Pitchfork

Indie rock's most lovable dysfunctional family, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, have recently announced a string of live dates poised to put your Paxil prescription to the test this summer. The band will kick off the outing with a June 11 appearance at Patti Smith's Meltdown Festival in London (which will also include sets from Television, Billy Bragg, Yoko Ono, and Eels, among others), following it up with 6-date UK tour as openers for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (2/3 of whom are former Jonestown contributors). The Massacre will then head back to North America for a 13-show trek through early August-- which includes a set at this year's Lollapalooza Festival. Bringing it all back home, again:

06-11 London, England - Queen Elizabeth Hall (Patti Smith's Meltdown) #
06-12 Glasgow, Scotland - Queen Margaret Union #
06-13 Manchester, England - Manchester Academy #
06-14 Birmingham, England - Carling Birmingham Academy #
06-16 London, England - Scala #
06-18 Leeds, England - The Cockpit #
06-19 Brighton, England - Concorde 2 #
07-15 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
07-16 Sacramento, CA - Old Ironsides
07-18 Salt Lake City, UT - Velvet Room
07-19 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
07-20 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
07-22 Minneapolis, MN - 400 Bar
07-23 Indianapolis, IN - Patio (Midwest Music Summit)
07-24 Chicago, IL - Grant Park (Lollapalooza Festival)
07-25 Toldeo, OH - The Underground
07-26 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop
07-27 Toronto, Ontario - Lees Place
07-28 Montreal, Quebec - El Salon
07-29 Cambridge, MA - T.T. the Bear's
07-30 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
08-04 Washington, DC - DC9
08-06 Atlanta, GA - The Earl
08-07 Orlando, FL - Will's Pub
08-10 New Orleans, LA - TwiRoPa
08-12 Austin, TX - The Parish
08-13 Dallas, TX - TREES

# with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

And while no new Brian Jonestown Massacre album is currently on the roster, the band have seen themselves suddenly thrust back into the limelight this past year, thanks to the feature length documentary Dig! which won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Once poised as "the next big thing," the film paints a passionate, yet drug-addled portrait of the band's leader, Anton Newcombe, as he walks a fine line of complete career meltdown-- chronicling a 7-year stretch of the band's shenanigans alongside that of famously well-adjusted musical allies the Dandy Warhols.

In a 2004 post on the official Jonestown site, Newcombe aimed to distance himself from the award-winning film, writing: "I was shocked and let down when I saw the end result. Several years of our hard work was reduced at best to a series of punch-ups and mishaps taken out of context, and at worst bold faced lies and misrepresentation of fact. I accept that people will make up their own minds about this film when they see it. I just feel ripped off by the 'lowest common denominator' culture machine (something I don't cater to)."