New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Pelican by Mark Dawursk Pelican, the Chicago-based quartet renowned for their instrumental excursions to the outer reaches of caustic heaviness and cathartic melody, have announced a 19-date US tour to commence this August. The dates represent the group's first major tour since
Spring of last year, during which time the band has shifted their focus to working on the long awaited follow up to their acclaimed 2013 album Forever Becoming.
The tour, which includes a Southwestern jaunt with VA's Inter Arma and an east coast run with recent Sargent House signees Jaye Jayle, offer the band an opportunity to preview new material as they work their way toward recording their next full length. The dates commence with an appearance at the highly regarded Psycho Las
Vegas festival, concludes with a rare show with experimental rock mainstays Grails as part of celebrated
Chicago venue Empty Bottle's 25th anniversary, and includes a headlining set at the inaugural US edition of Europe's long-running Dunk!Fest. Pelican's performance at 2016's Dunk!Fest was a career highlight, yielding the (previously physical only) 2xLP live album Live at Dunk!Fest,which the band today reissued via streaming and digital services. Full tour dates and artwork below.
Throughout their seventeen year career Pelican have eschewed genre classification, crafting a wholly unique take on heavy music that careens between the bombastic visceral elements of metal and the epic atmospheric expanses of post-rock. Across five full lengths, seven EPs, and hundreds of live shows the quartet have cultivated a chemistry that borders on telepathy, catapulting the band to outlier appearances at international music festivals including Primavera, Roskilde, Pitchfork, Bonnaroo, Roadburn, and Maryland Death Fest, and headlining club tours across four continents.
Here are all of Pelican's upcoming live dates, courtesy of The PRP:
08/18 Las Vegas, NV - Psycho Las Vegas
with Inter Arma:
08/20 Salt Lake City - Urban Lounge
08/21 Denver, CO - Marquis Theatre
08/22 Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad
08/23 El Paso, TX - Lowbrow Palace
08/24 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress
08/25 Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom
08/26 San Diego, CA - Brick by Brick
with Jaye Jayle:
10/01 Ferndale, MI - Loving Touch
10/02 Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe
10/03 Washington DC - Rock & Roll Hotel
10/04 Philadelphia PA - Boot & Saddle
10/06 New York NY - Brooklyn Bazaar
10/07 Burlington VT - Dunk! Festival (Pelican only)
10/08
Boston MA - Great Scott
10/10 Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place
10/11 Columbus OH - Ace of Cups
10/12 Indianapolis, IN - White Rabbit
10/13 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle (feat. Grails)
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