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The Good Life is a band that originally started out as a side project, lead by Tim Kasher to use as a bit of a songwriting outlet for the more experimental sounds. Their sound became a sort of “quiet pop” sound with their first full-length studio album.

Performing live is what they’re all about with the interesting poly rhythms that this band makes, with a drummer and a percussionist, however their sound is so fragmented in my opinion, and doesn’t follow a specific sort of genre. It sounds as though Tim Kasher has a lot of feelings when he sings, not really caring about what the band behind him is doing which is definitely pretty strange, however, this audience are thoroughly enjoying it, singing along to some of the biggest songs by The Good Life in the form of songs such as “Album of the Year”, “Inmates” and “Night and Day”. So much singing along and so much expression, it’s almost like I walked into the wrong art gallery.

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The Good Life rocked! Tim Kasher seemed to be enjoying himself as he led the band through old and new tunes at the Troubadour. I often feel like their recorded music doesn't do that band justice, because the lives shows are truly amazing. This was no exception. The band was full of energy and the crowd was into it as well. I highly recommend seeing The Good Life live if you haven't already.

They played an excellent setlist (great mix of old and new) with a lot of energy! Well worth the 3hr drive. Tim did not disappoint. They helped me with my post-election Blues.

Wish they would play Northampton, MA.

Awesome show as usual! The Good Life never lets me down. Great set list...all my favorites. Songbyrd was a nice small venue, too. Perfect for big time fans. Loved every minute.

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Ledisi Announces ‘The Good Life Tour’ Dates

Raheem devaughn and bj the chicago kid will join as supporting acts..

Ledisi has announced the dates for her headlining  The Good Life Tour.  R&B crooners Raheem DeVaughn and BJ The Chicago Kid will join Ledisi as supporting acts at select stops. 

The upcoming trek begins at Appell Center for the Performing Arts on March 6, 2024, in York, Pennsylvania.

From there, Ledisi will play in cities across the U.S., including Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charlotte, Nashville, Atlanta and Houston.

The Good Life Tour concludes April 14, 2024, in Ledisi’s hometown, Oakland, California, at Fox Theater. 

Tickets for  The Good Life Tour  go on sale Friday, Dec. 1. There will also be a limited number of meet-and-greet packages for Ledisi. 

Ledisi’s tour announcement arrives with her freshly released single “Sell Me No Dreams,” produced by G.A.D. and Shoji.

The no-nonsense anthem is the follow-up to Ledisi’s “ I Need To Know ,” which topped Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay chart for two weeks. 

Ledisi will be supporting her upcoming album that will release on Listen Back Entertainment/BMG. A release date has not been set for the album at this time.

DeVaughn will be supporting his latest projects,  Fall in Love   and  Summer of Love , as well as other material from his extensive discography. 

“ Fall In Love is my latest offering with a twist of Soul/R&B fused with a futuristic ’90s nostalgia,” said DeVaughn.

“It is my ode to my loyal fans and is a continuation from the instant classic, Summer of Love. This new release aims to appeal to all of the senses and to have listeners and fans alike reminded that love is the highest vibration.”

As for BJ The Chicago Kid, the 7x Grammy nominee will give concertgoers a taste of his new album,  Gravy. It was released Nov. 10 on RCA Records in partnership with Yeti Beats’ Reach The World Records.

Gravy  features contributions from Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind & Fire, Andra Day, Robert Glasper, Coco Jones, Chlöe, Freddie Gibbs and Cory Henry. 

See Ledisi’s tour dates below.

Ledisi’s  The Good Life Tour  2024 Dates

Mar 6 — York, PA @ Appell Center for the Performing Arts***

Mar 7 — Newark, NJ @ Prudential Hall*

Mar 8 — Rochester, NY @ The Theater at Innovation Square***

Mar 9 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia*

Mar 12 — Boston, MA @ The Wilbur***

Mar 13 — New Haven, CT @ Shubert Theatre***

Mar 15 — Oxon Hill, MD @ The Theater at MGM National Harbor*

Mar 16 — Baltimore, MD @ The Lyric*

Mar 17 — Durham, NC @ Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC)*

Mar 19 — Richmond, VA @ Dominion Energy Center*

Mar 21 — Charlotte, NC @ Ovens Auditorium*

Mar 22 — Louisville, KY @ Louisville Palace Theatre*

Mar 23 — St. Louis, MO @ Stifel Theatre*

Mar 24 — Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium*

Mar 26 — Columbus, OH @ Mershon Auditorium*

Mar 28 — Indianapolis, IN @ Murat Theatre at Old National Centre*

Mar 29 — Detroit, MI @ Fisher Theatre**

Mar 30 — Chicago, IL @ The Chicago Theatre**

Apr 1 — Atlanta, GA @ Atlanta Symphony Hall ***

Apr 3 — Birmingham, AL @ Alabama Theatre*

Apr 5 — New Orleans, LA @ Mahalia Jackson Theater*

Apr 6 — Houston, TX @ Bayou Music Center*

Apr 7 — Dallas, TX @ Music Hall at Fair Park**

Apr 10 — Ft. Collins, CO @ The Lincoln Center***

Apr 12 — Chandler, AZ @ Chandler Center for the Arts***

Apr 13 — Inglewood, CA @ YouTube Theater*

Apr 14 — Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater*

*Raheem DeVaughn performing **BJ The Chicago Kid will open ***An Evening With… Performance 

Get tickets to  The Good Life Tour  at Ledisi’s official website . 

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The Good Life is an indie rock band on Saddle Creek records. Started as a solo project of Cursive's frontman Tim Kasher, The Good Life quickly grew to become its own established group. The original intent of The Good Life was to provide Tim Kasher with a vehicle to perform songs that did not fit stylistically in with his long-running band Cursive. Kasher fronts the group and plays the part of the singer/songwriter. The other members of the band include Stefanie Drootin, Ryan Fox, and Roger Lewis. The Good Life has its core in those four musicians, but besides Kasher can be a rotating cast of characters involving many from Saddle Creek Records. The band's name came from the original state slogan for Nebraska, the home of Kasher and Saddle Creek, before 2003, when the slogan was changed. The Good Life released their fifth album, Everybody's Coming Down, on August 14, 2015.

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The Good Life is a rock and roll band from Omaha, NE. Initially started as an outlet for Tim Kasher to explore musical ideas differing from his band, Cursive, The Good Life became fully formed with members Stefanie Drootin-Senseney, Ryan Fox, and Roger Lewis. They’ve released 5 full length albums and toured around the world since first beginning in 2000.

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Ledisi, the multi-talented, 14-time GRAMMY-nominated singer, songwriter, and actress, returns to Chandler to deliver a captivating performance, wowing attendees with her powerhouse vocals. She will belt out her chart-topping hits, including "Alright," "Pieces of Me," "High," and "Anything for You,” leaving it all out on the stage. She’ll also treats fans to powerful renditions of classic soul and jazz standards. Her emotionally charged performance will take you on a rollercoaster of emotions, leaving you inspired, moved, and yearning for more.

“As a contemporary vocalist, there’s almost no one I can think of in the world that sings as skillfully as she does. In terms of her range, dexterity, clarity, versatility, she can do anything she wants. She’s one of the great singers in the world, period.” - John Legend   

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The Good Life is a rock and roll band from Omaha, NE. Initially started as an outlet for Tim Kasher to explore musical ideas differing from his band, Cursive, The Good Life became fully formed with members Stefanie Drootin-Senseney, Ryan Fox, and Roger Lewis. They’ve released 5 full length albums and toured around the world since first beginning in 2000.

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"Get ready for a musical revolution! Grammy-winning artist Ledisi is set to drop her new single, "Sell Me No Dreams," the follow-up to her #1 single "I Need To Know," which soared to the top of the Billboard R&B Charts, off her highly anticipated 2024 album. Undeterred by the pandemic, she launched her own label, Listen Back Entertainment, and unveiled "The Wildcard" LP, featuring the #1 Grammy Award-winning hit “Anything For You,” which secured her win in the “Best Traditional R&B Performance” category. The album's success catapulted Ledisi into sold-out shows nationwide. A vocal powerhouse, Ledisi's venture into jazz with "Ledisi Sings Nina" garnered acclaim, with The New York Times hailing her bravura self-assurance and included a sold-out show at the prestigious Carnegie Hall. With 14 Grammy nominations, 3 Soul Train Music Awards, and 19 NAACP Image Award Nominations, Ledisi's impact spans music, film, and television. Beyond the stage, she's a vocal advocate as a Trustee of the Recording Academy, Los Angeles Chapter, and an Honorary Member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. A seasoned presence in film and television, Ledisi made her mark with roles in George Clooney's "Leatherheads," the Oscar-nominated "Selma," and the impactful "The Tale Of Four." Transitioning to television, she portrayed Patti LaBelle on BET's American Soul and shone in FX's "POSE" and "Twice Bitten" on BET Plus. In 2022, she wowed fans as Mahalia Jackson in "Remember Me" and embodied the essence of Gladys Knight in the biopic "Spinning Gold.” An author and entrepreneur, Ledisi is a creative force redefining the entertainment landscape. As she prepares to launch more groundbreaking projects, Ledisi, a black woman, wife, bonus mom, daughter, sister, storyteller, advocate, and businesswoman, owns her lane like never before. It's not just music; it's a journey, and Ledisi is at the helm of this exciting new chapter!"

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Moscow’s Metro was a long time coming. Plans for rapid transit to relieve the city’s beleaguered tram system date back to the Imperial era, but a couple of wars and a revolution held up its development. Stalin revived it as part of his grand plan to modernize the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s. The first lines and tunnels were constructed with help from engineers from the London Underground, although Stalin’s secret police decided that they had learned too much about Moscow’s layout and had them arrested on espionage charges and deported.

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The Metro is a monument to the Soviet propaganda project it was intended to be when it opened in 1935 with the slogan “Building a Palace for the People”. It brought the grand interiors of Imperial Russia to ordinary Muscovites, celebrated the Soviet Union’s past achievements while promising its citizens a bright Soviet future, and of course, it was a show-piece for the world to witness the might and sophistication of life in the Soviet Union.

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In its 80+ year history, the Metro has expanded in phases and fits and starts, in step with the fortunes of Moscow and Russia. Now, partly in preparation for the World Cup 2018, it’s also modernizing. New trains allow passengers to walk the entire length of the train without having to change carriages. The system is becoming more visitor-friendly. (There are helpful stickers on the floor marking out the best selfie spots .) But there’s a price to modernity: it’s phasing out one of its beloved institutions, the escalator attendants. Often they are middle-aged or elderly women—“ escalator grandmas ” in news accounts—who have held the post for decades, sitting in their tiny kiosks, scolding commuters for bad escalator etiquette or even bad posture, or telling jokes . They are slated to be replaced, when at all, by members of the escalator maintenance staff.

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• There is also a 90-minute ticket , which gets you 1 trip on the metro plus an unlimited number of transfers on other transport (bus, tram, etc) within 90 minutes.
• Or, you can buy day tickets with unlimited rides: one day (218₽/ US$4), three days (415₽/US$7) or seven days (830₽/US$15). Check the rates here to stay up-to-date.
• If you’re going to be using the Metro regularly over a few days, it’s worth getting a Troika card , a contactless, refillable card you can use on all public transport. Using the Metro is cheaper with one of these: a single ride is 36₽, not 55₽. Buy them and refill them in the Metro stations, and they’re valid for 5 years, so you can keep it for next time. Or, if you have a lot of cash left on it when you leave, you can get it refunded at the Metro Service Centers at Ulitsa 1905 Goda, 25 or at Staraya Basmannaya 20, Building 1.
• You can also buy silicone bracelets and keychains with built-in transport chips that you can use as a Troika card. (A Moscow Metro Fitbit!) So far, you can only get these at the Pushkinskaya metro station Live Helpdesk and souvenir shops in the Mayakovskaya and Trubnaya metro stations. The fare is the same as for the Troika card.
• You can also use Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.

Rules, spoken and unspoken

No smoking, no drinking, no filming, no littering. Photography is allowed, although it used to be banned.

Stand to the right on the escalator. Break this rule and you risk the wrath of the legendary escalator attendants. (No shenanigans on the escalators in general.)

Get out of the way. Find an empty corner to hide in when you get off a train and need to stare at your phone. Watch out getting out of the train in general; when your train doors open, people tend to appear from nowhere or from behind ornate marble columns, walking full-speed.

Always offer your seat to elderly ladies (what are you, a monster?).

An Easy Tour

This is no Metro Marathon ( 199 stations in 20 hours ). It’s an easy tour, taking in most—though not all—of the notable stations, the bulk of it going clockwise along the Circle line, with a couple of short detours. These stations are within minutes of one another, and the whole tour should take about 1-2 hours.

Start at Mayakovskaya Metro station , at the corner of Tverskaya and Garden Ring,  Triumfalnaya Square, Moskva, Russia, 125047.

1. Mayakovskaya.  Named for Russian Futurist Movement poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and an attempt to bring to life the future he imagined in his poems. (The Futurist Movement, natch, was all about a rejecting the past and celebrating all things speed, industry, modern machines, youth, modernity.) The result: an Art Deco masterpiece that won the National Grand Prix for architecture at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. It’s all smooth, rounded shine and light, and gentle arches supported by columns of dark pink marble and stainless aircraft steel. Each of its 34 ceiling niches has a mosaic. During World War II, the station was used as an air-raid shelter and, at one point, a bunker for Stalin. He gave a subdued but rousing speech here in Nov. 6, 1941 as the Nazis bombed the city above.

Take the 3/Green line one station to:

2. Belorusskaya. Opened in 1952, named after the connected Belarussky Rail Terminal, which runs trains between Moscow and Belarus. This is a light marble affair with a white, cake-like ceiling, lined with Belorussian patterns and 12 Florentine ceiling mosaics depicting life in Belarussia when it was built.

Transfer onto the 1/Brown line. Then, one stop (clockwise) t o:

3. Novoslobodskaya.  This station was designed around the stained-glass panels, which were made in Latvia, because Alexey Dushkin, the Soviet starchitect who dreamed it up (and also designed Mayakovskaya station) couldn’t find the glass and craft locally. The stained glass is the same used for Riga’s Cathedral, and the panels feature plants, flowers, members of the Soviet intelligentsia (musician, artist, architect) and geometric shapes.

Go two stops east on the 1/Circle line to:

4. Komsomolskaya. Named after the Komsomol, or the Young Communist League, this might just be peak Stalin Metro style. Underneath the hub for three regional railways, it was intended to be a grand gateway to Moscow and is today its busiest station. It has chandeliers; a yellow ceiling with Baroque embellishments; and in the main hall, a colossal red star overlaid on golden, shimmering tiles. Designer Alexey Shchusev designed it as an homage to the speech Stalin gave at Red Square on Nov. 7, 1941, in which he invoked Russia’s illustrious military leaders as a pep talk to Soviet soldiers through the first catastrophic year of the war.   The station’s eight large mosaics are of the leaders referenced in the speech, such as Alexander Nevsky, a 13th-century prince and military commander who bested German and Swedish invading armies.

One more stop clockwise to Kurskaya station,  and change onto the 3/Blue  line, and go one stop to:

5. Baumanskaya.   Opened in 1944. Named for the Bolshevik Revolutionary Nikolai Bauman , whose monument and namesake district are aboveground here. Though he seemed like a nasty piece of work (he apparently once publicly mocked a woman he had impregnated, who later hung herself), he became a Revolutionary martyr when he was killed in 1905 in a skirmish with a monarchist, who hit him on the head with part of a steel pipe. The station is in Art Deco style with atmospherically dim lighting, and a series of bronze sculptures of soldiers and homefront heroes during the War. At one end, there is a large mosaic portrait of Lenin.

Stay on that train direction one more east to:

6. Elektrozavodskaya. As you may have guessed from the name, this station is the Metro’s tribute to all thing electrical, built in 1944 and named after a nearby lightbulb factory. It has marble bas-relief sculptures of important figures in electrical engineering, and others illustrating the Soviet Union’s war-time struggles at home. The ceiling’s recurring rows of circular lamps give the station’s main tunnel a comforting glow, and a pleasing visual effect.

Double back two stops to Kurskaya station , and change back to the 1/Circle line. Sit tight for six stations to:

7. Kiyevskaya. This was the last station on the Circle line to be built, in 1954, completed under Nikita Khrushchev’ s guidance, as a tribute to his homeland, Ukraine. Its three large station halls feature images celebrating Ukraine’s contributions to the Soviet Union and Russo-Ukrainian unity, depicting musicians, textile-working, soldiers, farmers. (One hall has frescoes, one mosaics, and the third murals.) Shortly after it was completed, Khrushchev condemned the architectural excesses and unnecessary luxury of the Stalin era, which ushered in an epoch of more austere Metro stations. According to the legend at least, he timed the policy in part to ensure no Metro station built after could outshine Kiyevskaya.

Change to the 3/Blue line and go one stop west.

8. Park Pobedy. This is the deepest station on the Metro, with one of the world’s longest escalators, at 413 feet. If you stand still, the escalator ride to the surface takes about three minutes .) Opened in 2003 at Victory Park, the station celebrates two of Russia’s great military victories. Each end has a mural by Georgian artist Zurab Tsereteli, who also designed the “ Good Defeats Evil ” statue at the UN headquarters in New York. One mural depicts the Russian generals’ victory over the French in 1812 and the other, the German surrender of 1945. The latter is particularly striking; equal parts dramatic, triumphant, and gruesome. To the side, Red Army soldiers trample Nazi flags, and if you look closely there’s some blood spatter among the detail. Still, the biggest impressions here are the marble shine of the chessboard floor pattern and the pleasingly geometric effect if you view from one end to the other.

Keep going one more stop west to:

9. Slavyansky Bulvar.  One of the Metro’s youngest stations, it opened in 2008. With far higher ceilings than many other stations—which tend to have covered central tunnels on the platforms—it has an “open-air” feel (or as close to it as you can get, one hundred feet under). It’s an homage to French architect Hector Guimard, he of the Art Nouveau entrances for the Paris M é tro, and that’s precisely what this looks like: A Moscow homage to the Paris M é tro, with an additional forest theme. A Cyrillic twist on Guimard’s Metro-style lettering over the benches, furnished with t rees and branch motifs, including creeping vines as towering lamp-posts.

Stay on the 3/Blue line and double back four stations to:

10. Arbatskaya. Its first iteration, Arbatskaya-Smolenskaya station, was damaged by German bombs in 1941. It was rebuilt in 1953, and designed to double as a bomb shelter in the event of nuclear war, although unusually for stations built in the post-war phase, this one doesn’t have a war theme. It may also be one of the system’s most elegant: Baroque, but toned down a little, with red marble floors and white ceilings with gilded bronze c handeliers.

Jump back on the 3/Blue line  in the same direction and take it one more stop:

11. Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Revolution Square). Opened in 1938, and serving Red Square and the Kremlin . Its renowned central hall has marble columns flanked by 76 bronze statues of Soviet heroes: soldiers, students, farmers, athletes, writers, parents. Some of these statues’ appendages have a yellow sheen from decades of Moscow’s commuters rubbing them for good luck. Among the most popular for a superstitious walk-by rub: the snout of a frontier guard’s dog, a soldier’s gun (where the touch of millions of human hands have tapered the gun barrel into a fine, pointy blade), a baby’s foot, and a woman’s knee. (A brass rooster also sports the telltale gold sheen, though I am told that rubbing the rooster is thought to bring bad luck. )

Now take the escalator up, and get some fresh air.

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