Mountain Goats prepare tour-only vinyl LP
The Mountain Goats are preparing a limited-edition vinyl version of their new album, The Sunset Tree (due April 25 on 4AD), featuring “home-recorded versions of most of the songs and a few LP-only adult-contemporary love jams.” Update!
Tour Dates
March 2005
04 – Gate City Noise, Greensboro, NC (solo)
23 – Emo’s, Austin, TX
24 – Mary Jane’s Fat Cat, Houston, TX
25 – Rubber Gloves, Denton, TX
26 – Space 1110, Lubbock TX
27 – The Opolis, Norman, OK
29 – JR’s Lightbulb Club, Fayetteville, AR
30 – Jackpot Saloon, Lawrence, KS
31 – Sokol Underground, Omaha, NE
April 2005
01 – The Maintenance Shop, Ames, IA
02 – Beloit College – Pearson’s Hall, Beloit, WI
04 – Catacombs Coffeehouse, Madison, WI
06 – Hi-Tone, Memphis, TN
07 – Martin’s Lounge, Jackson, MS
08 – Red Star, Baton Rouge, LA
09 – House of Blues, New Orleans, LA
The Sunset Tree tracklist
You or Your Memory
Broom People
This Year
Dilaudid
Dance Music
Dinu Lipatti’s Bones
Up the Wolves
Lions Teeth
Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?
Magpie
Song for Dennis Brown
Love Love Love
Pale Green Things
Side A
You or Your Memory
Up the Wolves
Dilaudid
Collapsing Stars
Dinu Lipatti’s Bones
Love Love Love
Side B
High Doses #2
Lions Teeth
This Year
Song for Dennis Brown
The Day the Aliens Came or Hawaiian Feeling
Straight from John Darnielle: “There will be 1000 copies pressed. The covers are going to be handmade – I’ll be receiving the LPs in blank sleeves, then messing with them in various ways. I predict that I will rue the day I had this idea somewhere around the 115th sleeve, and that the lucky thousandth sleeve will feature near-illegible curse words in faded Sharpie script. I have been debating whether to tuck various surprises into random copies – original drafts of lyrics, say – but the first person who attempts, at a show, to go through a bunch of the sleeves to see which one’s the most eBayable will be promptly shot between the eyes and his corpse dragged from town to town as a warning to others. Yes, actually, I do listen to a lot of death metal, why do you ask?”
Note: these will not be available on the upcoming tour (March — early April) but on the following tour that will begin in late April.
dieblucasdie
2639 days ago
The ‘Goatheads out there might also be interested in the upcoming reissues of the long-sought first two Mountain Goats records, “Nothing for Juice” and “Zopilote Machine.”
http://www.3bos.com/
No Chicago dates on the first leg of the tour? Looks like I’m drivin’ to Beloit.
andy_t
2639 days ago
How are these guys live? I may also have to make the trip to Beloit. I’ve heard some of their stuff in the past and enjoyed it.
dieblucasdie
2639 days ago
Well, I’m a superfan, so I’m driving to Beloit, but there’ll no doubt be a Chicago show in May.
dieblucasdie
2632 days ago
New dates added, including a show at the Logan Square Auditorium in Chicago. That’s like, walking distance from my apartment, yo, and I’m still gonna go to WI.
04/26 Tue, Charleston SC
Redux Print Factory w/ TBA
04/27 Wed, Atlanta GA
The Earl w/ TBA
04/28 Thu, Orlando FL
Will’s Pub w/ TBA
04/29 Fri, St. Augustine FL
Cafe Eleven w/ TBA
05/08 Sun, Cambridge MA
Middle East Downstairs w/ TBA
05/10 Tue, Montreal QC
Le Sala Rossa w/ TBA
05/11 Wed, Toronto ON
Lee’s Palace w/ TBA
05/13 Fri, Chicago IL
Logan Square w/ TBA
Hercules Rockefeller
2630 days ago
So, over at mountain-goats.com, I notice that JD says the albums will be available for sale on the tour and also through select mail-order outlets. I’ll only be able to see ‘em on the pre-release tour, so does anyone have any idea what those mailorder outlets might be?
dieblucasdie
2630 days ago
Alright, ’cause I love the GLOno faithful,
http://www.moopsmusic.com
Will be one of the outlets, and you can supposedly get a place in line right now. As for other ones, I’m not sure. Perhaps Aquarius Records?
Hercules Rockefeller
2630 days ago
Never mind–answered my own question. They’ll be available from moops music.
dieblucasdie
2630 days ago
Jinx!
ghostbusta
2630 days ago
no european dates??? *shocked*
parpaillou
2582 days ago
any dates in France or Germany?????