Ghostland Observatory supports 'Robotique' into summer
Electronic-rockers Ghostland Observatory have expanded their tour schedule as they ready their new album, "Robotique Majestique."
The duo will kick things off Feb. 29 with an album release party in their hometown of Austin, TX. Their coast-to-coast US trek is sandwiched between a March 8 performance at Florida's Langerado Music Festival and a June 13 gig at Manchester, TN's Bonnaroo Music Festival. Headlining club shows and a couple more festival dates fall in between. The full itinerary is listed below.
Ghostland Observatory frontman Aaron Behrens and producer/drummer Thomas Turner are set to drop their third album, "Robotique Majestique," on their own label March 4. The record continues their mission of making music that's "sweaty, raw-boned and direct from the future, committed to electronics, stuck on big beats, yet unmistakably powered by rock and roll," according to a press release.
The set follows 2006's "Paparazzi Lightning" and 2005's "delete.delete.i.eat.meat," also released on the band's own Trashy Moped Recordings.
Despite its DIY ways, Ghostland Observatory has built a reputation for electrifying live shows and landed spots on NBC-TV's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" and PBS-TV's "Austin City Limits." With that, the duo hasn't felt the need to sign with a major label.
"We listened to what some major labels offered us in the spring, and there wasn't much of a difference between what they could offer and what we can offer ourselves," Turner recently told The Dallas Morning News. "Eleven- to 16-year-olds aren't asking their parents to take them to the record store at the mall anymore. They're going online to find whatever music that they want."
The new album's lead single, "Dancing on My Grave," is streaming at Ghostland Observatory's MySpace page.
February 2008
29 - Austin, TX - Austin Music Hall
March 2008
8 - Everglades National Park, FL - Langerado Music Festival
13 - New Orleans, LA - House of Blues
15 - Dallas, TX - Energy Square
28 - New York, NY - Webster Hall
29 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
April 2008
3 - Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
4-5 - Seattle, WA - Showbox @ the Market
17 - San Francisco, CA - The Mezzanine
18 - Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theatre
19 - Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre
20 - Aspen, CO - Belly Up
May 2008
2 - Chicago, IL - Metro
3 - Detroit, MI - St. Andrews Hall
15 - San Diego, CA - House of Blues
16 - Joshua Tree, CA - Joshua Tree Music Festival
17 - Atlanta, GA - Southern Comfort Music Experience
June
13 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Music Festival
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Ghostland Observatory lines up headline shows behind new album [January 2008]
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Herbie Hancock at the Sonoma Jazz Festival
Brad Paisley, Jack Ingram and Kellie Pickler
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