Nick Shoulders: Universe of Battle Tour at The Drake (Amherst, MA)

Name: Nick Shoulders: Universe of Battle Tour at The Drake (Amherst, MA)
Start: 2025-11-14T20:00:00-05:00
Location: TheDrake

Schedule

Fri, 14 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

TheDrake | Amherst, MA

DSP Shows Presents:
Nick Shoulders: Universe of Battle Tour
Friday, November 14, 2025
The Drake | Amherst, MA
nickshoulders.com
All Bad, the latest album from Nick Shoulders, released via Gar Hole Records (a label founded and co-owned by Shoulders), ultimately encapsulates everything that makes Shoulders’ inimitable form of country music so vital: a heady balance of dazzling musicianship and punk defiance, coupled with gritty eccentricity and a generational connection to the roots of the genre. With a singing style inherited from his family’s vocal lineage, Nick’s songs achieve the rare feat of imparting difficult truths while inciting a certain joyful abandon, balancing a sound forged by years of hard travel with a heartfelt reverence for the origins of country music. In the spirit of Hazel Dickens and Jimmy Driftwood, the incisive yet wildly jubilant All Bad vocally objects to the reckless destruction of the natural landscape and development run rampant, while still offering plenty of joy and dance-ready rhythms. Spanning a variety of early country styles, the album’s infectious harmonies shine alongside everything from jangling cajun waltzes to surf-rock infused bluesy ballads–all tied together by a voice seemingly out of place in this century, yet ever ready to speak up about its problems.