Shakey Graves Announces Fall 2018 Tour Featuring Twin Peaks and The Wild Reeds

Shakey Graves announces international dates for The Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour for Fall 2018, with special guests Twin Peaks and The Wild Reeds. Future dates also include support from Jose Gonzalez & The Brite Lites, Rayland Baxter, The Aces, And The Kids, Jonathan Terrell, Lauren Ruth Ward, and Paul Cauthen. Shakey Graves' new album Can't Wake Upwas released on Friday via Dualtone Records.

From one moment to the next, Can't Wake Up veers from the inevitable to the revelatory, its thirteen songs teeming with jarring musical and thematic collisions and thrillingly seamless intersections, gnarly psychological hornswoggles and ecstatic resolutions. Central to the prevailing sense of disorientation are the lead vocals, none of which is purely solo. Instead, each lead performance is shadowed by a queasy harmony or slightly out-of-sync unison part, giving the sense-especially on headphones-that these voices are emanating from inside the listener's head.

"Armed with new instruments and a lifetime of dreams, he forgoes his boot-stomping, cheeky folk for a sound that fluctuates between finely-tuned rock and full-band pop," comments NPR's Nina Corcoran. "Alejandro Rose-Garcia pulls it off in large part due to his storytelling prowess; these songs would be welcoming, even enthralling, in any style."

"I've never worked like this before, but I went into the record with the idea of having a thesis statement of what I wanted to get across," Rose-Garcia explains. "And the place that I got at was that I wanted it to be vaguely Wizard of Oz-themed, and I wanted it to be hectic and a little uncomfortable, like what I refer to as the Big Five Disney cartoons: Pinocchio, Fantasia, Snow White, Dumbo andBambi. All those movies are terrifying-some of the most stressful movies I've ever seen. So I started with this Wizard of Oz thing-'Tin Man' that has obvious allusions to that-and the idea of black-and-white to color."

Shakey Graves is currently on the start of his first headlining tour this year with sold out shows in Brooklyn, Boston, DC, Philadelphia, Toronto, Chicago and others, climaxing with a show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison (Denver, CO). Festival dates include performances at BottleRock, Sasquatch, Arroyo Seco Weekend, Newport Folk Festival, Pickathon, and Austin City Limits Music Festival. The Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour for Fall 2018 commences in August, hitting NYC, Chicago, Nashville, Atlanta and more in the US before continuing on through Europe. Tickets for US dates go on sale Friday, May 11 at 10:00am local time. UK/EU tickets are on sale Friday, May 11 at 10:00am BST / 11am European Time. For more information and concert tickets, visitshakeygraves.com.

TOUR DATES:

May 8 - Athens, GA - Georgia Theatre *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT

May 9 - Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT

May 10 - Charlottesville, VA - Jefferson Theater *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT

May 11 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT

May 12 - South Burlington, VT - Higher Ground Ballroom *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT

May 13 - Boston, MA - Royale *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT

May 15 - Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT

May 16 - Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT

May 17 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT

May 19 - Toronto, ON - Massey Hall *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT

May 20 - Montreal, QC - Corona Theatre *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT

May 21 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre *with And The Kids

May 22 - Chicago, IL - The Vic Theatre *with And The Kids *SOLD OUT

May 25 - Napa, CA - Bottlerock

May 26 - George, WA - Sasquatch

May 27 - San Francisco, CA - August Hall *with The Aces *SOLD OUT

June 15 - Waco, TX - Brazos Nights Concert Series *with Paul Cauthen

June 16 - Austin, TX - Stubb's Bar-B-Q *with Jonathan Terrell

June 20 - Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theatre *with Lauren Ruth Ward

June 21 - Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren *with Lauren Ruth Ward

June 23 - Pasadena, CA - Arroyo Seco Weekend

June 24 - San Diego, CA - The Observatory North Park *SOLD OUT

June 27 - Oklahoma City, OK - Tower Theater *with Paul Cauthen

June 28 - Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom *with Paul Cauthen

June 29 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall *with Paul Cauthen

June 30 - Dallas, TX - The Bomb Factory *with Paul Cauthen

July 28 - Newport, RI - Newport Folk Festival

July 31 - Washburn, WI - Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua

August 3-5 - Kaslo, BC - Kaslo Jazz Etc Festival

August 4-5 - Happy Valley, OR - Pickathon

August 7 - Bend, OR - Oregon Spirit Distillery +

August 10 - Regina, SK - Regina Folk Fest

August 21 - Santa Fe, NM - Meow Wolf +

August 22 - Santa Fe, NM - Meow Wolf +

August 24 - Salt Lake City, UT - Red Butte Garden *with Jose Gonzalez & The Brite Lites, Rayland Baxter*SOLD OUT

August 25 - Missoula, MT - Big Sky Amphitheatre *with Jose Gonzalez & The Brite Lites, Rayland Baxter

August 26 - Spokane, WA - Knitting Factory *with Jose Gonzalez & The Brite Lites, Rayland Baxter *SOLD OUT

August 27 - Spokane, WA Knitting Factory *with Jose Gonzalez & The Brite Lites, Rayland Baxter

August 28 - Boise, ID - Knitting Factory *with Jose Gonzalez & The Brite Lites, Rayland Baxter *SOLD OUT

August 30 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre *with Jose Gonzalez & The Brite Lites, Twin Peaks

August 31 - Kansas City, MO - The Truman + *with Twin Peaks

September 1 - Omaha, NE - Sokol Auditorium + *with Twin Peaks

September 2 - Des Moines, IA - Simon Estes Amphitheater + *with Twin Peaks

September 16 - Raleigh, NC - The Ritz +

September 18 - Philadelphia, PA - The Fillmore + *with The Wild Reeds

September 19 - Boston, MA - House of Blues + *with The Wild Reeds

September 22 - New York, NY - Terminal 5 + *with The Wild Reeds

September 24 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE + *with The Wild Reeds

September 25 - Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall + *with The Wild Reeds

September 26 - Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre + *with The Wild Reeds

September 28 - Madison, WI - The Sylvee + *with The Wild Reeds

September 29 - St. Paul, MN - Palace Theatre + *with The Wild Reeds

September 30 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant + *with The Wild Reeds

October 2 - Louisville, KY - Louisville Palace + *with The Wild Reeds

October 3 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium + *with The Wild Reeds

October 4 - Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle + *with The Wild Reeds

October 5 - Birmingham, AL - Iron City Birmingham + *with The Wild Reeds

October 5-7 - Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Music Festival

October 12-14 - Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Music Festival

October 29 - Utrecht, Netherlands - TivoliVendenburg Ronda +

October 30 - Cologne, Germany - Kulturkirche +

October 31 - Brussels, Belgium - Botanique +

November 2 - Copenhagen, Denmark - ALICE +

November 3 - Groningen, Netherlands - Take Root +

November 4 - Berlin, Germany - Heimathafen +

November 5 - Hamburg, Germany - Gruenspan +

November 7 - Vienna, Austria - Flex +

November 8 - Munich, Germany - Freiheiz +

November 9 - Solothurn, Switzerland - Kulturfabrik Kofmehl +

November 10 - Paris, France - La Maroquinerie +

November 12 - Manchester, UK - o2 Academy 2 +

November 13 - London, UK - Koko +

November 14 - Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club +

November 15 - Glasgow, UK - SWG 3 +

November 16 - Dublin, Ireland - Vicar Street +
November 17 - Belfast, UK - Elmwood Hall +

+ newly added for The Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour Tour

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