Line & Circle On Tour Now With Electric Guest
Playing NYC's CMJ Music Marathon This Week
New 7" Out Now On White Iris Records
Los Angeles' Line & Circle is on tour now with Electric Guest and NO playing major east coast and midwest cities including Boston, Chicago, Denver and more. Additionally, the band will play several shows at this week's CMJ Music Marathon including a KEXP Live Session which will be broadcast on October 19. All tour dates are listed below.
Line
& Circle was born of the collaboration between Brian J. Cohen &
Brian Egan, friends and bandmates who met at college in the Midwest.
Cohen was from Akron, Ohio, pre-med and penny- loafered and overtly
Anglophilic. Egan was the quiet guy down the hall, the classically
trained pianist, born and raised in Dayton, with Guided by Voices
playing through his ever-shut door.
So...two guys named Brian from the Midwest.
But also, lines and circles are the elements of, well, everything. The shapes that formed the essence of the very first cave paintings. The forms that make up every letter of every alphabet in every language. And now, the ones and zeros that make up binary code. An entire history of communication, stripped back to its essence, leads to these two simple shapes.
Yes, everything. For as long as we've been here.
The
two Brians moved to California. Their lives were binary now too,
divided into before and after. Before was the place they came
from---Ohio, with its blue-collar spirit, familiar apple-cheeked faces,
and long cold winters---and after was the place they went to---Los
Angeles, with its jammed freeways and long-haired girls and
relentlessly good weather.
They had no choice but to buy sunglasses and write songs.
Their new material was leaner than their previous
collaborations, and yet somehow bigger. Less trees, more sky. Their
early demos caught the ear of White Iris' Lewis Pesacov, who previously produced debut albums for Best Coast and Nikki Lane.
They took to the studio, along with a newly formed band, including
guitarist Eric Neujahr, bassist Nathan Gammill and drummer Nick Cisik.
There, with nods to early 4AD dream pop and chiming I.R.S. Records-era
guitar rock, the group pared the songs to their essence---there's that
word again---simple melodic phrases and hooky ostinatos that subvert
the complications of the lyrics. The end result is their first release,
a 7" on White Iris Records.
So, two songs. Two guys named Brian. Two shapes. Ohio and California. Cave paintings. Line & Circle. Everything, forever.
Line & Circle Tour Dates
10/17/12 - Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern *
10/18/12 - New York, NY @ CMJ (White Iris Showcase)
10/19/12 - New York, NY @ CMJ UNION (KEXP Live Session - 10:30 am)
10/21/12 - Boston, MA @ Paradise *
10/23/12 - Clifton Park, NY @ Northern Lights *
10/25/12 - Columbus, OH @ Newport *
10/26/12 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall *
10/28/12 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre *
10/30/12 - Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater *
10/31/12 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge *
10/18/12 - New York, NY @ CMJ (White Iris Showcase)
10/19/12 - New York, NY @ CMJ UNION (KEXP Live Session - 10:30 am)
10/21/12 - Boston, MA @ Paradise *
10/23/12 - Clifton Park, NY @ Northern Lights *
10/25/12 - Columbus, OH @ Newport *
10/26/12 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall *
10/28/12 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre *
10/30/12 - Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater *
10/31/12 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge *
* with NO & Electric Guest
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