Murder By Death Announce Fuego! EP
January 30, 2008 - 10:12 AM
First Song From Red Of Tooth And Claw Streaming Now On MySpace
January 30, 2008 – MURDER BY DEATH have posted “Fuego!,” the first new track from their forthcoming Vagrant full-length, Red of Tooth and Claw (3/4/08), on http://www.myspace.com/murderbydeath. The band also announced the Fuego! EP, which will be available through all digital music providers on February 12, 2008. The EP includes the title track along with a live version of “My Baby Shot Me Down” and an extended version of “Theme (for Ennio Morricone).”
Murder By Death rolled out of the gates fully realized in 2000, playing a blend of rocking Americana noir and dramatic post-punk. And with their fourth album and Vagrant debut, Red Of Tooth And Claw, the Bloomington, Indiana, quartet are emerging as cinematic storytellers and players whose jaw-dropping performances on record make you yearn for the chance to experience their energy up close and in person.
Red Of Tooth And Claw finds Murder By Death at the height of their powers. Recorded with Grammy-winning producer Trina Shoemaker (Queens Of The Stone Age, Emmylou Harris, Iggy Pop) at Dark Horse studios in Tennessee, the album captures the drama and nuance of MBD’s sound without compromising a lick of the band’s energy. And as longtime followers of their narrative grit—equal parts Old West drama and Old Testament justice—will be glad to know, MBD’s subject matter also hasn’t softened for album No. 4. Rife with lust, betrayal, and classical archetypes of good and evil, Red Of Tooth And Claw is, as singer/guitarist Adam Turla puts it, a “Homer’s Odyssey of revenge, only without the honorable character at the center.”
The band is currently at home in Bloomington, readying for their previously announced tour with Clutch. The tour kicks off with a two-night stay at Middle East in Cambridge, MA on Feb 21 and 22, and currently wraps a month later in Raleigh, NC.
Murder By Death is: Turla, Sarah Balliet (cello, keys), Matt Armstrong (bass), and drummer Dagan Thogerson.
MURDER BY DEATH on tour:
Feb 21 – Cambridge, MA @ Middle East – Downstairs
Feb 22 – Cambridge, MA @ Middle East – Downstairs
Feb 23 – So. Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
Feb 24 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre
Feb 26 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
Feb 27 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
Feb 28 – Kansas City, MO @ The Beaumont Club
Feb 29 – Springfield, MO @ Remmington’s Downtown
Mar 01 – Omaha, NE @ Sokol
Mar 03 – Aspen, CO @ Belly Up
Mar 04 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
Mar 05 – Boise, ID @ Big Easy Concert House
Mar 06 – Missoula, MT @ Wilma Theatre
Mar 07 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox
Mar 08 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theatre
Mar 10 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
Mar 11 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
Mar 12 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blue’s
Mar 13 – Los Angeles, CA Henry Fonda Theatre
Mar 14 – Flagstaff, AZ @ Orpheum Theatre
Mar 15 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theatre
Mar 17 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
Mar 18 – Sauget, IL @ Pop’s
Mar 19 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart’s
Mar 20 – Millvale, PA @ Mr. Small’s Theatre
Mar 21 – Richmond, VA @ The National
Mar 22 – Raleigh, NC @ Lincoln Theatre
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