Pitchfork

As change the seasons, so change the Ponys. They've got a new dude in the band (ex-90 Day Man Brian Case, replacing departed guitarist/organist Ian Adams). They've got a new record ready to deploy, Celebration Castle, which will emerge in May on In the Red Records. They recorded it with a new producer, some guy named Steve Albini, at Electrical Audio in Chicago. And they just played a bunch of East Coast/Great Lakes shows with Bloc Party, bringing their '78 Bowery vibe to a new audience of Angloretrophiles. Yes, everything's coming up Ponys! The songs on Celebration Castle are called:

01 Glass Conversation
02 Another Wound
03 Today
04 I'm With You
05 We Shot The World
06 Shadowbox
07 Discoteca
08 Get Black
09 She's Broken
10 Ferocious

And how will the Ponys spread the good news about the new album to a jaded, overstimulated public? According to the band's web site, with a record release show at home in Chicago followed by a series of westerly live appearances that go a little something like this:

04-29 Chicago, IL - Double Door
05-03 Columbia, MO - Mojo's
05-04 Norman, OK - Opolis
05-05 Ft. Worth, TX - Wreck Room
05-06 Austin, TX - Emos
05-07 El Paso, TX - The T Lounge
05-08 Scottsdale, AZ - TBA
05-10 Los Angeles, CA - Echo
05-11 San Francisco, CA - Café Du Nord
05-12 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill *
05-13 Portland, OR - Berbatis *
05-14 Seattle, WA - Neumo's *
05-16 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court Gallery *
05-17 Denver, CO - Bender's *
05-18 Lawrence, KS - Replay Lounge *
05-19 St. Louis, MO - Hi-Pointe *

* with Gris Gris

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