Fractured back-porch art-folkies Megafaun are not about to sit around on their asses while contemporaries and former bandmates like Bon Iver, Bowerbirds, The Dodos, and Akron/Family get all the attention for playing “woodsy” psych-folk music. They’ll be damned if they’re not gonna get a bigger piece of that chunky, huckleberry pie in 2010!
With this in mind, they’ve decided to man-up and do their first headlining tour of the US this spring. But while they will continue to tour in support of the group’s well-received second album Gather, Form & Fly(TMT Review), the band is also throwing-down hardcore on this tour and promising live previews of a new release, a mini-album entitled Heretofore, which is due out via Hometapes this summer.
Brad Cook said of the new six-song, 36-minute recording: “I feel like it’s the best hooks and lyrics that we’ve done… but it also has the most far-reaching stuff we’ve ever put on a record.” And even though that’s what everybody in the history of everything has ever said about every new record they’ve ever made ever, don’t you just kinda want to believe the guy? Besides, at least they’re cranking out the folk jams at an insane pace (word is that there’s still a proper Megafaun “full-length” due out this fall!). Where’s YOUR new record, Fleet Foxes?!? Pffffft! That’s what I thought… chumps.
Mega-Tour:
03.27.10 - Swannanoa, NC - Sage Cafe at Warren Wilson College
03.31.10 - Washington, DC - Black Cat Backstage
04.01.10 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s
04.02.10 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
04.03.10 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool
04.04.10 - Montreal, QC - La Sala Rossa
04.05.10 - Toronto, ON - Horseshoe Tavern
04.07.10 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern
04.08.10 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
04.09.10 - Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center
04.10.10 - Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room
04.11.10 - Lawrence, KS - Replay Lounge
04.12.10 - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
04.13.10 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
04.15.10 - Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern
04.16.10 - Vancouver, BC - The Media Club
04.17.10 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
04.18.10 - Eugene, OR - Sam Bond’s Garage
04.19.10 - Davis, CA - Sophia’s Thai Kitchen
04.20.10 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent
04.21.10 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
04.22.10 - Tucson, AZ - Hotel Congress
04.23.10 - Tempe, AZ - The Sail Inn
04.24.10 - Albuquerque, NM - Low Spirits
04.26.10 - Denton, TX - Hailey’s
04.27.10 - Austin, TX - Emo’s Inside
04.28.10 - Houston, TX - Rudyards
04.30.10 - Birmingham, AL - Bottletree
05.01.10 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl
05.07.10 - Carrboro, NC - Cats Cradle
• Megafaun: http://www.megafaun.com
[Photo: D. L. Anderson]
