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The Handsome Family Announce West Coast US Spring Tour
Dark country group The Handsome Family have announced a short Spring tour that will see them play several shows across the West Coast of the US. From the press release: The run kicks off with a set at Indio, Calif.’s Stagecoach festival on April 24—where they will share the bill with artists such as Sturgill Simpson, Gregg Allman, Lydia Loveless, Merle Haggard & Steve Earle—and wraps up with a May 2 show at Bellingham, Wash.’s Green Frog Acoustic Tavern.
Horror fans might recognize the group as the band behind “Far From Any Road”, the theme song to HBO’s True Detective.
You can check out the full schedule below.
Tour dates:
Apr 24 – Indio, CA @ Stagecoach Festival (w/Sturgill Simpson, Gregg Allman, Lydia Loveless, Merle Haggard, Steve Earle & more)
Apr 25 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel (w/Wildewood)
Apr 28 – Arcata, CA @ The Playhouse (w/Wildewood)
Apr 29 – Cottage Grove, OR @ Axe & Fiddle (w/Wildewood)
Apr 30 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge (w/Wildewood)
May 1 – Seattle, WA @ The Triple Door (w/Wildewood)
May 2 – Bellingham, WA @ Green Frog Acoustic Tavern (w/Wildewood)
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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