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Dir En Grey Announce Fall N. American Tour
Japanese alt-metal band Dir En Grey has announced a three week N. American headlining tour that will see the travel much of the US and dip into Canada. The band will be touring in support of their last studio album Dum Spiro Spero as well as their new EP The Unraveling, which was released earlier this year. The full tour schedule can be seen below.
I saw Dir En Grey on the Family Values tour in 2006 and they put on one hell of an energetic, violent show. Singer Kyo scratched himself so deeply on the chest that he bled. He also raked his fingernails against the inside of his cheeks to the point that he was spitting blood. He also threw up into a bucket. I’m not going to go so far as comparing him to G.G. Allin (because who can even come close to that guy?), but it was pretty intense.
Dir En Grey Fall 2013 North American Tour
11/3 — Dallas, Texas — Trees
11/4 — Houston, Texas — Scout Bar
11/6 — Atlanta, Ga. — Center Stage
11/8 — Baltimore, Md. — Soundstage
11/9 — Philadelphia, Pa. — Theater of Living Arts
11/11 — New York, N.Y. — Irving Plaza
11/12 — Boston, Mass. — Paradise Rock Club
11/14 — Toronto, Ontario — Opera House
11/16 — Chicago, Ill. — House of Blues
11/17 — Minneapolis, Minn. — Varsity Theater
11/19 — Denver, Colo. — Bluebird Theater
11/21 — Seattle, Wash. — Showbox at the Market
11/23 — San Francisco, Calif. — Grand Ballroom / Regency
11/24 — West Hollywood, Calif. — House of Blues
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It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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