Miniature Tigers Announce New Album F O R T R E S S * Out Summer 2010 on Modern Art Records/ILG
Tour With The Morning Benders Starts 3/10 in Philadelphia * Playing SXSW
Weeks after finishing F O R T R E S S, the follow up to their well received debut Tell It To the Volcano, Miniature Tigers will be hitting the road over the next two months supporting The Morning Benders. F O R T R E S S will be the bands second full length for Modern Art Records who recently partnered with Warner Music Group’s Independent Label Group.
Chris Chu, lead singer of The Morning Benders co-produced the effort over a three week span in January at Dreamland Studios in Woodstock, NY. The upcoming 10 song album will be released this summer with the single “Gold Skull” featuring Neon Indian coming in May. The tour will start in Philadelphia, PA on March 10th, and circle the country including a stop in Austin, TX for a week at SXSW.
After a hot series of shows at CMJ in 2008 where both Spin and KCRW gave the band top marks, Miniature Tigers rallied through 2009 playing nearly 200 shows with the likes Ben Folds, Bishop Allen, Fun, Ruby Sons and Princeton. Their single “Cannibal Queen” (download MP3 here via AOL’s Spinner) was a featured video on MTV2’s Subterranean and received great support from folks like Morning Becomes Eclectic, XMU and Daytrotter.
TOUR DATES:
w/The Morning Benders
Mar 10 – Philadelphia @ Johnny Brendas
Mar 11 – Washington DC @ Black Cat
Mar 12 – Chapel Hill @ Local 506
Mar 13 – Atlanta @ Drunken Unicorn
Mar 15 – Birmingham @ The Bottletree
***SXSW***
Mar 17 – 4:00pm / Feed The Beat Dayparty @ PureVolume
Mar 18 – 1:00am / Official SXSW Showcase @ Friends’ Bar
Mar 19 – 3:15pm / Roxwel.com Party and Session @ The Dog and Duck Pub
w/The Morning Benders
Mar 23 – Phoenix @ Rhythm Room
Mar 25 – LA @ The Troubador
Mar 26 – San Diego @ The Casbah
Mar 27 – Costa Mesa @ Detroit Bar
Mar 28 – Santa Barbara @ Muddy Waters
Mar 30 – San Francisco @ The Independent
Apr 1 – Portland @ Holocene
Apr 2 – Seattle @ Crocodile Café
Apr 5 – Provo @ Club Velour
Apr 7 – Denver @ Hi-Dive
Apr 9 – Des Moines @ The Vaudeville Mews
Apr 10 – Ames @ The Maintenance Shop
Apr 11 – Rock Island @ Huckleberry’s Pizza (Daytrotter Presents)
Apr 12 – Chicago @ Schubas
Apr 16 – Winooski, VT @ The Monkey House
Apr 17 – Boston @ TT The Bear’s
Apr 22 – NYC @ Mercury Lounge
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/miniaturetigers
“The Nine Hottest New Bands Playing CMJ 2008” – Spin
“Top 10 best bands of CMJ” – KCRW
“Miniature Tigers couldn’t have have arrived at a better time. Tell It To The Volcano boasts a collection of well-crafted pop songs, free of pretention and often sun from the perspective of a quirky, lovelorn troubadour.” – Death and Taxes
“Miniature Tigers play pop music with that earnest emotion that Margot & The Nuclear So & Sos brings and blends it with the more upbeat poppy good time sound and solid melodies that Spinto Band always comes with.” – My Old Kentucky Blog