Tuesday 15th May 2012 - More shows with Dandy Warhols confirmed

New shows just confirmed, all with The Dandy Warhols:

6/15/2012 Vancouver BC Commodore Ballroom
6/16/2012 Portland OR Doug Fir Lounge
6/17/2012 Seattle WA Showbox at the Market

Tuesday 1st May 2012 - New Dates in California confirmed

New shows just confirmed:

5/17/2012 Los Angeles CA The Wiltern (with The Dandy Warhols)
6/20/2012 Visalia CA The Cellar Door
6/21/2012 Los Angeles CA Nomad Art Gallery
6/22/2012 Pioneertown CA Pappy & Harriets Place
6/23/2012 Pomona CA Moon Block Party at Downtown Pomona Arts Colony

Tuesday 10th April 2012 - NEW ALBUM SPINE HITS OUT NOW!



The new album Spine Hits is out this week on CD / LP (with download) / Digital Download!

* If you're in the USA, you can buy via The End Records...

* If you're somewhere in the rest of the world you can buy via ATP Recordings...

* The album is also available as a Digital Download via most popular Digital stores such as iTunes or Emusic.

Don't forget you can hear the new album in full and read a track by track description from the band exclusively via Clash - click here to check it out!

Tuesday 3rd April 2012 - Hear the new album / read Track by Track!

Today you can hear the new album 'Spine Hits' and read a track by track from the band exclusively via Clash - click here to check it out!

Wednesday 21st March 2012 - Free San Francisco album launch announced

Today the band have announced a free in-store show to launch the album at the legendary Amoeba Music, San Francisco. The show takes place at 6pm on the 3rd April and the new CD/LP will be available to buy early for this event only.

Tuesday 13th March 2012 - Additional U.S., Canadian & European shows

More shows in the USA, Canada and Europe have been added to the band's extensive tour schedule in the next few months, see the Tour page for the full listing.

February 28th 2012 - Download/stream the first track from Spine Hits!

Today we release the first taster for the forthcoming new album Spine Hits. Make sure to download and share with your friends!


February 17th 2012 - SXSW appearances + London festival show confirmed

The band have confirmed a number of new dates this week including a series of SXSW performances, a show in New York with The War On Drugs and an appearance at the London I'll Be Your Mirror event alongside The Afghan Whigs, The Make-Up and many more...

Mar 14 - Buffalo Billiards (Ache showcase), Austin, TX
Mar 15 - Spider House (Psych Fest Party), Austin, TX
Mar 15 - Bat Bar (Leafy Green SXSW showcase), Austin, TX
Mar 16 - Red Eye Fly (Noise Pop Party), Austin, TX
Mar 16 - Spider House, Austin, TX
Mar 17 - The Road Map, Texarkana, AR
Apr 8 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY w/ The War On Drugs
May 27 - Alexandra Palace, London w/ The Afghan Whigs + many more

February 9th 2012 - Studio Footage & US Tour confirmed for April!

Check out some fantastic studio footage, with Dave Catching & Ethan Allen at Rancho de la Luna and Hicksville Trailer Park in Joshua Tree, CA in December 2011. This was the recording session for Spine Hits, available April 9th, 2012.



The band have now confirmed the following U.S. shows for April when the new album Spine Hits will be released - all shows except the first date in Columbia are with White Hills. Tickets are on sale from this week.

6-APR Columbia MO, Mojo's*
9-APR Brooklyn NY, Glasslands Gallery
10-APR New York NY, Mercury Lounge
11-APR Philadelphia PA, North Star Bar
12-APR Boston MA, Church of Boston
13-APR Burlington VT, Monkey House
14-APR Montreal QC, Casa del Popolo
15-APR Toronto ON, Horseshoe Tavern
16-APR Buffalo NY, Mohawk Place
17-APR Cleveland OH, Beachland Tavern
18-APR Cincinnati OH, MOTR Pub
19-APR Detroit MI, Majestic Garden Bowl
20-APR Chicago IL, Subterranean
21-APR St Louis MO, Off Broadway Night Club
22-APR Oklahoma City OK, The Conservatory
24-APR Austin TX, Mohawk Austin
25-APR Houston TX, Orange Show Center for Visionary Arts
26-APR New Orleans LA, Siberia
27-APR Atlanta GA, The 529
28-APR Raleigh NC, Kings Barcade
29-APR Washington DC, DC 9

February 3rd 2012 - European shows confirmed for May-June!

The band have confirmed the following European shows for this May and June including performances at the Primavera festivals in both Barcelona and Porto:

23-MAY - Vera, Groningen (NL) - Tickets
24-MAY - Berghain Kantine, Berlin (GER) - Tickets
25-MAY - Molotow, Hamburg (GER) - Tickets
26-MAY - Le Guess Who? Summer Day, Utrecht (NL) - Tickets
28-MAY - Trix, Antwerp (B) - Tickets
29-MAY - Het Depot, Leuven (B) - Tickets
30-MAY - Grand Mix, Tourcoing (FR) - Tickets
02-JUN - PrimaveraSound, Barcelona (ES) - Tickets
04-JUN - Spazio 211, Turino (FR) - Tickets
05-JUN - Rote Fabrik, Zurich (CH) - Tickets
06-JUN - Dachstock, Bern (CH) - Tickets
09-JUN - PrimaveraSound, Porto (POR) - Tickets

January 12th 2012 - Third album from SLEEPY SUN - 'Spine Hits'
Out 9/10 April 2012 & Announce U.S. Tour including dates with Crystal Antlers


"Earth-quaking riffage in such carefully measured, perfectly spaced-out rations." - Pitchfork

"Sleepy Sun are at their best when they revel in both light and dark, unleashing throatily riffing guitars to disrupt pastoral interludes." - NME

"Brings LSD's dark side to the hippies, layering head- pummeling Black Sabbath metal and head-tripping Flaming Lips psychedelia on top of Fleet Foxes folk." - Spin

"While their sound evokes another time (and intensely altered states of being), it's their flair for strangeness (in the form of massive basslines, syncopated percussion) that has their rabid fan base screaming." - Esquire

The highly anticipated third album from Sleepy Sun, 'Spine Hits' will be released on April 9 in Europe via ATP Recordings and April 10 in the USA via The End Records.

The album was produced by Dave Catching, Ethan Allen & Sleepy Sun, and mixed by Ethan Allen & Jim Watts. All songs were recorded at Hicksville Trailer Park & Rancho De la Luna in December 2011, except Track 8 "Still Breathing", recorded at Louder Studios, San Francisco in May 2010 by Tim Green.




(click for hi-res photo, credit: Brett Wilde)

Sleepy Sun - Spine Hits - Biography 2012 by Charles Saufley

The band of brothers known far and wide as Sleepy Sun don't sit still for long. Though they remain real and spiritual citizens of the Northern California hive that birthed the band in the latter half of the last decade, Sleepy Sun is a rambling band- a certifiably vagabond unit that built a reputation among American and European audiences as fine-tuned, ironclad locomotive and candy sweet heavy pop machine. Barnstorming the Great Plains....stealing afternoons from the unsuspecting on the European festival-go-round...hooking the uninitiated opening for the Arctic Monkeys, Black Angels, and Low Anthem, they've done yeoman's work, sparked the party, and made the music sound young again.

Sleepy Sun's miles, months, and days in the van are a tangible presence in Spine Hits, an LP of whimsy, restlessness, and urgency that leaps nimbly from landscape to landscape with ease, irreverence, and a catch-em-before-they-ain't changeling nature. For the most part, the sprawling Zeppelin-esque epics that defined much of Embrace and Fever have been traded in for a potent pop-compact framework. But never at the expense of the dodging, juking, and downshifting instincts that set their older long form pieces apart from a thousand other psychedelic drone warriors.

Recorded under the big skies of the California high desert with Queens of Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal alumnus Dave Catching, the jams on Spine Hits are alternatingly precision whittled and moodily muscular. Matt Holliman and Evan Reiss' guitars adroitly move from steamroller heavy to beachside airy and bouncing to interstellar- tinkering with texture and dynamics like never before. Vocalist Bret Constantino sings with a road-toughened, husky soul yowl and hush that occasionally betrays a society-weary frustration but more often hints at a way out. The rhythm section of drummer Brian Tice and Jack Allen is a super-cohesive, tricky, and tough-as-hell unit that keeps the Sleepy train on track as it teeters, creeps and runs wild across the land.




(click for hi-res photo, credit: Brett Wilde)

To any seasoned Sleepy Sun listener the new destinations will be surprises and revelations. "V.O.G." hints at a backstage conspiracy hatched on the Arctic Monkeys tour- buoyant and tight as a wire. "Boat Trip" moseys with a Lou Reed offhandedness- a postcard from Brian Wilson's forgotten vacation with the Velvets. "Still Breathing" is an elegiac nod to the band's early alignment with the Verve's dreamworlds.

For Sleepy spotters that came to love the band in its most massively rocking incarnations, there are the slow burns- "Stivey Pond" a sinister, stalking, and tender lurching beast bearing down on the subject of its obsession. And "Lioness (Requiem)" - a drifting, drowsy, late night lost in contemplation, dawn nowhere in sight.

Spine Hits isn't a portrait of a band in a moment. It's a box of snapshots spilled on the floor and blowing in the wind...left behind by a band that can't stop moving, but remembers what they left behind in a thousand colors.

Tour:


* w/ Crystal Antlers

Tracklisting:

  1. Stivey Pond

  2. She Rex

  3. Siouxsie Blaqq

  4. Creature

  5. Boat Trip

  6. V.O.G.

  7. Martyr's Mantra

  8. Still Breathing

  9. Yellow End

  10. Deep War

  11. Lioness (Requiem)


Links:

facebook.com/SleepySun - SleepySun.net - SleepySunmusic.tumblr.com - TheEndRecords.com - ATPRecordings.com



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