Blood Brothers Ready New Album, Tour
Piano Island Volunteer Bucket Brigade fucks up, pickets Trammps tour

It just so happens that hardcore revisionists The Blood Brothers are heading out on a 20-city North American tour this July, at which they promise to debut throngs of new material from their upcoming Fall release, Crimes, the follow-up to their controversially anti-Piano-Island album, Burn Piano Island, Burn. In case you're unaware, it's important to note that the world's English-speaking press collectively had sex with itself over the Bros' last batch of songs. In fact, Pitchfork's own Chris Ott gave the LP an ejaculatory 9.1; and-- just between you and me-- the man would bellyache over head from Björk, so you know that shit's hotter than a nun on a high holiday.

The band reportedly tracked Crimes in early 2004 with producer John Goodmanson, who has previously worked with Sleater-Kinney and probably some other people. Goodmanson's indie cred notwithstanding, word on the street is that the band have gone all adult contemporary on the new record, with lots of experimentation and the incorporation of instruments such as cello, acoustic piano, and accordion. According to Blood Brothers guitarist Cody Votolato, "Crimes has a warmer feeling to it. It's more spacious, there's more finesse and grooves to the music. It's still crazy, but not as constricted as Piano." Holy shit, it's not a conditioner, you guys!

Expect to see consequential lineup shifts during the live show to accommodate the added presence of Johnny Whitney's mad piano skills, which will in turn free up bassist Morgan Henderson to shift over to guitar from time to time. Dates:

07-02 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock
07-03 Iowa City, IA - Gabe's Oasis
07-04 Chicago, IL - The Bottom Lounge
07-05 Detroit, MI - Alvin's
07-06 Toronto, ON - The Rockit
07-07 Montreal, QB - El Salon
07-08 Cambridge, MA - Middle East
07-09 Providence, RI - The Living Room
07-10 Brooklyn, NY - Northsix
07-11 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
07-12 Baltimore, MD - The Ottobar
07-13 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop
07-14 Columbus, OH - Little Brother's
07-15 Louisville, KY - Keswick Democratic Club
07-16 St. Louis, MO - Creep Crawl
07-17 Lawrence, KS - The Bottleneck
07-18 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theatre
07-19 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
07-22 Portland, OR - Meow Meow
07-25 Seattle, WA - The Capitol Hill Block Party

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