Secret Machines Tour, Podcast With Bowie

After a lengthy tour supporting their successful 2004 debut Now Here Is Nowhere, the band says they felt disconnected from their families, friends, and loved ones, and this isolation informed the new, road-tested songs. Another development was an effort to add more dimension and form to their songs. Speaking about the new material on the band's official website, keyboardist/bassist/vocalist Brandon Curtis says, "This time we tried to preserve some of the depth, and let other things, like melodies, float to the surface."

The boys launch their tour tonight in Pittsburgh, playing throughout the U.S. and Canada in April/May before flying over to Europe in June. Watch for them on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" on April 25 and on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" on May 3, but keep in mind you'll have to supply your own lava lamp and strobe light for these performances.

Now here is everywhere:

04-21 Pittsburgh, PA - Carnegie Mellon University (students only)
04-22 Nashville, TN - Vanderbilt University *
04-24 Ft. Wayne, IN - Memorial Coliseum &
04-26 New York, NY - Hiro Ballroom
04-27 New York, NY - Virgin Megastore Union Square (in-store)
05-02 Los Angeles, CA - Amoeba Records (in-store)
05-04 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
05-06 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
05-07 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
05-08 Seattle, WA - Neumos
05-09 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richards on Richards
05-12 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
05-13 Chicago, IL - Metro
05-14 Detroit, MI - Magic Bag
05-15 Toronto, ON - Mod Club
05-28 Philadelphia, PA - Penn's Landing (Jam on the River Festival)@
06-02 Nurburgring, Germany - Rock Am Ring !
06-03 Nurnberg, Germany - Rock-Im-Park !
06-05 Hamburg, Germany - Knust
06-06 Berlin, Germany - Postbahnhof
06-07 Cologne, Germany - Gebaude 9
06-08 Amsterdam, Holland - Melkweg
06-09 The Hague, Holland - Music In My Head Festival %
06-10 Donington, England - Donington Park (Download Festival) #
08-03 Cleveland, OH - Blossom Music Center (Kuyahoga Festival) $
08-04 Chicago, IL - Grant Park (Lollapalooza) $^
08-05 Lawrence, KS - Bleeding Kansas Festival
08-12 Osaka, Japan - Summer Sonic Festival
08-13 Tokyo, Japan - Summer Sonic Festival

* with Ben Folds, Gov't Mule, Matt Pond PA
& with Dashboard Confessional
@ with Ween
% with Editors, Ron Sexsmith, Maximo Park
! with Art Brut
# with Metallica, Deftones, The Prodigy, et al
$ with The Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth, Death Cab For Cutie, The Go! Team, Wolfmother, the Hold Steady
^ with Wilco, Kanye West, The Shins, The Raconteurs, Common, New Pornographers, Gnarls Barkley, et al

One Secret Machines fan who knows something about space-rock is Ziggy Stardust himself, David Bowie. The mutual admiration between Bowie and the Secret Machines led to an interview with the band by the Thin White Duke, which is available as a podcast on Bowie's website. The Man Who Fell to Earth's lead-off question to the band: "Is there life on Mars?"

The Secret Machines: http://www.thesecretmachines.com
David Bowie podcast: http://www.davidbowie.com/exclusives/podcast/