First album in ages from the erstwhile Husker Du drummer.

By Blurt Staff

Hot Wax is the name of the forthcoming Grant Hart album, due October 6 from Con D'or Records and MVD Audio.

You know the name Grant Hart of course. Since Hüsker Dü's split in 1987, drummer Hart picked up the guitar and moved out front, issuing a number of  solo releases and also serving as a member of the group Nova Mob. He has found a place and function in visual and dramatic art forms as well. Hot Wax will be Grant's sixth solo release overall, a project several years in the making.

Joining Hart on the disc is a diverse cast of musicians from Godspeed You Black Emperor, Silver Mt. Zion, and Rank Strangers with the tracks being recorded in both Montreal and Minneapolis.

Hart explains the genesis of some of the material: "The song 'Narcissus, Narcissus' is my first attempt at combining ancient Greek mythology and American rock-a-billy. By merging those influences with an ice cream truck atmosphere I think I have found a style that defines this period of my career. 'You're the Reflection of the Moon on the Water' is one of the most organic rock and roll songs that I have ever written. Its style owes a lot to my devotion for Patti Smith. It was inspired by a comment made by a monk during the selection process to find the next Panchen Lhama, who said of one candidate, 'He is the reflection of the moon on the water but he is not the moon'."

See the cover art, below, as you mark your calendars

This is your brain on Fu. Any questions? Heavy outfit cranks it to 11 on 11^th full length.

By Blurt Staff

Fuzz-stoner psychedelicists FU MANCHU will release their new album, "Signs of Infinite Power", on October 20 via Century Media Records.

Recorded at Maple Studios in Santa Ana, California by the band and producer Sergio Chavez (MOTÖRHEAD, HELMET) and mixed by Andrew Alekel (FOO FIGHTERSimage, DANZIG), "Signs of Infinite Power" is the SoCal combo's 11^th full length. See the track listing below.

"We're stoked to unleash 'Signs of Infinite Power' because we feel that it's the best record that we've ever made," states FU MANCHU vocalist/guitarist Scott Hill. "We're can't believe that we're going into our twentieth year as a band. The excitement and energy levels that we're feeling right now are as high as they've ever been."

Additionally, in celebration of its 20th anniversary, FU MANCHU has a number of very special events planned for 2010. The band will unveil a host of plans that include rolling out both one-of-a-kind live events and extra special vinyl releases. Additionally, the VIRULENCE (pre-FU MANCHU) recordings will be remastered and packaged with the band's "1985-87 demos" and both live songs and video footage from 1987-89 under the title "If This Isn't A Dream...1985-1989". The package will be made available on both CD and LP and is slated for a winter 2009 release via Southern Lord Records.

FU MANCHU will tour the U.S. this fall, dates tba.

Track Listing:

01. Bionic Astronautics
02. http://www.facebook.com/l/;Steel.Beast.Defeated
03. Against the Ground
04. Webfoot Witch Hat
05. El Busta
06. Signs of Infinite Power
07. Eyes x 10
08. Gargantuan March
09. Take It Away
10. One Step Too Far

[Photo Credit: Jerami Johnson]

Happens Sept. 24-26 with 270 performers spread across 23 stages.

By Blurt Staff

Standing shoulder to shoulder, packed into a club so tightly it's hard to raise your beer, anxiously waiting to hear the next-big-thing before it becomes the next-big thing.

That's the vibe at Cincinnati's MidPoint Music Festival. Three days of creative expression and musical innovation, happening Sept. 24-26 throughout downtown Cincinnati, adjacent historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood and even across the Ohio River to the Southgate House in Newport, KY.

And one might go as far to say it's somewhat apropos to find such a festival in Cincinnati given its place in music history and its current day music scene.

Historically, Cincinnati lays claim to a critical role in the conception of rock 'n' roll as home of the fabled King Records, which released such classics of R&B, blues, country and funk as Wynonie Harris' "Good Rockin' Tonight," James Brown's "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," Hank Ballard & the Midnighters' "The Twist," Cowboy Copas' "Tennessee Waltz," Delmore Brothers' "Blues Stay Away From Me," and Little Willie John's "Fever." Another local label, Fraternity Records, introduced guitar-hero Lonnie Mack to the world. And among the city's most celebrated current residents is the great funk bassist Bootsy Collins.

Take this history and interweave it with a thriving music scene and you've got fertile ground for up-and-coming artists and music fans alike.

Starting Thursday night, the city transforms itself into a walk-able music fest, spanning 23 venues throughout downtown Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, entertaining the sounds of 270 indie-rock musical acts from around the world. And it is all extremely affordable - a three-day pass good for all shows is available for just $29.

MPMF.09, as the festival is sometimes called, features headliners like the Cincinnati-originated Heartless Bastards - a major 2009 music-industry success story - as well as two other local bands with growing national followings, Wussy and the Pomegranates.

Among the bigger acts coming to the city from elsewhere for the fest are Chairlift, The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker, Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, and Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, a pop quartet from Chicago.

And the long list of buzzed-about newcomers includes the do, a male-female duo from France and Finland; the New York/Malaysia group Shayna Zaid and the Catch; Chicago-based melodic rockers Brighton, MA; and Toronto's red-hot dance band God Made Me Funky.

Four independent record labels - Cincinnati's All Night Party, Indianapolis' Standard Recording Co., New York's ReThink Pop Music, and Chicago's DataWasLost - will host showcases, taking over specific clubs for an entire night of music by their acts.

"MidPoint is the flagship for the music town that is Cincinnati," says Dan McCabe, the festival's executive producer. "This is the type of congregation of artists from all over world that you'd expect from a town that has such a musical tradition."

In this, the festival's second year under McCabe's aegis, the number of acts has grown to 270 from 175. More than 1,000 performers worldwide contacted McCabe about appearing in Cincinnati - a 40 percent increase from the previous year. There are also newer and more varied venues; 23 stages will be operating each of the festival's nights.

One of the biggest will be an outdoor tent capable of holding 800 people outside Grammer's, a landmark 19th Century German restaurant in the Over the Rhine neighborhood recently reborn as a popular gathering spot for young urbanites. Headliners will play there each night, but since its shows will end at 11 p.m., attendees can afterward have time to see more up-and-coming acts at the more intimate clubs.

Other venues - like downtown's Washington Platform restaurant and Madonna's bar - will be smaller and have their own special allure. Many of the venues are within walking distance of each other, but MidPoint will be operating a fleet of 16 Toyota Scion XBs to give attendees rides between sites.

And for the first time, downtown's Contemporary Arts Center - designed by the visionary architect Zaha Hadid to international acclaim - will also host concerts, as well as MidPoint's Lite Brite Film Test. The latter will have programming from Ottawa's International Animation Festival and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. MidPoint pass holders also get free admission to museum exhibits.

"One of the fun things about MidPoint is to go into a crowded room and rub shoulder to shoulder with other music fans," McCabe says. "There's the kinetic energy of discovering new music together. MidPoint is fertile ground for being blown way by the best new music. With 23 stages each night, you're going to have that happen multiple times." While the venues are located, for the most part, within walking distance of each other, MidPoint's Scion Streetcars will mimick Cincinnati's proposed streetcar route in an effort to promote the initiative.

To purchase tickets and get more info, visit http://www.MPMF.com

Serving up a free album at his website right now!

By Blurt Staff

Ben Lee has reformed Noise Addict with Lou Barlow of Dinosaur Jr./Sebadoh and Lara Meyerratken of El May.  Their new 15-song album, It Was Never About The Audience, was released today for free download via http://noiseaddict.net

Just click and enjoy!

   It is the first music bearing the Noise Addict name in 13 years since the release of the debut full length album, Meet The Real You, released via Grand Royal in 1996.

Ben Lee offered "I've wanted to make another Noise Addict record for awhile now.  Noise Addict is a place more than a band.  But it's a band too.  This record was inspired by out of tune guitars, Jonathan Richman, and lasagne...not the actual pasta - just the word."  He added, "The new lineup on this recording is me, Lou Barlow and Lara Meyerratken.  That's a new lineup for the band, but the principle remains the same: everything recorded quickly, in my bedroom, with lots of stupid rules like no mic-stands.  The songs were all written by me except ‘Lasagne,' which I co-wrote with my step-daughter Kate." 

Noise Addict was formed in Bondi Beach, Australia in 1992 by a then 13-year old Ben Lee.  After opening for Fugazi the same year, their demo tape was passed on to Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, who officially released the recording, known as DEF, on his Ecstatic Peace label in 1993.   The Beastie Boys Mike D then signed the band to their Grand Royal imprint and released the Young and Jaded EP in 1995.  That release featured the Evan Dando-inspired track "I Wish I Was Him."  The same year, Lee issued his solo debut, the critically acclaimed Grandpaw Would LP.  In 1996, Grand Royal issued Noise Addict's full length debut album, Meet The Real You.  The group disbanded soon after their first and only tour of the U.S. 

To date, Ben Lee has released seven solo albums, most recently this year's The Rebirth of Venus, released via Dew Process in Australia and New Zealand and New West Records in the rest of the world.

It Was Never About The Audience Tracklisting:

1. That's How It Goes

2. Do I Know You

3. Get Well

4. Chris Martin's Frown

5. Big Ups

6. Drop That Ghost

7. Hey Baby

8. Lasagne

9. Faster Side of Normal

10. Let Your Heart Decide It

11. Cloudchasing

12. Not Afraid

13. Gravity

14. I Heart Your Band

15. Let's Do Our Thing

Awesome west coast singer songwriter has her self-released new album hitting stores today... Tour dates below, too.

By Blurt Staff

Released, today, September 1, songstress Sonya Cotton's new album Red River includes the luscious track "Hunters" - and we've got the video for it right here at Blurt. Just click on the link or scroll down to our Blurt TV video kiosk to view it.

Meanwhile, here's some deets you need to know about the young lady. She'll also be doing selected west coast tour dates starting this weekend; see below for her itinerary.

***

"I'm going West, you should come."

It was a cold winter morning in Connecticut. Sonya Cotton looked out over the frozen lake as her mind flooded with visions of the open road. Her best friend continued: "It would be good for you, to get away for a while." The timing felt like a sign, a call to rise after a year of tumult.

Over the past year, Sonya watched as the most important and defining loving relationships around her, including her own, dissolved. Reeling from the dismantling of these unions, she felt herself the victim as well as the perpetrator of a great deal of destruction and betrayal. Living in the suburbs of the northeast, she perceived this destruction paralleled in the dead animals along the roadside that she passed every day. She saw herself and loved ones in the dead deer: innocent, inflicted upon, and disregarded. She also saw herself and loved ones in the perpetrators of their deaths: self-consumed, unconscious, and untrustworthy.

She began to have dreams of the wreckage. These dreams inspired the first songs that would become Red River, Sonya Cotton's album to be released this July. Deer appeared night after night, broken and bloodied, strewn on the living room floor, buried like secrets at the bottom of a canal, lying in the stained hands of a hunter, or inside of her own belly. These haunting dreams did not wane with time, for vestiges of the wreckage remained all around her. The escape to the west held promise:

"I'm coming with you."

The 11 songs of Red River chronicle this journey from the darkness of the east towards the promise of the west. In the course of this journey, redemption and faith are found in the midst of the destruction, and beauty is pulled from the darkness through song: "In this broken body is a red river, we will wait with our faith for this pile of bones for to rise."

Once in San Francisco, Sonya actively immersed herself in the folk music community there, refining her dream images into songs, and befriending the musicians who were to become her band. The tight three-part vocal harmonies and lush orchestrations that emerged from this cooperative effort produced the sweeping, distinctive sounds of Red River. Mirroring the emotional space from which the songs were born, the album was recorded in the legendary Hyde Street Studio C (David Crosby, The Grateful Dead) a reputedly haunted space, where Sonya's sessions were often recorded in the dark. From this haunted darkness Sonya and the band voiced the nightmares carried from the east, and transformed them, bringing to light the gentle beauty and the power of Red River.

In June ‘09, Sonya Cotton embarked on a 45 mile walking tour of the California Coastal Trail, playing nightly shows throughout Marin County. She is currently preparing for a September '09 tour by train and foot. These alternative modes of touring are in keeping with the main theme of the album ­ that of rising out of the patterns of destruction that we inflict upon one another, and choosing instead a more reverent and life-affirming path.

Tour Dates:

sep 05 - Portland, OR - The Woods (3 Leg Torso)
sep 05 - Portland, OR - In Other Words Women's Books and Resources (early performance, 3pm)
sep 06 - Olympia, WA - The Finger Complex (7pm, FREE!, 203 Rogers St. NW)
sep 07 - Ocean Shores, WA - Galilean Lutheran Church (Concert Fundraiser for Garden by the Sea)
sep 11 - Chico, CA - Center for Peace and Justice (Ma'Muse)
sep 12 - Davis, CA - Rominger West Winery

Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones supergroup getting their mojo working following that big post-Lollapalooza coming-out party and other testing-the-waters goings-on... video clips below...

By Blurt Staff

Posted to the band's forum this afternoon was news about an upcoming tour (tickets will go on sale this Sat., Sept. 5 - details at http://themcrookedvultures.com by signing up for the newsletter):

Descending on Austin for Festival & TV appearances

The tour kicks off with an October 2 performance at the Austin City Limits music festival, to be preceded by a September 30 Austin City Limits TV taping to air at a later date TBD, as well as an appearance at the October 1 Austin City Limits festival pre-party.

North America Fall Tour 2009

Thu, 1st October / Austin TX Stubb's
Fri, 2nd October / Austin TX Austin City Limits
Mon, 5th October / Nashville TN War Memorial
Tue, 6th October / Columbus OH LC Pavilion
Thu, 8th October / Detroit MI The Fillmore
Fri, 9th October / Toronto ONT Sound Academy
Sun, 11th October / Boston MA House of Blues
Mon, 12th October / Philadelphia PA Electric Factory
Wed, 14th October / Washington DC 930 Club

Europe Winter 2009

Thu, 10th December / Plymouth / Plymouth Pavilions
Fri, 11th December / Portsmouth / Portsmouth Guildhall
Sun, 13th December / Blackpool / Empress Ballroom
Mon, 14th December / Birmingham / O2 Academy Birmingham
Tue, 15th December / Edinburgh / Edinburgh Corn Exchange
Thu, 17th December / London / Hammersmith Apollo

Meanwhile, check out the band's YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/user/themcrookedvultures), which is currently airing another video snippet, this time for a track called "Elephants" (below) as well as a number of not-too-shabby live clips.

Good riddance to bad news, we say. Oasis, please stay broken up. From your friends at BLURT.

By Fred Mills

While the music biz buzz over the weekend was clearly centered around Noel Gallagher's surprise announcement at the Oasisnet.com site that he was quitting the band he'd founded, perhaps it's less instructive to parse Gallagher's words than those of the folks who determined their level of punditry qualified them to do the parsing.

First, that Gallagher statement, posted late Friday:

"It's with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer. Apologies to all the people who bought tickets for the shows in Paris, Konstanz and Milan."

All currently scheduled Oasis concerts were cancelled in the wake of the statement. Apparently the band had been preparing to perform Friday at a French music festival, but the two brothers had a huge argument - one observer, singer Amy McDonald, would subsequently Twitter, "Oasis cancelled again with one minute to stage time! Liam smashed Noel's guitar, huuuge fight!" - leading the festival organizers to announce that the show was off: "The group no longer exists. They will not play tonight and they are cancelling the rest of their European tour... The group no longer exists. They will not play tonight and they are cancelling the rest of their European tour."

On Saturday Britain's Daily Mail looked into the situation, pointing out that relations between the brothers had deteriorated in recent months to the point that they "traveled separately on tour and only saw each other onstage." (Periodically the two have taken potshots at one another during separate interviews.) The paper also posted photos of Liam plus the other Oasis members leaving their Paris hotel.

Let's not forget, however, that this isn't the first time Gallagher has split from his brother and his band - acting, depending on your point of view, like a diva or just drunk and pissy - as he briefly quit in 2000 at a show in Paris. Liam Gallagher, for his part, famously "quit" in 1995 on the eve of a U.S. tour, although that was short-lived as well. As the Gallagher's mom Peggy told reporters this weekend, "They're just tired at the end of the tour. They've had fights before and got over it. The funny thing is, they didn't fight as children. They didn't fight until they started the band." And erstwhile Creation Recs boss Alan McGee chimed in as well, telling the BBC, "It's obviously the worst fall-out that they've ever had, and they've had some pretty bad ones. But they love each other. They'll come back together." So it's probably way too early to predict whether or not this marks a final divorce or just another temporary separation.

Speculation among insiders is that Liam's heavy drinking on the tour may have been the trigger in all this; the singer reportedly had been acting out and insulting everyone around him, including his brother's family. After leaving Paris, Liam left for Italy with his wife Nicole. By Saturday, Noel had taken to the band's website again to clarify his position:

"I feel you have the right to know that the level of verbal and violent intimidation towards me, my family, friends and comrades has become intolerable," the guitarist said. "And the lack of support and understanding from my management and band mates has left me with no other option than to get me cape and seek pastures new."

Still, when a professional turd like Perez Hilton weighs in on the personal foibles of a rock band, it's entirely possible that said rock band has, in the parlance, jumped the fucking shark anyway. Leave it to Hilton to dredge up the most unseemly quote in the whole Liam-versus-Noel tit-for-tat. Hilton wrote on his site:

"A recent remark Liam made regarding Noel's daughter, Anais, was reportedly the final nail in the coffin for Noel! Liam allegedly ‘jokingly suggested' that Noel was not the real father of his 9-year-old daughter!!!

"‘It was a dumb thing to say,' an insider close to the brothers says. ‘They had a big fight when he made the gag. Noel went for him. He was in a blind fury. And he still hasn't calmed down.' Noel considered his brother's comment ‘unforgivable,' which led to his abrupt exit from the band."

Ah well... who cares. The band was long past its expiration date. Can anybody even name a song or album title of the band from the past half-decade or so?

Good riddance, Oasis. Please, don't get back together. Save us the drama.

Announces 7^th studio album to mark two decades of doin' it their way.

By Blurt Staff

With six studio albums, five 7-inches, two EPs, a live CD, a B-sides album, and numerous soundtrack and compilation appearances under their belts, SoCal punks Strung Out are venturing once more into the record bins. Mark your calendars for Sept. 29 when they release their seventh studio LP, via Fat Wreck Chords.

"With Agents Of The Underground, I wanted to acknowledge the fact that we are still alive and kicking just below the consciousness of the mainstream media and are celebrating our place here in "The Underground"," says Strung Out vocalist Jason Cruz. "Like a resistance movement, we move freely and without boundaries. We say what we feel and do it all our own way, and we've done it all this time without radio, without TV, and without the help of a corporate record label. We are the essence of what the punk rock movement started out as and has strayed so far from. We are living proof that you can succeed by doing things your own way."

The band proves on Agents Of The Underground that they are still doing it their own way after all these years. Unlike previous releases, the five-piece enlisted an existing fan of the band, Cameron Webb (Motorhead, Ignite, Social Distortion), to produce the album, which helped the group record their strongest album to date. "We've done a lot of touring and made a lot of records," admits Cruz, "and we have learned A LOT. I have a tendency to defy expectation and abandon what has already been achieved, and Cameron was great at balancing what people want to hear from Strung Out, and at the same time, letting the band move forward. I believe this album is truly the culmination of everything we've done."

Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara fans can get their first taste of the new album by checking out the band during the group's upcoming live shows (see dates below). That will be followed in October with a full U.S. tour.

Sep 5 - Santa Barbara, CA @ Velvet Jones (21+)
Sep 6 - Santa Barbara, CA @ Velvet Jones (18+)
Sep 25 - Long Beach, CA @ The Shore
Oct 1 - San Antonio, TX @ Rock Bottom
Oct 2 - Austin, TX @ Red Seven
Oct 3 - Dallas, TX @ Granada Theatre
Oct 4 - Houston, TX @ Meridian
Oct 5 - New Orleans, LA @ Howlin' Wolf
Oct 7 - Tallahassee, FL @ The Engine Room
Oct 8 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room
Oct 9 - St. Petersburg, FL @ The State Theatre
Oct 10 - Orlando, FL @ The Social
Oct 11 - Jacksonville, FL @ Freebird Café
Oct 12 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade - Downstairs
Oct 14 - Fayetteville, NC @ Jester's

Oct 15 - Raleigh, NC @ Volume 11 Tavern  
Oct 16 - Virginia Beach, VA @ Ohana's Night Club
Oct 17 - Jermyn, PA @ Eleanor Rigby's
Oct 18 - Columbus, OH @ The Basement
Oct 19 - Toledo, OH @ Frankies
Oct 20 - Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall
Oct 22 - Sauget, IL @ Pop's
Oct 23 - Tulsa, OK @ The Marquee
Oct 24 - Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
Oct 25 - Colorado Springs, CO @ Black Sheep
Oct 27 - Fort Collins, CO @ Aggie Theatre
Oct 28 - Casper, WY @ Downtown Grill
Oct 30 - Layton, UT@ V2
Oct 31 - Tempe, AZ @ The Clubhouse
Nov 1 - Victorville, CA @ Karma

"Expect something unusual": Participating artists include TROUBLE (Sam Hillmer & Laura Paris) // Calvin Johnson // Screaming Females // Mick Barr // Up Died Sound // Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities // Alexis Gideon // Ty Segal // Regattas // Nine 11 Thesaurus // Sam Mickens // Dome Theater // Mike Pride // Extra life // Pygmy Shrews // Effi Breist // John Fell Ryan // The Coathangers // Desolation Wilderness // Random Cutting // Excepter // Symbol // Zs // Arrington Dionyso // Dan Friel // Mega Calderos // Chuck Bettis // Pterodactyl // Normal Love // Vaz // Make A Rising // Clan of the Cave Bear // Electroputas // High Red Center // The Sian Alice Group // The Present // Loud Objects // Grooms // Symbol // Shooting Spires // Crash Diet Crew // Videohippos

By Blurt Staff

You Are Here (The Maze) is a performance festival in a sculptural maze taking place at Williamsburg's Death By Audio venue (49 South 2^nd St, Brooklyn) from September 10 - October 2, 2009, with performances starting each evening at 9pm and running late.

 Emphasizing the sprawling and interconnected nature of New York's underground, a trip through the maze offers a peak inside NYC's diy art/music scene. A meditation on passage and desire, You Are Here engulfs the space and presents beckoning inhabitants, dead ends, and uplifting epitaphs. Medium and genre vary and overlapping and simultaneous performances are frequent, each performer establishing a different corner or dead end as his or hers. Participating artists in the 3-week festival include Calvin Johnson, Screaming Females, Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities, Zs, Excepter, Mick Barr, The Coathangers, Knyfe Hyts, The Present, Loud Objects, Grooms, Effi Briest, Extra Life, Mike Pride, Dan Friel, Ninjasonik, Vaz, Pygmy Shrews, Nine 11 Thesaurus, and many many others.

For more information, visit: www.myspace.com/youareheremaze

The tentative schedule is below, although the You Are Here organizers hasten to add that it's all intended to "subvert prefab expectations for both audiences and performers-there is no prescribed order, start time or end time, duration, location of performance, relation of audience to performers, and so on. All of the participating artists have been asked to create something site-specific since the performances will, in fact, take place within the maze. Audiences will be asked only to expect something unusual."

Maze Schedule

Thursday 9.10.09

Skeletons Big Band
Knyfe Hyts
Pterodactyl
Gowns
Dan Friel
Social Junk
Mincement
+Delicious Beverages

Friday 9.11.09

The Sian Alice Group
Nine 11 Thesaurus
Experimental Dental School
Reading Rainbow
+Delicious Beverages

Saturday 9.12.09

Extra Life
Lichens
Pygmy Shrews
Up Died Sound
SETH (jeff and lala from excepter)
Interdependence Project
+Delicious Beverages

Sunday 9.13.09

The Present
Opsvik & Jennings
Rich Johnson
Blast Off!
+Delicious Beverages

Monday 9.14.09

Calvin Johnson
Arrington Dionyso
Desolation Wildnerness
Regattas
City Center

Tuesday 9.15.09

Loud Objects
Twisty Cat
Random Cutting
Mega Calderos
Aftermath

Wednesday 9.16.09

White Suns
Chaos Magic
Little Big
Buckets of Bile
Bird Music

Thursday 9.17.09

Grooms
Videohippos
Starring
PC Worship
Anamanaguchi
Dome Theater

Friday 9.18.09

Ty Segal
The Mantles
The Holy Experiment
BJ Rubin
Worlddancearound
Dome Theater
+Delicious Beverages

Saturday 9.19.09

High Red Center
Alexis Gideon
Make A Rising
Shelly Short
Ribbons
+Delicious Beverages

Sunday 9.20.09

Vaz
Clan of the Cave Bear
Necking
Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk
+Delicious Beverages

Monday 9.21.09

Sam Mickens/Mike Pride Duo
Jantar
Nsumi
Tbd

Tuesday 9.22.09

Drummer's Corpse
Hunter Gatherer
Aaron Seigel
Meredith Arena

Wednesday 9.23.09

Shooting Spires
Legs
Grafitti Monsters
Crime Novels
Lord Easy

Thursday 9.24.09

Sam Hillmer/ Arrington Dionsyo Duo
Charlie Looker
Daniel Carter Quartet
Total Bolsheviks

Friday 9.25.09

Effi Briest
Electroputas
Regattas
Chuck Bettis / Mario Diaz de Leon
BJ Rubin
Dome Theater
+Delicious Beverages

Saturday 9.26.09

The Sleepy Doug Shaw
Hannah Marcus / Tianna Kennedy
The Screaming Females
Cheap Ventilators
The Weird Fantasy Band
+Delicious Beverages

Sunday 9.27.09

Symbol
Laurel Halo
The Slowest Runner in the World
Post Abortion Stress

Monday 9.28.09

Telecult powers
Syn. Toffs
Bassoon
Alterazioni Video Collective

Tuesday 9.29.09

The Coathangers
Nervehunt (Justin from Teeth Mountain / Ryan from Wavves)
Xray Eyeballs
Swimmingcitiesoceanofblood

Wednesday 9.30.09

Nymph
Emma Kupa (of Standard Fare)
Ava Luna

Thursday 10.1.09

Crash Diet Crew
Cntrl Top
Hotchacha
Islands Eyelids
Deborah Karp/ Meredith Arena

Friday 10.2.09

Zs
Excepter
Mick Barr
Noveller
BJ Rubin
Dome Theater
+Delicious Beverages

For fans of Avett Brothers, Old Crow Medicine Show, String Cheese Incident, Del McCoury Band and more.

By Blurt Staff

Hard-twanging, string-bending Minnesota roots band Trampled by Turtles, are headed out on a 40+ date fall tour. The coast to coast run will have them on the road literally up to Christmas so you have no excuse not to catch ‘em along the way. They'll be supporting their recently-released Duluth album.

If you need convincing, check out some songs at their sites:

www.trampledbyturtles.com

www.myspace.com/trampledbyturtles

Separating the band from the pack is the contrast of their lightening fast punk-influenced barn-burners and their lonesome Townes Van Zandt-inspired ballads. As Artvoice Buffalo put it, ""Their most recent release, Duluth, mirrors the raw intensity of their live performances, which are sure to leave audiences simultaneously raising hell and crying in their beers."

They'll buy you a beer, too.

Tour Dates:

August 30 | River City Roots Festival | Missoula, MT
August 31 | Urban Lounge | Salt Lake City, UT
September 2 |Alive After Five | Boise, ID
September 4 | Pig Out in the Park | Spokane, WA
September 5 & 6 | Chilliwack Bluegrass Festival | Chilliwack, BC
September 9 | Oak Park Theater | Minot, ND
September 10 | West End Cultural Centre | Winnipeg, MB
September 12 | Harvest Festival | Clarks Grove, MN
September 19 | Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion | Bristol, TN
October 11 | Middle East | Cambridge, MA
October 12 | Monkey House | Winooski, VT
October 14 | 92 Y Tribeca | New York, NY
October 15 | Iron Horse | Northampton, MA
October 16 | Narrows Center | Fall River, MA
October 17 | The Ale House | Troy, NY
October 18 | A.B.C. | Harrisburg, PA
October 20 | IOTA Club | Arlington, VA
October 21 | Pour House | Raleigh, NC
October 22 | Whitehorse Black Mountain | Black Mountain, NC
October 23 | Smith's | Atlanta, GA
October 24 | Deep Roots Festival | Milledgeville, GA
November 6 | First Avenue | Minneapolis, MN
November 10 | Shank Hall | Milwaukee, WI
November 11 | High Noon | Madison, WI
November 12 | Radio Radio | Indianapolis, IN
November 13 | TBA | Kentucky
November 14 | Blueberry Hill | St. Louis, MO
November 19 | Red Carpet | St. Cloud, MN
November 20 | The Aquarium | Fargo, ND
November 21 | Ramkota Hall | Sioux Falls, SD
November 28 | TBA | Chicago, IL
December 4 | Doug Fir | Portland, OR
December 5 | Tractor Tavern | Seattle, WA
December 6 | Sam Bond's Garage | Eugene, OR
December 7 | TBA | Ashland, OR
December 9 | TBA | Arcata, CA
December 11 | TBA | Santa Cruz, CA
December 12 | TBA | San Francisco, CA
December 14 | Urban Lounge | Salt Lake City, UT
December 16 | Belly Up | Aspen, CO
December 17 | Hodi's Half Note | Fort Collins, CO
December 18 | Bluebird Theater | Denver, CO
December 19 | Bluebird Theater | Denver, CO