Lowlife steals a guitar from the stage at our Philly show!

Posted on 234 days ago

Some jackass made his way out of Johnny Brenda’s after our show in Philadelphia with a handmade, custom built baritone guitar. Luckily for us we do have the show on tape and the face of our sticky fingered friend has been recorded. Any info out there to help us i.d. this person would be gratefully appreciated. Please let us know if you know anything. Thanks!

Alec Ounsworth announces first headlining tour

Posted on 236 days ago

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Anti-Records is proud to announce Alec Ounsworth’s first headlining tour ever. The dates will be in support of his critically acclaimed new albums: Mo Beauty and Flashy Python’s Skin and Bones. The tour begins with five shows opening for Cold War Kids and then Ounsworth and his band will do 18 headlining dates across the country. About the band’s debut performance at 2009’s CMJ, Jon Pareles of the NY Times wrote that the band “set aside the brittle Talking Heads tinges of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah for slightly more old-school approaches — meaty electric-piano funk with a New Orleans mambo flavor, bounding Rolling Stone guitar rock, and, from his band, guitar solos straddling blues jabs and post-punk dissonance.”

Ounsworth’s band is Matt Sutton, Peter Modavis, Brian Ashby and Jonas Oesterle. The band will be playing songs from Mo Beauty, Skin and Bones as well as Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s catalogue. Mo Beauty was recorded deep in the heart of musical New Orleans with an ensemble of local heavyweights including George Porter Jr. of the Meters and drummer Stanton Moore of Galactic, and was guided by veteran producer Steve Berlin (Los Lobos, Replacements). The album is a stunning union of powerful rhythms and imaginative arrangements in the service of evocative literary songwriting.

Praise for Mo Beauty has been strong:

“This sound is voluptuous and muscular, and it suits him well.”- Pitchfork

“Spindly guitars with crispy syncopation…baroque.” – Rolling Stone

“Wonderful new album.” – Wall Street Journal

“The Sharpest arrangements and best songwriting of his short career: Almost every tune on Mo Beauty equals or betters those on CYHSY’s lauded 2005 debut.” – Spin

“The album is well conceived with articulate themes running throughout…Mo Beauty is an album full of idiosyncracies, but Ounsworth’s consummate eye to its construction turns dissonance into harmony.” – Paste

“Ounsworth has crafted an album that transitions seamlessly from ballads to more frenetic tracks with a straightforward sound that lets the songwriting and hooks resonate without being over-produced.” – Filter

“Strikingly compelling” – Relix

All tour dates are below. More shows will be announced soon.

Jan
22 Los Angeles, CA Wiltern Theatre w/Cold War Kids
23 San Francsico, CA Fillmore w/Cold War Kids
28 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg w/Cold War Kids
29 New York, NY Terminal 5 w/Cold War Kids
30 Chicago, IL The Vic Theatre w/Cold War Kids

Feb (all headlining dates)
2 Birmingham, AL Bottletree
3 New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jacks
5 Austin, TX Emo’s Alternative Lounge
6 Denton, TX Hailey’s
9 Tucson, AZ Solar Culture
10 San Diego, CA The Casbah
11 Los Angeles, CA Bootleg Theater
12 San Francisco, CA Café du Nord
13 Brookdale, CA The Brookdale Lodge
15 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
16 Seattle, WA Neumo’s
18 Boise, ID The Neurolux
19 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court Gallery
20 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
22 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room
23 Minneapolis, MN 400 Bar
24 Madison, WI High Noon Saloon
25 Chicago, IL Schuba’s

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For more information please contact:

Ken Weinstein or Nicole Orbe at Big Hassle Media: 212-619-1360

or

Hilary Vila at Anti-Records: 213-413-7353