New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Shakey Graves announces international dates for The Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour for Fall 2018, with special guests Twin Peaks and The Wild Reeds.
Future dates also include support from
Jose Gonzalez & The Brite Lites, Rayland Baxter, The Aces, And The Kids, Jonathan Terrell,
Lauren Ruth Ward, and Paul Cauthen. Shakey Graves' new album Can't Wake Upwas released on Friday via Dualtone Records.
From one moment to the next, Can't Wake Up veers from the inevitable to the revelatory, its thirteen songs teeming with jarring musical and thematic collisions and thrillingly seamless intersections, gnarly psychological hornswoggles and ecstatic resolutions. Central to the prevailing sense of disorientation are the lead vocals, none of which is purely solo. Instead, each lead performance is shadowed by a queasy harmony or slightly out-of-sync unison part, giving the sense-especially on headphones-that these voices are emanating from inside the listener's head.
"Armed with new instruments and a lifetime of dreams, he forgoes his boot-stomping, cheeky folk for a sound that fluctuates between finely-tuned rock and full-band pop," comments NPR's Nina Corcoran. "Alejandro Rose-Garcia pulls it off in large part due to his storytelling prowess; these songs would be welcoming, even enthralling, in any style."
"I've never worked like this before, but I went into the record with the idea of having a thesis statement of what I wanted to get across," Rose-Garcia explains. "And the place that I got at was that I wanted it to be vaguely Wizard of Oz-themed, and I wanted it to be hectic and a little uncomfortable, like what I refer to as the Big Five Disney cartoons: Pinocchio, Fantasia, Snow White, Dumbo andBambi. All those movies are terrifying-some of the most stressful movies I've ever seen. So I started with this Wizard of Oz thing-'Tin Man' that has obvious allusions to that-and the idea of black-and-white to color."
Shakey Graves is currently on the start of his first headlining tour this year with sold out shows in Brooklyn, Boston, DC, Philadelphia, Toronto,
Chicago and others, climaxing with a show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison (Denver, CO). Festival dates include performances at BottleRock, Sasquatch, Arroyo Seco Weekend, Newport Folk Festival, Pickathon, and Austin City Limits
Music Festival. The Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour for Fall 2018 commences in August, hitting NYC, Chicago, Nashville, Atlanta and more in the US before continuing on through Europe. Tickets for US dates go on sale Friday, May 11 at 10:00am local time. UK/EU tickets are on sale Friday, May 11 at 10:00am BST / 11am European Time. For more information and concert tickets, visitshakeygraves.com.
TOUR DATES:
May 8 - Athens, GA - Georgia Theatre *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT
May 9 - Asheville, NC - The
Orange Peel *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT
May 10 - Charlottesville, VA - Jefferson Theater *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT
May 11 - Philadelphia, PA - Union
Transfer *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT
May 12 - South Burlington, VT - Higher Ground Ballroom *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT
May 13 - Boston, MA - Royale *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT
May 15 - Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT
May 16 - Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT
May 17 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT
May 19 - Toronto, ON - Massey Hall *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT
May 20 - Montreal, QC -
Corona Theatre *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT
May 21 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak
Music Theatre *with And The Kids
May 22 - Chicago, IL - The Vic Theatre *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT
May 25 - Napa, CA - Bottlerock
May 26 - George, WA - Sasquatch
May 27 - San Francisco, CA - August Hall *with The Aces *SOLD OUT
June 15 - Waco, TX - Brazos Nights Concert Series *with Paul Cauthen
June 16 - Austin, TX - Stubb's Bar-B-Q *with Jonathan Terrell
June 20 - Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theatre *with
Lauren Ruth Ward
June 21 - Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren *with
Lauren Ruth Ward
June 23 - Pasadena, CA - Arroyo Seco Weekend
June 24 - San Diego, CA - The Observatory North Park *SOLD OUT
June 27 - Oklahoma City, OK - Tower Theater *with Paul Cauthen
June 28 - Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom *with Paul Cauthen
June 29 - Houston, TX - White Oak
Music Hall *with Paul Cauthen
June 30 - Dallas, TX - The Bomb Factory *with Paul Cauthen
July 28 - Newport, RI - Newport Folk Festival
July 31 - Washburn, WI - Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua
August 3-5 - Kaslo, BC - Kaslo Jazz Etc Festival
August 4-5 - Happy Valley, OR - Pickathon
August 7 - Bend, OR - Oregon
Spirit Distillery +
August 10 - Regina, SK -
Regina Folk Fest
August 21 -
Santa Fe, NM - Meow Wolf +
August 22 -
Santa Fe, NM - Meow Wolf +
August 24 - Salt Lake City, UT - Red Butte Garden *with
Jose Gonzalez & The Brite Lites, Rayland Baxter*SOLD OUT
August 25 - Missoula, MT - Big Sky Amphitheatre *with
Jose Gonzalez & The Brite Lites, Rayland Baxter
August 26 - Spokane, WA - Knitting Factory *with
Jose Gonzalez & The Brite Lites, Rayland Baxter *SOLD OUT
August 27 - Spokane, WA Knitting Factory *with
Jose Gonzalez & The Brite Lites, Rayland Baxter
August 28 - Boise, ID - Knitting Factory *with
Jose Gonzalez & The Brite Lites, Rayland Baxter *SOLD OUT
August 30 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre *with
Jose Gonzalez & The Brite Lites, Twin Peaks
August 31 - Kansas City, MO - The Truman + *with Twin Peaks
September 1 - Omaha, NE - Sokol Auditorium + *with Twin Peaks
September 2 - Des Moines, IA -
Simon Estes Amphitheater + *with Twin Peaks
September 16 - Raleigh, NC - The Ritz +
September 18 - Philadelphia, PA - The Fillmore + *with The Wild Reeds
September 19 - Boston, MA - House of Blues + *with The Wild Reeds
September 22 - New York, NY - Terminal 5 + *with The Wild Reeds
September 24 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE + *with The Wild Reeds
September 25 - Columbus, OH - Newport
Music Hall + *with The Wild Reeds
September 26 - Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre + *with The Wild Reeds
September 28 - Madison, WI - The Sylvee + *with The Wild Reeds
September 29 - St. Paul, MN - Palace Theatre + *with The Wild Reeds
September 30 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant + *with The Wild Reeds
October 2 - Louisville, KY - Louisville Palace + *with The Wild Reeds
October 3 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium + *with The Wild Reeds
October 4 - Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle + *with The Wild Reeds
October 5 - Birmingham, AL - Iron City Birmingham + *with The Wild Reeds
October 5-7 - Austin, TX - Austin City Limits
Music Festival
October 12-14 - Austin, TX - Austin City Limits
Music Festival
October 29 - Utrecht, Netherlands - TivoliVendenburg Ronda +
October 30 - Cologne, Germany - Kulturkirche +
October 31 - Brussels, Belgium - Botanique +
November 2 - Copenhagen, Denmark - ALICE +
November 3 - Groningen, Netherlands - Take Root +
November 4 - Berlin, Germany - Heimathafen +
November 5 - Hamburg, Germany - Gruenspan +
November 7 - Vienna, Austria - Flex +
November 8 - Munich, Germany - Freiheiz +
November 9 - Solothurn, Switzerland - Kulturfabrik Kofmehl +
November 10 - Paris, France - La Maroquinerie +
November 12 - Manchester, UK - o2 Academy 2 +
November 13 - London, UK - Koko +
November 14 - Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club +
November 15 - Glasgow, UK - SWG 3 +
November 16 - Dublin, Ireland - Vicar Street +
November 17 - Belfast, UK - Elmwood Hall +
+ newly added for The Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour.
