Let Me Teach You How to Cher | Vegas Seven, Seven Nights | Feb. 9-15, 2017

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WHAT TO DO

AFTER DARK

By Mark Adams

THURSDAY 9 HEAR: Indie label InVogue Records brings

its Unplugged Tour to Beauty Bar tonight, with JT Woodruff of Hawthorne Heights headlining, going solo with a familiar yet decidedly stripped-down sound. Concertgoers will also feed their ears with pop-punk delights In Her Own Words, the dreamy and emotive sounds of Woven in Hiatus and the pacifying pulse of Hazing. 8 p.m., $10, 517 Fremont St., beautybarlv.com DANCE: Turn it on, turn it up, Cash Cash

is your radio at Hakkasan tonight. Sure, you’ve heard “Millionaire” featuring Nelly, but do yourself a favor and check out Cash Cash’s track with Michael Fitzpatrick of Fitz and the Tantrums, “Broken Drum”—and hope the EDM trio drops it live. 10:30 p.m., $20–$30, inside MGM Grand, hakkasanlv.com

Adam Ant

EXPERIENCE: Double Down Saloon and punk rock go together like liberty spikes and Sharpied-up Converse. It’s no surprise that the gritty dive is airing The Decline of Western Civilization, a documentary focused on the late ’70s/early ’80s punk-rock scene in L.A. Free popcorn, live performances by The Pluralses and punk DJ/VJ sets complete the screening, but fuck popcorn! Get a beer, asshole. 9 p.m., 4640 Paradise Rd., doubledownsaloon.com

FRIDAY 10 HEAR: Adam Ant plays Brooklyn Bowl,

performing favorites from his time fronting post-punk outfit Adam and the Ants and the glammed-up New Wave solo tracks for which he’s beloved. 8 p.m., $29.50–$130, at The Linq Promenade, brooklynbowl.com/las-vegas DANCE: French EDM DJ/producer DJ Snake

had dance floors burning up in 2016, and complemented it with chart-toppers such as “Let Me Love You” (featuring Justin Bieber) and “Middle” (featuring Bipolar Sunshine).

The beat slinger stops by XS tonight. 10 p.m., $20–$30, inside Encore, xslasvegas.com

TASTE: Bad Beat Brewing taps its new

Sticke Altbier tonight. Get a taste of the

suds and take home a six-pack, available only at the Henderson taproom.

2 p.m.–midnight, 7380 Eastgate Rd., Suite 110, badbeatbrewing.com

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JT Woodruff (right) and Finding Neverland (below)

SATURDAY 11 HEAR: Hip-hop heads looking for “The Fix” Saturday

night should beeline to Drai’s Nightclub tonight, as Nelly takes its spotlight to spit some rhymes and make it, well, you know … “Hot in Herre.” 10:30 p.m., $30–$50, inside The Cromwell, draisnightlife.com DANCE: Omnia is going to be “Off the Hook” tonight,

when Dutch DJ/producer Armin van Buuren mesmerizes the crowd with his trance-tastic beats. 10:30 p.m., $20–$30, inside Caesars Palace, omnianightclub.com JT WOODRUFF BY ADAMBRIAN OSBOURNE; FINDING NEVEL AND BY CAROL ROSEGG

TASTE: We should constantly be celebrating the bevy of

amazing brews our city’s brewery crop is putting out there, but Downtown’s Hop Nuts Brewing celebrates two times around the sun at its Two-Year Anniversary Party tonight. Raise a pint of its new triple IPA for the occasion. Noon–3 a.m., 1120 S. Main St., hopnutsbrewing.com EXPERIENCE: Looking for a hot spot to watch Holly Holm face off against Germaine de Randamie? Look no further—Beer Park has you covered with its UFC 208 watch party. 7–10 p.m., $27.49, at Paris Las Vegas, beerpark.com

SUNDAY 12 DANCE: Up-and-coming EDM beatmeister NGHTMRE

lands at Hakkasan tonight. Blending everything from trap to moombahton, you never know what you’re going to get from the artist. Solve the mystery Sunday night.

10:30 p.m., $20–$30, inside MGM Grand, hakkasanlv.com

MONDAY 13 DANCE: Get “Hung Up” in the moment at

Marquee, with progressive house duo Tritonal behind the booth for another

installment of its Painting With Dreams residency. 10:30 p.m., $23–$33, inside The Cosmopolitan, marqueelasvegas.com EXPERIENCE: Maybe you made the audience laugh during your last round of karaoke— we’ve all been there. But have you tried putting a crowd of strangers in stitches with your pure wit? Attempt just that at Hard Hat Lounge’s Open Mic Comedy Night.

9–10 p.m., 1675 Industrial Rd., hardhatbar.com

WEDNESDAY 14 EXPERIENCE: Travel to the magical land of Peter Pan at The Smith Center—no pixie dust necessary. Finding Neverland, the Broadway musical focused on playwright J.M. Barrie’s journey to creating the seminal children’s classic, hits the Reynolds Hall stage tonight. 7:30 p.m., $29–$127, thesmithcenter.com 7 Februa r y 9 -15 , 2017 vegasseven.com

TUESDAY 14 HEAR: Go “Into the Deep” with New Orle-

ans–based jam band Galactic at Brooklyn Bowl. Now, if only Macy Gray were in town to provide her pipes on that one ...

7 p.m., $22, at The Linq Promenade, brooklynbowl.com/las-vegas DANCE: Jump into a time machine to the days when tossing your shoes aside for a gymnasium get-down was the hip thing to do. Bunkhouse Saloon puts on a Valentine’s Sock Hop for the holiday, complete with local acts putting spins on sonic favorites from the ’50s and ’60s. 9 p.m., $10, 124 S. 11th St., bunkhousedowntown.com

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Faces of

Singer, actress, activist—the living legend has seemingly done it all

Cher

Las Vegas has always demanded big personalities and big productions: Few can deliver on both of those counts like Cher. Still one of the definitive divas at 70, she launched a new residency at Park Theater at Monte Carlo February 8, accompanying her decades of pop hits with the extravagant staging and outrageous costumes that have become her trademark. Everyone has their favorite Cher moments—’70s Vogue Cher, cougar Cher, straddling an anti-aircraft gun in a thong on MTV Cher. Here are a few of ours ...

By Lissa Townsend Rodgers Archival Photography Las Vegas News Bureau & Alamy

(Sonny discovers) Cher

Aspiring star Cherilyn Sarkisian met wannabe impresario Salvatore “Sonny” Bono at a Los Angeles coffee shop in 1962. Bono was an assistant to music producer Phil Spector, back in his Wall of Sound glory days. Cher sang backup on several Spector hits, including the Ronettes’ “Be My Baby”—it’s not hard to see traces of Ronnie Spector in Cher’s beehive and eyeliner, and shades of Phil in Sonny’s own Svengali act, including the early singles he produced for Cher. They went nowhere, as did their first duet as “Caesar and Cleo.” But, in the mid-1960s, the duo began recording as Sonny & Cher, with “I Got You Babe” coming out in 1965. And the rest is history.

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour was a TV hit from 1971–1974, but the real fun started when Cher shed that 5 feet 5 inches of deadweight and launched her own show, Cher. Working with legendary comedians such as Lily Tomlin allowed Cher to exercise her humor chops in a way that snickering at Sonny just didn’t, while musical guests let her go toeto-toe and sequin-to-sequin with Tina Turner on a funky “Shame, Shame, Shame” or put on an orange wig to join David Bowie at his Thin White Duke peak and groove through a medley of ’50s/’60s pop classics that began and ended with “Young Americans.” Sonny came back in 1975, but things were more fun with just Cher.

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TV Diva Cher

Cher Feb. 10, 11, 14, 18, 19, 22, 24 and 25; May 3, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 17, 19 and 20; 8 p.m., $55–$202; Park Theater, at Monte Carlo, montecarlo.com

Thespian Cher Vegas Cher Mach 1

Cher launched her first solo tour in 1979 at Caesars Palace. She was hot off of her massive disco hit “Take Me Home”—you may recall the album cover, in which Cher wore a Dungeons & Dragons-esque metal bikini. The show featured a full band and orchestra, a mechanical bull, 12 bugle-beaded Bob Mackie costumes and a pair of drag queens dressed as Bette Midler and Diana Ross.

Infomercial Cher

During the aerobicized ’80s, Cher appeared in commercials for Jack LaLanne’s fitness clubs—a 2-pound wig and 5-inch stilettos is workout wear as long as you’ve got legwarmers on. In the ’90s, Cher became a pitchwoman for celebrity hairstylist Lori Davis’ hair-care line: She was one of the first to sit on that soft-focus infomercial couch, extolling the virtues of leave-in conditioner—and ripe for parody by everyone from Saturday Night Live to Mystery Science Theater 3000. She went solo with Cher Aquasentials, a line of skin-care treatments in sapphire-blue bottles. Then there was Sanctuary, her gothic houseware catalog, selling items such as wrought-iron beds, chain-mail lampshades and gargoyle votive candles. Long before J-Lo’s perfume, Dre’s headphones, Gwyneth’s website and whatever the hell Yeezy is up to now, Cher was clocking the personal branding dollars.

Activist Cher

Recently, Cher has been an outspoken opponent of Donald Trump and his policies, speaking at rallies in New York City and Washington, D.C.—but her political involvement goes further back.

She attended Jimmy Carter’s inauguration (then-husband Gregg Allman was a pal of POTUS No. 39) and performed for both Bill and Hillary Clinton. Cher has also long been an advocate for veteran’s causes, as well as an ally of the LGBT community, receiving a GLAAD award in 1998 and presenting one to her son Chaz Bono in 2012. She also understands that it takes more than words: Cher tweeted her outrage about the poisoned water in Flint, Michigan, and donated 180,000 bottles of water. Her sole directing credit is for a segment of the film If These Walls Could Talk, about a young woman’s choice to have an abortion, and it was recently announced that she will star in a Lifetime movie about the crisis in Flint.

Vegas Cher Mach 2

More than four decades after her Las Vegas debut—with Sonny at the Flamingo in 1967—Cher returned to Sin City with a residency in 2008.

No longer part of a duo or trying to prove herself solo, this Vegas production offered a glitzy career retrospective, from “Half Breed” to “Believe.”

Not one to rest on her laurels, Cher still had 13 costume changes, from showgirl feathers to vixen spandex, rode a Viking gondola and frolicked with dancers dressed up as Roman gladiators or Road Warrior extras.

If your only credits are two flop ’60s movies, stepping onto a Broadway stage to be directed by Robert Altman alongside veteran actresses might seem crazy. But that’s how Cher revived her acting career in 1982 with Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. It was a decidedly unglamorous role as a truck-stop waitress (which she reprised in the film adaptation of the play that same year), and Cher continued to eschew glitz for her next two film roles: Meryl Streep’s blue-collar lesbian roommate in Silkwood and the biker-mama mother of a disfigured boy in Mask. She won the best actress Oscar in 1987 for playing a Brooklyn widow in Moonstruck, and showed up to claim her prize dressed in what was basically a handful of black sequins. Cher still gonna Cher.

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For the Love of

Boiler makers Tullamore D.E.W. and a brew is a match made in Ireland

By Xania Woodman Photography Krystal Ramirez

Jane Maher has a sweet gig, made all the sweeter by the fact that the Tullamore D.E.W. brand ambassador is currently on a cross-country tour, spreading the gospel of Irish whiskey as well as one of life’s greatest pleasures: the boilermaker. No foo-foo mixologizing here: “The boilermaker is a great serve with an even greater history,” Maher says. “The concept of enjoying a whiskey and beer side by side is a long-standing Irish tradition. The term boilermaker derives from the Irish immigrant community in New York that worked in the locomotive industry. The local drinkers would say, ‘I’ll have what the boilermaker is having’— that being a whiskey alongside a beer.”

Whether you’ve toiled with your hands, your brain or not at all today, you can surely imagine the joy of shooting a bracing whiskey and chasing it with a crisp beer. Or perhaps moving back and forth between the two, taking

note of the complementary and contrasting notes. However you do it, Maher would, of course, suggest that you D.E.W. it. “Whiskey and beer are like malt cousins: They share the same DNA, and for that reason, they make the perfect pair,” Maher says. “In order to make whiskey, we must first make a beer; we take that beer and then distill it. Like all great breweries, we use the finest barley, water and yeast to create our whiskey. A sip of whiskey followed by a sip of beer is a match made in heaven.”

Last month, the Tully tour stopped in Las Vegas with a twofold mission, to introduce the city to Tullamore D.E.W. Phoenix, a limited-edition, higher-proof expression finished in oloroso sherry casks, and to bless a particularly special boilermaker. To make Tenaya Creek Brewery’s Phoenix Stout, head brewer Anthony Gibson soaked medium-toasted oak spirals in the Phoenix whiskey, along with Madagascar

vanilla beans for 16 days. These then went into a stout beer for six more days, yielding two kegs—one for Atomic Liquors and one for Tenaya Creek’s taproom. “The rich flavors of our Phoenix whiskey pairs amazingly with the velvety chocolate notes of the Phoenix Stout,” Maher says. So amazingly that, of course, the beer sold out in a matter of days. Gibson will make another keg for his taproom for St. Patrick’s Day, but to experience a similar pairing at Atomic Liquors (917 Fremont St., atomicvegas. com), barman Jeffrey Bennington Grindley suggests trying a neat pour of the Tullamore D.E.W. Phoenix ($14) with a pint of Modern Times Black House Stout on nitro ($7).

Bottom line, there’s no wrong answer.

“Experimenting and pairing different beers with Tullamore D.E.W. is great fun,” Maher says. “It’s our D.E.W., your brew. You decide what makes the perfect pairing.”7

THREE MORE TO TRY Tullamore D.E.W. Original A triple-distilled blend aged in a combination of ex-bourbon and oloroso sherry casks.

PAIR IT: At The Griffin, bar manager Sean Eaton offers two possible mates for Tully original. While Big Sky’s Moose Drool makes a great palate cleanser for the whiskey, Breckenridge’s Nitro Vanilla Porter brings its own flavor to the party. Light and creamy, the draft beer is “like a Guinness but a tad sweeter,” says barman Eddie Haddad. “It also makes a great Irish Car Bomb.” But we won’t go there.

Beers $7, whiskey $7, 511 Fremont St., facebook.com/thelasvegasgriffin Tullamore D.E.W. 12-Year Special Reserve A triple-distilled blend with a high proportion of pot still and malt whiskeys, matured in ex-bourbon and sherry casks for 12-15 years.

PAIR IT: “I am all about whatever suits your fancy, but the Smithwick’s Irish Red Ale is a natural pairing: smooth, with subtle hints of caramel, dates and a semisweet finish,” says Downtown Cocktail Room and Sip ’n’ Tip bar manager Kevin Gorham. “The whiskey has hints of spice—nutmeg and allspice—figs and raisins, and a bit of nuttiness on the finish. All of those flavors, they seem to just belong together.”

Beer $5, whiskey $8 (Sip ’n’ Tip), $12 (DCR), 111 Las Vegas Blvd. South, downtowncocktailroom.com Tullamore D.E.W. 15-Year-Old Trilogy A triple-distilled blend matured in ex-bourbon, sherry and rum casks; the oldest Tullamore D.E.W. Irish whiskey released to date.

PAIR IT: Putting their heads together late one night while the evening’s bands load out, Bunkhouse Saloon bartender Dillon Shines and bar manager Brandon Leopard come to an agreement that their Lagunitas Pils is the way to go. “It’s close to a boilermaker without being Irish, and the best lager-ish beer we have consistently,” Shines says. Trilogy’s exquisite fruitiness makes the beer more bitter and refreshing—a delightful interplay, especially while the smell of the fire pit wafts in.

Beer $6, whiskey $12, 124 S. 11th St., bunkhousedowntown.com

Raise a Glass!

Jane Maher’s seven favorite toasts (to be read with a proper Irish brogue!)

“Here’s to stealing, cheating, fighting and drinking. If you steal, may you only ever steal a heart. If you fight, may you only ever fight for a brother or sister. If you cheat, may you only

ever cheat death. And if you drink, may you only ever drink whiskey—with me!”

“May the roof above us never fall in, and may our friends beneath it never fall out.”

“To great women: May we know them, may we raise them, may we love them!”

“I have seen the best of you and the worst of you—and I choose both!”

“To all my badass girlfriends: Here’s to breaking the rules, because well-behaved women rarely make history.”

“Here’s to you, here’s to me. Here’s to best friends, we’ll always be. But if we should part ways, well, screw you and here’s to me!”

“Here’s to a long life, a happy one. A quick death, an easy one. A good guy, an honest one.

A great whiskey, another one.”

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[ NOW POURING ]

Less Is So Much More Mike Morey's Sip ’n’ Tip

By Xania Woodman Photography Krystal Ramirez

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NAME: Mike Morey’s Sip ‘n’ Tip SERVING: Beer, spirits and cocktails in a casual, intimate environment.

OPENED: January 27, 2017 WHO’S BEHIND IT: Michael and Jennifer Cornthwaite of Future Restaurant Group (Downtown Cocktail Room, Emergency Arts and Oscar’s Steakhouse).

DID YOU KNOW: Not listed on the menu, giant pickles in pouches—regular and spicy—are available for purchase at both bars.

LOCATION: Inside/behind Downtown Cocktail Room 111 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas, NV 89101 HOURS OF OPERATION: 7 p.m.-2 a.m. Wed-Sat WEBSITE: downtowncocktailroom.com CONTACT: 702-880-3696 FACEBOOK: facebook.com/sipntip

A little-used event space in the back of Downtown Cocktail Room has come to life with the January unveiling of Mike Morey’s Sip ’n’ Tip. Neither a dive bar (far too clean) nor a speakeasy (a neon sign arrives in two weeks), the Sip ’n’ Tip (as owners Michael and Jennifer Cornthwaite call it) brings Downtown’s diverse patrons a new place in which to enjoy a beer and a shot in an intimate environment that emphasizes quality and simplicity.

Enter from the alley between Las Vegas Boulevard and Sixth Street or cross over from inside Downtown Cocktail Room—both bring you to a small, unfinished anteroom with exposed lath and plaster where you’ll also find a portrait by artist and DCR fixture Michael Wardle of the bar’s namesake. Mike Morey was a local lawyer, actor and regular of unmatchable devotion to DCR and its staff. After Morey passed away suddenly in 2015, the Cornthwaites decided to name their next project for him. Through a second set of curtains, enter the one-room bar, which offers seating at four wood-grain booths and on 14 barstools. The once-maroon walls have been ripped down, revealing roughly textured brick and mortar, and the backbar has been neatly done up to match. A fancy mirror at the center becomes a TV when needed. Beneath the solid wooden bar with iron edging, you’ll find more coat hooks than a town that spends nine months of the year eschewing sleeves really needs, and enough electrical outlets and USB ports to charge all the devices in the room.

If the subtly integrated modern conveniences don’t impress, perhaps what goes on behind the bar will make a regular out of you. Offering a counterpoint to DCR’s intensely reverential cocktail culture, the Sip ’n’ Tip is decidedly more beer-and-a-shot. Choose from a growing list of 30 beers in a bottle, can or draft (all $10 or less, most around $5) and add a shot of Powers Irish Whiskey ($5) or Tullamore D.E.W. 12-Year-Old Special Reserve ($8) to make any of them a boilermaker. Or skip the beer altogether and order your spirits by the shelf: well ($5), countertop ($7), middle ($9) and top ($12). And perhaps the best detail: Sales tax is included in all prices, so you can have the joy of slapping down actual cash without having to futz around with change.

That alone might be worth a toast!

You’ll find the staff, which is shared between both bars, to be very comfortable with the Sip ’n’ Tip’s back-to-basics ethos. A small corner of the menu touts four drinks “stolen” from DCR, as well as five solid suggestions including an Old Fashioned, Negroni, Dark & Stormy, Mai Tai and signature The Morey (Old Tom Gin, dry vermouth, orange bitters). But with bartenders of this pedigree—among them bar manager Kevin Gorham—you might just want to let them run free and make something for you. Recent off-the-cuffers have gotten a taste of Gorham’s unique style of rendering beertails: You call the beer and he doctors it up with complementary spirits, liqueurs and other modifiers right inside the bottle or can. If hunger at last grips you, burgers from Flippin’ Good are quickly shuttled over via the shared back hallway, and bar nibbles come from DCR. If the high, starched collar of mixology is pinching a tad tight of late, rip that sucker off and let your hair down in a room that doesn’t try to micromanage the experience with overwrought curation, a literal rulebook or exhaustive theming, and instead welcomes whatever and whomever the night may bring. 7

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From

DRUMMER to

DJ

Clem Burke of Blondie talks making and playing records, ahead of spinning at The Golden Tiki

By Lissa Townsend Rodgers

Over the past four-plus decades, Clem Burke has kept the beat for the best of them. Along with his career as the drummer for Blondie, he’s played for the Ramones and the Romantics, Bob Dylan and Iggy Pop, Wanda Jackson and Nancy Sinatra. Blondie’s 11th album, Pollinator, will be released in March and, before hitting the tour circuit, Burke will spin a few of his favorite records at The Golden Tiki. He recently spoke to Vegas Seven about making albums, hauling vinyl and being “the reverse Spinal Tap.”

Clem Burke Feb. 11, 10 p.m., $5, The Golden Tiki, 3939 Spring Mountain Rd., thegoldentiki.com Pictured: Clem Burke (far right) of Blondie

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Do you enjoy playing Las Vegas? The first

time that we played in Vegas with Blondie was at the Aladdin—it was in the late ’70s. I think it was the only casino that actually had a theater; most places [had] showrooms. I think we even used the house PA system to play through. …

I’ve played [in Las Vegas] many times over the years, and I always say if it was good enough for Elvis and good enough for Frank, it’s good enough for me. Billy Idol’s doing a residency now … he says he loves it.

Would you ever consider a residency? I

was playing with Nancy Sinatra a bunch over the last 10 years, and I sort of thought maybe we’d do it with her. That never happened. But I could definitely see Blondie doing that. I think that would be great.

You’ve played with so many artists. Is there anyone who was a favorite or that you’d still like to play with? I’d love to play with Little

Richard or Chuck Berry. Or Bruce—I’d like to sit around and play some ’60s rock ’n’ roll songs with Springsteen. I’ve worked with a lot of people; I’m kind of like the reverse Spinal Tap. In [This Is] Spinal Tap, the drummer kept exploding or falling apart, and I’m always the drummer that’s replacing the drummer in a lot of bands over the years—the Ramones, the Romantics …

How did you get into DJing? I’ve DJ’ed a few

times around L.A. and New York. It’s kind of just like a fun thing; it’s like a hobby for me. I really do enjoy it—and The Golden Tiki is such a great venue. I still have my lifelong vinyl record collection, so I have a lot of stuff to choose from. [DJing is] sitting around playing your favorite records for people. I put a bit of thought into it before I go [to gigs], but basically I just play the music I like—and it turns out other people like it, too.

Do you have a go-to record, something people always like? It’s great when you turn

somebody on to new music, which I like to think I do when I DJ—play something someone hasn’t heard before. I like to play Booker T and the MGs. I like playing instrumentals, film soundtracks, something from the film Blow-Up or a James Bond movie. I like to mix audibles into the music, too, little soundbites. But basically, I decide what I’m going to program and just carry a bunch of vinyl around with me. I don’t really like sitting in front of the computer just pressing a button; I actually like the physical aspects of moving the records around.

As a vinyl guy, what do you think of how trendy it’s gotten? I think it’s interesting. At

first it seemed like a fad, but vinyl is getting more and more popular. I know a couple of people who are opening up pressing plants again. A lot of the millennials, they just buy records for the artifact—they don’t really play it, they just like to have it sitting around their loft or apartment. It’s kind of funny.

So, you have a new Blondie album coming out ... We [recorded] in New York City at a

place called the Magic Shop in SoHo. It’s actually where Bowie did his last two albums. And now the studio’s gone too, as well as David not being here anymore. We started it in December 2015. Then we took a break at Christmas and that’s when David died. That had kind of a profound effect on us—you could feel his vibe in the studio because he’d been working there exclusively for a couple of years. The album is [somewhat] informed by David Bowie in some ways ...

But the album kind of came together very organically. There [are] a lot of outside writers on this one, people like Johnny Marr and Sia. The artwork is by Shepard Fairey, which we’re excited about. We’re gonna be on tour and we’re going to be out in the public eye for the rest of this year, at least. I always say I’ll give it another 18 months, and it’s been over 40 years. 7