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Jpegmafia and Danny Brown Announce Summer 2023 Tour

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Jpegmafia and Danny Brown have announced a joint tour in support of their new collaborative album, Scaring the Hoes . After kicking things off on July 25 in Nashville, the rappers will embark on a lengthy trip across the United States, with stops planned in cities like Cleveland, Buffalo, New Haven, Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta, Orlando, and Houston. The run concludes on August 26 in Dallas. Find a complete list of the musicians’ tour dates below.

Scaring the Hoes came out last month and includes the singles “ Lean Beef Patty ” and “ Scaring the Hoes ,” both of which came with music videos. As far as their solo careers go, Jpegmafia’s most recent release was LP! , which came out in 2021, while Danny Brown dropped his full-length Uknowhatimsayin¿ , which was executive produced by Q-Tip , back in 2019.

Read about Danny Brown’s 2011 release, XXX , and Jpegmafia’s 2018 record, Veteran , in Pitchfork’s list “ The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s .”

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07-25 Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works 07-26 Louisville, KY - Paristown Hall 07-28 Indianapolis, IN - Old National 07-29 Cleveland, OH - Agora Ballroom 07-30 Pittsburgh, PA - Roxian Theatre 08-01 Buffalo, NY - Town Ballroom 08-03 Portland, ME - State Theatre 08-06 New Haven, CT - College Street Music 08-08 Philadelphia, PA - Franklin Music Hall 08-09 New York, NY - Pier 17 08-12 Boston, MA - Roadrunner 08-13 Baltimore, MD - Ram Head Live! 08-15 Charlotte, NC - The Underground 08-17 Atlanta, GA - The Eastern 08-19 Fort Lauderdale, FL - Revolution 08-20 Orlando, FL - The Vanguard 08-24 Houston, TX - White Oak 08-25 Austin, TX - Stubb’s Waller Creek 08-26 Dallas, TX - Factory Deep Ellum

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JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown announce 2023 ‘Scaring The Hoes’ tour

The North American dates are in support of their collaborative album of the same name

JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown have announced they will be going on a North American tour this summer in support of their joint album ‘Scaring The Hoes’ .

• READ MORE: JPEGMAFIA: “I’m not trying to be different. I am naturally different”

The run of dates is due to begin in Nashville, Tennessee on July 25. From there, the two rappers will embark on a 20-city stint throughout the US. Stops include Cleveland, New Haven, Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta, Orlando, and Houston.

The final show of the tour is scheduled to take place in Dallas, Texas on August 26.

Tickets are on sale now – you can purchase yours here . Check out the announcement post and the full list of dates below.

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‘Scaring The Hoes’ 2023 North American Tour:

JULY 25 – Nashville, TN, Marathon Music Works 26 – Louisville, KY, Paristown Hall 28 – Indianapolis, IN, Old National 29 – Cleveland, OH, Agora Ballroom 30 – Pittsburgh, PA,  Roxian Theatre AUGUST 1 – Buffalo, NY, Town Ballroom 3 – Portland, ME, State Theatre 6 – New Haven, CT, College Street Music 8 – Philadelphia, PA, Franklin Music Hall 9 – New York, NY, Pier 17 12 – Boston, MA, Roadrunner 13 – Baltimore, MD, Ram Head Live! 15 – Charlotte, NC, The Underground 17 – Atlanta, GA, The Eastern 19 – Fort Lauderdale, FL, Revolution 20 – Orlando, FL, The Vanguard 24 – Houston, TX, White Oak 25 – Austin, TX, Stubb’s Waller Creek 26 – Dallas, TX, Factory Deep Ellum

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JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown’s collaborative LP came out last month and features the songs ‘Lean Beef Patty’ and ‘Scaring The Hoes’ .

Along with the release of the album, JPEGMAFIA shared a behind-the-scenes documentary of the artists at work on the project.

Uploaded to the rapper’s official YouTube account , the short film included footage of Brown laying down vocals alongside JPEG in a makeshift studio at one of the rapper’s homes. They also discussed influences and the musical direction for the album.

In other news, Brown recently updated his fans on the whereabouts of his sixth studio album, ‘Quaranta’ – accusing his management and label of delaying the release.

“Y’all gotta understand, me working with Warp – I don’t know with Warp and my management, man. I turned my album in two years ago,” he shared on his podcast The Danny Brown Show . “We’re still working on the album,” he continued, “and shit’s getting doper but at this point, man, it’s like where’s the urgency?”

In 2021 he made  his debut as a stand-up comedian , opening for Hannibal Buress at a show in Texas.

Meanwhile, JPEGMAFIA has said that ‘Scaring The Hoes’ is the first of three albums he will release in 2023 .

The rapper’s next album will follow 2021’s ‘LP!’, which  NME  described in a four-star review  as a “a wacky free-for-all fourth album” in which the “idiosyncratic Brooklynite shows the world how unique he is once again”.

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Jpegmafia And Danny Brown Will Be ‘Scaring The Hoes’ Nationwide On A 2023 US Summer Tour

In January, Jpegmafia promised his fans three new albums this year . He delivered the first alongside Danny Brown with the eccentric record Scaring The Hoes , which arrived last month. Now, they’ve announced that they’ll be bringing those new songs to the road on an exciting summer tour.

Kicking off in Nashville in July, the run will go through the end of summer, finishing off in Dallas at the end of August. Their live collaboration was previewed with a performance at Smoker’s Club Fest in San Bernardino, California in May of last year. Even before that, Jpegmafia was featured on Brown’s 2019 album Uknowhatimsayin .

Check out the full tour dates below and find ticket information here .

07/25 — Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works 07/26 — Louisville, KY @ Paristown Hall 07/28 — Indianapolis, IN @ Old National 07/29 — Cleveland, OH @ Agora Ballroom 07/30 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Roxian Theatre 08/01 — Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom 08/03 — Portland, ME @ State Theatre 08/06 — New Haven, CT @ College St. Music Hall 08/08 — Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall 08/09 — New York, NY @ Pier 17 08/12 — Boston, MA @ Roadrunner 08/13 — Baltimore, MD @ Ram Head Live! 08/16 — Richmond, VA @ The National 08/17 — Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle 08/19 — Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution Live 08/20 — Orlando, FL @ The Vanguard 08/22 — New Orleans @ Joy Theatre 08/24 — Houston, TX @Warehouse Live 08/25 — Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek 08/26 — Dallas, TX @ Factory Deep Ellum

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JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown Set 2023 Tour Dates: Tickets On Sale

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Published april 28, 2023.

Hip hop artists JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown have announced 2023 tour dates in conjunction with their new collaborative album, Scaring the Hoes .

The newly planned co-headlining shows are set in July and August at mid-sized venues across North America. More concerts are expected to be announced soon, so check back here when that information becomes available. Before the new dates, JPEGMAFIA has headlining shows and festival performances in Europe and North America.

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JPEGMAFIA and  Danny Brown are headed out on a Summer 2023 tour in support of their collaborative album,  SCARING THE HOES .

The “SCARING THE HOES Tour” kicks off on July 25th in Nashville and includes stops in Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, Atlanta, and Austin before wrapping in Dallas on August 26th.

See the full itinerary below. Tickets go on sale Tuesday, April 25th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster .

Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub , where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

SCARING THE HOES dropped on April 6th, and was preceded by “Lean Beef Patty” and the title track . It came after JPEGMAFIA featured on “Negro Spiritual” and produced “3 Tearz” off Brown’s last album, 2019’s  uknowwhatimsayin¿

JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown 2023 Tour Dates: 07/25 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works 07/26 – Louisville, KY @ Paristown Hall 07/28 – Indianapolis, IN @ Old National 07/29 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Ballroom 07/30 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Roxian Theatre 08/01 – Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom 08/03 – Portland, ME @ State Theatre 08/06 – New Haven, CT @ College St. Music Hall 08/08 – Philadelphia, PA @  Franklin Music Hall 08/09 – New York, NY @ Pier 17 08/12 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner 08/13 – Baltimore, MD @ Ram Head Live! 08/16 – Richmond, VA @ The National 08/17 – Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle 08/19 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution Live 08/20 – Orlando, FL @   The Vanguard 08/22 – New Orleans @ Joy Theatre 08/24 – Houston, TX @Warehouse Live 08/25 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek 08/26 – Dallas, TX @ Factory Deep Ellum

JPEGMAFIA 2023 Tour Dates: 05/27 – London, UK @ NTS Presents One Day Festival 05/28 – Brussels, BE @ CORE Festival 05/31 – Warsaw, PL @ Progresja 06/02 – Aarhus, DK @ NorthSide Festival 06/03 – Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound 06/06 – Segrate, IT @ Circolo Magnolia 06/10 – Madrid, ES @ Primavera Sound 06/11 – Manchester, UK @ Parklife Festival 07/21 – Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival

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Calling all rap lovers, calling all angry people, calling all ragers, this year is your time to be a part of an amazing tour that will lift you up and leave you feeling mad. Jpegmafia and Danny Brown are combining their attitude, sounds and styles on stage together in support of their first collaborative studio album, 'Scaring The Hoes'. For years they have performed and worked together on separate songs, concerts and projects but now, for 2023 they have unleashed a collective album that has already received a knotted reception of being overwhelming but also kinda rad and really needed in the industry. In support of their fresh album release they will be crashing onto different stages in summer and are doped to be taking over the Hollywood Palladium on Saturday the 9th of September. Tickets are still available, so don’t hang around and book yours now!

This year two of the angriest, sarcastic yet funny and straight up dope rappers are touring together for the summer across North America in their first joint tour – Jpegmafia and Danny Brown. They will be hitting the stages together in support of their first collaborative record release, ‘Scaring the Hoes’ and are ready to be thumping, drumming, raging and shouting out beats to their latest material together. Tickets are on sale today, so book yours now!

Separately Jpegmafia and Danny Brown are stellar rappers with hard work, unique sounds and the will not to quit backing them in their careers. Brown’s albums, such as ‘The Hybrid’ and ‘U Know What I’m Saying?’, have hit a mark and received critical acclaim with the release of his 6th studio album, ‘Quaranta’, having the rapping world abuzz. Jpegmafia has had a slower-burning career, with his 2020 ‘LP!’, being the first release to get more mainstream and critical acclaim. Yet 2023 will be a huge bang for him as his release with Brown is just one of three that Jpeg is releasing this year.

Released in March Jpeg and Brown’s ‘Scaring The Hoes’ album is already a hit. It is a gnarly mess of nostalgic sounds, techno, pop and rap influences, internet phrases and angry outbursts and rhymes at the hardships in life… yet it works. It is an overwhelming, addictive hit of 14 songs that should leave you messed up, but don’t, with the two lead singles, ‘Lean Beef Patty’ and ‘Scaring The Hoes’ already being stable tracks of 2023.

Their tour that will punch the audiences into a frenzy that is raw and raging, giving everyone there a release for all the anger they have in life. Jpegmafia has been told to ‘calm it down’ in his shows but refuses to, sharing in the rage of all concert goers and releasing it, saying he is set in stone and won’t edit himself or his shows. So what are you waiting for? Book your tickets now for the 9th of September 2023 at the Hollywood Palladium and be a part of Jpegmafia and Danny Brown’s 2023 tour.

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Danny Brown reveals 2024 tour dates

The quaranta tour will kick off on march 12 in boston..

Danny Brown has announced a 2024 North American tour behind his November album Quaranta . The tour — which will follow four album release shows, the last of which will take place this Friday in Los Angeles — is scheduled to start on March 12 in Boston and circle the northeast before moving counterclockwise across the United States and southern Canada. The newly revealed dates end with an April 14 performance at Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl.

Released on November 17 via Warp Records, Quaranta followed Scaring The Hoes , Brown’s collaborative March LP with JPEGMAFIA . Brown and JPEG’s joint tour in promotion of the album wrapped in August.

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March 12 Boston, MA - Paradise March 13 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts March 15 Washington, D.C. - Howard Theater March 16 New York, NY - Irving Plaza March 18 Toronto, Ontario - The Phoenix Concert Theatre March 19 Lansing, MI - Grewal Hall at 224 March 20 Chicago, IL - The Metro March 21 Madison, WI - The Sylvee March 22 Minneapolis, MN - Varsity March 24 Denver, CO - Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom March 26 Boise, ID - Knitting Factory March 27 Spokane, WA - Knitting Factory March 29 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom March 30 Seattle, WA - Showbox April 1 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore April 2 Bellingham, WA - Wild Buffalo April 4 San Francisco, CA - The Regency April 6 Los Angeles, CA - The Belasco April 7 Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory OC April 8 Phoenix, AZ - Nile Theater April 9 Albuquerque, NM - El Rey Theater April 11 Austin, TX - Empire Garage April 13 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade April 14 Nashville, TN - Brooklyn Bowl

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How many partners have attached themselves to someone else’s dream, then had to adapt when it proves disappointing? Films rarely frame that experience from the woman’s perspective, which makes Mortensen’s enlightened approach fairly refreshing, even if Vivienne’s independence manifests itself in a way that anyone can sense is bad news (and not just because we see a varmint shooting up the saloon and hightailing it out of town early on). Determined to earn her own money, Vivienne applies for a job in that very same saloon, where that very same varmint, Weston (“Tom Jones” star Solly McLeod), lecherously hires her on the spot.

Wearing his entitlement as menacing as his villainous black hat, Weston acts like he owns the bar — as it happens, he does — and everything in it, smashing whom and what he pleases. One night, the young pest shows up drunk at Vivienne’s cabin and forces himself on her (a development that’s predictable to us but comes as a surprise to Krieps’ otherwise intelligent character). After so many subtleties, it’s unfortunate that Mortensen relies on rape as a plot device, though Vivienne’s reaction reinforces the strength she finds in Holger’s absence: defiantly showing up at work the next day, raising the child that results from this violation.

One of the film’s best scenes — emblematic of the way the movie communicates many of its ideas without dialogue — occurs years later, when Holger accepts the boy as his own. When the characters do speak, they express themselves in a clumsy, overwrought way, as if they’ve been watching “Deadwood” and wish to parley as only David Milch can. Danny Huston brings gusto to the role of shady mayor Rudolph Schiller, in cahoots with Weston’s dad, Alfred Jeffries (Garret Dillahunt), on a big land deal. Told out of order, those scenes are frustratingly difficult to follow, but also standard enough that we get the gist. (The rest works better on second viewing, once we’ve worked out the chronology.)

In Holger’s absence, Vivienne transforms their scrappy patch of nothing into a proper home, with a thriving garden and plants blooming all around the porch. (She probably should have opened a flower stand in town, rather than find work at the saloon, but then Mortensen couldn’t have made his statement about what dastardly predators men can be.) When Holger returns, it’s to the scene that opened the film, just in time to watch Vivienne kick the bucket. She was the film’s spine, its fiery frontier wildflower, and without her, the movie settles into a kind of melancholy torpor. Weston’s out there somewhere, begging to be taught a lesson, but Mortensen — who, as an actor, expanded the Western in films such as “Jauja” and “The Road” — seems to have other ideas in mind.

Reviewed at Toronto Film Festival, Sept. 9, 2023. MPA Rating: R. Running time: 129 MIN.

• Production: (Canada-Mexico-Denmark) A Shout! Studios release of a Talipot Studio presentation, in association with MEP, Perceval Pictures, of a Talipot Studios, Recorded Picture Company, Perceval Pictures production, in association with HanWay Films. Producers: Regina Solorzano, Jeremy Thomas, Viggo Mortensen. Executive producers: Roberto Paxson, Gabriel Terrazas, Ivan Kelava, Daniel Berkerman, Jesper Morthorst, Paula Astorga Riestra, Peter Watson. Co -producers: Gia Galligani, Angela Blair.
• Crew: Director, writer: Viggo Mortensen. Camera: Marcel Zyskind. Editor: Peder Pedersen. Music: Viggo Mortensen.
• With: Vicky Krieps, Viggo Mortensen, Solly McLeod, Garret Dillahunt, Colin Morgan, Ray Mckinnon, W. Earl Brown, Atlas Green, Danny Huston. (English, French, Spanish dialogue)

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