Tour Alert: Bob Mould Returns to the Road in 2012
Bob Mould
Audiences at alt-rock veteran Bob Mould’s upcoming tour will see the entertainer take various forms as an author, musical performer, solo DJ and member of his DJ duo, Blowoff (with Rich Morel), in 2012. The tour will be hot on the heels of a yet-to-be-named forthcoming album, which is his first release since 2009’s Life and Times.
1/22 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club*
2/4 Denver, CO – The Wrangler*
2/8 Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe**
2/9 New York, NY – City Winery***
2/10 New York, NY – Highline Ballroom*
2/11 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club*
2/17 Seattle, WA – Triple Door**
2/18 Portland, OR – The Center****
2/19 Portland, OR – Doug Fir**
2/25 San Francisco, CA – Slim’s*
*As Blowoff
**Reading & Performance
***Performance
****Solo DJ Set
Mountain Goats
Dubbed an “ace word-slinger” by Rolling Stone, the Mountain Goats’ frontman, John Darnielle, is taking his words and his band back on the road this winter. Touring throughout the south to cover the ground they missed over the summer, the Mountain Goats will continue to rock in support of their debut Merge Records release, All Eternals Deck.
12/6 Chicago, IL – The Second City That Never Sleeps (“Letters to Santa” Benefit)
12/16 Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour (Invisible Children Holiday Benefit show)
1/19 Austin, TX – Antone’s*
1/20 Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s*
1/21 New Orleans, LA – Tipitina’s*
1/23 Tallahassee, FL – Club Downunder*
1/24 Orlando, FL – The Social*
1/25 Tampa, FL – Crowbar*
1/27 St. Augustine, FL – The Original Cafe Eleven*
1/28 Atlanta, GA – The Earl*
1/30 Athens, GA – 40 Watt Club*
1/31 Charlotte, NC – Visulite Theatre*
2/2 Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle*
2/4 Saxapahaw, NC – The Haw River Ballroom*
3/9 Denton, TX – 35 Denton Festival*
3/13 New York, NY – Carnegie Hall (The Music of the Rolling Stones: Hot Rocks)
3/24 New York, NY – Ecstatic Music Festival**
4/2 London, England – The Barbican**
* = w/ Nurses
** = w/Anonymous 4
Atlas Sound
Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox will be taking the stage as Atlas Sound in support of Parallax, his seventh studio release under the solo moniker. Often unabashedly outspoken, you can catch Cox and his psycho-ambient, stream-of-consciousness musings at one of the select Northeastern dates below.
12/14 Durham, NC – Motorco
12/15 Richmond, VA – The National
12/16 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church Sanctuary
12/17 Brooklyn, NY – Bell House
12/18 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
12/20 Washington, DC – Black Cat
Robin Thicke
On December 6th, Robin Thicke will release his fifth studio album, Love After War, an album that’s being promoted as his most raw and honest record yet. The R&B singer will take a brief tour to support the release, and he’ll spend the holiday season in a few of the United States’ major cities.
12/7 Atlanta, GA – The Loft
12/9 New York, NY – Highline Ballroom
12/10 Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live
12/11 Chicago, IL – The Mid
12/16 West Hollywood, CA – Key Club
Real Estate
Brooklyn-based folk act Real Estate channels a dreamy, blissful acoustic sound on their latest record, Days. After an extensive tour this past fall, the group returns home to the States for a brief trek through North America, kicking things off in NYC with fellow indie-darling Girls on January 14th.
1/14 New York, NY – Terminal 5 #
1/15 Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
1/16 Providence, RI – Met Cafe
1/17 Burlington, VT – Higher Ground Showcase Lounge
1/18 Montreal, QC – La Sala Rossa
1/19 Ottawa, ON – Mavericks
1/20 Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace
1/21 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
1/22 Washington, DC – Black Cat
# with Girls
DOOMTREE
Minneapolis rap group DOOMTREE is pretty much taking over every square inch of the United States in 2012. To support their new album No Kings, the crew jumps into a 30+ date tour at the Granada Theater in Lawrence, KS, and performs nearly every day until closing things out back in the Midwest in Milwaukee on Februrary 25th.
1/19 Lawrence, KS – The Granada Theatre
1/20 Columbia, MO – Mojo’s
1/21 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room
1/22 Denver, CO – The Summit Music Hall
1/23 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
1/24 Boise, ID – Neurolux
1/26 Portland, OR – Branx
1/27 Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
1/28 Vancouver, BC – Fortune Sound Club
1/29 Eugene, OR – WOW Hall
1/31 San Francisco, CA – Slim’s
2/1 Santa Cruz, CA – Catalyst Atrium
2/2 West Hollywood, CA – The Troubadour
2/3 San Diego, CA – The Casbah
2/4 Scottsdale, AZ – Chasers
2/7 Denton, TX – Dan’s Silverleaf
2/8 Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s Downstairs
2/9 New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks
2/10 Birmingham, AL – Bottletree Cafe
2/11 Atlanta, GA – Drunken Unicorn
2/12 Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506
2/13 Washington, DC – Rock and Roll Hotel
2/15 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
2/16 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
2/17 Cambridge, MA – The Middle East- Downstairs
2/18 Montreal, QC – II Motore
2/19 Toronto, ON – Sneaky Dee’s
2/20 Pittsburgh, PA – Shadow Lounge
2/21 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
2/22 Ann Arbor, MI – Blind Pig
2/23 Chicago, IL – The Bottom Lounge
2/25 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall