The Velveteers: A Million Knives Tour with SKORTS at MilkBoy
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Doors: 7:00 PM | Show: 8:00 PM
21+
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About The Velveteers
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After spending their teens developing a distinctively badass amalgam of punk attitude, old-school metal thunder, and gutter-glam charisma, The Velveteers are using the obsessions of their adolescence to soundtrack the messy emotions of adulthood. The Boulder, Colorado, trio’s second album, A Million Knives, chronicles the volatile truth of being an artist in the music industry while still clinging to the joy they felt when they were just learning their instruments. “When you’re a kid, you just have a natural curiosity,” says singer/guitarist Demi Demitro. “As you grow older, the world makes you jaded. This album is about the hard truth that no matter how hard you protect your heart, it’s just going to be broken.” An even harder truth: Often you’re the one breaking it. Or, as Demi puts it, “Sometimes you realize that you’re the one stabbing yourself in the heart with a million knives.”
Writing and recording and in some cases re-recording A Million Knives was a painful experience for the band, but a necessary one: a process of musical and emotional self-discovery. By acknowledging the travails of that process, they’ve created an album that stretches out into imaginative directions, that offers new thrills and twists. The Velveteers devise new ways to combine crunchy guitars and rumbling drums, so that every song hinges on some wild new ideas: the heavy disco rhythms of “Bound In Leather,” the fluorescent flourishes of “Go Fly Away,” and most impressively the devastating confessionals of “Up Here” and “Fix Me.”
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About SKORTS
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In under two years, SKORTS went from conception to one of the most talked about and in demand local bands in New York. Their sound has been described as many things including psych-glam, post-alt and dark wave disco. Their live shows have become a crown jewel of the NYC & Brooklyn music scene, winning them 'Our Wicked Lady's 2024 Winter Madness' and also earning them the number one spot on the 'Ohmyrockness Hardest Working Bands List of 2024'. They have received coverage from Paste, PAPER magazine and many more!
The band has played just about every club in Manhattan and Brooklyn, some of which include Webster Hall, Brooklyn Bowl, a sold out Bowery Ballroom and a sold out Racket (Chelsea). Having only a handful of singles released, the anticipation for a full body of work from the band is high. The rumours of a debut album set to drop in 2025 are now confirmed true and the wait is soon to be over. With a jaw dropping live show and undeniable song writing, SKORTS continues to grab the attention of music fans from all genres and generations.
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