{"id":51293,"date":"2025-11-09T07:48:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/09\/watch-sombr-perform-12-to-12-back-to-friends\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T07:48:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:48:42","slug":"watch-sombr-perform-12-to-12-back-to-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/09\/watch-sombr-perform-12-to-12-back-to-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Sombr Perform &#8217;12 to 12,&#8217; &#8216;Back to Friends&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The NYC native debuts on the late night show with two tracks from his first EP, <em>I Barely Know Her<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSinger-songwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sombr\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sombr\" data-tag=\"sombr\">Sombr<\/a> debuted on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\">Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/em> with two hits from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/sombrs-i-barely-know-her-review-1235414109\/\">I Barely Know Her<\/a><\/em>, his debut album that he released in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe New York City native, who just picked up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/grammy-nominations-2026-full-list-1235461536\/\">a Grammy nomination<\/a> for Best New Artist, opened with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sombr-12-to-12-video-stars-addison-rae-1235393605\/\">12 to 12<\/a>,\u201d an MTV Video Music Awards nominee for Song of the Summer.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"sombr: 12 to 12 (Live) - SNL\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3xZKkvm0Kew?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSombr returned later at the piano with \u201cBack to Friends,\u201d which he alone wrote and produced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe lead single from the ten-track LP, \u201cBack to Friends\u201d is one of <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-songs-2025-1235351007\/sombr-back-to-friends-1235351058\/\">Best Songs of 2025 So Far<\/a>, as it \u201cplays out like an impassioned conversation that bleeds through the walls and captures the melodrama of teenage love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSombr, whose real name is Shane Boose, \u201cperforms with a distinct internal confidence and external charm that has been notably absent in the withering releases from many of his male contemporaries in pop,\u201d as <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s Larisha Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/sombrs-i-barely-know-her-review-1235414109\/\">wrote<\/a> in a positive review of his first album.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"sombr: back to friends (Live) - SNL\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mqqis5eZPY8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSombr\u2019s stop at <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/snl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_snl\" data-tag=\"snl\">SNL<\/a><\/em> coincided with the end of the North American leg of The Late Nights &amp; Young Romance Tour, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/product-recommendations\/tickets\/buy-sombr-tour-tickets-online-2025-north-america-1235409037\/\">he sold out<\/a>. Early next month, he\u2019ll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sombrmusic.com\/#tour\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">head to<\/a> New Zealand and Australia before beginning a run of shows in Europe in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s hard to step back and be like, \u2018Wow, this is amazing\u2019 when everything is happening so fast, but it is the best thing that has ever happened to me,\u201d the 20-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sombr-hit-back-to-friends-live-mtv-global-push-artist-1235419880\/\">revealed to MTV<\/a> in September, before making his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sombr-mtv-vmas-debut-performance-1235422372\/\">awards show debut<\/a> at the VMAs. \u201cBeing able to meet all these people, go to all these countries, and see all these new faces and beautiful people who connect with my music \u2014 it\u2019s all I ever wanted to do in my life, so it\u2019s the best thing ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/snl-sombr-perform-back-to-friends-i-barely-know-her-1235462129\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYC native debuts on the late night show with two tracks from his first EP, I Barely Know Her Singer-songwriter Sombr debuted on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":51294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}