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@lachicalolita commissioned me for this fun Gil Elvgren inspired illustration for Eli Pearl’s birthday today! 😊

Be sure to zoom in for details as well as a small Easter egg for those in the know 👀

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eli__pearl - October 3 2025:

This SPARKS 2025 North America tour has reminded me that despite the sociopolitical hellscape we currently live in, America can be a beautiful place, filled with beautiful people. Thanks for a fun time y’all ❤️

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Sparks valiantly performed their USO show in war ravaged Portland for Antifa troops. 🎖️🪖🫡

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Sparks Thrill Adoring Kings Theatre Crowd

Sparks – Kings Theatre – September 12, 2025

Where do we begin when it comes to defining Sparks, the never-ending band? Maybe go watch the documentary, The Sparks Brothers by Edgar Wright? Or set aside an entire day and listen through their extensive catalog? Even a full 24 hours wouldn’t get you through all of it, but you’d get the idea. Now you may be wondering, “Who is this person to tell me what to do?” So, let’s start again and kick off this review by asking; “So May We Start?” 

This is how Sparks began their show on Friday at Kings Theatre with the same question, “So May We Start?,” off the soundtrack of Annette, a concept album turned rock opera that eventually became a film starring Adam Driver. (You can see how defining anything within this band’s oeuvre is a challenge.) Brothers Ron and Russell Mael, now in their sixth decade of creative partnership as Sparks, have never been ones to chase subgenres so much as spawn them. “Do Things My Own Way,” performed second — and the second off their latest album, Mad! — serves as good a mission statement for them as any: a song that musically defies any kind of categorization. 

If there’s any consistency to Sparks all these years, it’s how the brothers present themselves visually and theatrically, leaning into their differences with frontman Russell the colorful, charismatic brother always in contrast to his (mostly) silent and seemingly sinister older sibling Ron on keyboards. Russell donned a stunning floral three-piece suit for the occasion. His brother Ron, the yin to Russell’s yang, donned a black satin frock, round glasses and his iconic pencil thin mustache. 

It makes some sense looking at these two against the backdrop of flashing squares of colorful LED lights, that they’d be some of the first to merge disco with rock in the ’70s with the help of the father of disco himself, Giorgio Moroder. Friday’s show hit its fever pitch early with a run through of “Academy Award Performance” and “Beat the Clock,” off No. 1 in Heaven. Then came the serenading comedown, “Please Don’t Fuck Up My World,” written in 2020 when “things seemed kind of bleak and dire and low and behold things have gotten … well more bleak and dire,” said Russell. 

Ron’s seldom heard from but took to the mic for a spoken rendition of “Suburban Homeboy,” off Lil’ Beethoven, one of the strangest songs performed by the “strange” brother, taking the tune’s satire into the stratosphere. 80-year-old Ron later took to center stage to do a running man that tore the place down.

Sparks have a real knack for morphing odd turns of phrase into musical earworms. The crowd at Kings Theatre was filled with a wide range of ages, but everyone had a deep appreciation for the chance to catch Sparks live. They’ll forever be rewarded with hearing “She wears a JanSport Backpack” and “The girl is crying in her latte, sad” bounce around their brains forever, and God willing, the chance to catch Sparks again soon. —Dan Rickershauser | @D4nRicks

Photo courtesy of Dan Rickershauser

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Sparks in Brisbane- last show of 2023

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Sparks_official: Rehearsals ✔️