Dylan Ettinger tours the United States; somewhere, a baby bird learns to fly

Dylan Ettinger tours the United States; somewhere, a baby bird learns to fly

Sometimes you think about all the things that are going on in the world right now, as you live your everyday life. Things like… butterflies going extinct, Stephen Colbert making a cameraman laugh with boundless joy, a child in Uzbekistan putting the final stitches on your Urban Outfitters short shorts, a baby bird building a home with its mama bird. Beautiful things. Terrible things. And into the midst of all that worldly clamor comes psych/synth/dub mad genius Dylan Ettinger, merrily driving his tour van deep into the heart of tour land. (That’s from a nursery rhyme my roadie uncle Knifeface used to sing me to sleep with. What? You’ve never heard of it? Ha ha what are you, some kind of child laborer in the former Soviet Union?!?!) To keep things short, Dylan Ettinger was on tour yesterday, he’s on tour today, and if you live in the Eastern half of these great United States of ours, he’s probably coming on tour somewhere near you.

And in his mystical van, Mr. Ettinger has a magical record! (This is also part of the nursery rhyme. Try to stay with me.) It’s called Lifetime of Romance, and it came out on the always fabulous Not Not Fun label a few weeks ago. The critics have been lapping this thing up, so you might have to elbow Simon Reynolds to get to the merch table. But it’ll be worth it. You can check out the video for The Cure-inflected lead single “Wintermute” here. Just don’t do it at work. Unless, like, you work at a naughty Weimar Republic-era cabaret. Dylan Ettinger is on tour throughout the month of May.

Dates:

05.17.12 - Madison, WI - Mickey’s Tavern
05.18.12 - Minneapolis, MN - Palmer’s
05.19.12 - Minneapolis, MN - Yeti Records
05.19.12 - Iowa City, IA - Public Space One
05.20.12 - Kansas City, KS - FOKL (Kansas City Psych Fest)
05.21.12 - St. Louis, MO - Negative Cold
05.22.12 - Knoxville, TN - TBA
05.23.12 - Atlanta, GA - Space 2
05.24.12 - Ashville, NC - Izzy’s Coffee Den
05.25.12 - Lexington, KY - Backlot
05.26.12 - Brooklyn, NY - Body Actualized Center
05.27.12 - TBA
05.29.12 - Columbus, OH - TBA

• Dylan Ettinger: http://dylanettinger.bandcamp.com
• Not Not Fun: http://www.notnotfun.com

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