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Kurt Vile announces 2023 UK and European tour

The tour includes a stop at London's iconic Koko

Kurt Vile will be touring the UK and Europe later this year.

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The tour follows the release of his album, ‘(watch my moves)’ , which came out in April of 2022, and includes dates at Black Deer Festival in Kent and London’s Koko. The London show will be Vile’s first gig in the capital since 2019.

King Hannah will be opening on select UK dates. Tickets will go on sale on Friday (March 3) at 10am – you can buy yours here .

Kurt Vile will play the following dates:

JUNE 2023 11 – Hilvarenbeek, Best Kept Secret 12  – London, Koko 15 – Bristol, SWX 16 – Kent, Black Deer Festival 18 – Westmeath, Body and Soul Festival 19 – Manchester, New Century 20 – Newcastle, Boiler Shop  21 – Edinburgh, Queens Hall 22 – Nottingham, The Level 23 – Birmingham, O2 Institute 25 – Brighton, Chalk 26 – Tourcoing, Le Grand Mix 27 – Heidelberg, Karlstorbahnhof 28 – Munich, Muffathelle 30 – Turin, Spazio 211 Open Ai

JULY 2023 1- Prato, Off Tune Festival 2 – Ferrara, Ferrera Comfort Festival 3 – Ljubljana, Kino Siska 5 –  Zurich, Rote Fabrik 7 – Ile Du Gaou, Pointu Festival 9 – Brugge, Cactusfestival 10 – Amsterdam, Live at Amsterdamse Bos

In a four-star review of ‘(watch my moves)’,  NME  said:” Vile has always been the epitome of someone comfortable in their own skin, but he displays that more than ever on this spacey and sprawling adventure.

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“We’re transported to leafy suburban American backstreets with one meandering vocal melody, and even placed in a great American forest on his reflective ode to his Philadelphia, ‘Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone)’. Nobody can transport you in quite the same way this outsider can, and the world’s a much better place for his unwavering presence.”

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Kurt Vile announces UK tour for the summer

Acclaimed musician, songwriter and producer Kurt Vile and his band The Violators announces a headline tour of the UK and Europe, including an appearance at Black Deer Festival and London’s legendary Koko on Monday 12th June. The Koko show is Vile’s first headline show in London since 2019 and follows the release of his critically acclaimed ninth album (watch my moves) released on Verve Records last year.

The tour will take in eight UK cities, including Manchester and Glasgow before Vile and The Violators head into Europe for a run of shows and festivals.

(watch my moves) was named an album of the year by Uncut, MOJO and The Observer, who described the 15 track collection as “gently psychedelic tunes meandering to just the right places, where Vile’s preternatural serenity felt like a balm.”

Produced by Vile himself with Rob Schnapf, the album features special guests Chastity Belt, Cate Le Bon and percussionists Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint, Courtney Barnett) and Sarah Jones (Hot Chip, Harry Styles). (watch my moves) featured the singles ‘Like Exploding Stones’, ‘Hey Like A Child’, ‘Mount Airy Hill’ and ‘Flyin’ (like a fast train’).

TOUR DATES JUNE 2023 11th – Best Kept Secret, HILVARENBEEK, NL 12th – Koko, LONDON, UK* 15th – SWX, BRISTOL, UK* 16th – Black Deer Festival, KENT, UK 18th – Body & Soul Festival, WESTMEATH, IE 19th – New Century, MANCHESTER, UK* 20th – Boiler Shop, NEWCASTLE, UK* 21st – Queens Hall, EDINBURGH, UK* 22nd – The Level, NOTTINGHAM, UK* 23rd – O2 Institute, BIRMINGHAM, UK* 25th – Chalk, BRIGHTON, UK* 26th – Le Grand Mix, TOURCOING, FR 27th – Karlstorbahnhof, HEIDELBERG, DE 28th – Muffathelle, MUNICH, DE 30th – Spazio 211 Open Air, TURIN, IE

JULY 2023 1st – Off Tune Festival, PRATO, IT 2nd – Ferrera Comfort Festival, FERRARA, IT 3rd – Kino Siska, LJUBLJANA, Slovenia 5th – Rote Fabrik, ZURICH, CH 7th – Pointu Festival, ILE DU GAOU/ SIX-FOURS, FR 9th – Cactusfestival, BRUGGE, NL 10th – Live at Amsterdamse Bos, AMSTERDAM, NL

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Weeks of speculation come to an end today as details of the new Kurt Vile album can finally be confirmed: One of the most critically and commercially acclaimed artists of the last decade will release Bottle It In on October 12th on Matador Records.

Today’s announcement is accompanied by the release of a new song titled ‘Bassackwards’, which follows previously released Bottle It In single, ‘Loading Zones’, an ode to the parking challenges in Vile’s native Philadelphia, described alternately as “Vile at his comforting, shaggy best” (The Guardian), and an “ambiguous rumination on small town life” (MOJO). The epic, loping ‘Bassackwards’ is the album’s beating heart and Vile’s most compelling evocation of how he sees the world: “I was on the ground circa Planet Earth, but out of sorts,” he sings over a gently psychedelic bed of backmasked guitars. “But I snapped back, baby, just in time to jot it down.”

Vile will hit the road this fall on an extensive global tour, with support from The Violators (Rob Laakso, Kyle Spence, and Jesse Trbovich). Commencing October 12th in Hamburg, Germany, the tour runs through mainland Europe, before arriving in major UK cities, including two consecutive nights at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire on November 6th and 7th.

In addition, Vile has confirmed a further run of worldwide tour dates for 2019 with The Violators. The full list of tour dates can be found below the Stephen Deusner penned bio.

Travel can inspire in surprising ways: Kurt Vile discovered as much making his first record in three years, the eclectic and electrifying Bottle It In, which he recorded at various studios around the country over two very busy years, during sessions that usually punctuated the ends of long tours or family road trips. Every song, whether it’s a concise and catchy pop composition or a sprawling guitar epic, becomes a journey unto itself, taking unexpected detours, circuitous melodic avenues, or open-highway solos. If Vile has become something of a rock guitar god—a mantle he would dismiss out of humility but also out of a desire to keep getting better, to continue absorbing new music, new sounds, new ideas—it’s due to his precise, witty playing style, which turns every riff and rhythm into points on a map and takes the scenic route from one to the next.

Using past albums as points of departure, Bottle It In heads off in new directions, pushing at the edges of the map into unexplored territory: Here be monster jams. These songs show an artist who is still evolving and growing: a songwriter who, like his hero John Prine, can make you laugh and break your heart, often in the same line, as well as a vocalist who essentially rewrites those songs whenever he sings them in his wise, laconic jive-talkin’ drawl. He revels in the minutiae of the music—not simply incorporating new instruments but emphasizing how they interact with his guitar and voice, how the glockenspiel evokes cirrocumulus clouds on “Hysteria,” how Kim Gordon’s “acoustic guitar distortion” (her term) engulfs everything at the end of “Mutinies,” how the banjo curls around his guitar lines and backing vocals from Lucius to lend a high-lonesome aura to “Come Again.”

These journeys took Vile more than two years to navigate, during which time he toured behind his breakout 2015 album b’lieve I’m goin’ down, recorded a duets album with Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist Courtney Barnett, opened for Neil Young in front of 90,000 people in Quebec, famously became a clue on Jeopardy, hung out with friends, took vacations with his wife and daughters.

In April 2017, he trekked out to Indio, California, to catch the Stagecoach Festival and sit in with his friends the Sadies (“my favorite modern band”). Inspired by Willie Nelson’s epic set, Vile spent a few days in Los Angeles working with producer Rob Schnapf at his Mant Sounds studio. The two had previously worked together on “Pretty Pimpin,” the leadoff track on b’lieve that became a number-one AAA radio hit. Their second collaboration was similarly inspired: Featuring backing vocals from Cass McCombs, the eleven-minute title track is full of ominous bass rumbles, hazy-steady drumbeats from Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa, delicate harp stabs from Mary Lattimore, and what sounds like chewy distortion leaking out of a David Lynch flick.

Months later, when a lengthy Violators tour ended in Salt Lake City, Vile let the momentum carry him further west, where he recorded several more songs with engineer/producer Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes, the War on Drugs) at The Beer Hole in Los Angeles. Other songs were put to tape during sojourns to Portland, Oregon, and to Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where fellow Violator Rob Laakso co-produced. The bulk of Bottle It In was bottled up at Tarquin Studios in Bridgeport, Connecticut, with Peter Katis (Interpol, the National) engineering and producing. Bottle It In captures the spontaneity of these impromptu sessions, revealing Vile as a diligent and singularly determined musician.

These recordings are the destinations, but the journeys were just as important, whether they gave him time with his wife and kids or an opportunity to get some writing done. “For a while I was terrified of flying, so I would be listening to whatever country songs I was obsessed with. I’d have George Jones blasting in my ears. Or, I would be reading something about country music. Or, I would start writing songs in that flash of being afraid, being swallowed by life. I’m up there on a plane drinking wine because like everybody else I’m afraid to die. And I wrote ‘Hysteria’ up there.” That new song, with its woozy guitar fanfare, captures mid-flight queasiness well, as Vile daydreams about escaping the flight: “Stop this plane ’cause I wanna get off,” he sings. “Pull over somewhere on the side of a cloud.”

Bottle It In is about place only insofar as it is about the people in those places: friends and family, bandmates and music heroes, colleagues and collaborators. There’s a lot of love in these big-hearted songs, a lot of warmth toward everyone in Vile’s orbit and even toward those whose paths he’s yet to cross. “Loved you all a long, long while,” he sings on “One-Trick Ponies.” “Looked down into a deep dark well, called all of your names.” The jangly country-rock tune serves as a valentine to… he won’t say, but he and Mozgawa and Farmer Dave Scher deliver a beautifully sympathetic sing-along chorus that invites every one of us one-trick ponies to join in.

As Vile prepares for another round of lengthy tours and countless shows, these songs should prove good company, reminders of the love and responsibility he has toward those he leaves at home and those he meets along the way. That makes the sentiments resonate more strongly and lends Bottle It In an emotional weight. “It’s like that moment on the airplane,” Vile says, “when you’re on your way somewhere and you have that burst of panic. When you’re terrified of dying, that’s when you want people to know you love them.”

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UK – Following on from a spring visit to Australia and New Zealand, Kurt Vile and The Violators hit the road in the UK and Europe touring in support of the 2022 studio album, Watch My Moves.

FOH engineer Aaron Brody began working with Vile six years ago and, as of last year, has been pulling double duty as tour manager. “We’ve been with Brit Row since I started working with Kurt, when I was originally mixing monitors. He’s actually the first artist I've toured with overseas and this has given me the ability to rent a production package,” he says.

“I love working with Brit Row; the prep days in their shop are the best! It’s important to know, when you’re mixing and tour managing, that your gear is going to be right for the job. I try to be as specific as I can, down to the length of cables and I know on arrival at Brit Row that everything will be in place, exactly how I’ve asked for it.”

Out front, Brody requires a small yet perfectly defined rider, packaged with precision, thanks to Brit Row account executive Dave Compton’s expertise.

Brody continues: “I used to take a lot more outboard out with me, but over the years, I’ve really paired it back and I find that works for Kurt’s mix. I've been diving deeper into the world of snapshots because I think there's a higher value to a mix in snapshots than there is in a bunch of fancy toys. This allows my mix to translate no matter where I am in the world.

“In that sense, I'm relying more on what my desk has to offer, rather than extra elements. I'm focusing on system control and system processing, which I tend to do through the Lake LM44. I also like Rupert Neve Designs’ master buss compressor. In fact, I never leave home without that!”

The desk Brody is relying on is a recent switch to a DiGiCo SD12 with SD Rack. “I like the sound of a DiGiCo desk; it has this sort of British charm and I'm having a blast on it. It can really show you where you're at as an engineer, and I think I’ve grown into being able to use it. It’s been a positive swap for the band,” he adds.

Brody explains his mix is “good straight out of the desk”, given that they’re using house PAs across this club circuit. “I just tune the room as best I can and we run a virtual sound check every day. My favourite thing about the console is its flexible layout, and the custom banking, which works better for my workflow. The dynamic EQ on every input channel in groups is incredible, that's a real selling point for me.”

He continues: “You can't do that on other desks without the use of plug-ins, and it also helps to control the mix. The warmth and the tube emulations are pretty great if used too.”

A keen multi-instrumentalist, Vile has used a Telefunken M80 for many years, while a microphone package comprising Shure, Sennheiser, Behringer and Beyerdynamic are spread stage wide for his Violators.

Vile plays acoustic and electric guitars while singing and his four-piece live band switches between bass, keys and guitar.

Brody describes this live arrangement as “entirely different” to the records. “The albums are nothing like the live show; I asked Kurt about this early on, the way he wanted it to sound, and the aim is to be a lot more ‘in your face’, with big guitars and bigger drum sounds. I describe it as wider and more hi-fi.”

In monitor world, new crew member Erich Miller is enjoying his first outing with Brit Row.

He begins: “I live in Philadelphia, about an hour from Clair Global, so although I've known a lot of people that have worked for them, I didn’t know Brit Row personally before this tour. If a company is associated with Clair, I know that we’d be very well taken care of, and we absolutely have been.”

Miller has inherited an Avid Venue S6L, a desk he says has been a long-time preference.

“I’ve used Avid for years, so I find it definitely does whatever I want it to. The scene management is really straightforward, and as I've got to know the band and learn what they like individually, I make adjustments and save it on the fly so the next day I can recall it quickly. We multi-track the shows, and because we do virtual sound check, I can go through and make any adjustments to the scenes I need to at a later date.

“I see my job as making sure that everyone is comfortable on stage. The last thing you want to do as a monitor engineer is fish through a bunch of stuff to solve a problem. Whatever they need, I like to have it at my fingertips,” he adds.

“The whole experience has been great. On my first prep day at Brit Row, when I was in the back of the rack putting my stuff together, a freelancer named Stacey Handley came over to do it for me. By the time I could even finish my thought about what I wanted to go where, she was already pulling the connectors out and adapting the rig just as I wanted. The service is fantastic,” he confirms.

Brody closes by explaining that there's an “honesty” in the Kurt Vile camp, which has encouraged him to step into his dual roles, and to bring Miller into the fold.

“It’s just an easy-going tour,” he says. “It's not the biggest gig in the world, it's not the smallest, but management let me bring the control package I want, no questions asked. And to work with a company like Brit Row, which I totally trust to deliver it, well, there’s freedom in that.

“Ultimately, we’re all just having a good time together!”

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Philadelphian, sweep-haired sweetheart Kurt Vile plans to tour Europe this spring just by himself, packing nothing but an amp and an electric guitar. The ‘Wakin On A Pretty Daze’ musician returns to these shores for a March/April stint. Dates include stopovers at London’s St James Piccadilly Church and Brighton’s All Saint’s Church. Kurt’s recent releases have made the perils of touring a pretty prominent subject , but that’s not making him shy away from the road. Dates below: MARCH 31 Dudingen, Bad Bonn* APRIL 01 Athens, Gagarin 205 04 Rotterdam, Motel Mozaiques 05 Hamburg, Hafenklang 06 Berlin, Hebbel Am Ufer 2 (HAAU) 07 Dublin, Whelans 09 Cork, The Pavillion 10 Paris, Cafe de la Danse 11 Gent, Vooruit 12 London, St James Piccadilly 13 Brighton, All Saint’s Church 14 Copenhagen, Bremen Teater 15 Oslo, Rockefeller 16 Istanbul, IKSV

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Kurt Vile Debuts “Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone)” from Forthcoming ‘(watch my moves)’

Today, Philadelphia-based singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer, Kurt Vile, debuted “Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone)” from his forthcoming album (watch my moves). In addition to the song release, Vile confirmed his upcoming U.S. and European tour dates. 

“Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone)” follows earlier releases from (watch my moves) : “Hey Like a Child” and “Like Exploding Stones.” (watch my moves), Vile’s ninth solo full-length album , is due for release on April 15 via Verve Records.  

In addition to the “Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone)” debut, Vile confirmed U.S. and European Tour dates for (watch my moves) . Vile’s U.S. tour will kick off this April in Virginia and make its way along the West and East Coasts through the end of the summer. Soon after, Vile will play shows across the Atlantic, starting in August at London’s All Points East Festival.  

See below for the complete list of tour dates.

Watch the video for Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone)” below:

Kurt Vile U.S. Tour Dates: 

April 26 — The NorVa* — Norfolk, Va. 

April 27  — Haw River Ballroom* — Saxaphaw, N.C. 

April 28  — The Orange Peel* — Asheville, N.C.

April 29 — Beale Street Music Festival 2022 — Memphis, Tenn. 

April 30 — Shaky Knees Music Festival — Atlanta, Ga. 

May 1 — Ryman Auditorium* — Nashville, Tenn. 

May 3  — Jones Assembly* — Oklahoma City, Okla. 

May 4 — White Oak Music Hall* — Houston, Texas 

May 5 — Granada Theater* — Dallas, Texas 

May 6 — ACL Live at the Moody Theater* — Austin, Texas 

May 7 — Aztec Theater*— San Antonio, Texas 

May 9 — Van Buren*— Phoenix, Ariz. 

May 10 — The Observatory North Park* — San Diego, Calif. 

May 12 — The Theatre at The Ace Hotel* — Los Angeles, Calif. 

May 13 — The Fillmore* — San Francisco, Calif. 

May 14 — The Fillmore* — San Francisco, Calif. 

May 15 — Gundlach Bundschu Winery* — Sonoma, Calif. 

May 17 — Crystal Ballroom* — Portland, Ore.

May 18 — Spanish Ballroom* — Tacoma, Wash. 

May 19 — Knitting Factory* — Spokane, Wash. 

May 20 — The Moore* — Seattle, Wash.

May 21 — Knitting Factory — Boise, Idaho

May 23 — Ogden Theater — Denver, Colo. 

May 25 — First Avenue+ — Minneapolis, Minn. 

May 26 — Turner Ballroom+ — Milwaukee, Wis.

May 27 — Thalia Hall+ — Chicago, Ill. 

May 28 — Thalia Hall+ — Chicago, Ill.

June 1 — Webster Hall+ — New York, N.Y. 

June 2 — Webster Hall~  — New York, N.Y. 

June 3 — Union Transfer+ — Philadelphia, Pa.

June 4 — Union Transfer~ — Philadelphia, Pa.

June 23 — Railyard Park — Santa Fe, N.M.

July 9 — FieldTrip Festival — Toronto, ON 

August 7 — Hinterland Music Festival 2022 — St. Charles, Iowa

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Kurt Vile European Tour Dates: 

August 26 — All Points East Festival  — London, U.K.

August 27 — Forum — Bath, U.K.

August 28 — Stylus — Leeds, U.K.

August 29 — QMU — Glasgow, U.K.

August 30 — Limelight — Belfast, U.K.

August 31 — Vicar Street — Dublin, Ireland

September 2 — Moseley Folk & Arts Festival — Birmingham, U.K.

September 3 — Manchester Psych Fest — Manchester, U.K.

September 4 — End of the Road Festival — Dorset, U.K.

September 6 — OLT — Antwerpen, Belgium

September 12 — Gloria Theater — Köln, Germany

September 13 — Paradiso — Amsterdam, the Netherlands

September 14 — Openluchttheater Goffert — Nijmegen, the Netherlands

 September 15 — Huxleys — Berlin, Germany

September 16 — The Grey Hall — Copenhagen, DK

September 17 —Plan B — Malmö, Sweden

September 19 — Depart — Kortrijk, Belgium

September 20 — Le Trianon — Paris, France

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Kurt Vile has announced Back to Moon Beach , his new EP out November 17 on Verve. To celebrate the release, Vile has shared its lead single/video, “Another good year for the roses.” In conjunction, Vile has announced 2024 North American tour dates.

Back to Moon Beach is an EP by no one’s definition but Kurt Vile’s. Clocking in at just shy of an hour, this would be a long full-length record by most any other artist’s yardstick; but for Vile, the collection is an expression of just how deep his well of non-album material runs. Following his 2022 album, (watch my moves) , Back to Moon Beach collects new songs, one-offs, covers, and newly reworked versions of beloved tracks.

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It is presented in three ways: a standard vinyl release with six tracks, a digital/CD format with nine tracks, and a deluxe “direct-to-consumer” double-LP with 10 tracks (which includes the only place non-Amazon users can hear Kurt’s cover of Charli XCX’s “Constant Repeat”).

Lead single “Another good year for the roses” is Back to Moon Beach’s opening track, a richly psychedelic downtempo earworm with an instantly memorable arpeggiated piano melody. The song was co-produced by and features Cate Le Bon, and also features Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint, Courtney Barnett). The video features a pastoral scene of Kurt and friends in the woods, jamming out, before he joins a new band made up of actors Kevin Corrigan and Michael Shannon for a show at NYC dive Otto’s Shrunken Head.

Kurt offered a statement on the project, writing, “Hi! Here’s the opening track from my upcoming ep… ok, it’s longer than an ep… now I call it a KV comp. The first 6 tracks—which are the ones that fit on a single LP—are new to the world, with one foot in the not-too-distant past and the other with one tiny toe pointing toward the future. Together my feet are like a couple spanning time together.

“This song was started at Stinson Beach, CA in September 2019 for a few days of recording with Rob Laakso, Stella Mozgawa, Chris Cohen, Cate Le Bon (and Adam Langellotti floating as a fly on the wall as well). Adam and I being the two overseers across this entire endeavor: we finished it on our own (and with some friends along the way). We ended up demonically overdubbing for weeks straight at OKV Central, Philly (my studio)… this was all of May 2023… so many magic moments.”

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Kurt Vile Expands 2024 US Tour with New Dates

Kicking off in March

Kurt Vile has announced that he’s expanding his upcoming North American tour to hit nine additional US cities, including Houston, Dallas, Jacksonville, and more.

Kicking off on March 17th in Baltimore, Maryland, Vile’s upcoming tour dates will be in support of his 2023 EP, Back to Moon Beach , which arrived via Verve Records last November. After a leg running through the South, the newly-announced dates will take Vile through Texas and Oklahoma, down through Florida, and then back up for shows in North Carolina and Virginia. Check out the full list of his upcoming dates below.

Tickets for the new shows will go on sale via Vile’s website on Friday, February 9th, at 10:00 a.m. local time.

Running nearly an hour long, Back to Moon Beach follows Vile’s 2022 album, (watch my moves) , and features a collection of new songs, covers, and reworked arrangements of previously released tracks.  Orders for physical copies are ongoing.

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Kurt Vile 2024 Tour Dates: 03/17 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar + 03/18 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall + 03/19 – Louisville, KY @ Headliners Music Hall + & 03/21 – Knoxville, TN @ Big Ears Festival 03/22 – Memphis, TN @ Minglewood Hall + 03/23 – Little Rock, AR @ The Hall + 03/24 – Oxford, MS @ The Lyric Oxford + 03/26 – New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina’s + 03/27 – Birmingham, AL @ Iron City + 03/28 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse + 03/29 – Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club + 04/28 – Austin, TX @ Austin Psych Fest – The Far Out Lounge 04/29 – Houston, TX @ The Heights Theater 04/30 – McAllen, TX @ Cine El Rey 05/02 – Dallas, TX @ The Kessler Theater 05/03 – Tulsa, OK @ Guthrie Green 05/07 – Orlando, FL @ The Beacham Theater 05/08 – St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live 05/09 – Jacksonville, FL @ The Bier Hall at Intuition Ale Works 05/10 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle 05/11 – Richmond, VA @ The National 06/21 – Mount Solon, VA @ Red Rings Roots Music Festival

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