BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4d78fe93-1bb0-418a-8b43-9b84cb5f1ad4@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261011T234702Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261217T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261217T213000 SUMMARY:Carbon Leaf DESCRIPTION:Thu. Dec. 17: CARBON LEAF -7:30pm- Tix: $49.50 ($63.45 throug h Ticketmaster\, $56.50 at the Birchmere Box Office) Carbon Leaf’s fifte enth studio album\, Time is the Playground is both a call to action and an embrace of the moment. Marrying nostalgic storytelling to nuanced\, f olk-infused indie rock\, the Richmond\, Virginia band embroiders heartfe lt melody and harmony with acoustic and electric instrumentation to crea te a 12-song rumination on time\, love and personal growth that’s equal parts urgent epiphany and contented exhalation. “Everybody says people d on’t listen to albums anymore\,” mulled Carbon Leaf frontman Barry Prive tt\, holed up in a coastal cottage. “So\, the challenge for us was to ma ke something that felt good to get through from beginning to end … to li sten to like a story.” Originally formed as a college cover band in 1992 and with over 3\,500 famously enthused live shows together\, Carbon Lea f helped to define the aughts indie rock that they ultimately outgrew an d outlasted. They first earned national recognition with “The Boxer\,” a song that won the American Music Awards 2002 New Music Award and made C arbon Leaf the first unsigned band to perform before millions on the AMA s. “The Boxer” entered regular radio rotation\, Carbon Leaf’s tours grew bigger and better\, and within a couple of years they quit their day jo bs and inked a record deal. The band’s fanbase snowballed\, drawn to the ir infectious spirit of commitment\, empathy\, communion\, and self- rel iance – not to mention supremely crafted songs with ultra-relatable\, th ought-provoking lyrics. After a trio of charting albums for Vanguard Rec ords\, multiple songwriting awards and headlining shows\, Carbon Leaf op ted to return to the complete creative control of their indie roots. Gui tarist Terry Clark\, who co-founded the band with Privett and multi-inst rumentalist Carter Gravatt\, converted his garage into the band’s Two-Ca r Studio\, where they’ve recorded releases for their own Constant Ivy im print ever since. Carbon Leaf’s DIY spirit even extended to re-recording their three Vanguard albums in order to regain the rights. Due in Septe mber\, Time is the Playground is Carbon Leaf’s first full-length album i n a decade\, during which they released two EPS and a 27-song live perfo rmance album and Blu-ray. Time is the Playground gathers the best of son gs written\, in fits and starts\, over 15 years\, alongside brand new id eas. Privett dusted off old demos and shut himself away for months to fi nish their stories\, while also honing recent compositions. With Clark e ngineering\, Carbon Leaf – completed by longtime bassist Jon Markel and drummer Jesse Humphrey – spent a year and a half recording and mixing th e resulting songs. “Thinking about these disparate pieces of music\, I b egan ruminating on time itself\,” Privett recalled. “The band’s been tog ether a long time. You mature a bit and see yourself in place on the tim eline … rolling around the scenes of love and growth.” Masterfully meldi ng saturated AC/DC guitar and squelchy Cars synth\, “Backmask 1983” is a fun flipbook of evocative era emblems – Farah Fawcett\, “Satanic Panic\ ,” Time Life Books\, Bigfoot and more – that traverses the simultaneous nexus of Privett’s childhood/adolescence and the world’s analog/digital ages. It’s about morphing into a new person and a new planet with wide- eyed wonder and a longing to believe. “Without a whole lot of informatio n\, the mystery of things felt so heightened\,” recalled Privett of grow ing up pre-Internet. “I wanted to capture some of that but also have fun with it.” “I want what we create to resonate with ourselves\, to the le vel that we want to play it for a long time to come\, and where we want others to hear it and experience it\,” Privett concluded. “Hopefully\, l isteners can glean the pieces from it that they identify with.” Time is the Playground will be accompanied by the tireless touring almost synony mous with Carbon Leaf\, who’ve become a model for self-managing bands in the digital landscape. Artist Website: https://www.carbonleaf.com\n\nTi ckets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/birchmere-tickets-alexandria/venue/1 72043\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/4d78fe93-1bb0-418a-8b43-9b84c b5f1ad4 LOCATION:The Birchmere\, Alexandria\, VA URL:https://findlocal.community/event/4d78fe93-1bb0-418a-8b43-9b84cb5f1ad 4 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR