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The Blow released their new album, playing NYC this week before tour (updated dates)

The Blow

It was a long time between albums, but Khaela Maricich returned this year with her first new album as The Blow since 2007. The self-titled album has all The Blow trademarks: minimally produced, highly melodic electropop with Maricich’s twisty wordplay (and cool delivery) upfront. You can stream it at Spotify.

Seeing The Blow live is almost another experience entirely, part performance art where Maricich is capable of making a very intimate connection with the audience, often without aid of a band. (The Blow is now a duo, however, with Melissa Dyne being the other half.) The Blow’s tour starts this weekend in Boston and heads West before circling back to wrap up in NYC at Music Hall of Williamsburg on November 10 with Austin’s Love Inks. Tickets for the NYC show are still available.

Before the tour officially starts, The Blow will play in NYC on Wednesday (10/9) at The Kitchen as part of their Synth Nights series. Also on the bill are UK duo Big Legs, and Sexual Energies. Says Maricich, “It will be a short performance on our part, a
chance to see an incarnation of what we are up to before it changes a
bunch while we are out on the road.” Tickets to Synth Nights are on sale now.

Updated tour dates are listed below…

The Blow – 2013 Tour Dates
10/09 NYC The Kitchen
10/11 Boston MA Museum of Fine Arts
10/13 Cleveland OH Grog Shop
10/14 Chicago IL Lincoln Hall
10/15 Minneapolis MN Cedar Cultural Center
10/17 Denver CO Walnut Room
10/18 Salt Lake City UT Kilby Court
10/19 Nampa ID Flying M
10/20 Portland OR Dour Fir
10/21 Seattle WA Neumos
10/22 Bellingham WA Wild Buffalo
10/23 Vancouver BC Electric Owl
10/25 San Francisco CA Bottom of The Hill
10/27 Santa Ana CA Constellation Room
10/28 Los Angeles Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
10/29 San Diego CA Casbah
10/30 Phoenix AZ Rhythm Room
11/01 Denton TX Rubber GLoves
11/02 Austin TX Red 7
11/04 Birmingham AL Bottletree
11/05 Atlanta GA The Earl
11/06 Chapel Hill NC Local 506
11/08 Washington DC Black Cat
11/09 Philadelphia PA First Unitarian
11/10 Brooklyn NY Music Hall of Wburg