For pop star Bryce Vine, Boston show is a homecoming

Multiplatinum pop-star, Bryce Vine, is returning to Boston, the city where his music career manifested. Vine has come a long way since his starting point as a bewildered Berklee student in 2010, and is now returning to the home base of his career for another sold out show on his “Miss You A Little” tour — named by Vine himself as a way to express how much he’s missed engaging with fans during live performances during quarantine.

“I thought it would be a fun way of telling everybody how much we missed them without telling too much, and I just put out a song called 'Miss You A Little,' so it was perfect,” Vine said.

According to the Billboard-charting “Drew Barrymore” and “La La Land” singer, the sold-out January 30 performance at Big Night Live is particularly special to Vine, describing Boston as the city where he “found his creative voice.” He headlined his first sold-out show at the Middle East in 2016, and established all primary members of his current team through his Berklee network, from his personal tour DJ Lvcky Dave, Berklee Class of '12, to his manager Matt Maltese, who completed his music business degree in 04’.

According to Vine “I fell in love with Boston that summer before I started, when I came to visit and I was like ‘this is the city I want to be in, I love it. There’s a lot I miss about Boston, I think Newbury Street is one of the most charming places to walk down, oh and Mike's Pastries, that place is the shit” said the now L.A. based musician.

In anticipation of his Boston appearance, Vine was hyped to share with me that he will perform unreleased music and invite fans on stage to celebrate the community of the city. Boston being the first location for Vine to sell out a show at in , the pop sensation revealed the name of one unreleased song called “American Nightmare,” in addition to other unreleased work which remains TBA. But the one classic hit Vine is looking forward to performing most is his 2019 Billboard charting single “La La Land,” featuring YG. “It’s always fun as hell to play ‘La La Land’ and hear everybody sing along,” Vine said.

After a 29-city tour to launch the year, fans are probably wondering, “What’s next for Bryce?” but according to Vine, fans shouldn't fret, as Vine has many projects and collaborations in the mosher for 2022. Artists on Vine’s radar include: Tierra Whack, Dominic Fike, Ari Lennox, Santigold, Young Dolph and Baby Keem.

“I don’t do that many collaborations," says Vine. "I’m willing to and I love to but when it comes about it's not always because I hit up somebody like ‘yo man will you feature on this?’ That said, the first time that happened, and I did not think I was going to get him, was YG for 'La La Land.' So this year I’m actually going about it more and will hit up artists I’m a fan of and see what they can add to a song.” 

So, will Vine focus on singles and features or bodies of work in the coming year? “It's always an album,” said Vine. “People like bodies of work. After 'Drew Barrymore' and 'La La Land,' you get this overwhelming pressure to just make radio singles and singles that labels are going to be excited about, whether or not your enjoying it, and that’s something you kinda have to snap out of, and so the easiest way to do that is put together a body of work, not every song has to be the big one, ” Vine said.

According Maltese, we did a headline tour in January of 2019, so it's been exactly 3 years since we’ve done a tour of this size. I think the biggest improvement that I’ve seen in Bryce is he’s become a really prolific writer. He wrote somewhere between 80 and 100 songs over the pandemic. He used to take 3 months sometimes to finish a song, and now he can write 2 or 3 songs in a day sometimes and he's working with a lot of different writers and producers. We were setting up 3, 4, 5, 6 sessions a week and he used his time to write as much as possible and I’m super proud of him. His producer Nolan Lambroza, who’s worked with artists such as Nick Jonas, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber, is super proud of him, too. I think we have a lot of great records coming and we’re really excited for people to hear,” said Maltese.

Bryce Vine presents "Miss You A Little" Jan. 30, at Big Night Live, 470 Atlantic Ave floor 3 Boston, Ma. Doors are at 7. Direct support acts will open with Giannie and Kyle and Saint Lyor. Follow Bryce Vine on social media streaming platforms @BryceVine.