Genre-bending – often metallic, often electronic, often alternative, and often delectably pop – singer/songwriter, performance artist, graphic novelist, and internet sensation Poppy is gearing up to play her biggest-ever headlining show in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection next Thursday, April 3rd. Her last two local stops had her supporting Thirty Seconds to Mars at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion last summer and opening Wells Fargo Center for The Smashing Pumpkins in 2022, but we know her best for putting on sold-out rock club spectacles at Theatre of Living Arts, where we last saw her in April of 2022, touring behind 2021’s Flux, which had Poppy exploring the kinds of sounds that Lollapalooza made famous, including grunge, dream pop, and shoegaze. However, next Thursday’s show will have her headlining the 2,500-capacity Fillmore (two-and-a-half times the size of TLA).
Poppy’s currently about halfway through her They’re All Around Us North American tour, which comes in support of last year’s Negative Spaces LP, her sixth overall, fourth for Sumerian, and at least her best since (and before) 2020’s I Disagree, whose “BLOODMONEY” earned her the first-ever female solo Best Metal Performance GRAMMY nomination. Negative Spaces was produced (and co-written) by Jordan Fish, former keyboardist and producer for metalcore-turned-electro-pop-rock outfit Bring Me the Horizon. At times the 15-song collection (which clocks in at just over 42 minutes) sounds like it could earn her a mainstage slot on Ozzfest in the early-aughts, at times a second stage slot on Warped Tour the following year, and at times the live performer for any goth/industrial dance party of the past 30 years, yet it’s never incohesive or unsatisfying.
In addition to her solo output, Poppy’s found herself on some explosive collaborations since the last time she headlined the 215. She features as the exclusive vocalist on “V.A.N.” by Bad Omens, which dropped last January and has been a staple of her live show ever since. And last April she found herself providing guest vocals for “Suffocate” by Knocked Loose, which went on to earn her another GRAMMY nomination for Best Metal Performance, along with likely the most notorious televised rock performance of the past decade, when she appeared alongside the metalcore band on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last November. Check out the performance above, in addition to her recent return to the late night talk show to perform Negative Spaces’ “the cost of giving up,” and click the link below to get your tickets to see Poppy headline The Fillmore next Thursday, April 3rd.
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