Aww, snap. Look out, all you pathetic one-percenters like Bono and Boney James! Unlike you and the rest of your fat, corporate, government-subsidized, national-act friends out there with their servants and geishas and fancy cars and goldfish and pet dogs who also own pet goldfish, Woods are actually rolling up their sleeves, gritting their teeth, and gearing up to do some freakin’ work! (Well, okay, maybe not actual WORK-work — they’re not going off to the steel mill or whatever; that’d be a pretty dumb way to promote their band anyway — but serious, diligent, rock band work.)
You know how their new album, Bend Beyond — their seventh effort overall which follows their prrretty dang good Sun and Shade — is coming out via Woodsist on September 18? Well GET THIS: they’re touring on the thing. Live! In person! Honest to god. No webcasts, no live broadcasts, no stand-ins, no franchised regional Woods’s playing simultaneously in every major US city. We’re talking the real deal. A handful of flesh-and-bone sunny psych hippies, a carload of Elephant 6 CDs, and a hilarious and morale-boosting taxidermied raccoon mascot. I know, right? Fucking old school.
So… yeah. Take note of the dates below the tracklist, all you rich, lazy, über-famous rock stars out there. Especially you, Boney James.
Bend Beyond tracklisting:
01. Bend Beyond
02. Cali in a Cup
03. Is It Honest?
04. It Ain’t Easy
05. Cascade
06. Back to the Stone
07. Find Them Empty
08. Wind Was the Wine
09. Lily
10. Size Meets the Sound
11. Impossible Sky
12. Something Surreal
Tourdates:
09.08.12 - New York, NY - Meatopia at Randall’s Island
09.26.12 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse *
09.27.12 - Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom *
09.28.12 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel *
09.29.12 - Cincinnatti, OH - Midpoint Music Fest / Grammers *
09.30.12 - Pittsburgh, PA - Mr. Smalls *
10.02.12 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison
10.03.12 - Ann Arbor, MI - Yellow Barn
10.04.12 - Chicago, IL - Subterranean #
10.05.12 - Madison, WI - Der Rathskeller at Memorial Union #
10.06.12 - St Paul, MN - Turf Club #
10.07.12 - Iowa City, IA - The Mill #
10.09.12 - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
10.12.12 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
10.24.12 - Austin, TX - Red 7 %
10.25.12 - Dallas, TX - Club Dada %
10.26.12 - Memphis, TN - Hi Tone %
10.31.12 - Chapel Hill, NC - Duke Coffeehouse %
11.01.12 - Richmond, VA - Strange Matter %
11.02.12 - Washington, DC - Red Palace %
11.03.12 - New York, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg %#
* The Walkmen
# Purling Hiss
% Widowspeak
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