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Electric Six Announce New Album ‘Zodiac’

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Okay, I have to say this right now: I love Electric Six. These guys are so much fun and are so catchy, I have trouble understanding those who can’t enjoy it. Plus, the video below is absolutely hilarious to me. Check it out and lemme know what you think!
Currently wrapping up production on their upcoming album titled ‘Zodiac’ (details forthcoming) slated for September 2010 release on Metropolis Recordings, Electric Six will be hitting the road this Summer, first with a handful of East Coast dates in July, including Hoboken’s Maxwell’s (July 14th) and NYC’s Rocks Off Concert Cruises (July 15th) and then launching their full-scale national routing in mid-September at Grand Rapids, MI’s The Intersection (Sept. 15th). Full tour dates are below.
Electric Six’s previous album ‘Kill’ enjoyed critical acclaim, including UK’s SPHERE Magazine (“[KILL] sounds like what would happen if Jamiroquai had a baby with Turbonegro and it was adopted by Chris Cornell, Mika and The Talking Heads”) to SPIN (“[KILL] crams Tenacious D, Prince, and 80’s metal into the same sweaty club”) to Rolling Stone (“… a saxed up, disco-metal epic”) and is one of Electric Six’s best records to date. PopShifter sums it up best when they opined, “you’ll be dancing your ass off from the first notes.”

Electric Six is Dick Valentine (vocals), The Colonel (guitar), Johnny Na$hinal (guitar), Smorgasbord (bass), Tait Nucleus? (synths) and Percussion World (drums). Their seventh album, ZODIAC, will be released on Metropolis Records in September 2010.
Jul 14 – Maxwell’s (Hoboken, NJ)
Jul 15 – Rocks Off Concert Cruise (NYC)
Jul 16 – Rocks On! Concert Cruise (Boston, MA)
Jul 17 – Daniel Street (Milford, CT)
Jul 18 – Asbury Lanes (Asbury Park, NJ)
Aug 14 – Outside Lands (San Francisco, CA)
Sep 15 – The Intersection – (Grand Rapids, MI)
Sep 16 – The Basement (Columbus, OH)
Sep 17 – Double Door (Chicago, IL)
Sep 18 – DIY Street Fair (Ferndale, MI)
Sep 19 – Frankie’s (Toledo, OH)
Sep 21 – The Brillobox (Pittburgh, PA)
Sep 22 – Johnny Brenda’s (Philadelphia, PA)
Sep 25 – Bowery Ballroom (NYC)
Sep 27 – Sonar (Baltimore, MD)
Sep 28 – Black Cat (Washington, DC)
Sep 30 – Cat’s Cradle (Carrboro, NC)
Oct 1 – New Brookland Tavern (Columbia, SC)
Oct 4 – Jack Rabbits (Jacksonville, FL)
Oct 6 – State Theatre (St. Petersburg, FL)
Oct 7 – The Social (Orlando, FL)
Oct 9 – Exit/In (Nashville, TN)
Oct 10 – Hi-Tone Cafe (Memphis, TN)
Oct 14 – White Rabbit (San Antonio, TX)
Oct 15 – Emo’s Outdoors (Austin, TX)
Oct 16 – The Boiler Room (Denton, TX)
Oct 18 – Plush (Tucson, AZ)
Oct 19 – Rhythm Room (Phoenix, AZ)
Oct 20 – The Casbah (San Diego, CA)
Oct 21 – Detroit Bar (Costa Mesa, CA)
Oct 22 – Key Club (Los Angeles, CA)
Oct 25 – Neumos (Seattle, WA)
Oct 26 – Dante’s (Portland, OR)
Oct 27 – Neurolux (Boise, ID)
Oct 28 – Urban Lounge (SLC, UT)
Oct 29 – Larimer Lounge (Denver, CO)
Oct 30 – The Riot Room (Kansas City, MO)
Oct 31 – The Firebird (St. Louis, MO)
Nov 2 – Vaudeville Mews (Des Moines, IA)
Nov 3 – First Ave. (Minneapolis, MN)
Nov 4 – Turner Hall Ballroom (Milwaukee, WI)
Nov 5 – The Mad Hatter (Covington, KY)
Nov 6 – Grog Shop (Cleveland Hts., OH)
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“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

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April 9, 2024

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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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