The Shrine and Graveyard to team up for monthlong U.S. tour
“Destroyers of Rock ‘n’ Roll” The Shrine have announced a winter 2013 U.S. tour. The bad ass band will team up with retro rockers Graveyard for a four week trek that will launch on January 23 in Boston, MA and will fire up crowds across the country through February 23 in Houston, TX. The Shrine continues to tour in support of their critically acclaimed new album Primitive Blast, released this past summer via Tee Pee Records.
In celebration of the just-announced jaunt, The Shrine will issue a limited edition tour-only vinyl 7″ release which will include the new songs “Napalm” and “Hellride”. Today, ESPN premieres the ripping “Napalm” AND a brand new Scion A/V-produced video interview with the band and original Black Flag bass player (and utter legend) Chuck Dukowski, who has long championed the California trio.
The Shrine / Graveyard U.S. Tour Dates:
January 23 Boston, MA Royal Boston
January 24 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts
January 25 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
January 26 Washington, D.C. Black Cat
January 27 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
January 29 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel
January 30 Nashville, TN Exit/In
January 31 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
February 1 Memphis, TN The Hi-Tone Café
February 2 St. Louis, MO The Firebird
February 4 Detroit, MI The Shelter
February 5 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
February 6 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
February 8 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
February 9 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
February 11 Spokane, WA The A Club
February 12 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom
February 13 Seattle, WA Neumos (* The Devil’s Blood and Royal Thunder also appear)
February 15 San Francisco, CA Slim’s
February 16 San Francisco, CA Slim’s
February 17 Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theatre
February 18 San Diego, CA The Casbah
February 19 Phoenix, AZ Crescent Ballroom
February 21 Austin, TX Emo’s East
February 22 Dallas, TX Granada Theater
February 23 Houston, TX Fitzgerald’s (* The Devil’s Blood and Royal Thunder also appear)
The Shrine’s Primitive Blast has met to rave review since its release, being called “collision of ’70s headiness and ’80s hardcore angst” by the LA Weekly. SPIN says THE SHRINE are “Shit-kicking SoCal pool-skaters (that) bridge Black Flag and Sabbath via Cro-Mag hooks and high energy sludge” and the band was just spotlighted as part of the Converse x Decibel series “talking rock and skateboarding” as they turn “found space and hideous architecture into skate heaven. The Shrine are the real deal, folks.
“Although they draw from multiple genres, The Shrine defies the categories of metal or punk, thrash or doom, creating a sound uniquely their own, which they’ve christened “psychedelic violence.” One of the first to recognize and help foster their sound was none other than original Black Flag bass player and co-owner of SST Records, the legendary Chuck Dukowski…heavy, hilarious, fast and loud” – ESPN
“‘Primitive Blast’ is packed with three-minute bursts of stoner rock riffage and ’80s-style ax shredding, atop a whiplash rhythm section. The lyrics, howled by Landau through his shoulder-length hair, alternate between heavy-metal ominous and party-on anthemic.” – Venice Mar-Vista Patch
“Primitive Blast finds The Shrine ripping through blues-indebted hard rock/hardcore with great success. Sure, the style has been done plenty of times before (Bits of DNA come from Mudhoney, Black Sabbath, Big Business and definitely the Stooges) but this kind of music is too primal to deny.” – PUNK NEWS
“The Shrine plays music that, by design, gets to the point. There’s no filler here, there’s no pretense and no buildup, it’s just pure hardcore intensity, rage and passion all to be taken with a grain of salt of course. This is punk rock for the new vinyl generation. It’s crossover thrash played through Orange amps. This is what you should be listening to this summer when you hop your neighbors fence, drain their pool and skate the shit out of that motherfucker.” – HEAVY PLANET