**Nicotine Dolls - An Attempt at Romantic with Lostboycrow at Underground Arts** **Tuesday, May 13, 2025** **Doors: 7:00 PM | Show: 8:00 PM** **21+** **Visit https://undergroundarts.org** for venue details including how to get here, parking, FAQ, UA Merch, Private Events, & everything else. **About Nicotine Dolls** *https://nicotinedolls.com/* Nicotine Dolls make the kind of music you can’t hide from. The storytelling is front-and-center, beckoning your attention like a dusty old novel you can’t put down until the last page. The vocals are gritty and honest, holding nothing back in fits of joy, regret, and sadness similar to a phone call from one of your best friends at 3am. The instrumentation is equally punchy and nuanced, grafting rafter-reaching hooks on top of rich soundscapes. The moment the New York alternative quartet—Sam Cieri \[vocals\], John Hays \[guitar\], John Merritt \[bass\], and Abel Tabares \[drums\]—plug in, it’s as if a rush of collective emotion floods through the speakers. Nicotine Dolls officially emerged in 2019 at the crossroads between its members’ respective paths. As the story goes, Sam met John Hays in 2015 during a Broadway tour. “I ended up there because I was getting evicted from my apartment, and my friend told me to try musical theater since you get a consistent paycheck,” he recalls. They instantly became best friends. **About Lostboycrow** *http://lostboycrow.la/* Oftentimes the greatest art is born of the right partnership. Lostboycrow, aka Los Angeles singer-songwriter Chris Blair, found just that while collaborating with producer Chris Chu on his upcoming album Indie Pop Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Blair grew up singing along to his parent's Beatles cassette tapes and watching that thing you do religiously. It was not until high school that he picked up a mic and started performing everywhere he could from showtunes in the gymnasium to pop punk in a local dive. He later established his genre fluid style with 2016’s Sigh For Me EP, which he followed up with 2017’s Traveler EP trilogy, 2019's full length Santa Fe, and last year’s Valleyheart Underground Arts Presents This is a 21+ event