# Event Details - **Event Name**: Kurt Vile And The Violators - Twisted Teens - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 20 Nov, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Fri, 20 Nov, 2026 at 11:30 pm (-05:00) - **Event Description**: Kurt Vile And The Violators - Twisted TeensAbout this EventLincoln Drive is a four-mile stretch of highway in Philadelphia that seems to exist out of time, itswinding turns taking you by cinematic river bends, dense woods, and inns and roadhouses thatdate back to the 1800s. Once used as a pleasure roadway for early motorists, it’s now the routeKurt Vile takes from his home in the city’s leafy Mt. Airy neighborhood to cruise into Phillyproper.“Jump in my whip / My engine whines / Zigzag my way / Down Lincoln Drive / Puck onmy lip, feel I can fly / For a while,” he sings on “Zoom 97,” the opening track on his tenthfull-length record, Philadelphia’s been good to me (Verve Records). As Gold Tone mandolinsswirl and dubby effects bubble around his vocals, an image of Vile driving with the windowdown, his signature shaggy mane rippling in the wind, begins to cohere.“My Philly is deceptively simple in a lot of ways,” says Vile, ever a zenned-out philosopher of thequotidian.“It's about driving back and forth from Mt. Airy to North Liberties, where my careerstarted. There’s so many ghosts I can visit there—all friendly ghosts, really.”Released in God’s year of 2026, the 250th anniversary of the founding of America in Kurt Vile’sfine city, Philadelphia’s been good to me enjoys a similar time-collapsing quality, mergingmeandering balladry and horizon-chasing road songs with lines about “too many screens” andhow “it was 2012 but it felt like 2014.” Philadelphia isn’t exactly Neil Young’s Malibu, Californiaor Terry Allen’s Lubbock, Texas. But every great American songwriter needs to stake a claim forthe town that feels most like home, and with this album, the man who came out of the gatecalling himself “Philly’s constant hitmaker” has crafted a love letter to the city he never left, evenas his career took him around the world.“This is my ‘bringing it all back home to Philly’ album,” Vile says.“I’m treating it like my last. I puteverything into it. It’s my best vocal record. It’s my best electric guitar record. It’s my mostorganic record, made in the comfort of my own zone.”He created the album from late 2023 to early 2026, in what he describes as “an inspired state offlux,” capturing the odd melody on a Zoom recorder or loop machine between stints on the road.Though Vile’s travels led him to sessions in Memphis, Los Angeles, and Athens (Georgia, thatis), he laid down the majority of the album in a basement studio in his Mt. Airy home,surrounded by humming analog organs, old tape consoles, records, and books about heroeslike Young, Allen, John Prine, and Sun Ra—some of whom he now counts as collaborators.Built out with Violators bassist Adam Langellotti at the start of the pandemic, the space, dubbed“OKV Central” (for “Overnite KV”), has become Vile’s sanctuary, a place he can retreat to after ashow in the city and receive a visit from the late-night muse.“I’ll come back, high on music and life, inspired by friendships and all the laughter and jokes Ihad that night,” he says.“And I look around and see my studio in a new light. I just turn on asynth and a looper, strap on a guitar, and I put that beautiful night into some kind of song. Thisalbum captures all that, ya know?”Largely self-produced, with assists from Langellotti, keys wiz Matthew Jugenheimer, drummerKyle Spence, guitarist Jesse Trbovrich, and longtime Violators boardsman Rob Schnapf, therecord sees Vile returning to his home-recording roots while also coming into his own as aproducer, using time-tested and world-worn tools to fill the album with more warmth andbonhomie than you can fit into the back of a touring band’s van.“I’ve been waiting for that kindanatural element to show up again in my recordings, like the old home recording days,” he says.“I think I finally caught that again, but in a higher fidelity; it’s never overly polished, but it’s stillpretty damn shimmery.” He’s especially proud of the sparkly lead guitar melodies he pulls froman old, hollow-body Gretsch Tennessean once owned by longtime friend and “one of my trueheroes,” Travis Good of the Sadies.“It was shredded on for so long by one of the greatest guitarplayers in the world,” Vile says.“That guitar pretty much plays itself every time I pick it upbecause of where it came from.”Though it’s a snapshot of his life at a particular moment in time, Philadelphia’s been good to meembodies Vile’s understanding of music as a conversation between people across time.Hometown ode that it might be, the title track—featuring a tribute to his city’s notoriously hard tospell (for outsiders, at least) Schuylkill River—is a riff on Tom Petty’s “California.” It might be“polluted as hell,” Vile sings.“But it runs through my town and I ain’t puttin’ it down.” Similarly,the photo on the album’s cover, an image of a ramshackle bar sign taken by the legendaryphotographer William Eggleston, actually depicts a scene in Memphis. Yet thenever-before-seen original photo, which Eggleston’s son Winston sent to Kurt a few years ago,is as much a part of his history in the city as his old gig driving a forklift at the PhiladelphiaBrewing Company or his old haunts in Northern Liberties. Its origin is both immaterial and thekey that unlocks its meaning.Elsewhere, on “Chance to Bleed,” Vile looks back on his early days in the underground musicscene. Featuring guest vocals from two OG Memphis scene greats—Natalie Hoffman of NOTSand Optic Sink and Greg Cartwright of Reining Sound and the Oblivians, who also contributesco-lead guitar (Kurt’s guitar is panned to the left, Greg’s to the right) —it’s an ode to “old-time,lo-fi, DIY rock ‘n’ roll nights.” It’s a catchy-as-hell barnburner he calls “hillbilly techno,” andappropriately, its music video was filmed at Fishtown institution Kung Fu Necktie, packed outwith friends and collaborators. It even boasts a cameo from a fellow hometown hero: the oneand only Schoolly D, popping up in his signature fur coat.“Rock O’ Stone” lyrically references the music of legendary Texas hip-hop producer DJ Screw,and there’s a distinct country influence on “Every Time I Look at You,” which features slyspoken-word verses reminiscent of Allen and fingerpicking in the vein of the dearly departedJohn Prine.“It’s got the ’isms of the country greats,” Vile says. Meanwhile,“You Don’t Know CuzIt’s My Life” is his take on a stadium anthem. It builds up to a laid-back yet triumphant chant of“I’m from Phil-a-del-phiaaaaaah!” that you could imagine a crowd of Eagles fans singing athalftime, with the occasional affectionate kiss-off to the transplants who’ve left the city behind.Finally,“Avalanches of Snow”—featuring Vile on a trumpet he’s had since middle school and aparticular guitar outro moment from Trbovrich that Vile calls “his most beauteous contribution asa Violator”—transforms a mundane experience of shoveling snow on Christmas eve into a deep,mysterious journey to the end of the night.Make no mistake: Philadelphia’s been good to me is the sound of Philly’s constant hitmakercoming back to kick ass, son the haters, and put on for the City of Brotherly Love. In true KurtVile fashion, he does so while sounding more relaxed than ever. Between the 250th anniversaryof America and its hosting of select World Cup games, 2026 is shaping up to be a big deal forPhiladelphia.“And then there’s one other thing,” Vile says.“I gotta be that third thing. Because Iam Philadelphia. I gotta own it. I gotta rise to the occasion.”SHORT VERSION:Released in God’s year of 2026, the 250th anniversary of the founding of America in Kurt Vile’sfine city of Philadelphia, Philadelphia’s been good to me finds one of our nation’s greatestsongwriters staking a claim on his hometown.“This is my ‘bringing it all back home to Philly’record,” Vile says.“I’m treating it like my last one. I put everything into it. It’s my best vocalrecord. It’s my best electric guitar record. It’s my most organic record, made in the comfort of my”own zone.Largely self-produced, with assists from Adam Langellotti, keys wiz Matthew Jugenheimer,drummer Kyle Spence, guitarist Jesse Trbovrich, and longtime Violators boardsman RobSchnapf, the record embodies Vile’s understanding of music as a conversation between peopleacross time and space. The title track is an ode to his hometown that doubles as an homage toTom Petty’s homage to California. The barn-burning “Chance to Bleed” features guest spotsfrom Memphis OGs Natalie Hoffman and Greg Cartwright but boasts a music video proudly shotat the Philly venue Kung Fu Necktime and features a cameo by local legend Schoolly D.“YouDon’t Know Cuz It’s My Life” is Kurt’s take on a stadium anthem, building up to a laid-back yettriumphant chant of “I’m from Phil-a-del-phiaaaaaaah!” that you can imagine a crowd of Eaglesfans screaming along to, Twisted Teas pointed towards the heavens.Make no mistake: Philadelphia’s been good to me is the sound of Philly’s constant hitmakercoming back to kick ass, son the haters, and put on for the City of Brotherly Love — and in trueKurt Vile fashion, doing so while sounding more relaxed than ever. Between the 250thanniversary of America and its hosting of select World Cup games, 2026 is shaping up to be abig deal for Philadelphia.“And then there’s one other thing,” Vile says.“I gotta be that thirdthing. Because I am Philadelphia. I gotta own it. I gotta rise to the occasion.” https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/5775dad0-35aa-11f1-a0ec-d9550886fa40-rimg-w479-h740-dc010101-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/athens/kurt-vile-and-the-violators-twisted-teens/100001986457751609 - **Event Categories**: music, entertainment, dance, spoken-word - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 1 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 46.4, max: 46.4, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Athens - **state**: GA - **country**: United States - **location**: 40 Watt Club - **lat**: 33.958132 - **long**: -83.380008 - **full address**: 40 Watt Club, 285 West Washington St, Athens, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Kurt Vile And The Violators - Twisted Teens - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/6fc8a6793ecc59f567d8e251518f3486603ac51e71636e43fec42ce7725f3a18-rimg-w1200-h800-dc321803-gmir.jpg?v=1775914145 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Kurt Vile And The Violators - Twisted Teens being held? - **A:** Kurt Vile And The Violators - Twisted Teens takes place on Fri, 20 Nov, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Fri, 20 Nov, 2026 at 11:30 pm at 40 Watt Club, 285 West Washington St, Athens, United States. - **Q**: How much do tickets cost for Kurt Vile And The Violators - Twisted Teens? - **A:** Tickets for Kurt Vile And The Violators - Twisted Teens are priced at USD 46 per person. 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