MUSIC

Warehouse Live presents Black Queen Speaks. With Hounds of Jezibel.

Formed in Houston, TX but hailing from across the country, Black Queen Speaks came together for a common love of the almighty groove. Their sound is an amalgamation of blues, hard rock, grunge, 70’s funk, dance, and soul peppered with flourishes of 90’s hip hop.

In short, Black Queen Speaks can best be described as if Jane’s Addiction and SoundGarden got their asses kicked by James Brown.

“Off with their heads,” the Black Queen Speaks. Then she courts them all - not separately but simultaneously. The musicians – Mike (vocals), D2 (guitar), Pez (bass), Josh (drums) – meld, they fuse. They are no longer individual talents; they are one . . . protrusions from the hydra head. And as she fuses them with each other, she fuses them with the music of the ages. They are transformed, and so is the music. No longer music from the past or the present, but music that transcends time and space . . . music that stimulates tribal dancing, chanting, swaying . . . pulsating.

Taking the listener to the brink . . . bursting forth in a rush of warm, perfumed essence, alternating so rapidly that you collapse, exhausted. But you don't care. You're happy, you're satiated until… in a nanosecond, you want MORE. And the Queen is happy to accommodate one and all. She dances through everyone. You love her. And she loves you.

Weep not for this, your destruction. In every ending lies a beginning. And we are all more pleasant without them, these heads.