades” and “Unsteady,” but there’s a rhythmic unpinning that can only come from a hip-hop fan, and it gives even the album’s most introspective moments a fresh swing. “This album is the culmination of all the work we’ve put in since seventh grade,” Sam says. “I wanted to show people who we are — a group of brothers, best friends, and family who’ve been through so much together.”
They have played shows with Imagine Dragons, The Lumineers, and Panic! At the Disco, adding members to their formerly elusive fan base.
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