Empress Of / Casey MQ — live event
Under the name Empress Of, Honduran-American songwriter, musician and producer Lorely Rodriguez creates introspective, self-empowering pop music centered around her impressive, acrobatic vocals. For Your Consideration, a follow-up to 2020’s I’m Your Empress Of and 2022’s Save Me EP, is a bi-lingual album that embraces camp and fantasy playing with the idea of Hollywood. The songs, which veer between English and Spanish, reflect on the transactional nature of love and sex, which is mirrored by the ephemeral sense of existence in the entertainment industry. Empress Of has collaborated with Top 40 pop artists and cultural icons such as Khalid, Blood Orange, Lewis OfMan, DJ legend Boyz Noise, ShyGirl and Salute. She's toured with the likes of Carly Rae Jepsen, Lizzo, Maggie Rogers, Rina Sawayama and wowed audiences at festivals such as Outside Lands and Corona Capital. Her "For Your Consideration" headline tour begins in September of 2024. Casey MQ is an artist, composer, and producer from Toronto, now living in Los Angeles. Growing up, Casey’s adoration for pop music intersected with his training as a classical pianist. As he got older Casey began to work more closely with electronic music. In 2020, he shared his debut album, babycasey, which gave voice to songs seen through the lens of childhood. The release coincided with various film score work, collaborations with artists such as Oklou, Eartheater, and Vagabon, and his co-founding of the Covid-era queer virtual club, Club Quarantine. Casey’s gifts as a producer and songwriter are rooted in textural world-building and the excavation of personal truth. With his forthcoming Ghostly International debut, Later that day, the day before, or the day before that, he questions what is true entirely, understanding our mind's tendency to bend and project onto pictures of the past. Across vivid, baroque pop balladry, Casey MQ reorients his recording project and point of view under the notion that memories are malleable. All the joy, pain, love, and loss housed within remembrance is open to interpretation and deconstruction, which he does deftly, with curiosity and complete artistic freedom.
Starts: 2024-10-15T20:00:07Z
Ends: 2024-10-15T22:00:07Z
Where: 431 West 16th Street, New York, New York 10011, United States
Price: $39.99