Pumice Floats on Water, Tours U.S., Releases New Album

The last time I touched a piece of pumice was the fourth grade. We were holding a science fair in the gym, and my exhibit consisted solely of a pumice chunk floating blithely in an orange plastic drinking glass filled with water. Its entrancing buoyancy and rugged texture failed to impress the judges, but boy oh boy was I smitten. The rock ended up vanishing (I suspect the sticky-fingered Joshua), and so began my love affair with the the igneous rock called pumice. Since then, it's been a daily ritual to scan Wikipedia and Google News for signs of my beloved, before listening to Merriam-Webster's pronounce her sensuous adjectival form ‘pumiceous’ over and over and over...

This summer, the musical Pumice, lo-fi pop wiz Stefan Neville, is floating over to the USA toting forthcoming album Quo, out June 24 on Soft Abuse. Neville hails from New Zealand, a country best known stateside for providing the scenic backdrop for all those helicopter shots in LotR and exporting quirky acoustic-comedy duo FotC. For proof of Neville's Zealander cred, see his great MySpace blog about Scotland, rugby, and microwaved steak.

Tourdates:

* King Darves, Car Commercials

$ Enos Slaughter, Folk Spectre, Zaimph

% free in-store, 6 PM sharp

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