"The best soundtrack for reveling in the melancholy of actually living since My Bloody Valentine's Loveless." – ALTERNATIVE PRESS
The tireless and ever-touring bearded men of JUNIUS are preparing to headline the upcoming Rock The Coliseum music festival in Toronto this month, along with the newly (and perhaps only temporarily) reunited MARE (Hydrahead Rec), BURNING BRIDES, MMDDYYYY, BAD FLIRT, and many more... (http://www.cre8iv80studio.com/RTC for more info)
They'll also be making some festival appearances below the Mason-Dixon with fellow Bostonites IREPRESS (Translation Loss Rec), co-headlining the Summer Sideshow Fest in Columbus, GA (with HOT ROD CIRCUIT, XO, and others) and the Rotting Plum Fest in Johnson City, TN (with US CHRISTMAS, OCOAI, and others), as well as shows in NYC, Philly, Richmond and other whistle stops along the East Coast. Following some more North American touring later this summer, they'll be heading back across the pond for their third headlining European tour in October.
This is all in anticipation of their upcoming album—already being referred to as the "Chinese Democracy" of Art Rock—which will finally be released this September, most likely via The Mylene Sheath (domestically), and Make My Day Records (Europe). The concept album, titled ‘The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist,’ is inspired by the life and theories of controversial scholar Immanuel Velikovsky (Wikipedia the guy if you're unfamiliar). In an admirable subjugation of the crumbling major label infrastructure, JUNIUS recorded ‘Martyrdom’ at the legendary former A&M Records studios in LA over the course of a year, somewhat guerilla-style, during the off-hours that the studio wasn't booked (the band has joked that they were bumped out by everyone from Akon to Bruce Springsteen—literally).
Check out one of the band's new songs here: http://www.radarrecordings.com/mp3/junius-the_dramatist_plays_catastrophist-edit.mp3
Links:
http://www.juniusmusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/junius
http://www.radarrecordings.com/press/junius (press resources)
Confirmed Tour Dates:
Jun 03 2009 - Nara w / Irepress / Rosetta / The Blue Letter Richmond, Virginia
Jun 05 2009 - Rotting Plum Festival @ The Hideaway w / Irepress / US Christmas / Ocoai / many more... Johnson City, Tennessee
Jun 06 2009 - Summer Sideshow Fest @ Gallery 13 w / Irepress / Hot Rod Circuit / XO / many more... Columbus, Georgia
Jun 09 2009 - TBA w / Irepress Jacksonville, FL
Jun 10 2009 - House of Awesome Times w / Irepress College Park, Maryland
Jun 11 2009 - PiLam w / Irepress / City of Ships / Liquid Limbs Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jun 12 2009 - The Studio at Webster Hall w / Irepress / Moving Mountains New York, New York
Jun 13 2009 - Distress Fest @ Red Alert w / Irepress / City of Ships / Liquid Limbs / The Network Dover, NH
Jun 21 2009 - Rock The Coliseum Fest w / Mare / Burning Brides / Lords / DDMMYYYY / Bad Flirt / + more Mississauga, Ontario
Oct 16 2009 - EUROPE / UK TOUR October - November 2009
Oct 17 2009 - Beatpol w / Caspian Germany, Dresden
Oct 18 2009 - NBI Germany, Berlin
Oct 19 2009 - Astra Stube Germany, Hamburg
Oct 20 2009 - Jugendhaus West w / Caspian Germany, Stuttgart
Oct 21 2009 - Elfer Music Club w / Caspian Germany, Frankfurt
Oct 22 2009 - Nexus Germany, Braunschweig
Oct 23 2009 - Steinbruch Germany, Duisburg
Oct 24 2009 - AJZ Talschock Germany, Chemnitz
Nov 11 2009 - Cafe Schlachthaus Austria, Dornbirn
Nov 12 2009 - Sunny Red Germany, München
Nov 13 2009 - AZ Germany, Aachen
Nov 14 2009 - Exit Netherlands, Rotterdam
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