POPSCENE PRESENTS

ELLA EYRE

SAMSAYA, ANYA KVITKA AND THE GETDOWN, plus popscene DJs

When
Fri Jul 25, 2014
Where
Rickshaw Stop
Time
8:30 PM
Cost
$13 - $15
Tags
Singer/Songwriter, Music, Hip Hop
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ELLA EYRE

Despite venturing into songwriting just three years ago, 20 year-old Ella Eyre has already attracted the enthusiastic attention of Professor Green, Tinie Tempah and Rudimental.

Signing to Warner/ Chappell in July 2012 and then Virgin/ EMI shortly after, Ella featured on indie buzz band turned chart-topping Bastille’s cover of TLC’s No Scrubs classic, No Angels, which shot straight to the top of the Hypemachine chart. Shortly after, a casual songwriting session with Rudimental evolved into Ella writing two songs for their debut album, and she can be heard on the foursome’s stadium ready new single, Waiting All Night. After doing spot dates as their lead vocalist in 2012, she recently joined them as support for Plan B’s sold out 2013 UK Arena tour, before heading to Australia and the USA for more dates.

It’s no wonder Tinie, Naughty Boy and Pro Green are all clamoring to work with the West London singer and writer who possesses the vocal of a woman twice her age. Not only the owner of a singularly, enigmatic, unique incredible voice that conjures up the greats of yesterday, Ella also has great skill as a writer.

SAMSAYA

'Bombay Calling,' the sophomore album from Norwegian singer Samsaya, isn't just a genre-busting set of songs drawing from pop, dance, hip-hop, funk and soul. It's a long-distance call to the singer's heritage, one that augments modern pop with traditional Indian sounds that will fill any club in Miami or Los Angeles, but won't sound like the same clichéd Top 40 songs you've heard for years.

On 'Bombay Calling,' you hear the up-tempo funk of "Stereotype" and bubbly synths of "Superhero" clash against the grinding, industrial pop of "Good With The Bad" and R&B synths-meets-Indian percussion of the title track. Produced by multi-platinum selling Roc Nation producer, Fred Ball, the album fits alongside your favorite Rihanna, M.I.A. and Amy Winehouse records, but with a twist.

ANYA KVITKA AND THE GETDOWN

Moscow-born, Anya Kvitka is a player chanteuse who can draw on R&B, hip-hop, soul or jazz with equal ease thanks to her international music background and 20 years of classical piano training. Anya's 2011 live performance of Runnin', recorded at Knocksteady (now Maker Studios), was ranked in the YouTube Top 100 list the day of its release. She recently completed a successful Kickstarter project to fund her latest two singles, "Maybe" and "One Less." With her band, the getDown, she has opened for Grammy® winning artists such as Foxes, Ryan Leslie, and -- as a part of the biggest musical festival in the San Francisco Bay Area's BFD -- for 30 Seconds to Mars, Diplo, Jimmy Eat World, and Stone Temple Pilots. Anya has also been a featured artist at TEDx Talks Bay Area.

Based in San Jose, CA, the band's sound touches on everything from rock, soul and funk to hip-hop, dubstep, reggae and, of course, jazz.

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Location

  1. Rickshaw Stop
    155 Fell St, San Francisco, CA