I’m very excited to share the news that there’s going to be a new Pernice Brothers album and some shows.
The album is called Spread the Feeling and it will be available on red translucent vinyl and digitally thru Ashmont Records on Sept. 9. Joe (Pernice) has assembled some amazing songs on this record, and I’d say that even if I didn’t play on three of them. There’s a song featuring guest vocals from Neko Case called “Devil and the Jinn” that is one of the best things Joe’s ever written - and I don’t even play on it!
I’ll be joining Joe for five shows in October, marking the first full-band Pernice Brothers full-length shows since December 2006 - a good seven months before anyone owned an iPhone. You’re probably looking at the tour dates on that poster image (it’s the album cover art, more great work from Joe’s much better half Laura Stein) and wondering “Why aren’t you playing (insert town here)?” We’re kind of testing the waters right now. If everything goes well with these dates, we’d definitely like to do more. In moderation. I don’t want to speak for anyone, but I don’t think it’s very likely you’ll see the Pernice Brothers hopping in the van for a seven-week tour like we were doing from 2003-2006.
And if you’re wondering why there’s no overseas dates (London and Dublin in particular were always very good to us), that’s because there’s no European label or booking agent at the moment. Hopefully that gets sorted out at some point.
More soon…
P.B.