New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Atlantic Records) Atlantic recording group
Portugal. The Man has announced a major run of live dates, including headline shows and high profile festival appearances. The dates begin May 10 th with Atlanta's Shaky Knees
Music Fest and then continue through mid-June (see itinerary below). Other tour highlights include summer festivals the Hangout
Music Festival in Gulf Shores,
Alabama (May 18 th ) and Dover, Delaware's Firefly
Music Festival (June 20 th ). Additional headline shows and festival dates will be unveiled in the coming weeks - please visit www.portugaltheman.com/tour-dates for regularly updated information.
The upcoming tour sees
Portugal. The Man continuing to celebrate its latest release, 2013's "EVIL FRIENDS." Produced by five-time GRAMMY Award winner Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley, The
Black Keys, Sparklehorse), the album includes the hit singles "Purple Yellow Red and Blue" and "Modern Jesus," the latter of which is currently ascending the top 30 at
Modern Rock radio outlets nationwide. The track's companion video - directed by filmmaker AG Rojas (Jack White, Spiritualized) -- is streaming now at P.TM's official YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/Portugalthemanband . Today Consequence of Sound revealed a remix of "Modern Jesus" by Atlantic label mate Charli XCX. The remix, which can be found below, follows remixes of the track by Mike D of
Beastie Boys and Thom Green of Alt-J.
In other news,
Portugal. The Man will make their first appearance on the legendary music series, Austin City Limits , set to premiere on PBS stations across the country on Saturday, January 25 th . For more details and complete local listings, please see www.acltv.com .
Portugal. The Man has spent much of the past year on tour supporting "EVIL FRIENDS." The band - currently traveling Australia and New Zealand as part of the annual Big Day Out festival extravaganza - continues to draw rave reviews wherever they go, with Rolling Stone 's Gavin Edwards recently naming them the "Trippiest Act" at Los Angeles' annual KROQ
Almost Acoustic Christmas, further praising them for "blend(ing) a steady dance groove, falsetto vocals and psychedelic freakouts."
For further news and information, please visit www.portugaltheman.com , www.facebook.com/portugaltheman , and twitter.com/portugaltheman , and https://youtube.com/portugalthemanband.
(TOUR ITINERARY BELOW)
PORTUGAL. THE MAN - TOUR 2014
MAY
10 Atlanta, GA Shaky Knees
Music Fest
11 Asheville, NC The
Orange Peel
13 Norfolk, VA The Norva Theater
15 Louisville, KY The Brown Theater
16 Nashville, TN The Cannery Ballroom
17 Knoxville, TN Bijou Theatre
18 Gulf Shores, AL Hangout
Music Festival
JUNE
20 Dover, DE Firefly
Music Festival
Additional Dates To Be Announced.
