Wolfmother Confirms US Tour Dates

Wolfmother Confirms US Tour Dates

Announces Two New Releases Coming at You 2006

NEW YORK, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Pick up your pen and take note: Wolfmother have just nailed down US tour dates supporting their forthcoming EP, Dimensions (Modular) out 1/31 and debut LP, Wolfmother (Modular/Interscope) out 5/2.

Myles Heskett, Chris Ross and Andrew Stockdaleare the key holders to all things Wolf ... they write their songs jointly while contributing drums, bass/keyboards and guitar/vocals respectively.

According to the latest edition of UK music bible NME, Wolfmother are "Australia's most 'fro'd up and best new band." After years of anonymous jamming, the Sydney based trio finally emerged from their caves in early 2004. The ink started flowing and fans starting showing when they released their debut, self-recorded, EP later that year. Since then they've cut their teeth on the road in Australia, the UK and the US. When it comes to the stage, Wolfmother are already pros -- and it shows.

WOLFMOTHER'S new EP, Dimensions, is a fusion of freaked-out jamming, delicate melodies and gallant rock riffage. The result: a big damn beast of a sound that's out stateside on January 31. Their forthcoming self-titled debut full-length, Wolfmother, will follow in May. The disc has already made a splash in the band's homeland, winning the Album of the Year award from Australia's national alternative radio network, Triple J, going top five and quickly being certified platinum. It's now high time for the threesome's debut to make more star-spangled news.

The new EP and the album are both drawn from the same sessions that happened in LA last summer with producer Dave Sardy (Dandy Warhols, Oasis, Autolux, Jet, Helmet.)

The process began with six weeks of rehearsals in an old abandoned Hollywood recording studio called Cherokee where Pink Floyd had recorded "The Wall." Full of fish tacos, the hoard then moved their operation o'er to the legendary studio, Sound City (birthplace of Nevermind and Rumours) and sunk their teeth into actual recording. In just two weeks there the Wolfies captured the live-style backbone of reckless abandon and glorious imperfection and bottled it up for Wolfmother. Several weeks of tweaking and pinball playing then followed elsewhere before all was declared "done."

The album is full of simple philosophies for complex times; there's a getaway factor at play, thematic escapist imagery taking you away. The Wolfies deliver love and parallel dimensions through a lava lamp haze, but this is no exercise in parody. This is the real shit.

The band will personally accompany their US EP release with a tour -- straight off their keynote performance at Australia's legendary Big Day Out festival in January.

WOLFMOTHER -- ON THE ROAD (More Dates TBA)

1/20: Auckland Big Day Out

1/26: Sydney Big Day Out

1/29: Melbourne Big Day Out

2/3: Adelaide Big Day Out

2/5: Perth Big Day Out

2/10: Seattle, WA Chop Suey-Franki Chan Party

2/11: San Francisco, CA Popscene

2/13: Silverlake, CA Spaceland

2/14: Los Angeles, CA Cinespace

2/16: Chicago, IL The Empty Bottle

2/17: Toronto, Ontario Drake Hotel

2/19: Brooklyn, NY North Six

2/20: New York City Mercury Lounge

2/24: London, UK Hammersmith Palais (NME show)

2/25 Oxford, UK Zodiac

2/26 Leeds, UK Cockpit

2/27 Nottingham, UK Rescue Rooms

3/2 Liverpool, UK Academy

3/3 Newcastle, UK Academy

3/4 Glasgow, UK King Tuts

3/5 Manchester, UK Roundhouse

3/7 London, UK La Scala

3/14-3/19: Austin, TX SXSW

"If you want to be rocked so hard that your teeth shatter, your eardrums prolapse and you vomit limited edition Black Sabbath vinyl then Wolfmother are the band for you."

NME

"From start to finish Wolfmother's debut album is the perilous knapsack journey by three men over craggy mountains to rock Bethlehem ... they make you want to pick up an instrument and thrash yourself into a frenzy. Play it loud and howl."

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

"From the lyrical imagery to the pounding riffs, there's no doubt where Wolfmother are coming from. Our time machine travels back (to) ... the dawn of heavy metal."

ROLLING STONE

"(Wolfmother's debut EP) ripples with chords of classic rock

spirit -- sweet and surly melodies ... Their style is fluid and their tune changes effortlessly, with refreshing currents of energy."

ANTHEM

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Source: Interscope Records

CONTACT: National Press, Jennie Boddy, +1-212-841-8023, or fax,
+1-212-841-8050, jennie.boddy@umusic.com, or Regional/Tour Press, Michael
Glumac, +1-212-841-8052, michael.glumac@umusic.com, both of Interscope
Records; or Jen Amadio of Modular, +1-917-546-6921, jen@modularpeople.com

Web site: http://www.wolfmother.com/

Web site: http://www.modularpeople.com/

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