(BOSTON, MA) On Friday, September 13th , Boston indie alternative band Ruby Grove will be releasing their new track “Crystal Land” off their upcoming EP Ripple at an indie concert celebration called “Fierce and Fabulous” with bands Girl With A Hawk, Happy Little Clouds, and American Ocelot at the Jungle Community Music Club. All bands included in the lineup feature talented local female, queer, and/or trans performers, uplifting a blossoming scene in Boston not just focused on straight white dudes with acoustic guitars.
The performance will run from 8 PM to midnight on the evening of 9/13. The song “Crystal Land”, which makes its debut on all platforms at midnight the morning of the “Fierce and Fabulous” event, is a multi-layered track mixing progressive psychedelic rock, indie rock, and pop for an energetic indie/alternative knockout featuring 80s synths, in-your-face guitars, jazzy drums, and sultry vocals. Ruby Grove’s lead singer Melissa Nilles writes, “it’s our song about sex, death, and falling into the sun”. Its lyrics tell a story of love, lust, and embracing existential dread and Buddhist philosophies during the COVID-19 pandemic that might just help a few people process what happened during those godforsaken years.
Featured performer Ruby Grove is a New England Music Award-nominated indie alternative band based in Boston with influences like Tash Sultana, Khruangbin, Metric, Little Dragon, Jamiroquai, Jeff Buckley, and Muse. Creating a funky, soulful, and mystical sonic atmosphere that features genre fusion, Ruby Grove has carved a unique niche out for themselves since their explosion into the scene in late 2022. Ken Sears of If It’s Too Loud said of Ruby Grove, “Nothing else in the city [of Boston] sounds anything like Ruby Grove… almost impossibly infectious”.
Ruby Grove’s single release takes place in the middle of their Northeast tour in August and September 2024 to Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Tour stops after the 9/13 concert in Somerville include a 9/21 concert at Alchemy in Providence supporting Rhode Island indie phenoms Grizzlies at their “Love In Short Paragraphs” album release show, and a 9/28 appearance in Salem at Gulu Gulu Café with New Jersey-based party rock band The Foes of Fern.
RUBY GROVE ANNOUNCES NEW RELEASE “CRYSTAL LAND” WITH RELEASE PARTY IN SOMERVILLE
