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The Parlotones
with guests:Ryan Star 
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In their native South Africa, there's no rock band bigger than The Parlotones. The
Johannesburg-bred quartet have headlined the 20,000-seater Coca Cola Dome in their
hometown in 2009, performed at the World Cup Kickoff Concert to an audience of a billion
in 2010, and were handpicked by Coldplay to open the British band's stadium shows in
Johannesburg and Cape Town in 2011. Also last year, The Parlotones staged an original rock
theater production, Dragonflies and Astronauts, which was broadcast live around the world
in 3D via DIRECTV and in 2D on Facebook. (The 3D broadcast was so well received
Stateside that the satellite provider scheduled 100 re-airings, while more than half of the
worldwide viewership on Facebook hailed from the U.S.) Dragonflies and Astronauts wove a
narrative through the band's catalog, including 16 songs that were Top 40 hits in South
Africa.
The Parlotones have crafted the kind of melody-minded arena-filling
songs that transcend language and culture barriers on Journey Through The Shadows. First
single "Save Your Best Bits," with its theme of not allowing negative things from the past to
affect the good parts of your soul, and the celebratory "I Am Alive" are about catharsis. They
chase those moments of universal human experience when everyone in the room is uplifted
by a shared emotion.
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