New York, NY (Top40 Charts) IRATION will kick off 2014 by doing what they love so much, hitting the road to play music and hang out with their fans. The reggae-influenced rockers will embark on the coast-to-coast "Automatic Winter Tour" - with support from
Natural Vibrations , The Movement and select dates with Micah Brown -beginning January 24 in Ventura, CA , weaving their way across the U.S. to Florida and wrapping back around to close out March 22 in Anaheim, CA (itinerary below). Tickets for the tour go on sale this Friday (11/8) via https://irationmusic.com . It was also recently announced that IRATION will again take the main stage at the 5 th Annual California
Roots Music & Arts Festival happening May 23-25, 2014 in Monterey, CA. Early bird tickets are on sale now at https://californiarootsfestival.eventbrite.com/ .
This year has represented a period of growth for the Hawaiian-bred,
Santa Barbara-based band, with their career elevating to a new level. Armed with their third full-length album AUTOMATIC , IRATION - Micah Pueschel (Guitar/Vocals), Joe Dickens (Drums), Adam Taylor (Bass) and Cayson Peterson (Keyboards)-further pushed their musical boundaries, with an emphasis on the craft of songwriting, while staying true to the sound their fans love. The band collaborated with
Cage The Elephant guitarist Lincoln Parish who is featured on several tracks and helped co-produce select songs on the album along with long-time studio partner JP Hesser of Castaway 7 Studios in Ventura, CA.
"To me,
Automatic is very, very different from [2010 album] Time Bomb ," MICAH told the
Phoenix New Times . "It's still us, but what made Time Bomb a popular record was hooks, feel-good music, good rhythms-uplifting, for the most part. But we also wanted to do more songs that were geared to traditional roots reggae and have some rock influences. We wanted to experiment and do some acoustics…
Automatic is much more diverse and eclectic as far as style. Another way is that the lyrical content is more mature.
"We worked with Lincoln Parish and he brought a lot of the rock. We wanted more rock. Every record that we've made has had a different set of influences. When we first started out we were really focused on making reggae tracks. With [2008 EP] Sample This and Time Bomb it was more pop and reggae and then we strayed from that sound a bit with [2011 EP]
Fresh Grounds . Then with
Automatic we wanted to make a record that had all of things we've already done but with more of a rock element." (9/14/13)
The new direction paid off as the release of AUTOMATIC is their most successful release to date . The 16-track collection immediately shot all the way up to the #1 spot on both the Billboard and iTunes Reggae Albums charts , as well as #7 on the iTunes Overall Albums chart, #75 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and #17 on the Billboard Independent Albums chart.
A music video for the album's first official single "Back Around" has garnered over 35,000 views on YouTube . Watch the video-shot in IRATION 's
Santa Barbara, CA hometown -here: https://youtu.be/2dqJQJ3Ievs . The song also received radio airplay nationwide , reaching #1 on most stations' playlists where it was added, including spending several weeks at #1 for San Diego's 91X .
IRATION
Automatic Winter Tour:
Fri 1/24 Ventura, CA Majestic Ventura Theater
Sat 1/25 Lancaster, CA
Industry Theater
Tue 1/28 Bakersfield, CA Elements Venue
Wed 1/29 Fresno, CA Strummer's
Thu 1/30 Chico, CA Senator Theatre
Fri 1/31 Petaluma, CA Mystic Theatre
Sat 2/1 Lake Tahoe, NV Montbleu Resort Casino & Spa
Tue 2/4 Eugene, OR Wow Hall
Wed 2/5 Vancouver BC, Canada Fortune Sound Club
Thu 2/6 Spokane, WA Knitting Factory Concert House
Fri 2/7 Boise, ID Knitting Factory Concert House
Sat 2/8 Missoula, MT The Wilma Theater
Sun 2/9 Jackson, WY Pink Garter Theatre
Tue 2/11 Fort Collins, CO Aggie Theatre
Wed 2/12 Aspen, CO
Belly Up Aspen
Thu 2/13 Colorado Springs, CO The
Black Sheep
Fri 2/14 Boulder, CO Fox Theatre
Sat 2/15 Boulder, CO Fox Theatre
Tue 2/18 Minneapolis, MN Fine Line
Music Cafe
Wed 2/19 Madison, WI Majestic Theatre
Thu 2/20 Columbus, OH The Basement
Fri 2/21 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop
Sat 2/22 Pittsburgh, PA Altar Bar
Sun 2/23 Rochester, NY Water Street
Music Hall
Wed 2/26 South Burlington, VT Higher Ground - Showcase Room
Thu 2/27 Portland, ME Port City
Music Hall
Fri 2/28 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club
Sat 3/1 Asbury Park, NJ The Stone Pony
Sun 3/2 Charlottesville, VA Jefferson Theater
Tue 3/4 Charleston, SC
Music Farm
Wed 3/5 Wilmington, NC Ziggy's By The Sea
Thu 3/6 Tallahassee, FL Club Rehab
Fri 3/7 Saint Petersburg, FL Jannus Live
Sat 3/8 Pensacola, FL Vinyl
Music Hall
Sun 3/9 New Orleans, LA House of Blues
Fri 3/21
Santa Cruz, CA The Catalyst
Sat 3/22 Anaheim, CA The Grove
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