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The Shrine headlining Acheron during tour w/ Red Fang

by Doug Moore

The Shrine

LA’s The Shrine — not to be confused with King Khan’s backing band — have the whole vintage-costumed proto-metalrockpunk thing down pat, with a little more West Coast punk rock in the mix than many bands in the vein deploy. Fittingly, they toured with Graveyard last year, and they’re out on the road with the like-minded Red Fang and Indian Handcrafts right now. That tour hits NYC at Bowery Ballroom on 12/11 with Cancer Bats (tix), after which there’s a gap day in the tour’s schedule.

True to road-hungry form, The Shrine have filled that schedule gap with a one-off Brooklyn headlining show at the Acheron on December 12 (12/12). Local support will come from similarly backwards-looking acts Natur, Dirty Fences, and Iron Force, who are also playing an old-timey rock’n’roll revue with Valkyrie and Sinister Haze on Saturday (12/7). Tickets for the Shrine gig are available.

Check out some of The Shrine’s music and take a look at the remaining Red Fang tour dates, below…

Red Fang — 2013 Tour Dates
12/4 Austin, TX @ Red 7 w/ Indian Handcrafts*
12/5 Houston, TX @ Fitgerald’s Downtairs w/ Indian Handcrafts*
12/6 New Orleans, LA @ Siberia w/ Indian Handcrafts*
12/7 Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn w/ Indian Handcrafts*
12/8 Raleigh, NC @ Kings Barcade w/ Indian Handcrafts*
12/9 Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts w/ Cancer Bats, Indian Handcrafts*
12/10 Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East w/ Cancer Bats, Indian Handcrafts*
12/11 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom w/Cancer Bats, Indian Handcrafts*
12/13 Montreal, QC @ Cabaret Mile End w/ Cancer Bats, Indian Handcrafts*
12/14 Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace w/ Indian Handcrafts*
12/15 Detroit, MI @ The Shelter w/ Cancer Bats, Radkey*
12/16 Chicago, IL @ Logan Square Auditorium w/ Cancer Bats, Radkey*
12/17 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock w/ Radkey*
12/19 Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep w/ Radkey*

* – w/ The Shrine


The Shrine — 2013 Tour Dates
12/4 Austin, TX @ Red 7 w/ Indian Handcrafts*
12/5 Houston, TX @ Fitgerald’s Downtairs w/ Indian Handcrafts*
12/6 New Orleans, LA @ Siberia w/ Indian Handcrafts*
12/7 Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn w/ Indian Handcrafts*
12/8 Raleigh, NC @ Kings Barcade w/ Indian Handcrafts*
12/9 Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts w/ Cancer Bats, Indian Handcrafts*
12/10 Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East w/ Cancer Bats, Indian Handcrafts*
12/11 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom w/Cancer Bats, Indian Handcrafts*
12/12 Brooklyn, NY @ Acheron w/ Natur, Dirty Fences, Iron Force
12/13 Montreal, QC @ Cabaret Mile End w/ Cancer Bats, Indian Handcrafts*
12/14 Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace w/ Indian Handcrafts*
12/15 Detroit, MI @ The Shelter w/ Cancer Bats, Radkey*
12/16 Chicago, IL @ Logan Square Auditorium w/ Cancer Bats, Radkey*
12/17 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock w/ Radkey*
12/19 Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep w/ Radkey*

* – w/ Red Fang