Dope plots tour dates as album release nears
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emailAlt-metal outfit Dope will pound the pavement through the end of the year to back its third album, "Group Therapy."
The group's in-progress outing is scheduled to roll through U.S. clubs non-stop until mid-December.
Due out on Oct. 21, "Group Therapy" is Dope's third full-length, and marks the group's first set on its own label, Recon Records, which the group launched in partnership with Artemis Records after splitting with Epic.
Group frontman and namesake Edsel Dope said that releasing the album on his own label allowed him to make the unorthodox move of including on the new disc full-length videos for each of the album's 13 tracks, and to do so without pricing the album higher than a normal CD (the set will be priced at $12.98, according to a press release).
"This never would have been possible without starting our own label," Edsel said in a statement. "The major labels have a specific format that they're used to following and they don't think outside the box. I wanted to break all the rules this time and provide an overload of content, while showing everyone that you don't have to jack up the price to do so."
Dope produced "Group Therapy" by himself, and enlisted Jay Baumgardner (Drowning Pool, Evanescence, Papa Roach) to mix it.
Full versions of three of the album's music videos, as well as excerpts of the remaining 10, are posted at Recon Records' website.
October 2003
9 - Chicago Heights, IL - Oasis One Sixty
10 - Davenport, IA - Live
11 - East Dubuque, IL - Arena
12 - Colubmus, OH - Mewport Music Hall
13 - Springfield, MO - The Rockwell
14 - Minneapolis, MN - Ascot Room
16 - Grand Rapids, MI - The Inersection
17 - Flint, MI - Machine Shop
18 - Battle Creek, MI - Planet Rock
19 - Cleveland, OH - Peabody's Down Under
20 - Pittsburgh, PA - Hard Rock Cafe
21 - Old Bridge, NJ - Birch Hill Nite Club
22 - Farmingdale, NY - Downtown
23 - Lackawanna, NY - Cruise Inn
24 - Rochester, NY - Steel Music Hall
25 - Poughkeepsie, NY - The Loft
26 - Baltimore, MD - Thunderdome
27 - New Haven, CT - Toad's Place
28 - Farmingdale, NY - Downtown
30 - Providence, RI - The Met Cafe
31 - Boston, MA - Club Lido
November 2003
8 - Cleveland, OH - Odeon Concert Club
9 - LaCrosse, WI - Warehouse Night Club
10 - Toledo, OH - The Mission
11 - Cambridge, MA - Manray Niteclub
13 - Washington, DC - Nation
14 - Rochester, NY - Water Street Music Hall
16 - Philadelphia, PA - The Trocedero
17 - New York, NY - B.B. Kings
18 - Pittsburgh, PA - Club Laga
19 - Charlotte, NC - Tremont Music Hall
20 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
22 - Fort Lauderdale, FL - Culture Room
23 - Jacksonville, FL - Jack Rabbits
24 - New Orleans, LA - Howlin' Wolf
25 - Houston, TX - Engine Room
26 - Dallas, TX - Deep Ellum Live
28 - Tulsa, OK - Calm's Ballroom
29 - San Antonio, TX - Sin 13
December 2003
2 - Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theater
3 - Los Angeles, CA - Key Club
6 - San Francisco, CA - The Pound
8 - Seattle, WA - Fenix / Fenix Underground
9 - Salt Lake City, UT - DV8
10 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
11 - Springfield, MO - The Rockwell
12 - Minneapolis, MN - Quest Club
13 - Chicago, IL - Vic Theater
14 - Milwaukee, WI - The Rave
Dope tickets at Ticketmaster
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