Dine Alone Records is proud to announce a very special children’s book called Dine Alone’s ABC’s of Rock n’ Roll to round out the celebration of the label’s 10 year anniversary (#DA10year). The digital version will be available via iBooks HERE on December 24 just in time for the holidays, with a print version to be announced in the New Year. The book is illustrated by Ryan James Terry who is a Toronto based artist, illustrator and designer. Terry also created the wonderful illustration used on the recently released Dine Alone Lullabies album by Sparrow Sleeps. All net proceeds will be once again donated to SickKids Foundation to support the highest priority needs at the hospital so staff can continue to provide exceptional care. See below for a preview!
Over the course of a decade, Dine Alone’s mission has been rooted in uniting fans with one common purpose — an unconditional love of music. With many members of the Dine Alone family now starting families of their own, the journey into parenthood has triggered a desire to introduce younger generations to good old-fashioned rock and roll. The book features artists from the label’s award-winning catalogue including: Arkells, Alexisonfire, Attack in Black, Brendan Philip, BRONCHO, City and Colour, The Dirty Nil, FIDLAR, Grade, Hannah Georgas, k-os, Lucius, .moneen., Monster Truck, P!nk/Alecia Moore, Quicksand, The Sheepdogs, Tokyo Police Club, Vanessa Carlton, Walter Schreifels, and Yukon Blonde.
Check out examples of the beautifully illustrated book at these links: http://bit.ly/AisforAlexisonfire / http://bit.ly/BisforBroncho
Direct iBooks Link: http://geni.us/dinealoneABC
Donate to SickKids Foundation:
http://www.sickkidsfoundation.com/page/DineAloneRecords
Faith In The Future, the much-anticipated new record from The Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn is out today!
“Finn has plumbed similar territory in the past, but instead of redundant, it plays like the culmination of his obsession with Catholicism, as though he’s adding an epilogue to his previous spiritual inquiries.” – Pitchfork
Click here to download on iTunes / Google Play.
Click here to stream on Apple Music / Spotify / Rdio.
Craig Finn plays Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern October 17. Full tour dates listed below.
Crain Finn U.S. tour dates
10/14 – Woodstock, NY – Bearsville Theater
10/15 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
10/16 – Albany, NY – The Hollow
10/17 – Toronto, ON – The Horseshoe Tavern
10/19 – Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme
10/20 – Indianapolis, IN – The Hi-Fi
10/22 – Chicago, IL – Old Town School of Folk Music
10/23 – Milwaukee, WI – Cactus Club
10/24 – Minneapolis, MN – Woman’s Club Theater
10/25 – St. Paul, MN – Turf Club
10/26 – Rock Island, IL – Rozz Tox
10/28 – Kansas City, MO – The recordBar
10/29 – St. Louis, MO – Old Rock House
10/30 – Cincinnati, OH – The Ballroom at Taft Theater
10/31 – Pittsburgh, PA – Club Café
11/01 – Charleston, WV – Culture Center Theater
11/02 – Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel
11/03 – Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
11/04 – Philadelphia, PA – The Underground Arts
11/05 – Asbury Park, NJ – The Wonder Bar
11/06 – New York, NY – The Bowery Ballroom
11/28 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre (with My Morning Jacket)
Following summer festival performances at FYF, Sasquatch, Bonnaroo, and Firefly, the unstoppable BRONCHO have announced a headlining West Coast tour in November, including shows at San Francisco’s The Independent and Los Angeles’ Teragram Ballroom. BRONCHO will be supported by psychedelic pop singer Pearl Charles and LA rock-and-rollers The Shelters. The new tour will follow previously announced dates opening for The Growlers, as well as an appearance at Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest. These dates will mark BRONCHO’s final round of touring on their 2014 album Just Enough Hip To Be Woman before they begin work on their next record.
BRONCHO will also be making an appearance on Last Call With Carson Daly on September 18; the show will air a live set from the band filmed at their recent FYF Festival show, including their hit single “Class Historian.” Last Call airs at 1:35/12:35amc (NBC late night programming for evening of September 17).
2015 Tour Dates
bold = new dates w/ Pearl Charles & The Shelters
* w/ The Growlers
10/14 – Old Rock House – St. Louis, MO
10/15 – Bottleneck – Lawrence, KS
10/17 – Lincoln Hall – Chicago, IL
11/01 – Club Downunder – Tallahassee, FL*
11/02 – Crowbar – Tampa, FL*
11/03 – Culture Room – Fort Lauderdale, FL*
11/04 – Social – Orlando, FL*
11/05 – Loosey’s – Gainesville, FL*
11/06-08 – Fun Fun Fun Fest – Austin, TX
11/10 – Larimer Lounge – Denver, CO
11/11 – Urban Lounge – Salt Lake City, UT
11/12 – Neurolux – Boise, ID
11/13 – Tractor Tavern – Seattle, WA
11/14 – Cobalt – Vancouver, BC
11/15 – Mississippi Studios – Portland, OR
11/17 – Press Club – Sacramento, CA
11/18 – Independent – San Francisco, CA
11/19 – Teragram Ballroom – Los Angeles, CA
11/20 – Hideout – San Diego, CA
11/21 – Constellation Room – Santa Ana, CA
Vanessa Carlton has announced a fall tour in support of her much-anticipated NEW studio album, Liberman out October 23, 2015. Watch the album trailer and view complete tour dates below. Fans are now able to pre-order an autographed copy of Liberman (standard, deluxe) exclusively on Vanessa’s website that can be bundled with tickets to the upcoming tour, click here for more info.
Vanessa Carlton North American Tour Dates
Oct 30 Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar
Oct 31 Indianapolis, IN @ The Hi-Fi
Nov 01 Iowa City, IA @ The Englert Theatre
Nov 02 Green Bay, WI @ Meyer Theatre
Nov 04 Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center
Nov 05 Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
Nov 06 Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
Nov 07 St Louis, MO @ Duck Room at Blueberry Hill
Nov 09 Columbus, OH @ A&R Music Bar
Nov 10 Chicago, IL @ City Winery
Nov 11 Evanston, IL @ SPACE
Nov 13 Ann Arbor, MI @ The Blind Pig
Nov 14 Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe
Nov 15 Cleveland, OH @ Music Box Supper Club
Nov 17 London, Ontario @ London Music Hall
Nov 18 Toronto, Ontario @ Mod Club
Nov 20 Montreal, Quebec @ Lion d’Or
Nov 21 Ottawa, Ontario @ Mavericks
Nov 22 Appleton, Ontario @ North on 29
Nov 23 Hamilton, Ontario @ Molson Canadian Studio at Hamilton Place
Nov 30 New York, NY @ City Winery
Dec 01 New York, NY @ City Winery
Dec 03 Troy, NY @ Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
Dec 04 Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse Music Hall
Dec 05 Portland, ME @ Asylum
Dec 07 Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
Dec 08 Fairfield, CT @ StageOne
Dec 09 Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live
Dec 11 Washington, DC @ The Howard Theatre
Dec 12 Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern
Dec 14 Durham, NC @ The Carolina Theatre
Dec 15 Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
Dec 17 Nashville, TN @ 3rd & Lindsley
Dec 18 Birmingham, AL @ WorkPlay
Dec 19 Asheville, NC @ New Mountain Theatre
The Sheepdogs have announced details for a run of European tour dates, including a London headline show at Oslo on November 17, 2015. The 7 date run of shows will follow close on the tail of The Sheepdogs’ fifth album release, Future Nostalgia, out on October 2nd, 2015. Full dates listed below.
The highly-anticipated collection, mixed by Vance Powell (Jack White) in Nashville, brings the band back to their 70s-rock inspired roots and is the follow up to their self-titled, award-winning album in 2012 (produced by The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney). Fans can pre-order the album on iTunes HERE, and can also pre-order bundles including merch at www.thesheepdogs.com.
The Sheepdogs UK / European tour dates
17 November – LONDON – Oslo
19 November – BILBAO – Antzokia
20 November – MADRID – Caracol
21 November – BARCELONA – La Apolo 2
23 November – AMSTERDAM – Paradiso
24 November – PARIS – Point Ephemere
25 November – BERLIN – Magnet
FIDLAR‘s sophomore album, Too, is available now!
Download: http://geni.us/fidlartoo
Buy physical: http://smarturl.it/FIDLARstore
Stream: http://hyperurl.co/fidlartoo
“A big, dumb-smart, happy-sad, universally-specific beast of a record. 5/5.” – DIY
“In shedding the shackles of expectation, FIDLAR finally found their soul.” – Exclaim!
“‘40oz On Repeat’ may well be the best pop punk song since ‘What’s My Age Again'” – NME Magazine
k-os‘ triumphant sixth studio album, Can’t Fly Without Gravity is now available.
Download on iTunes / Google Play: http://geni.us/CFWG
Stream on Spotify, Rdio, Apple Music: http://hyperurl.co/CFWG
“Listening to the record is like being taken on a grand tour of the eras of hip-hop – like Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, he gives glimpses of the genre’s past, present, and future. For a rapper that’s always been on the cutting edge, it’s another testament to his celebration of experimentation.” – Consequence of Sound
Catch K-OS at X-Fest Calgary and Sonic Boom Fest this weekend!
Dine Alone Records is excited to announce the September 11 release of the highly anticipated sophomore solo album from Craig Finn titled Faith In The Future. Josh Kaufman produced the record in the cozy, rustic confines of Woodstock’s The Isokon recording studio and helped Finn stretch the boundaries of his songwriting with confidence, invention and ambition to realize what is shaping up to be a defining moment in Finn’s vast musical career which includes his work as the frontman of The Hold Steady. Get a sneak preview of the LP at Vulture.com
At times stark and spare, at other times vibrant and dynamic, Faith in the Future is Finn’s most compelling collection thus far, each song a powerfully alluring and subtly nuanced composition wedded to his distinctive short story narratives. Much of the material on Faith in the Future was written after the passing of Finn’s mother, and while none of the songs directly address that loss, the themes of perseverance and finding redemption can be found throughout the album.
“I had both the music and lyrics to these songs, though they changed a great deal in the studio,” Finn explains. “There’s a grandness to The Hold Steady that tends to make me write about bigger, more dramatic themes. Some of these songs are more mundane, with minor slices of life that wouldn’t best be supported by the hugeness of a rock group. It wasn’t always about what we wanted to put in, but what should we leave out? We didn’t want to sermonize or moralize. Just let these songs, and characters, be.”
Finn will be hitting the road in October for a U.S. tour that includes 2 performances in N.Y. at The Bowery Ballroom, and at Beacon Theatre with My Morning Jacket, as well as a Canadian date in Toronto at The Horseshoe Tavern on October 17. 2015. For more information on upcoming Craig Finn news, visit: https://www.facebook.com/CraigSteady
Craig Finn On Tour
10/14 – Woodstock, NY – Bearsville Theater
10/15 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
10/16 – Albany, NY – The Hollow
10/17 – Toronto, ON – The Horseshoe Tavern
10/19 – Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme
10/20 – Indianapolis, IN – The Hi-Fi
10/22 – Chicago, IL – Old Town School of Folk Music
10/23 – Milwaukee, WI – Cactus Club
10/24 – Minneapolis, MN – Woman’s Club Theater
10/25 – St. Paul, MN – Turf Club
10/26 – Rock Island, IL – Rozz Tox
10/28 – Kansas City, MO – The recordBar
10/29 – St. Louis, MO – Old Rock House
10/30 – Cincinnati, OH – The Ballroom at Taft Theater
10/31 – Pittsburgh, PA – Club Café
11/01 – Charleston, WV – Culture Center Theater
11/02 – Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel
11/03 – Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
11/04 – Philadelphia, PA – The Underground Arts
11/05 – Asbury Park, NJ – The Wonder Bar
11/06 – New York, NY – The Bowery Ballroom
11/28 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre (with My Morning Jacket)
From now until September 9th, we’ve got killer deals on in the DA10 webstore as well as the regular Dine Alone webstore to prep you for the school year ahead!
DA10 Webstore
– Posters are 15% off (get those dorm rooms / lockers lookin’ good)
– Patches are just $2 (decorate your fall jean jackets)
– FREE Miami Horror USB + Notebook with all orders (while quantities last!)
Dine Alone Store
– 15% discount store-wide! (discount code: DA15OFF)
Happy shopping!
Dine Alone Records are excited to announce they have signed Australia’s favourite fuzz punk trio Dune Rats. To celebrate the signing and Dunies’ upcoming tour with FIDLAR (all tour dates below), Dine Alone will release the Dune Rats s/t LP with 3 bonus tracks on September 4, 2015 in North America for the first time.
“Driven by bouncing major chords, the excellent ‘Funny Guy’ is how you’d imagine Mac DeMarco would sound in a punk band, and the campfire singalong ‘Lola’ sees these long-haired dudes successfully attempt to craft a lighters-aloft love song. Discovering Dune Rats’ hidden depths is a pleasure.” – NME
“..may well be the best summer anthem to be released in winter. Dune Rats is a punchy, unassuming statement of intent. No bullshit punk done well.” – Rolling Stone
“Dune Rats. Nirvana but fun. This guy just belched for 4 seconds into the mic “
– Courtney Taylor-Taylor – The Dandy Warhols
Dune Rats Tour Dates:
09/09 – Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater*
09/10 – Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck*
09/11 – Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews
09/12 – Sioux Falls, SD @ Icon Lounge
09/14 – Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater*
09/15 – Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room*
09/16 – Columbia, MO @ Mojo’s*
09/18 – Newport, KY @ Thompson House*
09/19 – Ferndale, MI @ The Loving Touch*
09/21 – Toronto, ON @ The Silver Dollar Room
09/22 – Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount*
09/24 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer*
09/26 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall*
09/27 – Trenton, NJ @ Mill Hill Basement
09/28 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat*
09/29 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle*
10/01 – Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor
10/02 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade – Hell*
10/03 – Gainesville, FL @ High Dive*
10/04 – St. Petersburg, FL @ The Bends
10/05 – Tallahassee, FL @ Club Downunder*
10/06 – New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks*
10/08 – Houston, TX @ The Studio at Warehouse Live*
10/09 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada*
10/10 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk
10/11 – San Antonio, TX @ Limelight
10/13 – Oklahoma City, OK @ 89th Street Collective*
10/15 – Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad*
10/16 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent Ballroom*
10/17 – San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park*
10/19 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex*
10/20 – Boise, ID @ Reef
10/22 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom*
10/23 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox*
10/24 – Vancouver, BC @ The Cobalt
10/27 – Sacramento, CA @ The Press Club
10/28 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s*
10/30 – Los Angeles, CA @ Regent Theatre*
10/31 – Los Angeles, CA @ Regent Theatre*
* = w/ FIDLAR
