Axxa/Abraxas Announces East Coast Tour Dates, S/T Debut Out Now

At the start of the month Axxa/Abraxas, 23 year-old Ben Asbury, released his self-titled debut, an album that "clicks along with sunny melodies" [Garden & Gun] and "bursts with bright cymbal crashes" [SPIN] - perfect for the impending Spring months.  Axxa/Abraxas announced his first lives dates in support of the album. Starting in Brooklyn this Friday (March 21st) he'll tour down the east coast, back down South. Check full dates below and stay tuned for more!    3/21 - NYC- Baby's All Right 3/22 - Philadelphia - Kung Fu Necktie 3/24 - Arlington, VA - Galaxy Hut 3/25 - Raleigh - Slims 3/26 - Charlotte - House Show 3/28 - Asheville - r3mix3d 3/29 - Athens -  Green Room 3/30 - Atlanta - Mammal Gallery 3/31 - Savannah - Hangfire Bar Axxas/Abraxas is the music and art project of 23 year-old Atlanta native Ben Asbury. The name is derived from two principles that Asbury associates together, one deeply personal, one spiritually dichotomous. Their seamless integration into one sentiment echoes the sonic and visual elements of Axxas/Abraxas. Sinking his teeth into music at an early age, Asbury has been collecting records and obsessively ingesting all forms for the better half of his life ("I got into punk in the third grade"). From the early introduction of 60's pop, through his foray into punk rock as a young boy, to post rock and Elephant Six Indie rock and back to 60's psychedelia, his consumption goes full circle. Over the years he has carefully honed his sound and absorbed these influences (more specifically, Neil Young, Television Personalities, 'Elevators, The 'Dead, Olivia Tremor Control) to create his own cohesive adaptation of psych art-pop. The tracks that make up Axxas/Abraxas were written and demo'ed around the time Ben was in college, where he was studying psychology, religion and sociology. While studying, he founded the RTA Collective (on which he released his cassettes with his visual art) and concurrently developed a fascination with the analog synth, the final linchpin in what would be the sound of Axxas/Abraxas.  The combination of fuzzy psych and DIY silkscreen imagery arrived in a package to the Captured Tracks office in the form of a demo that stood out among hundreds of others. To bring the debut to life we enlisted Jarvis Taveniere (Woods, Rear House Recording) to record and produce. The resulting album is the artistic culmination of a prodigious young songwriter putting it all together in an erudite way, despite his tendency to write lyrics which are "...generally directed at myself, often criticizing my shortcomings..." No matter how he criticizes himself, one need only listen to the record to see he's quite confident in his music. capturedtracks.com