From Tell All Your Friends

Violens Add
New Dates With MGMT & Grizzly Bear For An
Extensive Summer Tour
Look For For More Summer & Fall Dates With
Both Bands
New Single “Trance–Like
Turn” Out Now On Green Owl Comp
Click Here
To Watch New Video For “Trance–Like Turn”
Click Here To Listen To
“Trance-Like Turn” & Two Songs from their Single
Click Here
To Download Debut Single “Violent Sensation
Descends”
Following their sold-out
mercury lounge show in June, Violens add dates More summer tour dates with
indie rock faves Grizzly Bear, and 2008 break out band MGMT.
Following the release of singer/producer Jorge Elbrecht's remix of
their single "Time to Pretend", MGMT asked Violens to join them on dates
between a busy schedule of summer festivals. The band will then join
Grizzly Bear as sole support on their shows between dates with Radiohead.
Violens recently released their critically acclaimed new
single "Trance-Like Turn" on The Green Owl Records Comp: A Benefit for the
Energy Action Coalition. Their contribution is featured among tracks by
other notable artists such as Feist, Muse, Deerhoof, Bloc Party, A Place To
Bury Strangers, and many more. 100% of profits from the album sales will be
donated to the EAC, to support their efforts to raise environmental
awareness in our community.
http://greenowlrecords.com/comp.php
The band was
recently named one of 8 bands to watch in 2008 by The L
Magazine. Follow the link below to their feature, alongside
Brooklyn's High Places: http://thelmagazine.com/6/11/feature/feature4.cfm?ctype=1
Violens (pronounced "vy-lenz") are a New York-via-Miami
four-piece formed in the fall of 2007, featuring members Iddo Arad
(synths/vocals), Ben Brantley (bass), Jorge Elbrecht (lead vocals/guitar)
and Kris King (drums). Their music imagines a place where The Zombies &
The Byrds meet Wire & The Violent Femmes, and Crass meets Angelo
Badalamenti & Prefab Sprout.
Violens songs conjure
descriptions of nightmares, the passing of time, speculations on spiritual
messages, and accounts of psychedelic hallucinations. Even their most
frenetic guitar work and aggressive rhythms are draped in a gauze of
reverberant, harmonized vocals and synths which create a sense of creepy,
artificial comfort. A fitting characterization, lyrically and
musically, for a group whose name sounds like a melding of the words
"violence" and "violins".
Summer
Tour
Wed Jul 23 Paradise Rock Club
(w/MGMT) Boston, MA
Thu Jul 24
Paradise Rock Club (w/MGMT) Boston, MA
Fri Jul
25 First Unitarian Church (w/MGMT)
Philadelphia, PA
Mon Jul 28 9:30 Club
(w/MGMT) Washington, DC
Tue Jul 29
The National (w/MGMT) Richmond, VA
Thu Jul
31 Schubas (Amplify New Music Series)
Chicago, IL
Fri Aug 1 Hideout
Chicago, IL
Sat Aug 2 930 Listening Room (w/Grizzly
Bear) Louisville, KY
Mon Aug 11
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue (w/Grizzly Bear)
Washington, DC
Thu Aug 14 Museum of Fine Arts
(w/Grizzly Bear) Boston, MA
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