Santigold is releasing a new album, announcing a US tour, and then retiring forever or until the tour starts

Santigold is releasing a new album, announcing a US tour, and then retiring forever or until the tour starts

Ever since sorta clubby, not really hip-hoppy, vaguely indie-poppish songwriter/producer/performer Santigold (formerly Santogold, formerly Santa Claus, formerly Shantytown, and, rumor has it, formerly White Town!) blew up in 2008 because of our taste-making year-end album covers list, she’s been a little too overconfident that we’re all going to love the new music she’s been making. I mean, granted she put on a few shows at SXSW that her PR people assure me “exploded into dance parties,” but honestly, I don’t know; explosions just sound a little dangerous to me.

And what’s with the fact that she already went ahead and booked some two dozen-plus tourdates (around what most cartographers refer to as “North America”) predicated entirely on the fact that we’re all just going to love her new album (Master of My Make-Believe, due May 1 via Atlantic/Downtown)? What if everyone just gives it two thumbs, like, way down? Granted, it sounds from the new album’s first single, “Disparate Youth,” like she still knows how to puke up pure gold glitter and whatnot, but still… it all feels a little presumptuous. Besides, I don’t know about any of you, but I don’t really get excited about any new songs until I hear them in Bud Light Lime commercials and shit first. Just sayin’.

Santigold tourdates:

04.30.12 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
05.08.12 - Philadelphia, PA - The Trocadero
05.09.12 - Providence, RI - Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
05.11.12 - Portland, ME - State Theatre
05.12.12 - Clifton Park, NY - Northern Lights
05.15.12 - Toronto, ON - Kool Haus
05.16.12 - Buffalo, NY - Town Ballroom
05.25.12 - George, WA - Gorge Amphitheatre (Sasquatch Festival)
05.26.12 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
05.28.12 - Salt Lake City, UT - In the Venue
05.29.12 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
06.04.12 - Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom
06.06.12 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues
06.07.12 - Houston, TX - House of Blues
06.09.12 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
06.10.12 - Indianapolis, IN - Egyptian Room
06.12.12 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
06.13.12 - Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall
06.15.12 - Cincinnati, OH - Bogart’s
06.16.12 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE
06.18.12 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
06.19.12 - Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live!
06.22.12 - Boston, MA - House of Blues
06.23.12 - New York, NY - Governors Ball Music Festival
06.29.12 - Cleveland, OH - House of Blues
06.30.12 - Rothbury, MI - Electric Forest

• Santigold: http://www.santigold.com
• Downtown: http://www.downtownrecords.com
• Atlantic: http://www.atlanticrecords.com

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