Swing South: The Thermals

Portland's The Thermals are launching their east coast tour today, right smack in Orlando. Past Lives are joining them, whose stuff I've enjoyed recently.

Maybe The Thermals will throw in their new tune, "Separate" into the set list. Listen to it on their MySpace.

That track is featured on a split with The Cribs to be released on Record Store Day, April 20.

The new album is supposed to appear this fall--a project they're working on with Chris Walla.

Tour dates with southeast dates in bold are after the jump...



April 2010 EAST COAST US

07 -- Orlando, FL @ Social #
08 -- Tallahassee, FL @ Club Downunder #
09 -- Gainesville, FL @ University of Florida - Rion Ballroom #
10 -- St Augustine, FL @ Cafe Eleven #
12 -- Wilmington, NC @ The Soapbox Laundrolounge #
13 -- Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle #
14 -- Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern #
15 -- Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church #
16 -- Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar #
17 -- Hamden, CT @ The Space #
18 -- Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East #
20 -- Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bowl #
21 -- Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bowl #



More after the jump...

Thaw out w/ The Thermals: in DC, Chapel Hill, Charleston & more

Haven't heard The Thermals new one, Now We Can See out on Kill Rock Stars, but I always enjoy their albums. They only seem to care about their excellent form of punk rock and don't care if the indie kids or the punk kids like them, but only if their music is thought inducing and artistically freakin' amazing. If social critique and punk rock still go together, then The Thermals are churning it out more than any screamo band would ever attempt. But according to the Kill Rock Stars write-up, maybe they've moved past all of that this time. But no matter. The Thermals have this feel that no matter what they do, how big they get, they seem authentic. Summer is a great time for The Thermals--their whole sound exclaims "action" and "dance" and "possibly mosh" rather than the sit-still modus operandi of the long harsh winters. Catch them as they swing down South, w/ a vid from SXSW after the jump.

May 13 2009 8:00P Black Cat (All Ages) Washington DC, Washington DC
May 14 2009 8:00P Local 506 (18+) Chapel Hill, North Carolina
May 15 2009 8:00P The Pourhouse (21+) Charleston, South Carolina
May 16 2009 8:00P Masquerade (All Ages) Atlanta, Georgia
May 18 2009 8:00P Bottle Tree (18+) Birmingham, Alabama
May 19 2009 8:00P Hi Tone Cafe (All Ages) Memphis, Tennessee
May 20 2009 8:00P Revolution Music Room (All Ages) Little Rock, Arkansas

More after the jump...