The Brian Jonestown Massacre announce North American tour dates starting April 29th at Austin's Levitation Festival

The Brian Jonestown Massacre announce North American tour dates

“Tapping a hallucinatory furrow that draws on his encyclopedic welter of counter cultural knowledge, the music Anton Newcombe makes with The Brian Jonestown Massacre represents some of the most idiosyncratic to emerge from the outer church of psychedelia these past two decades.” -  Harry Sword(Kaleidoscope)

“This is real rock and roll, with purpose and determination.” – Alex Wisgard (The Line of Best Fit)

April 2016

Fri. 04/29 – Austin, TX, Levitation Festival

May 2016

Sun. 05/01 – New Orleans, LA, One Eye Jack’s

Mon. 05/02 – Nashville, TN, Mercy Lounge

Tues. 05/03 – Columbus, OH, Newport Music Hall

Wed. 05/04 – Cleveland, OH, Beachland Ballroom

Thurs. 05/05 – Washington, DC, 9:30 Club

Fri. 05/06 – Philadelphia, PA, Union Transfer

Sat. 05/07 – Boston, MA, Paradise Rock Club

Mon. 05/09 – New York, NY, Webster Hall

Tues. 05/10 – Montreal, PQ, CA, Le Tulipe

Thurs. 05/12 – Toronto, ON, CA, Danforth Music Hall

Fri. 05/13 – Chicago, IL, Metro

Sat. 05/14 – Minneapolis, MN, First Avenue

Sun. 05/15 – Omaha, NE, The Waiting Room

Tues. 05/17 – Denver, CO, Bluebird Theatre

Wed. 05/18 – Salt Lake City, UT, The Depot

Thurs. 05/19 – Missoula, MT, Top Hat Lounge

Fri. 05/20 – Edmonton, AB, CA, Starlight Ballroom

Sat. 05/21 – Calgary, AB, CA, The Marquee Beer Market & Stage

Mon. 05/23 – Vancouver, BC, CA, Commodore Ballroom

Tues. 05/24 – Seattle, WA, Neumo’s

Wed. 05/25 – Portland, OR, Wonder Ballroom

Fri. 05/27 – San Francisco, CA, The Independent

Sat. 05/28 – San Francisco, CA, The Independent

Sun. 05/29 – Los Angeles, CA, Teragram Ballroom

Mon. 05/30 – Los Angeles, CA, Teragram Ballroom

“The man behind the Brian Jonestown Massacre embodies a rock archetype: the wildly creative yet self-destructive genius. His prolific output includes more than 15 BJM albums …and this year alone includes a soundtrack to an imaginary French film, a short LP called Mini Album Thingy Wingy, and a drone-rock side-project with Toronto rock’n’roller Tess Parks. Every offering is invariably coloured by his reputation as a loose cannon.” – Rhik Samadder (The Guardian)

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Released in 2015

THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE: Mini Album Thingy Wingy CD
A RECORDINGS (UK) / AUK 033CD
release date: 11/13/2015

DESCRIPTION

Mini Album Thingy Wingy contains seven brand new and exclusive Brian Jonestown Massacre tracks recorded by Anton Newcombe in is his studio in Berlin in 2014 and '15. Running at 35 minutes, the mini-album was co-produced, engineered, and mixed by Fabien Leseure. Four songs written by Newcombe; the band's first Slovakian song, co-written with Vladimir Nosal ("Prsí Prsí"); a composition by Newcombe and Tess Parks ("Pish"); and a cover of the 13th Floor Elevators' "Dust" featuring Alex Maas from The Black Angels on jug. Originally, Newcombe was heavily influenced by The Rolling Stones' psychedelic phase, but his work in the 2000s has expanded into aesthetic dimensions approximating the UK shoegaze genre of the 1990s and incorporating influences from world music, especially Middle Eastern and Brazilian music. This album mixes the traditional Brian Jonestown Massacre sound with Eastern influences and brings it up to date with the benefit of all the additional weirdness that's been discovered in the past 40 years.