Concert Review: Rogue Wave Make A Splash At Bowery Ballroom
A TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF AN ALBUM! That is a big deal as an artist, especially if you pack a venue filled with people eager to hear it again. In a world with “so much” of everything, shipping your music into the cultural stratosphere can feel like sending a message in a bottle through the ocean. Yet, at Bowery Ballroom, Rogue Wave assured that their messages from their record, Asleep At Heaven’s Gate, were received and remembered.
By the time, Rogue Wave came through, Dear Boy, had left EVERYONE AMPED! They were like stars flashing guitar melodies that made you feel surrounded by night sky. Here they were rising artists, giving contrasts, to a group celebrating how much they had arisen. I bring this up for two reasons: A) YOU SHOULD REALLY CHECK OUT DEAR BOY! B) Having been through such an adrenaline, sky-imagining performance, Rogue Wave felt like a benevolent grounding; showing listeners stars can land on earth, too. Thus, the crowd began to swim and stroke forward into a music that showed grandeur is delusion, but grandness is divine. The difference lying between those that see good is behavior and not a bargain.
There are so many reasons I love Rogue Wave after last night. Maybe, it was because they went into the middle of the crowd, with their instruments, and sang with us like we were at our final night at camp or, maybe, it was because they talk to their audience with a sweetness and respect that recognizes you do not celebrate 10 years of an album without US! The purpose of music can be muddled by fame and fortune, but Rogue Wave’s intention is purely humane. They went through their record and showed the audience good music NEVER becomes irrelevant. Songs such as “Harmonium”, “Own Your Own Home”, “Missed”, and “Fantasies” discussed the struggle to feel spiritually alive with dreams based on materiality.
I’ll admit it! I have dreamed of mansions, massive closets filled with enough clothing to style a continent, and luxury vacations that make you forget poverty lives on this earth, as well. Yet, that is the point of Rogue Wave; why are you not dreaming of making life better for yourself and all. From “Christians In Black” to “Like I Needed”, Zach Rogue sung nomadically; drifting his notes like a humble, wise hermit searching for a place safe from the world he loves but forgot to love itself. WHO DOES NOT FEEL LIKE THAT RIGHT NOW!? Thus, as he harmonized with Pat Spurgeon, and made sure the crowd was “feeling” their music, I felt grateful. Rogue Wave exemplify the importance of live shows as enlightening experiences that make us think better by feeling better. For More Information on Rogue Wave Click Here.
