New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Girlie Action Media & Marketing) Brazilian band CSS have signed a licensing deal with V2
Music to release their new album La
Liberacion through the Cooperative
Music network worldwide (excluding Japan and Brazil) onAugust 29. In the US, it will be released on V2 / Cooperative
Music / Downtown Records.
Previously signed to Sub Pop out of the US, the band have released two successful and critically acclaimed albums Cansei de Ser Sexy in 2006, and Donkey in 2008. CSS' third opus has been recorded in the band's own studio in Sao Paulo, Brazil and features collaborations with
Bobby Gillespie and Ratatat.
Vincent Clery-Melin, Cooperative
Music General Manager, said "We've been fans of CSS ever since they released their first album via Sub Pop five years ago and are very happy they have chosen Co-Op as the home for their new album. This is the album as fans we've always hoped they would make !"
Adriano Cintra, bass player and long time producer for CSS says " We are really happy to have Co-OP release this record and we can't wait for people to hear it."
Lovefoxxx, singer for the band added "my mantra for this record is ' Rip Shit' and that is what we do on La Liberacion"
Cooperative
Music is a multi-territory independent label group and an international marketing network, originally set up in April 2005 as a division on V2
Music in
Europe and now owned by Universal
Music Group International. Cooperative Music's roster of labels include Bella Union, DFA Recordings, Downtown Music,
Heavenly Recordings, Kitsune, Lex Records, Mexican Summer/ Kemado Records, Moshi Moshi Records, Rabid Records, Transgressive Records, V2 Music, and Wichita Recordings.
CSS will be touring with
Sleigh Bells in North
America through April and will also perform at Coachella festival. They will be touring this summer and autumn in Europe.
Tour Dates
April 15 - Mezzanine, San Francisco, CA
April 17 - Coachella
April 18 - Glass House, Pomona, CA
April 19 - The Venue, Scottsdale, AZ
April 21 - White Rabbit, San Antonio, TX
April 22 - Granada theater, Dallas, TX
April 23 - La Zona Rosa, Austin, TX
April 24 - Warehouse Live, Houston, TX
April 26 - Varsity Theater, Baton Rouge, LA
April 28 - Firestone, Orlando, FL
April 29 -
State Theater, St Petersberg, FL
April 30 - Neon Desert Festival, El Paso TX
May 2 - Center Stage, Atlanta, GA
May 3 - Cannery Ballroom, Nashville, TN
May 4 -
Orange Peel, Asheville, NC
May 6 - The National, Richmond, VA
May 7 - 9:30 Club, Washington DC
May 8 - Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA
May 10 - Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA
May 11 - Webster Hall, New York, NY
May 12 -
Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
May 14 - Ram's Head Live, Baltimore, MD
May 15 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
May 17 - Sound Academy, Toronto,ON
May 18 - St Andrews, Detroit, MI
May 19 - First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN
May 21 - Metro, Chicago, IL
