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BAMP Project presents Maddie and Tae
March 20, 2015 @ 6:00 pm
BAMP Project presents Maddie and Tae performing live in Honolulu at The Republik Friday, March 20th, 2015. Tickets on sale NOW at the locations listed below. This event is open to all ages accompanied by an adult.
Maddie Marlow and Taylor Dye never intended to hit a nerve when they sat down on St. Patricks Day and wrote “Girl In A Country Song.” Merely expressing their own reaction to the reductive tilt of today’s BroCountry, the pair and co-writer Aaron Schwerz shamelessly skewered its Xeroxed stereotypes; “Girl” was as much a lark as it was ever “meaningful social commentary.”
Yet the response was so instant and intense, there was no denying it. NPR’s “All Things Considered” cited Maddie &Tae for “turning heads in different ways with their very first single,” Rolling Stone cited them as one of “10 New Artists You Need to Know” and David Letterman couldn’t get the plucky duo to New York fast enough. Even elevated cultural think-tank The Atlantic marveled, “Cheekily appropriating much of the sound of modern country, the two young women directly quote well-known bro-country lyrics and titles…”
But there’s so much more to Maddie & Tae than the song that is either a feminist declaration, an echo of Janet Jackson’s rebuke “I’ve got a name, and it ain’t ‘Baby’,” or this year’s feel-good finger-wag to dumb boys. NPR’s lead pop critic Ann Powers agrees, “Maddie and Tae are more. They’re songwriters, powerful harmonizers, and in the video for ‘Girl In A Country Song,’ natural comediennes.”
While Rolling Stone observed, “Cheekily appropriating much of the sound of modern country,” there is so much more toMaddie & Tae than that. Independent thinkers, strong livers, hardcore dreamers, the pair are reaching for the sky – and winking at us all while they do it. Sometimes, it’s the freshest faces and brightest sounds that pull us in. For Maddie &Tae, who embrace real country, it’s that merge of what’s right now and what they love that sets them apart/captures our imaginations in the best possible way.
Details on the Show:
Lounge Doors Open: 6:00pm (21 and over)
Hall: 7:00pm (All ages accompanied by adult)
Show: 8:00pm (All ages accompanied by adult)
Prices: $25.00in advance plus applicable fees, increase day of the show plus applicable fees.
Tickets available at:
Bampproject.com / Jointherepublik.com / Flavorus.com / Local Motion Stores / Navy/Hickam ITT Offices / Army LTS Offices / UH Campus Center / The Safehouse (the Lounge within The Republik)Tuesday thru Saturday 6:00pm until 1:00am with a $2.00 Service Fee / The New Republik Box Office Monday thru Friday 9:00am until 6:00pm with a $2.00 Service Fee
If you aren’t familiar with Maddie and Tae visit http://www.maddieandtae.com/
High-resolution photos and interviews upon request.
Mahalo to our sponsors: ROCKSTAR Energy Drink, Bud Light and Wahoo’s Hawaii.