{"id":4236,"date":"2015-10-26T14:16:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T19:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandmusicblog.com\/?p=4236"},"modified":"2016-05-24T07:15:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T12:15:42","slug":"preview-the-darkness-house-of-blues-boston-november-1-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/?p=4236","title":{"rendered":"<b>Preview: <br>The Darkness <\/b><Br>House of Blues Boston <br>November 1, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandmusicblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lastofourkindcover.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4237\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/?attachment_id=4237\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lastofourkindcover.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1400,1400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"lastofourkindcover\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lastofourkindcover-1024x1024.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4237\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandmusicblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lastofourkindcover-400x400.jpeg\" alt=\"lastofourkindcover\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lastofourkindcover-400x400.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lastofourkindcover-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lastofourkindcover-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/theentertainmentoutlet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lastofourkindcover.jpeg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>British rock band The Darkness recently released their fourth studio album, <i>Last of Our Kind<\/i>. This Sunday, November 1, they will wrap up the Blast of our Kind tour at the House of Blues in Boston. We will be on hand to photograph and review the show, come join us there!<\/p>\n<p>Check out the music video for the title track off the new album:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Hi_kzzSXhY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Press Release<\/h3>\n<p><strong>THE DARKNESS REVEAL NORTH AMERICAN LEG OF <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BLAST OF OUR KIND TOUR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Band Hits The Road in Support of New Album \u201cLast of Our Kind\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAUGUST 6, 2015 &#8211; LOS ANGELES, CA \u2013The magical UK supergroup that is The Darkness revealed the North American dates on their Blast of Our Kind tour kicking off on October 9<sup>th<\/sup> in Pomona, CA in support of\u00a0fourth album\u00a0<em>Last of Our Kind <\/em>&#8211;\u00a0released June 2<sup>nd<\/sup> via Kobalt Label Services. \u00a0<em>Last of Our Kind<\/em>&#8216;s\u00a0title track features audio clips from over 500 Darkness fans, 15 of whom make a special appearance in the brand new video:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1VN9qfc\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1VN9qfc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Last of Our Kind\u00a0<\/em>is an album of unparalleled beauty and power bursting with exhilarating riffs, magnificent melodies and very high voices &#8211; as you would expect of these rock mega-gods. <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> exalts \u201ctheir sound remains perfectly suited for the biggest stages in the world,\u201d <em>Playboy<\/em> raves they \u201cdeliver the thunder,\u201d Consequence of Sound effuses that the album \u201cshakes the Earth with pumping fervor\u201d and Baeble Music rhapsodizes \u201dThe Darkness are primed to continue their campaign of world domination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Last of Our Kind<\/em> is the meaty and impassioned follow-up to 2012\u2019s <em>Hot Cakes<\/em>, which saw the band reunited having enjoyed a well-publicized and well-deserved hiatus. As distinguished guests of Def Leppard, The Darkness destroyed Download Festival in 2011, then waved goodbye to their loved ones and toured planet Earth for over 18 months.\u00a0 They rounded off 2013 with a celebratory tour marking the 10<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary of their legendary Number One debut album, <em>Permission to Land<\/em>, which featured the classics \u201cI Believe In a Thing Called Love\u201d and \u201cGet Your Hands Off My Woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Those in attendance at the Blast of Our Kind tour will be awestruck by the new material and downright delighted by the early works as The Darkness rip through their repertoire of ruddy great songs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>North American Leg of Blast of Our Kind \u2013 presented by The Noise:\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10\/09 Pomona, CA @ The Glass House<\/p>\n<p>10\/10 Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Expo Hall (Festival Supreme Headliner)<\/p>\n<p>10\/11 San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom<\/p>\n<p>10\/13 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom<\/p>\n<p>10\/14 Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre<\/p>\n<p>10\/16 Denver, CO @ The Summit Music Hall<\/p>\n<p>10\/18 Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater<\/p>\n<p>10\/20 Chicago, IL @ House of Blues<\/p>\n<p>10\/21 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew\u2019s Hall<\/p>\n<p>10\/23 Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre<\/p>\n<p>10\/24 Pittsburgh, PA @ Altar Bar<\/p>\n<p>10\/25 Silver Spring MD @ The Fillmore<\/p>\n<p>10\/27 New York, NY @Irving Plaza<\/p>\n<p>10\/28 Asbury Park, NJ @The Stone Pony<\/p>\n<p>10\/30 Philadelphia, PA @ The Theatre of Living Arts<\/p>\n<p>10\/31 Huntington, NY @ The Paramount<\/p>\n<p>11\/01 Boston, MA @ House Of Blues<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Justin Hawkins, Dan Hawkins, Frankie Poullain and Rufus Taylor are<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE DARKNESS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>www.thedarkness.co.uk<\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>www.facebook.com\/thedarknessofficial<\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>www.twitter.com\/TheDarkness<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British rock band The Darkness recently released their fourth studio album, Last of Our Kind. This Sunday, November 1, they will wrap up the Blast of our Kind tour at the House of Blues in Boston. We will be on hand to photograph and review the show, come join us there! 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