Johnny Marr North American Tour Underway, Shares New Track, "Jeopardy"

Johnny Marr Shares New Track “Jeopardy”; North American Tour Underway - KEXP Session Live Today at Noon PST

Today, Johnny Marr has shared a new song, "Jeopardy," previously unavailable other than as a vinyl B-side, and is on DSPs today. He performs with his band for Seattle's esteemed KEXP today at Noon. Listen live at www.kexp.org. The Smiths’ guitar legend and NME’s “God-Like Genius” award-winner is currently in the midst of a Fall US tour in support of his recently released album Call The Comet. Marr and his band have returned to North America post-album release for an extensive coast-to-coast run that includes Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Austin, Toronto and Boston, as well as Mexico City and more. Tickets are on-sale at JohnnyMarr.com and full list of dates is below. Recorded with his band in Manchester at Marr’s Crazy Face Studios in Manchester, Call The Comet follows the critically acclaimed UK Top 10 albums The Messenger (2013) and Playland (2014). Says Marr: "Call The Comet is my own magic realism. It’s set in the not-too-distant future and is mostly concerned with the idea of an alternative society. The characters in the songs are searching for a new idealism, although there are some personal songs in there too. It’s something that people like me can relate to.”

Praise for Johnny Marr’s live show: “His gruffer, but by no means unrefined, vocals lend fresh flavour to the Smiths tracks he drops intermittently into the set; his fired-up “Bigmouth”, stabbed through with trademark arpeggios, seems designed to remind us that the Smiths were as much gobby post-punk rabble as they were foppish ego cult, while “The Headmaster Ritual” could be Daytripper-era Beatles with switchblades up their blazer sleeves.” (4 Stars) - The Guardian “Marr (was) showcasing his great new album which somehow manages to combine those perfect Marr-lodies with a whiff of early eighties post-punk melancholy but also nods to that patented chiming guitar sound that he trademarked in the Smiths. The new album is his finest solo offering yet and the gig was a celebration of this and his own back pages...a perfect example of how seamlessly it all fits together into a continuous career whole in a sweatshod celebration of a decades long quest of guitar pop brilliance.” - Louder Than War “...the songs themselves sounded urgent and engaged. Guitar solos emerged with power and clarity within songs.” - The Financial Times 

TOUR September 21 | Seattle, WA @ The Showbox September 22 | Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater September 24 | Santa Cruz, CA @The Catalyst September 25 | Berkeley, CA @ UC Theater September 26 | San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore September 28 | Sonoma, CA @ Old Redwood Barn September 30 | Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee October 2 | Mexico City, Mexico @ Plaza Condesa October 4 | Los Angeles, CA @ The Theater At Ace Hotel October 8 | San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger October 9 | Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater October 10 | Austin, TX @ Empire Control Room & Garage October 11 | Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall October 13 | Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club October 15 | New York, NY @ Irving Plaza October 16 | Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw October 17 | Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore October 19 | Toronto, ON @ The Phoenix October 20 | Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom October 21 | Boston, MA @ The Paradise October 22 | Philadelphia, PA @ TLA

Watch the video for “The Tracers” HERE. Watch the video for “Hi Hello” HERE. Johnny spoke with Rolling Stone about Call The Comet HERE. Order Call The Comet HERE.

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