LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ Earshot Media) Nashville's Blacklist Royals are embarking on a national tour with punk veterans Face to Face and Teenage Bottlerocket (see dates below). The band is currently putting the finishing touches on their new LP Die Young With Me , which should be out sometime this summer.
Working their way up from the dingiest of clubs and barrooms sprawling in and across North America's borders to the stages of European festivals performing in front of thousands, Blacklist Royals have spent the last three years on the road supporting their debut full length Semper Liberi… chasing the often fleeting rock-n-roll dreams of youth like a siren song, and finding their own voice along the way.
Their long awaited follow-up album, Die Young With Me, is a testament to that. There was a very deliberate change in the writing process as twin brothers and founding members Nat and Rob
Rufus entered the studio to begin going through new material with the band, and the record went on to take shape as a truly autobiographical collection of songs. Topically revolving around the personal account of a childhood spent battling cancer, the album unfolds as a fluid thing, exploring new directions both sonically and lyrically with candor and heart like never before.
Blacklist Royals will soon head back out on the roads and highways whose miles echo through each track of their new record. As production comes to a close, the album itself seems to spin like tires on faded blacktop, taking the listener on both a personal and collective journey of love and heartbreak, born rolling reckless under the star-spangled nights of America.
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*Tour Dates:
May 1 San Diego, CA HOB
May 3 Ventura, CA Ventura Theatre
May 4 Pomona, CA The Glass House
May 6 Modesto, CA Hero's (Teenage Bottle Rocket headline show)
May 8 Bakersfield, CA Narducci's Café
May 9 Fresno, CA MAD
May 10 Anaheim, CA HOB
May 11 Anaheim, CA HOB
May 12 Scottsdale, AZ Pub Rock (Teenage Bottlerocket headline show)
May 13 Albuquerque, NM Launchpad
May 14 El Paso, TX
Tricky Falls
May 16 San Antonio, TX Korova
May 17 Austin, TX Mohawk
May 18 Houston, TX Fitzgerald's Upstairs
May 19 Dallas, TX Trees
May 20 Fayetteville, AR Rogue
May 22 Covington, KY Madison Theatre
May 23 St. Louis, MO Fubar
May 24 Memphis, TN 1884 Lounge
May 25 Nashville, TN Mercy Lounge
May 26 Pensacola, FL Vinyl
Music Hall
May 27 Fort Lauderdale, FL Revolution
May 30 Lake Buena Vista, FL HOB
May 31 Tampa, FL The Ritz Ybor
Jun 1 Jacksonville Beach, FL Freebird Live
Jun 2 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade - Hell Stage
Jun 4 Charleston, SC The
Music Farm
Jun 5 Charlotte, SC Amos' Southend
Jun 6 Virginia Beach, VA The Jewish Mother
Jun 7 Washington, DC
Black Cat
Jun 8 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero
Jun 9
Boston (Cambridge), MA Sinclair
Jun 12 New York, NY Gramercy Theater
Jun 13 New York, NY Gramercy Theater
Jun 15 Pittsburgh, PA Altar Bar
Jun 16 Cleveland, OH Peabody's
Jun 18 Columbus, OH The Basement
Jun 19 Detroit, MI Magic Stick
Jun 20 Chicago, IL The Bottom Lounge
Jun 21 Milwaukee, WI The Rave II
Jun 22 Minneapolis, MI Triple Rock Social Club
Jun 23 Fargo, ND The Aquarium
Jun 25 Casper, WY Galloways Irish Pub
Jun 27 Boise, ID Knitting Factory
Jun 28 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre
Jun 30 Seattle, WA The Showbox at The Market
*Additional dates to be added.
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