Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Rain Machine on tour

Kyp Malone's acclaimed new solo project Rain Machine is currently on tour getting rave reviews. Known for his work fronting celebrated Brooklyn art-dance ensemble TV on Radio, Malone's new endeavor is a boundary pushing yet soulful amalgamation of musical styles crystallized by his distinctive and provocative lyrical imagery and voice.

British publication NME said of a recent Rain Machine performance: "Kyp Malone's new project surpasses even his day job band for sheer inventiveness... It's undoubtedly one of the most wildly inventive and entertaining things anyone will hear all year." The Wall Street Journal remarked of the same show: "... despite the smaller band, the music musters the same swells and rising action that characterizes his better-known band. When they played a complicated song called "Give Blood," the crowd responded with noise and dance, expecting a subdued solo performance. Instead, the audience found itself a few feet away from a sound that would otherwise belong on a stage set for thousands."

Rain Machine will begin a North American tour opening for seminal indie rock band The Pixies beginning this November.

Rain Machine Headlining Dates
Oct 12 40 Watt Club Athens, GA
Oct 13 The Earl, Atlanta, GA
Oct 15 Annex, Madison, WI
Oct 25 Black Cat, Oct 16 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN
Oct 17 Double Door, Chicago, IL
Oct 18 Magic Stick, Detroit, MI
Oct 22 Middle East, Cambridge, MA
Oct 23 Johnny Brendas, Philadelphia, PA
Oct 24 Bowery Ballroom, NYC
Oct 25 Washington, DC

Rain Machine Dates (with The Pixies)
Nov. 6 Hollywood Palladium, L.A. CA
Nov. 8 Fox Oakland Theater, Oakland, CANov. 12 Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA
Nov. 14 Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene, OR
Nov. 25 Hammerstein Ballroom, NY NY
Nov. 28 Wanger Center for the Performing Arts, Boston, MA

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