
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.