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Revolver playing @ Schubas tomorrow night, & 2011 dates

DOWNLOAD: Revolver – Parallel Lives

Revolver‘s Music For a While LP cover via (Factoid Rose)
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Revolver is currently on their first-ever US tour, and tomorrow night they’ll be here in Chicago to play Schubas with Belle Brigade. Their debut LP Music For a While is out now in the US via Astralwerks. The French trio will finish up their tour, just in time to make their way down to Austin, TX for SXSW. Take a listen to their song “Parallel Lives” at the top of this post.

Revolver know what they like. They like the harmonies of the Beach Boys and Simon & Garfunkel, and the lyrical elegance and simplicity of Elliott Smith. They like the cello. They like Radiohead’s “15 Step”, specifically the fact that it was written in 5/4 time – ‘it’s quite free, that time-signature,’ they say. They like Henry Purcell, 17th century British Baroque composer and visionary, and John Dowland, the 16th century songwriter whose melancholy songs would, four centuries later, influence Benjamin Britten – another Revolver touchstone.

Revolver know who they are. They are three early twenty-something Parisians. Frenchmen with an abiding love and understanding of some of classical music’s greatest ever Englishmen. They are classically trained musicians who, like Radiohead, know how to turn rock inside out. Revolver are a French band named after a Beatles album singing in English. And with their debut record, Music For A While, produced by Julien Delfaud, they’ve created a beguiling, beautiful, hypnotic and proudly other slice of chamber-pop.

Tickets are still available ($10 each), this is definitely something you don’t want to miss.

All 2011 US tour dates, and their video for the song “Balulalow” are below…



“BALULALOW” ***NEW VIDEO***

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Revolver 2011 US Tour
March 4 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
March 5 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern
March 8 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
March 9 – Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey
March 11 – San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
March 12 – Los Angeles, CA @ Satelllite
March 14/20 Austin, TX – SXSW Festival