"Going from one important life and stepping right into another" explains vocalist Omer Leibovitz, " a relevant moment of transition and new beginnings for us." This is the motivation behind garagey, bluesy rock trio  COURTESY TIER's upcoming release Little Rock (release date:November 6, 2015; Beverly Martel Records) who will be playing four shows at this year's CMJ New Music Festival (dates below). The band just premiered the first single, "Childish Blues" with idobi Radio, the #1 alternative Internet radio station, and announced their release show on November 3rd at Brooklyn, NY's Rough Trade. "Childish Blues" is a song that consumed Leibovitz and drummer Layton Weedeman in the studio for months before bassist Alex Picca joined the group, giving them the sound needed to pull it through the wreckage.

Listen to "Childish Blues" on Idobi.com HERE: http://idobi.com/exclusive/premiere-courtesy-tiers-track-childish-blues

Little Rock is produced by producer Chris "Frenchie" Smith (The Front Bottoms, ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Purple) who "brought an extra edge and aggressive side of us that we had never tapped into on a recording before." The three track release opens with the explosive slow grinding title track, "Little Rock", segues into the dissonant post-punk chorditure of "Green" and ends on the amped up, dynamic and fast-paced melodies of "Childish Blues". The release is a fully-realized melding of the disparate histories of all three band members, whose lives came together from different geographic areas for unified robust and distorted rock.

Photo credit: Sami O'Keefe

Hailing from Israel and West Africa, Leibovitz drew inspiration from "West African music, Jewish traditional and micro-tonal Middle Eastern music. My roots in the Middle East had a big effect on the way I sing." Weedeman’s world in the NJ suburbs of Philadelphia was shaped by his very music-minded family ("my Dad was adamant about having music played on the stereo while we sat down for dinner ") and his frequent concert-going, seeing bands as varied as "Sonic Youth, Stereolab, and The Roots". Meanwhile, Picca’s Southern upbringing (born in Kentucky, raised in Florida), contributed to his "love for singing bluegrass style close harmony." The fates finally brought the band together when Leibovitz and Weedeman (who had formed the band while attending Boston’s Berklee College of Music) moved to Brooklyn and met Picca while working as guitar makers for iconic guitar builder Roger Sadowsky.

Already generating a healthy amount of local buzz about their dynamic live shows and previous releases, Courtesy Tier has received lots of love from QRO Mag who compared them to Kings of Leon and raved over the band's vocal performance claiming "You can feel the wrenching in singer Omer Leibovitz’s voice, another strain on the well-worn heart", while NYC Taper called them an "immense talent that was breathtaking to behold."

In addition to CMJ, Courtesy Tier is gearing up for heavy winter touring and is already looking forward to returning to the studio. The band is available for interviews and performances.

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