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Chelsea Light Moving Making Some Moves
With Sonic Youth still on an indefinite hiatus, that’s given Thurston Moore plenty of time to do his own thing including his work with his new band Chelsea Light Moving. The group has announced a release date for its debut album and a U.S. tour.
Chelsea Light Moving’s self-titled debut is due out March 5 (March 4 in Europe) on Matador Records. The band features Moore as singer/songwriter/guitarist along with Samara Lubelski on bass, Keith Wood (aka Hush Arbors) on electric guitar and drummer John Moloney. Lubelski played violin on Moore’s last two solo albums – Demolished Thoughts and Trees Outside The Academy.
Photo: Carlos van Hijfte
An announcement on Matador’s blog proclaims “the band is ready to detonate any birthday party, wedding or hullaboo in any country, planet or stratosphere that doesn’t support right wing extremist NRA sucking bozo-ology.”
The tour begins March 2 in New Jersey.
March 2 – Hoboken, N.J., Maxwell’s
March 4 – Charlottesville, Va., The Southern
March 5 – Asheville, N.C., The Grey Eagle
March 6 – Raleigh, N.C., King’s Barcade
March 7 – Savannah, Ga., “Savannah Stopover”
March 8 – Atlanta, Ga., The EARL
March 10 – Denton, Texas, Downtown Denton, “35 Denton Fest”
March 19 – Los Angeles, Calif., EchoPlex
March 20 – San Francisco, Calif., Great American Music Hall
March 22 – Portland, Ore., Doug Fir Lounge
March 23 – Seattle, Wash., Neumos
March 27 – Minneapolis, Minn., Triple Rock Social Club
March 29 – Chicago, Ill., Empty Bottle
March 30 – Detroit, Mich., Magic Stick
March 31 – Toronto, Ontario, Lee’s Palace
April 2 – Pittsburgh, Pa., Mr. Small’s Theatre
April 3 – Philadelphia, Pa., Union Transfer
April 4 – Washington, D.C., Black Cat
April 5 – New York, N.Y., Bowery Ballroom
April 7 – Cambridge, Mass., The Sinclair
Tickets for select dates go on sale beginning Jan. 11. Some shows are already on sale.
For more information click here for Chelsea Light Moving’s blog and here for Matador Records’s blog.