Thao & The Get Down Stay Down to Tour with The Head and The Heart This Fall, Play Pier 84 7/25

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down will tour with The Head And The Heart throughout the fall in support of their critically acclaimed new album WE THE COMMON (out now on Ribbon Music). The fall tour extends a run of North American dates which includes performances at the Austin City Limits Festival, Bumbershoot, Outside Lands, Mumford & Sons' Gentlemen of the Road Stopover and a free show at NYC's Pier 84 with Foxygen. SF Weekly praises Thao's live show, noting that "Nguyen exploded with energy," while Guitar World calls the group's show "electrifying."

TOUR SCHEDULE
* with Foxygen
† with The Head And The Heart
‡ with Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes, The Walkmen and Willy Mason
July 24 Ithaca, NY The Haunt
July 25 New York, NY RiverRocks (Pier 84)*
July 26 Baltimore, MD Ottobar
July 27 Millvale, PA Mr. Small's Theatre
July 28 Charleston, WV Mountain Stage/Culture Center Theater
July 30 Green Bay, WI Meyer Theatre
August 10 San Francisco, CA Outside Lands
August 16 Milwaukee, WI Lebowski Fest
August 17 Omaha, NE Maha Music Festival
August 18 St. Louis, MO Off Broadway
August 19 Columbia, MO Mojo's
August 20 Indianapolis, IN Deluxe at Old National Centre
August 21 Detroit, MI Majestic Café
August 22 Cincinnati, OH Taft Theatre
August 23 Nashville, TN Exit/In
August 24 Columbus, OH CD 102.5 Summerfest
August 31 Seattle, WA Bumbershoot Festival
September 6 Eugene, OR Sam Bond's Garage
September 7 Portland, OR Pioneer Courthouse Sq.†
September 13 St. Augustine, FL Gentlemen of the Road Stopover‡
September 21 Canton, MA Life is Good Music Festival
October 5 Austin, TX Austin City Limits Festival
October 6 Santa Monica, CA Way Over Yonder
October 11 Austin, TX Austin City Limits Festival
October 21 Asheville, NC Orange Peel†
October 25 Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre†
October 26-27 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue†
October 28 Madison, WI Orpheum Theatre†
October 29 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre†
October 31 Toronto, ON Danforth Music Hall†
November 4 Washington, DC 9:30 Club†
November 8-9 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer†
November 10 Raleigh, NC The Ritz Theatre†
November 12 Atlanta, GA Buckhead Theatre†
November 13 New Orleans, LA Tipitina's†
November 14 Houston, TX Warehouse Live†

Recorded at San Francisco's Tiny Telephone Studios and Dallas' Elmwood Studio, WE THE COMMON was produced by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Bill Callahan, the Walkmen, Explosions in the Sky). Thao observes, "WE THE COMMON is an album about wanting to be a human who tries and is grateful for the opportunity. It is about wanting to be better and closer to people. I have had over a year respite from touring and recording-in this year I started really trying to be a part of the community I live in and the family I was born into." The album is the follow-up to Thao's 2009 release KNOW BETTER LEARN FASTER, which Pitchfork praised for its "warm exuberance that keeps the music spry."

Based in San Francisco after growing up in Falls Church, VA, Thao Nguyen first picked up a guitar at age 12. She has worked with a long list of acclaimed artists including Andrew Bird, Mirah, Laura Veirs and producer Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens) and has recorded a pair of critically acclaimed records for Kill Rock Stars, 2008's WE BRAVE BEE STINGS AND ALL and the aforementioned 2009 release KNOW BETTER LEARN FASTER, with her backing band The Get Down Stay Down. Since 2009 Thao has worked with the artist advocacy non-profit Air Traffic Control (www.atctower.net) and has volunteered extensively with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. Last year, in addition to recording her latest album, Thao has toured the U.S. with the nationally syndicated NPR program "Radiolab."