Aaron Lee Tasjan plays Alchemy's ten-year anniversary

Tasjan brings this summer's 'Get Over It, Underdog' to the 300-capacity Providence room on Thursday, Nov. 12.

A club turning ten could book anyone to mark it. Alchemy booked a guitar-slinging songwriter with a new album about underdogs, and for a 300-capacity Providence room that has lasted a decade, that's a good match.

Aaron Lee Tasjan plays Alchemy on Thursday, Nov. 12, with an 8 p.m. start. The show was announced Oct. 20, and the ticket page on OpenDate bills it as part of Alchemy's ten-year anniversary. It's the second stop of a short Northeast run: Tasjan plays Union Pool in Brooklyn the night before and goes on to Somerville two nights later. Providence gets the Thursday.

The occasion is the new record. In July, Tasjan released Get Over It, Underdog on Blue Élan Records, the follow-up to 2024's *Stellar Evolution*. It has 11 songs, co-produced with longtime collaborator Mark Miller, and its theme is the myth of the American underdog: who gets to be one, and what happens when the story stops being true. The early singles were "Science Friction" and "Lost & Alone," the second about feeling unseen.

The record also has some weight to it. The late Todd Snider co-wrote and appears on a track called "The Real," and according to the album's press materials, Snider died shortly after the record was finished. Those materials say his spirit runs through the whole album, so a Tasjan set this fall is partly a tribute too.

A new album about underdogs, played in a 300-capacity room that has made it to ten.

If you only know Tasjan from one era, it's worth catching up. His solo debut, *In the Blazes*, came out in October 2015 and leaned into country-folk. Last year he marked its tenth anniversary with a reissue that added unreleased bonus material and put the album back on vinyl for the first time since 2015, along with a solo anniversary tour. Since that debut he's moved toward glam, power pop and seventies rock, with plenty of guitar. That's the range Providence will get on a Thursday in a small room.

A room this size suits him. At 300 capacity, Alchemy gives you the songs without a barricade between you and the guitar, and an anniversary night tends to bring out the regulars who've been coming for years. Ten years is a long time for a club, and booking a songwriter with a new record and a story to tell is a good way to mark it.

Tickets are on OpenDate. Show at 8.

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