Four Tet Announces New Tour

Billboard.com reports that Four Tet has announced tour dates that will kick off Friday in Las Vegas, spanning more than a month with shows across the United States.

The 26-date tour spans until June 3 at Rammer Jammer in Bluebell, Alabama, and includes sets at festivals including the Sasquatch Festival in George, Washington, and Lightning in a Bottle in Bradley, California, as well as notable venues such as Red Rocks in Morrison, Colorado.

The shows on May 6 at the Mezzanine in San Francisco and May 8 at San Diego's Music Box will be live sets, with the rest all DJ sets. The April 30 Los Angeles date is a special six-hour DJ night with Floating Points, Daphni, Madlib and Ben UFO.

Kieran Hebden, best known by the stage name Four Tet, is an English post-rock and electronic musician. Hebden first came to prominence as a member of the band Fridge before establishing himself as a solo artist.

Hebden's music originally eschewed the traditional pop song format in favour of a more abstract approach-his sound and melodies incorporate elements of hip hop, electronica, techno, jazz, grime and folk music with live instrumentation. His newer works are inspired heavily by house music.

Hebden has also remixed tracks by artists including Aphex Twin, Explosions in the Sky, Super Furry Animals, Radiohead, Ellie Goulding, Lana Del Rey, Manic Street Preachers, Sia and Black Sabbath, and has produced two albums by psychedelic improvisational group Sunburned Hand of the Man. Hebden's recent output includes a number of improvisational works with jazz drummer Steve Reid and collaborations with Burial and Thom Yorke.

Four Tet Tour Dates:

4/29 Las Vegas, NV - Further Future Festival
4/30 Los Angeles, CA - Shrine Expo Hall ***
5/01 Vancouver, BC - Commodore *
5/04 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom *
5/05 Arcata, CA - Arcata Theatre *
5/06 San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine *
5/07 Pioneertown, CA - Pappy and Harriets ^
5/08 San Diego, CA - Music Box ^
5/11 Phoenix, AZ - Monarch Theatre *
5/12 Mexico City, MX - Auditorio Blackberry *
5/13 Mayer, AZ - FORM: Arcosanti
5/14 Albuquerque, NM - Historic El Rey Theatre *
5/16 Austin, TX - Vulcan Gas Company *
5/17 Dallas, TX - Club Dada *
5/19 Minneapolis, MN - The Loft at Skyway Theatre *
5/20 Chicago, IL - The Mid *
5/21 Toronto, ON - CODA *
5/23 Montreal, QC - Piknic Electronik *
5/25 Boston, MA - Paradise %
5/26 Philadelphia, PA - 714 %
5/27 Washington, DC - U Street Music Hall %
5/28 Detroit, MI - Movement
5/29 Bradley, CA - Lightning In A Bottle
5/30 George, WA - Sasquatch
6/02 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks
6/03 Bluebell, AL - Rammer Jammer

* with Ben UFO
^ with Andy Stott, Ben UFO
% with Anthony Naples
*** with Madlib, Daphni, Floating Points, Ben UFO