Elf Power Tour in Support of New LP

Don't you love it when elves keep their promises? I can't count the number of times I've met one who said they would trade me their plus one throwing dagger, then reneged.

The 12 tracks on Back to the Web embrace acoustic lushness rather than the sparkle and strut of the last Elf Power album, 2004's Walking with the Beggar Boys. As Rieger told Pitchfork last fall, the album rocks in "a face-melting psychedelic manner." Oh yeah!

Joining Rieger on the album are The Late BP Helium (Brian Poole), Derek Almstead, John Fernandes, Jimmy Hughes, Heather McIntosh, Laura Carter, and newish drummer Josh Lott. Providing a family tree would require months of research, and possibly an abacus, so suffice it to say that most of the people mentioned above have played with pretty much every band on Elephant 6, Orange Twin, Cloud Recordings, Misra, SpinART

Sprite this way:

01 Come Lie Down With Me (and Sing My Song)
02 An Old Familiar Scene
03 Rolling Black Water
04 King of Earth
05 Peel Back the Moon, Beware!
06 23rd Dream
07 Somewhere Down the River
08 The Spider and the Fly
09 Forming
10 All the World Is Waiting
11 Under the Northern Sky
12 Back to the Web

The Athens, GA gang will head out on tour again next week. After a quick spin around the North American continent, Elf Power will head to England to play the Shins-curated date of All Tomorrow's Parties. More American dates are planned for late summer and early fall.

A dream in sound:

04-25 Charleston, SC - Map Room *
04-26 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 *
04-27 Arlington, VA - Iota *
04-28 Brooklyn, NY - North Six *#
04-29 Clinton, NY - Hamilton College *
04-30 Boston, MA - PA's Lounge *
05-01 Rochester, NY - Bug Jar *
05-02 Waterloo, Ontario - Starlight *
05-03 Toronto, Ontario - Horseshoe Tavern *
05-04 Detroit, MI - Lager House *
05-05 Chicago, IL - Subterranean *
05-06 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry *
05-09 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Café *
05-10 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge *
05-12 San Francisco, CA - Café du Nord *%
05-13 Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland *
05-14 Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture *
05-17 Austin, TX - Emo's Jr *
05-20 London, England - Astoria
05-21 Camber Sands, England - Camber Sands Holiday Centre (All Tomorrow's Parties) $
05-23 Brighton, England - Freebutt
05-24 Amsterdam, Holland - Paradiso

* with the Instruments
# with Oakley Hall
% with Magic Bullets
$ with the Shins, New Pornographers, the Decemberists, Clinic, Big Business, Triangle, Destroyer, Electrelane, Dungen, the Black Keys

An episode of the new TBS live music show "Music Road" will feature the band, both playing a set of its own and backing up Vic Chesnutt. According to Elf Power, the episode is supposed to air "sometime in April or May," but no date is confirmed yet. Other South-centric shindigs will spotlight Drive-By Truckers and Sharon Jones.

Elf Power: http://www.elfpower.com/
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