Pitchfork

Warn Defever, the man who can't decide, has taken the ever-evolving His Name is Alive in a new and exciting direction. Different, some might say. Very different, might others. Actually, those were the same people. Yes, under the title Someday My Blues Will Cover the Earth, Defever has recorded a straight-ahead R&B; record, in collaboration with soulful vocalist Lovetta Pippen, to be released on August 21st. (Watch out for the worst pun ever inside the packaging; it makes puns about "catching Defever" simply useless.) Sure, there are a couple actual lo-fi blues interludes, but it's never been in Defever's best interest to stick to one uniform style, even for a whole record. Look what happened when he recorded that entire folk album on Edison Wax Cylinder. Now Edison's out of cylinders. For shame, Warn. For shame.

East coast tour dates, like a bolt of lightning:

08-07 New York, NY - Knitting Factory
08-09 New London, CT - Secret Theatre (w/Retsin)
08-10 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Upstairs (w/Retsin)
08-11 Providence, RI - Met Cafe (w/Retsin)
08-14 New York, NY - Knitting Factory (w/Retsin)
08-16 Baltimore, MD - Ottobar (w/Flashpapr)
08-17 Philadelphia, PA - Khyber (w/Flashpapr)
08-18 Washington, DC - Metro Cafe (w/Flashpapr)

08-21 New York, NY - Knitting Factory (w/Flashpapr)
08-23 Charlottesville, VA - Tokyo Rose (w/Slumber Party)
08-24 Atlanta, GA - Echo Lounge (w/Slumber Party)
08-25 Chapel Hill, NC - Go! Rehearsal (w/Slumber Party)
08-28 New York, NY - Knitting Factory (w/Karla Schickele)