New York, NY (Top40 Charts) DJ Shadow will perform sets at both weekends of Coachella and has announced the latest addition to his extensive 'The Mountain Will Fall' tour in support of his 2016 Mass Appeal Records release that finds the groundbreaking producer and DJ exploring new realms of composition and sound. The album debuted at #1 on iTunes' electronic chart in 16 countries and became Shadow's first #1 on Billboard's Dance/Electronic chart in the US. 'The Mountain Will Fall' features appearances by
Run The Jewels (who performed the song "Nobody Speak" with Shadow on The
Tonight Show and continue to play it on their own tour), Nils Frahm and others. All international dates are below. The tour features three California shows in between Coachella weekends including April 18 at The Fonda in LA.
In addition to the tour, DJ Shadow will have a very active spring:
*He has announced a new monthly radio show that he will host on KCRW, called Find, Share, Rewind. It's a two hour show that will take place at 10PM the first Saturday of each month and launches April 8th.
"The show is called 'Find, Share, Rewind' because that's essentially the relationship I've had with music my entire life as a DJ. Always looking for something new, something that would reach and inspire me...and then playing it to as many people as possible. There is nothing quite so satisfying as sharing music you're passionate about, and that passion spreading exponentially to the point where someone's life is changed as a result." - DJ Shadow
"After the Last War on Earth, DJ Shadow's radio show for KCRW would change hands among those holding onto hope.
Digital files, burned CDs, and even a few cassette tapes circulated on the black market before they were discovered by Culture Operatives. As the story goes, public radio titan KCRW began broadcasting Shadow's program at 10pm on Saturday nights in April of 2017. People would gather around the radio in those times for the two hour show, drawn by the gravitational pull of Shadow's mix. Sound, rhythm, and incisive social commentary would collide with brilliant effect. Seen as revolutionary recordings in their time, nobody's sure how the tapes survived to this day, now part of the great music annals of the First Earth Era." - Jason Bentley, KCRW
*He's curated a Spotify playlist called "Beyond The Obvious: The Sampled World of DJ Shadow." It features tracks that DJ Shadow has sampled throughout his career - from Tangerine
Dream and Flying Island to Metallica, followed by the DJ Shadow song containing each respective sample: https://spoti.fi/2mDbnOI
*A new song from DJ Shadow called "Scars," in collaboration with Nils Frahm, will be featured on the soundtrack to the forthcoming film 'Ghost in the Shell', which is set for release on March 31.
TOUR DATES:
Apr 1 - Sonar Hong Kong - Science Park, China
Apr 11 - Marquee Theatre - Tempe, AZ
Apr 12 -
Sunshine Theatre - Albuquerque, NM
Apr 14 - Coachella - Indio, CA
Apr 16 - The Regency Ballroom - San Francisco, CA
Apr 17 - The Catalyst -
Santa Cruz, CA
Apr 18 - The Fonda Theatre - Hollywood, CA
Apr 21 - Coachella - Indio, CA
May 18 - LiquidRoom - Ebisu, Japan
May 27/28 - Sydney Opera House- Sydney, Australia
Jun 9 - Sideways Festival - Helsinki, Finland
June 14 - Le Bikini - Ramonville-St-Agne, France
Jun 16- Sonar by Night - Barcelona, Spain
Jun 17 - Atabal - Biarritz, France
Jun 20 - Elysee Montmarte - Paris, France
Jun 21 - L'Astrolabe - Orleans, France
Jul 6 - Festival d'ete de Quebec - Quebec, Canada
Jul 22 - Transbordeur - Lyon, France
Jul 28 - Randall's Island Park / Panorama Festival - New York, NY
Aug 11 - Sziget
Music Festival - Budapest, Hungary
Aug 18 - Route Du Rock - St Pere, France
Sep 6 - Fort Punta Christo - Pula, Croatia
Sep 9 - Bestival - Lulworth, United Kingdom
Oct 3 - O2 ABC - Glasgow, United Kingdom
Oct 5- Albert Hall - Manchester, United Kingdom
Oct 6 - O2 Academy Bristol - Bristol, United Kingdom
Oct 7 - Roundhouse - London, United Kingdom
Praise for 'The Mountain Will Fall':
"He continues to produce challenging work and refuses to repeat himself…mixing thumping, old school hip hop tracks with atmospheric instrumentals that skitter and slither in the shadows" -
Chicago Tribune
"Impressive in its inventiveness" - The Guardian
"Rolling and meditative" - Vice Noisey
"Brassy and bruising" - Rolling Stone
"An album that bridges eras to envision what the future may hold" -
Boston Globe
"This is DJ Shadow's best work since his early-aughts heyday.
Whatever difficult terrain he had to scale to wrangle this mountain was worth the trip, and suggests even greater ascents in the future" - AV Club
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