Pitchfork: Pink Mountaintops Plot North American Trek

Pink Mountaintops Plot North American Trek

As previously reported, Stephen McBean's less visible (but by no means less mountainous) project Pink Mountaintops will release their sophomore effort, Axis of Evol, on March 7 through Jagjaguwar. What we only hinted at, but could not divine in advance, was that Pink Mountaintops would tour North America this very March to support the album.

Now we have the dates and the details: according to Jagjaguwar, McBean will take his PM show on the road, joined at times by Lyndsay Sung, Cory Gangnes, and his Black Mountain collaborators Joshua Wells and Amber Webber. The tour will include one stop each with Dead Meadow, and quasi-labelmates Oneida and Magnolia Electric Company, and will hit up a good portion of the West Coast, Southwest, and Midwest, not to mention the band's hometown of Vancouver several times. East Coasters should recognize a pattern there: no luck.

Pink Mountaintops will play the Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar showcase at SXSW. The labels have yet to announce the specifics of the showcase, but Magnolia Electric Company, the Earlies, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Damian Jurado, Richard Swift, Julie Doiron, and Parts & Labor are all currently on the labels' rosters, so connect the dots if you feel like it.

Once the month-long tour ends, Black Mountain will play the Mudhoney-curated date of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in England in May. But first things first:

02-08 Vancouver, British Columbia - Red Room *
03-07 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Caf� <br> 03-08 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
03-10 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
03-11 Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland #
03-13 Phoenix, AZ - Modified
03-18 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-19 Oklahoma City, OK - The Conservatory $
03-20 Springfield, MO - The Outland
03-21 Kansas City, MO - The Record Bar
03-22 Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews
03-23 Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground
03-24 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive
03-25 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
04-05 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards
04-07 Victoria, British Columbia - Sugar
05-12 East Sussex, England - Camber Sands Holiday Centre (All Tomorrow's Parties) %

* with Dead Meadow
# with Oneida
$ with Magnolia Electric Company
% with Mudhoney, the Scientists, Country Teasers, David Dondero, the Flesh Eaters, Jon Wahl & the Amadans, Total Sound Group Direct Action Committee, Comets on Fire, the Drones, Mark Pickerel