Letters to Cleo‘s classic 1993 debut album Aurora Gory Alice turns 30 this year, and to celebrate they’ll be playing it in full along with other favorites at special shows in NYC (Brooklyn Made on November 15) and their hometown of Boston (Paradise Rock Club on November 17 & 18). Tickets for those shows go on sale Friday, August 25 at 10 AM.
Joining them at all three shows will be fellow Boston band and ’90s jangly power-pop greats Gigolo Aunts who haven’t played a US show in nearly a decade. That’s a very appealing double bill.
Listen to Aurora Gory Alice and a few Gigolo August songs below.
Meanwhile, Letters to Cleo’s Kay Hanley and Tom Polce wrote the songs for recent Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode “Subspace Rhapsody,” which is the first musical episode in Star Trek history (not counting a few Spock lute performances). Kay says, “I never could have imagined this moment when I was a little kid watching Star Trek on channel 38 with dad. Creating songs for the Star Trek universe was easily the most intimidating challenge I’ve ever faced on the job and yet when given a script as beautifully complex and well realized as the one written by Dana Horgan and Bill Wolkoff, the songs poured out as if they’d been inside of me my whole life. It’s impossible to overstate how proud I am of the songs Tom Polce and I wrote for the crew of the Enterprise. And that one for the Klingons.”
You can listen to the “Subspace Rhapsody” soundtrack below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videoseries
