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Redwalls to release "De Nova" 6/21, play
Lollapalooza and Conan O'Brien
By: ModernRock.com
May 6th 2005 5:29am
Capitol recording group the Redwalls have set June 21st for
the release of their much anticipated label debut, De Nova. Recorded with
producer Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliot Smith, the Vines), the album finds the
Chicago-based quartet offering up a baker's dozen tracks of brilliantly
natural harmonies, roaring riff packages, and crisp rock melodies.
The Redwalls - who recently completed a set of
cross-California dates in support of Rooney - are previewing De Nova to
overseas audiences this week during a series of U.K. dates with the
Manchester-based Nine Black Alps, recently dubbed "hotly-tipped nu-grungers"
by NME. The itinerary kicks off today, May 2nd, at the Garage in London.
The band returns Stateside later in May for a month-long headlining tour of
clubs across the South, East Coast, and Midwest. The trek begins May 19th
at Bricktown Live in Oklahoma City.
In other Redwalls news, the band is slated to perform June
17th on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, the same night they are booked to
perform a special New York City benefit show for the non-profit Housing
Works. In addition, the Redwalls have been added to the distinguished list
of artists performing in July at this year's Lollapalooza concerts at Grant
Park in the band's Chicago hometown.
The Redwalls' Logan Baren, 22 (guitar), Justin Baren, 19
(bass), and Andrew Langer, 20 (guitar), are childhood friends and neighbors
from the suburban village of Deerfield, Illinois (practice home to the
Chicago Bulls and site of the famed Tooth Fairy Museum) who have been
playing together since Justin was in junior high. All three write, sing,
and even play a little piano. The band is rounded out by 21 year-old
drummer Ben Greeno.
NME dispensed high praise on the band following their SXSW
'05 appearance, cheering that the Redwalls "take the more conservative
dadrock triptych (the Beatles, Faces, the Stones) as their blueprint but do
it with such spirit that we're tempted to write the last 35 years of
musical development off here and now." The Chicago Reader declared the
Redwalls, "Young guys playing stuff that sounds much older than they are
with spooky ease and confidence." "The barely college-aged Redwalls,"
enthused Flavorpill, "have found a devastating formula for catchy, scratchy
Brit-blues that brings them that much closer to the icons to whom they so
adeptly pay homage."
In De Nova news, album track "It's Alright" will be
featured in June on HBO in an episode of the Mark Wahlberg-executive
produced comedy series "Entourage." In addition, the band will be seen in
an upcoming MTV News installment of "You Hear It First" this month.
The Redwalls' 2003 independent album, "Universal Blues"
(Undertow), along with their nonstop hooks, thrilling harmonies, and
electrifying grit have already won over audiences around the U.S.A. The
Redwalls have toured extensively with Chris Robinson and Rooney, shared
stages with the Jayhawks, Keane, the Long Winters, and Ike Reilly, and wowed
crowds at both Twangfest and International Pop Overthrow.
Redwalls on Tour
May in the U.K. with Nine Black Alps
2 London, England Garage
3 Birmingham, England Academy 3
4 Norwich, England Waterfront
6 Liverpool, England EVOL
7 Glasgow, Scotland King Tuts
8 Sheffield, England Leadmill
9 Manchester, England Hop and Grape
May in the U.S.
19 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Bricktown Live
20 Dallas, Texas Gypsy Tea Room
21 Austin, Texas Antone's
22 Houston, Texas Meridian (Red Room)
24 Atlanta, Georgia Smith's Olde Bar
25 Orlando, Florida Will's Pub
29 Annapolis, Maryland Ramshead on Stage
31 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania North Star Bar
June in the U.S.
1 Providence, Rhode Island Century Lounge
2 New York, New York Mercury Lounge
4 Boston, Massachusetts Paradise
6 Akron, Ohio The Lime Spider
8 Detroit, Michigan Shelter
11 Milwaukee, Wisconsin The Rave Bar
24 Chicago, Illinois The Metro
July in the U.S.
23 Chicago, Illinois Grant Park
(Lollapalooza)
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