PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 4, 2016  – Baroness, who kick off a new round of U.S. tour dates next Friday, Aug. 12, in Washington, D.C., discuss their return to the road and the warm reception they’ve been greeted with in a new behind-the-scenes clip: https://youtu.be/m5_JfihMVaA.

 

The six-week outing includes stops at a number of festivals including Hopscotch, Houston Open Air, Psycho Las Vegas and Monster Energy Rock Allegiance. Baroness will also play this year’s Aftershock Festival as well as the newly launched Sound on Sound Festival in McDade, Texas.

 

“The cathartic experience of playing live music has not changed over the 13 years of performing,” John Baizley said in a recent interview with the SF Weekly. “But the sense of relief and release I feel as an adult is as intense, if not more than, when I was younger.  The response to this record has been really, really overwhelming. There have been some pretty dramatic changes in the way that our audiences react to our songs, and I couldn’t be happier about that.”

 

Tickets for all non-festival performances are available via YourBaroness.com. Pallbearer opens on all non-festival dates.

 

Tour dates:

August 12  Washington, DC  The Howard Theater

August 13  Northampton, MA  Pearl Street Ballroom

August 14  New York, NY  Webster Hall

August 16  Providence, RI  Fete Ballroom

August 17  Buffalo, NY  Waiting Room

August 19  Cleveland, OH  House of Blues

August 20  Detroit, MI  St. Andrew’s Hall

August 21  Chicago, IL  The Metro

August 23  Minneapolis, MN  Cabooze

August 24  Lawrence, KS  The Granada Theatre

August 26  Albuquerque, NM  Sunshine Theatre

August 27  Phoenix, AZ  Club Crescent

August 28  Las Vegas, NV  Psycho Las Vegas

August 30  San Diego, CA  The Observatory Northpark

August 31  Tucson, AZ  The Rock

September 2  Dallas, TX  Granada Theatre

September 3  Memphis, TN  New Daisy Theatre

September 4  Baton Rouge, LA  The Varsity Theatre

September 6  Orlando, FL  The Beachum Theater

September 7  Tampa, FL  State Theater

September 9  Charleston, SC  The Music Farm

September 10  Raleigh, NC  Hopscotch Music Festival

September 17  Chester, PA  Monster Energy Rock Allegiance Festival

September 23  Corpus Christi, TX  The Pavilion at Concrete Street

September 24  San Antonio, TX  Paper Tiger

September 25  Houston, TX  Houston Open Air

October 22  Sacramento, CA  Aftershock Festival

November 6  McDade, TX  Sound on Sound Festival

 

Purple was released on Dec. 18 via the band’s own Abraxan Hymns label. The Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev) produced album has been universally praised with Pitchfork saying Purple features “some of the biggest, strong songs Baroness has ever written,” Entertainment Weekly calling the album “their finest release yet,” Rolling Stone Australia dubbing it “the most dynamic, robust guitar album this year,”Mojo echoing those sentiments, saying “Baroness have delivered their masterpiece: an album grounding their cosmic heaviosity with earthbound, compelling drama,” and German magazine Visions declaring “the quasi-comeback Purple is their best album to date.” Purple and the songs from the album also landed on a number of year-end best of lists with “Shock Me” (video: https://youtu.be/hS5osAdTnm0) coming in at #10 on Entertainment Weekly’s Top 40 Songs of 2015, Pitchfork awarding it #6 on their Best Metal Albums of 2015 round-up and Rolling Stone placing the release at #7 on their 20 Best Metal Albums of 2015.

 

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