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Lower Dens album out now - MP3s & 2010 Tour Dates

DOWNLOAD: Lower Dens – Tea Lights (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Lower Dens – Hospice Gates (MP3)

Lower Dens

Twin-Hand Movement, the seriously good debut from Baltimore’s Lower Dens, fronted by guitarist Jana Hunter, came out earlier this week on Devendra Banhart’s Gnomonsong label. If you haven’t heard the record, the two songs above are a good examples of the textural, airy rock found on it. Everyone around here has been spending a lot of time with it.

Lower Dens formed in 2009, so they haven’t been a band long. And they’ve already managed to play NYC more than a few times, gigging at the WBAR-BQ back in April, opening for opened for Dan Deacon at Red Hook Park and visiting for the Northside Fest, to name a few.

With the album out, the band will add to that history with shows through September, which start after a hometown set at Whartscape this weekend. The first leg of that tour is with Brooklyn band Inoculist (led by Jana’s brother John), and that includes two NYC shows: August 4th at Glasslands with Gross Relations and Nightdogs (tickets are on sale) and August 5th at Cake Shop.

All tour dates and album info are below…

Lower Dens

‘Twin-Hand Movement’ tracklist
1. Blue & Silver
2. Tea Lights
3. A Dog’s Dick
4. Holy Water
5. I Get Nervous
6. Completely Golden
7. Plastic & Powder
8. Rosie
9. Truss Me
10. Hospice Gates
11. Two Cocks


Lower Dens – 2010 Tour Dates
7.25 Baltimore, MD Whartscape
8.01 Baltimore @ Metro Gallery*
8.02 Bethlehem, PA @ Secret Art Space*
8.03 Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie*
8.04 Brooklyn, NY @ Glasslands*
8.05 New York, NY Cake Shop*
8.06 Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse*
8.07 Brookline, MA @ BATV*
8.08 Winooski, VT @ The Monkey House*
8.09 Portland, ME @ The Apohadion*
8.10 Montreal, QC @ Casa Del Popolo*
8.11 Toronto, ON @ Kapisanan Phillipine Cultural Center*
8.12 Detroit, MI @ Majestic Cafe*
8.13 Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern*
8.14 Chicago, IL @ Hideout*
8.17 Madison, WI – Project Lodge
8.18 Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock Social Club
8.20 Iowa City, IA – The Mill
8.22 Lawrence, KS – The Jackpot Saloon
8.23 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
8.24 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
8.25 Nampa, ID – Flying M Coffee
8.26 Seattle, WA – Sunset Tavern
8.27 Vancouver, BC – Media Club
8.28 Olympia, WA – Northern
8.29 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
8.30 Sacramento, CA – The Fungarden
8.31 San Francisco, CA – Hotel Utah
9.02 Santa Cruz, CA – Crepe Place
9.03 San Diego, CA – Tin Can Alehouse
9.04 Los Angeles, CA – TBA
9.05 Pioneertown, CA – Pappy and Harriets
9.06 Phoenix, AZ -Trunk Space
9.09 Frisco, TX – Lochranns
9.10 Austin, TX – The Mohawk (outside)
9.11 Houston, TX – Mango’s
9.13 New Orleans, – Circle Bar
9.14 Tallahassee, FL – Club Downunder
9.15 Atlanta, GA – 529
9.16 Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506
* w/ Inoculist