THESE UNITED STATES:
MID-BY-MOUNTAIN-WEST TOUR
Will debut songs from upcoming third album at SXSW
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Reawakening from third-album-induced hibernation, These United States knock the snow off their boots and continue their tireless quest to trace every line on the U.S. map in March and April. After a special acoustic show in Charlottesville, TUS kicks off the full-band romp in earnest in Louisville, veers north and then south again, camps out in Austin for a week of official SXSW showcases and day parties - including the notorious Hot Freaks bash - and carries on with their 33-day, 34-show circle through the Mountain states and the Midwest, with stops in Denver, Omaha, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, and just about everywhere in between.
After releasing 2 albums and playing 200 shows in 2008, the DC-Kentucky- psych-folk-lit-pop rockers are rumbling surely towards the next benchmarks in a long string of critical acclaim, including several Best of 2008 mentions for their albumsCrimes and A Picture of the Three of Us..., and features on NPR's "All Things Considered," Paste, Filter, Village Voice, Brooklyn Vegan, Daytrotter, My Old Kentucky Blog, The Onion, KEXP, WOXY, and KCRW. At SXSW, the band will debut songs from the upcoming album, its third in 16 months, slated for summer release.
"[Crimes] is easily one of the grooviest efforts of 2008. Even though it sounds like it was made in 1968." - WIRED
"It's a phenomenal record... this is almost as much of a supergroup as New Pornographers or Broken Social Scene. And even though they might not have a fraction of those bands' fame, to judge solely on Saturday's performance, they've already started playing with a level of energy that suggests that nobody bothered to tell them." - YOU AIN'T NO PICASSO
The tour begins March 12 in Louisville, KY; complete dates available here.
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