Pitchfork

Joe Pernice is sick of the cynical, the fashion show, the vapid, the overblown. (Or so he sings on his new track "Somerville".) Now the oft-melancholic musician is encouraging fans to resist vapidity and Live a Little, as his long-running band the Pernice Brothers will release a new album by that name on October 3, courtesy of his own Ashmont Records.

Produced by Michael Deming, who also worked on the first Pernice Bros album Overcome by Happiness, the new full-length features strings and horns (a la Overcome) but-- according to the band's official website-- "is much more a rock record, representing the running of big fat analog tape while sweaty guys played on well-crafted instruments through amplifiers and pounded on sweet, old drum kits."

Live a Little, the follow-up to 2005's Discover a Lovelier You, contains eleven new tracks plus a 2006 version of "Grudge F***" by the Scud Mountain Boys (Pernice's former band). Joe and friends will also bro down on a U.S. tour this fall.

Live a Little:

01 Automaton
02 Somerville
03 Cruelty to Animals
04 Zero Refills
05 Microscopic View
06 How Can I Compare
07 B.S. Johnson
08 PCH One
09 Conscience Clean (I Went to Spain)
10 Lightheaded
11 High as A Kite
12 Grudge F*** (2006)

Dates:

11-07 Detroit, MI - Lager House *
11-09 Chicago, IL - Schubas *
11-10 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon *
11-16 Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern *
11-16 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge *
11-21 San Francisco, CA - Café du Nord *
12-06 Washington, DC - Black Cat *

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