Delicate Steve Announces North American Tour; Live Album

Delicate Steve is the brainchild of New Jersey-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Steve Marion. As NPR has said, "Delicate Steve's music maintains the capacity to surprise...guitar showcases that don't shred, dance records that don't adhere to familiar beats and classic-rock throwbacks that fan out into world music, prog, reggae, surf-rock and more, with the propulsive jitteriness and sideways oddness of Ratatat or Dirty Projectors." SPIN has called the music "a kaleidoscope of bouncy pan-African polyrhythms and swooping six-string melodies, like the Dirty Projectors with guitars instead of singers." On March 3, Delicate Steve will release Live in Las Vegas as a "pay what you will" download from the band's Bandcamp page. The band then embarks on an extensive North American tour, beginning in Philadelphia.

In November 2014, Delicate Steve were asked by Tame Impala to be the special guest on their North American tour. The band played to multiple nights of sold-out audiences at New York's Beacon Theatre, Oakland's Fox Theatre and The Shrine in Los Angeles. Hitting their stride in Las Vegas, the band delivered a monumental performance at Brooklyn Bowl. Delicate Steve chose this performance to capture for the release of their first live recording, Live in Las Vegas. Covering material from the band's two studio records Wondervisions and Positive Force, the set is indicative of why Jake Rosenthal, talent buyer of the now legendary Brooklyn club Glasslands recently tweeted: "Delicate Steve is my favorite live band. There, I said it."

The upcoming live shows will feature new material in addition to tracks from Delicate Steve's studio albums. In a review of 2012's Positive Force, Pitchfork wrote, "Hear Positive Force...and you might believe you'd just jacked into the heart of a secret world powered by raw joy." Delicate Steve is currently working on their third official album, to be released by Luaka Bop.

Below you'll find the Positive Force bio, by Michael Azerrad ("Our Band Could Be Your Life"), along with Delicate Steve's tour itinerary. For more information, please visit www.delicatesteve.com.

Delicate Steve Spring 2015 Tour

March 13 Philadelphia, PA Milkboy

March 14 Baltimore, MD Metro Gallery

March 15 Raleigh, NC Kings Barcade

March 16 Atlanta, GA 529

March 17 Baton Rouge, LA Spanish Moon

March 18 Austin, TX SXSW - Panache Boat Party

March 19 Austin, TX SXSW - Psych Fest Day Party

March 20 Austin, TX SXSW - Panache Showcase

March 21 Austin, TX SXSW - Do512 Day Party

March 22 Fort Worth, TX Shipping and Receiving

March 23 Albuquerque, NM Sister Bar

March 24 Denver, CO Hi Dive

March 25 Colorado Springs, CO Colorado College Pig Roast

March 27 Boise, ID Treefort Music Festival

March 30 Omaha, NE Reverb Lounge

March 31 Iowa City, IA Mission Creek Music Festival

April 1 Chicago, IL Beat Kitchen

April 2 Pittsburgh, PA Thunderbird Café

April 23 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Bowl

April 24 Los Angeles, CA Bootleg Theatre HiFi

April 25 Claremont, CA Pitzer College Music Festival

April 27 San Francisco, CA The Independent

April 30 Portsmouth, NH The Press Room

May 1 Montreal, QUE Casa del Popolo

May 2 Allston, MA The Great Scott

May 3 Winooski, VT Walking Windows Festival

PHOTO BY ROBERT SCHEUERMAN