Dumblonde

6.29 Saturday (R&B) Nectar & SolidSound present: DANITY KANE Dawn Dumblonde Special Guests $30 - $35adv $50 VIP Mezzanine 9pm, 21+ Nectar Lounge 412 N 36th St www.nectarlounge.com DANITY KANE Website Spotify Danity Kane is a multi-platinum, international, chart topping, independent female music group. The group originally formed on MTV's hit series Making the Band and signed to Bad Boy/Atlantic Records in 2005 under the direction of Sean "Diddy" Combs. With radio hits like "Showstopper" and "Damaged," they proved their talents as legitimate industry artists. Their freshman and sophomore albums "Danity Kane" and "Welcome to the Dollhouse" both debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. Danity Kane became the first female group in Billboard's history to consecutively debut albums at #1, placing them in the Guinness Book of World Records. After reuniting in 2014 their independent self-titled Junior album “DK3” went #1 on Billboard US top Album Chart. Dumblonde Website Spotify Dumblonde is an independent alternative Dance/Pop duo created by singer/songwriters Aubrey O'Day and Shannon Bex formerly of the multi- platinum, international, chart topping female group Danity Kane. The girls were discovered on the hit MTV show "Making the Band", and grew to be noted in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the only girl group to have two number one consecutive albums on Billboard. In their ten years sharing the stage these two formed an unbreakable bond while touring the world with many artists, including opening for the Black Eyed Peas, Backstreet Boys, and Christina Aguilera. Their indie pop debut has strong dance and alternative influences. The combination of their iconic blonde appeal, transcendent harmonies and powerful stage presence is a style unique only to Dumblonde. Their self titled visual album released in September 2015. Debuting at #1 on Billboards“Heatseekers” Chart and #1 on iTunes Dance Charts. Dawn  Website Spotify Dawn Richard, known professionally as DAWN, is a multi-platinum American singersongwriter. Richard started her career after auditioning for Making the Band 3 in 2004, During this time Richard became a member of American girl band Danity Kane from 2005 to 2008, and in 2009 joined with label head Sean "Diddy" Combs and Kalenna Harper to form the group Diddy-Dirty Money. Being in two groups, Dawn already has 2 consecutive platinum #1 albums under her belt with Danity Kane, a platinum album & "Last Train to Paris" with Diddy-Dirty Money, a gold single "Hello Good Morning", and a 3x platinum single with Diddy-Dirty Money titled "Coming Home". Dawn released Blackheart on January 15th, 2015 – which happened to be the second year anniversary of Dawn's last critically acclaimed album, Goldenheart. Since the release of Blackheart, Richard has been receiving critical acclaim from Fact Magazine, New York Times/LA Times, and Billboard. Many are saying that this is her best work yet. Andrew Ryce of Pitchfork gave the album an 8 out of 10 saying, “Blackheart is the singular, visionary work that she’s been hinting at since she struck out on her own post-Diddy in 2011.” Alex Macpherson of Fact Magazine called Blackheart astonishing and gave the album 4.5 out of 5 stars. Blackheart peaked #1 on iTunes Electronic charts and Top 20 overall on the iTunes album charts. In addition to that, Blackheart charted as #1 on the U.S. Top Independent Albums chart on Billboard, #2 on the Billboard Electronic/Dance chart, and #3 on the U.S. Top Heatseekers chart – with no major label push (completely independent). To accompany the album, Richard released a black and white animation visual on VEVO titled “Tide: The Paradox Effect”, which is also available on iTunes. Since the album’s release, Richard has also unveiled seven additional visuals for songs from Blackheart via VEVO and iTunes. Dawn currently has nine music videos to date for this album. All have which debuted at number one on iTunes. Pitchfork recently named Blackheart as one of The Most Overlooked Records of 2015. SPIN recently included Blackheart in their 50 Best Albums of 2015 article.