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OBITS - new MP3, 2009 tour dates, some w/ ORPHAN

DOWNLOAD: Obits – Pine On (MP3)

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As previously mentioned, tickets are on sale for a March 27th Obits show at the Bell House with Lycaon Pictus, The Browns, and Rope. The show will celebrate the March 24th Sub Pop release of their new album, I Blame You.

“We’re not into innovation as a band,” says Froberg, who’s already done his fair share of innovating with Drive Like Jehu and Hot Snakes. “I think innovation is overrated and an overestimated quality. Anything that’s going to be original is going to happen without your control. Things that make your band sound like you, are things you wouldn’t be able to change anyway. We just go ahead and play the stuff we like, and we don’t worry about originality per se, because that takes care of itself.”

Produced by Geoff Sanoff, Eli Janney and Obits, I Blame You is the band’s debut full-length album.

Download track two, “Pine On” above. Full tracklist below.

Orphan is not playing the Brooklyn show, but they will play the five dates with Obits leading up to that one. Instead you can catch Orphan in NYC this Wedneday (tomorrow, 2/11) when they open for Warship and Goblin Cock at Highline Ballroom. All GC tour dates HERE. All Obits & Orphan dates below…

Obits – I Blame You
1. Widow of My Dreams
2. Pine On
3. Fake Kinkade
4. Two-Headed Coin
5. Run
6. I Blame You
7. Talking to the Dog
8. Light Sweet Crude
9. Lilies in the Street
10. SUD
11. Milk Cow Blues
12. Back and Forth

Obits – 2009 Tour Dates
March 15 Richmond, Virginia at Nara Sushi *
March 16 Chapel Hill, NC at LOCAL 506 *
March 17 Atlanta, GA at DRUNKEN UNICORN *
March 18 New Orleans, LA at ONE EYED JACKS *
March 19 Austin, TX Radio Room Sub Pop SXSW Showcase
March 20 Austin, TX Spiro’s WFMU SXSW Showcase
March 23 Memphis, TN at HI TONE CAFE *
March 24 Newport, KY at SOUTHGATE HOUSE *
March 27 Brooklyn, NY at THE BELL HOUSE (Record Release Show) with Lycaon Pictus, The Browns & Rope
April 3 Baltimore, MD at OTTOBAR
April 4 Harrisonburg, VA at CLEMENTINE CAFE (MACRoCk festival)
April 5 Washington, DC at BLACK CAT BACKSTAGE
May 15, Media Club, Vancouver Canada +
May 16, Neumos, Seattle WA +
May 17, Doug Fir Lounge, Portland OR +
May 20, Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco CA +
May 22, Spaceland, Los Angeles CA +
May 23, Casbah, San Diego CA +

* with Bear Hands & Orphan
+ with the Lights

Orphan – 2009 Tour Dates
Feb 11 – Highline Ballroom w/GOBLIN COCK & Warship New York, New York
Mar 15 – Nara Sushi w/OBITS Richmond, Virginia
Mar 16 – Local 506 w/OBITS & Bear Hands Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Mar 17 – Drunken Unicorn w/OBITS & Bear Hands Atlanta, Georgia
Mar 18 – One Eyed Jacks w/OBITS & Bear Hands New Orleans, Louisiana
Mar 19 – SXSW – Four Square Punk Austin, Texas
Mar 20 – SXSW – Headhunters Austin, Texas
Mar 21 – Rubber Gloves w/THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES Denton, Texas
Mar 23 – Hi Tone Cafe w/OBITS & Bear Hands Memphis, Tennessee
Mar 24 – Southgate House w/OBITS & Bear Hands Newport, Kentucky