Frightened Rabbit Add Coachella to US Tour Dates


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Frightened Rabbit will make their Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival debut when they perform alongside Muse, MGMT, the Dead Weather, Hot Chip, Devo and many others on day two of the three-day desert fest taking place April 16-18 in Indio, Calif. SXSW in March will launch their first set of U.S. appearances in support of forthcoming third LP, The Winter Of Mixed Drinks, due March 9 on FatCat Records, and offer an opportunity to warm up for the Festival and six-week North American tour to follow. The extensive run will commence April 19 in Tempe, Ariz., hit NYC’s Webster Hall on April 28 and conclude on the West Coast in May. The band is currently warming up in Australia where they have traded in a frigid UK winter for a sunny summer tour in the down under.

Two years ago, a foursome from Glasgow named Frightened Rabbit, crashed onto U.S. shores and quickly impressed audiences with their cathartic and fiercely passionate performances. The band unveiled their jangly, anthemic songs from their sophomore LP, The Midnight Organ Fight, which would go on to earn numerous accolades including Best of 2008 honors from such notables as Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop Poll, Pitchfork, The Onion, Magnet and many others. Now, they return a markedly different band – one equipped with an eagerly awaited new album, a fifth member, an ever-growing fanbase and hundreds of shows under their belts.

The Winter Of Mixed Drinks is a collection of ambitious, moving, and gloriously accomplished songs that fully underscores the band’s progression both sonically and artistically. Musically, the album is expansive, airy, gorgeously tarnished; grand like a ballroom in a sunken ocean liner, tipped with blood and rust, gold-flecked and salt-scarred. Early feedback of singles “Swim Until You Can’t See Land” and “Nothing Like You” have been nothing short of glowing with Stereogum calling the latter: “a kinetic dose of the band’s increasingly refined brand of upbeat and hooky, doe-eyed melodrama.” The song, a fast-paced kiss-off complete with driving guitar and propulsive drums, was recently unveiled by the band and can be heard on their MySpace and can be heard over at FatCat: http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/release.php?id=311

FRIGHTENED RABBIT ON TOUR

Jan 29 2010 8:00P Laneway Festival Melbourne
Jan 31 2010 8:00P Laneway Festival Sydney

Feb 2 2010 8:00P Metro Theatre w/ Echo and the Bunnymen Sydney, New South Wales
Feb 3 2010 8:00P The Filth @ Beach Road Hotel Sydney
Feb 4 2010 8:00P The Palais w/ Echo And The Bunnymen Melbourne

Mar 4 2010 8:00P Duchess York
Mar 5 2010 8:00P Club Academy Manchester
Mar 6 2010 8:00P West End Centre Aldershot
Mar 8 2010 8:00P Thekla Bristol
Mar 9 2010 8:00P Academy 2 Oxford
Mar 10 2010 8:00P Koko London
Mar 12 2010 8:00P Academy 2 Birmingham
Mar 13 2010 8:00P Leadmill 2 Sheffield
Mar 14 2010 8:00P Arts Centre Norwich

March 17 – Austin, Texas @ SXSW
March 18 – Austin, Texas @ SXSW
March 19 – Austin, Texas @ SXSW
March 20 – Austin, Texas @ SXSW

April 17 – Indio, Calif. @ Coachella
April 19 – Tempe, Ariz. @ The Clubhouse
April 21 – Houston, Texas @ Walters
April 22 – Dallas, Texas @ Loft @ Palladium Ballroom
April 23 – Little Rock, Ark. @ Revolution
April 24 – Atlanta, Ga. @ The Masquerade
April 25 – Carrboro, N.C. @ Cat’s Cradle
April 27 – Washington, D.C. @ Black Cat
April 28 – New York, N.Y. @ Webster Hall
April 29 – Boston, Mass. @ Paradise
April 30 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ First Unitarian Church

May 3 – Montreal, QC @ Petit Campus
May 4 – Toronto, ONT @ Opera House
May 6 – Newport, Ky. @ Southgate House
May 7 – St. Louis, Mo. @ The Old Rock House
May 8 – Chicago, Ill. @ Metro
May 9 – Milwaukee, Wisc. @ Pabst Theatre
May 10 – Minneapolis, Minn. @ Varsity Theater
May 12 – Denver, Colo. @ Bluebird Theatre
May 13 – Salt Lake City, Utah @ Urban Lounge
May 15 – Vancouver, B.C. @ Biltmore Cabaret
May 16 – Seattle, Wash. @ Neumo’s Crystal Ball Reading Room
May 17 – Portland, Ore. @ Berbati’s Pan
May 19 – San Francisco, Calif. @ The Fillmore
May 22 – San Diego, Calif. @ Casbah


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  1. mimmihopps 29 January, 2010