We did a cover of The Cramps’ “TV Set” on Conan on Wednesday.You can get our studio recording of the song here: smarturl.it/SpoonTVSet
06/12/15 - Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall * - TICKETS06/13/15 - Covington, KY - Madison Theater - TICKETS06/14/15 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo - TICKETS06/16/15 - Brooklyn, NY - Kings Theatre * - SOLD OUT06/17/15 - Brooklyn, NY - The Wick * - SOLD OUT06/18/15 - Boston, MA - House of Blues % - TICKETS06/19/15 - Portland, ME - State Theater % - TICKETS06/20/15 - Dover, DE - Firefly - TICKETS06/22/15 - Montreal, QC - Virgin Corona Theatre * - TICKETS06/23/15 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Theatre * - TICKETS06/24/15 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Theatre * - TICKETS06/25/15 - Buffalo, NY - Canalside - FREE07/11/15 - Chicago, IL - Taste of Chicago - TICKETS07/17-18/15 - Eaux Claire, WI - Eaux Claires Festival - TICKETS8/28-30/15 - Sparta, KY - NiFi Festival - TICKETS09/18-20/15 - Del Mar, CA - KAABOO Festival - TICKETS9/25/15 - Tempe, AZ - Summer Ends - TICKETS
* with Antlers% with Viva Viva
“Inside Out” Remixes EP out now
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Chilled Children of the Net,
Damn we got news for you. We set up a booth at the Travis County swap meet and low and behold the homies Fabrizio Moretti (The Strokes), Dan Boeckner (Operators / Divine Fits / Wolf Parade), Brian Retizell (crazed film composer) and Tycho all came through and offered their services to remix our song Inside Out. You can find all those remixes on the line here: http://smarturl.it/InsideOutRmxEP.
Also, we’re releasing an actual physical 12" called I/O EP on July 24 which is gonna contain a couple remixes, a newly recorded version of the title track, and a heavy beat version of the song Love Letters. You can pre-order it from our limited stock on 12" orange vinyl now: http://spoon.kungfustore.com/
Speaking of Inside Out, we also want to give a shout out to the man named Justin Vernon of Bon Iver for making a cool cover vid of that tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_lSmHi98e8
In other internet news Britt was on WTF with Marc Maron last week and the homies at Song Exploder premiered the original piano demo for Inside Out. Check them:
http://bit.ly/WTFpodcast_Britthttp://bit.ly/SongExploder_Inside_Out_Demo
Also Britt and future Spoon tour-mates Sweet Spirit just days ago recorded a song called “Have Mercy” which is already out and you can hear it here.
And lastly, it seems like we just started but over the next couple months we’ll be wrapping up touring for the LP we called They Want My Soul. Here be the dates upon dates:
05/09/15 - Dallas, TX - Homegrown Festival - TICKETS05/15-17/15 - Gulf Shores, AL - Hangout Music Festival - TICKETS05/17/15 - Oklahoma City, OK - Diamond Ballroom # - TICKETS05/18/15 - Kansas City, MO - Midland # - TICKETS05/19/15 - Fargo, ND - Fargo Theatre # - TICKETS05/21/15 - Missoula, MT - The Wilma Theater # - TICKETS05/22/15 - Bend, OR - Les Schwab Amphitheater + - TICKETS05/23/15 - Quincy, WA - Sasquatch Festival - TICKETS05/24/15 -Vancouver, BC - Malkin Bowl ^ # - TICKETS05/25/15 - Spokane, WA - Knitting Factory # - TICKETS05/27/15 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks = - TICKETS05/29/15 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater # - TICKETS05/30/15 - Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern Theatre # - TICKETS06/01/15 - San Diego, CA - North Park Theatre # (SOLD OUT)06/02/15 - San Diego, CA - North Park Theatre # - TICKETS06/12/15 - Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall * - TICKETS06/13/15 - Covington, KY - Madison Theater - TICKETS06/14/15 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo - TICKETS06/16/15 - Brooklyn, NY - Kings Theatre * - TICKETS06/18/15 - Boston, MA - House of Blues % - TICKETS06/19/15 - Portland, ME - State Theater % - TICKETS06/20/15 - Dover, DE - Firefly - TICKETS06/22/15 - Montreal, QC - Virgin Corona Theatre * - TICKETS06/23/15 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Theatre * - TICKETS06/24/15 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Theatre * - TICKETS07/17-18/15 - Eaux Claire, WI - Eaux Claires Festival - TICKETS09/18-20/15 - Del Mar, CA - KAABOO Festival - TICKETS9/25/15 - Tempe, AZ - Summer Ends - TICKETS# with Sweet Spirit* with Antlers% with Viva Viva^ with Future Islands= with The Decemberists, Courtney Barnett+ with The Decemberists, The Districts
Knock knock – more shows ya hur it ere first:5/09/15 – Dallas, TX – Homegrown Festival5/15-17/15 – Gulf Shores, AL – Hangout Music Festival5/17/15 – Oklahoma City, OK – Diamond Ballroom5/18/15 – Kansas City, MO – Midland5/19/15 – Fargo, ND – Fargo Theatre5/21/15 – Missoula, MT – The Wilma Theater5/22/15 – Bend, OR – Les Schwab Amphitheater +5/23/15 – Quincy, WA – Sasquatch Festival5/24/15 –Vancouver, BC – Malkin Bowl ^5/25/15 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory5/27/15 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks *5/29/15 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater5/30/15 – Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern Theater6/01/15 – San Diego, CA – North Park Theatre6/11/15 – Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo6/12/15 – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall6/13/15 – Covington, KY – Madison Theater6/16/15 – Brooklyn, NY – Kings Theatre6/18/15 – Boston, MA – House of Blues6/19/15 – Portland, ME – State Theater^ co-headline with Future Islands* co-headline with The Decemberists, Courtney Barnett supporting+ co-headline with The Decemberists, The Districts supportingTix on sale Friday 2/13 at 10am local time: smarturl.it/eam2jj
Mike McCarthy’s Birthday - A Celebration of the Wizard
March 1, C-Boys Heart & Soul, Austin, TX
In 1999, not too long after getting dropped by Elektra, Spoon put together version 1 of the album that would eventually become Girls Can Tell. We’d recorded these songs ourselves, it was the first time we’d done so. And though the recordings were rudimentary, I was convinced that the new stuff had more soul, better lyrics, and more emotion than anything we’d done before. We made dupes and sent them out to whatever music people we could think of, hoping we’d get lucky and find a new label. I went to New York for the summer. Every couple of weeks I’d spend my lunch break in a phone booth in the lobby of the Marriott in Times Square talking to our manager or lawyer about which labels were definitely not interested in putting out an album by Spoon. There were only two people that I could point to who were into the new music, but luckily those two seemed to love it. One was Gerard Cosloy, who would later put the album out in Europe on his new label 12XU, and the other was a producer named Mike McCarthy.
I’d known Mike for a few years, though not well. Mike wasn’t a big fan of the records we’d made before but he did love the new recordings and said he thought they were the best thing we’d done. Mike came and stayed with me in my sublet above the Brooklyn Brewery in Williamsburg. He convinced me he had good taste by helping me make a loop of stomps and claps for an upcoming solo show that sounded just like “Baby Love” by the Supremes. I knew he was adamant about recording on tape, I knew he was obsessed with vintage gear and had an old-school approach to record making, and considering the direction of the songs on the record we were making (and his near-singular expression of interest in it) Mike seemed like a good match. Eventually we went back to Austin and Mike ended up producing the album with us – re-recording some and mixing the rest of the songs we’d worked on alone – and recording three new songs that would make the album finally feel whole: “Everything Hits At Once,” “Believing Is Art,” and “1020 AM.” Over the next 5 years he’d produce 3 more albums with us – Kill the Moonlight, Gimme Fiction and Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, and he’s also helped out on the two albums since.
The gist of this is to say that Mike helped turn some pretty amateur recordings into the first album that brought us any success, the first one that people really took to. And since then he’s played a major role in the creative output of Spoon as he has with so many other Austin bands – OBN IIIs, White Denim, Patty Griffin, Heartless Bastards, And You’ll Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Feral Future, A Giant Dog, Sweet Spirit, Sound Team, Fastball, Girl In A Coma, Stretford, 16 Deluxe, David Garza, and Crooked Bangs, to start. He’s a hidden gem of the Austin music world, and Austin music over the past 15 years couldn’t have been the same without him – there wouldn’t have been as many opportunities (certainly not for my band) or as many amazing sounding records without him. So on March 1, a few of the bands Mike has worked with are gonna put on a party to celebrate his birthday, with sets by Feral Future, Stephen Patterson of the White Rabbits, A Giant Dog, and some kind of combination of me playing with members of Trail of Dead and Sweet Spirit. If you see Mike between now and then, be sure and thank him for his many years of service the way you would a uniformed soldier and then please wish him a happy birthday. – Britt
Tickets are on sale here http://www.continentalclub.com/Austin/Confidential/boxoffice.html
My precious puppy children – new tour dates on sale Friday:12/07/14 – Boulder, CO – Fox Theater: bit.ly/1tFEMcn 12/08/14 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot: bit.ly/1t337qO 12/09/14 – Boise, ID – Knitting Factory: tktwb.tw/11YWF9L 12/15/14 – Tempe, AZ – Marquee Theatre: bit.ly/1FspUBi12/16/14 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater: bit.ly/1CMwLBr 12/17/14 – El Paso, TX – @Tricky Falls: bit.ly/1nxaPZa Already on sale:12/12/14 – San Diego, CA – San Diego Sports Arena: bit.ly/1x1AIQAxoxo spoon
If you couldn’t get tickets to our show tonight cause of that you don’t live in Oklahoma, or maybe even you just were like nah – newsflash, you can livestream it anyway on www.yahoo.com at 7pm PT.
You can stream us live tomorrow 10/15 via the website of www.Yahoo.com starting at 7pm PT here.
While journeying the net, yahoo.com brings you weather, current events, stock prices and Spoon in Stillwater, OK at the Tumbleweed Dancehall on 10/15. You can get ticketing info here.
Our new album They Want My Soul is streaming in its entirety at iTunes First Play
Here’s John “El Naranjo” Boehner’s favorite new video, it’s called “Do You,” and it’s off our new album They Want My Soul, out August 5th.