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It's The New Up's EP release party for "Broken Machine," and the launch of a national tour that includes 25 dates in 30 days in 19 states and DC.
The New Up is celebrating the release of their new EP Broken Machine by taking their riveting show on the road. With an itinerary that includes 25 dates in 30 days in 19 states and DC, this rock/pop five-piece is launching their EP release tour in their San Francisco hometown on August 29 at Bottom of the Hill. The show also features local bands Vin Rouge and Excuses For Skipping, plus DJ Funkminsta Fulla will spin between sets.
Front and center in The New Up's sound is ES Pitcher's intoxicatingly liquid voice, which prompted Sacramento News & Review to call her "the bastard love child of Siouxsie Sioux and Karen O." Featuring Noah Reid on guitar, Hawk West on flute and automation, Jack McFadden on drums and Dain Dizazzo on bass, The New Up combines intelligent and uniquely catchy songs, polished chops and inspired musicianship in their captivating shows. In a live review, music critic Dennis Cook (Pitchfork, Signal to Noise, JamBase) called them "a post-Radiohead group, full of mutated pop hooks, absinthe guitars, smartly wrangled chaos and undisguised beauty and feeling. But, there's little in the way of influences, even Radiohead's, that you can pin down exactly... They have a vision for rock and the dedication of acolytes in chasing it down. What they've made is their own." Building on the success of their first cross-country tour in 2007, to celebrate the release of the band's sophomore studio album Palace of Industrial Hope, The New Up is performing in many new markets across the U.S. in support of Broken Machine.
Broken Machine features five of the 15 songs the band recorded in 2008, and is the first of three EPs to be released in the next 18 months. The EP was produced by The New Up and Jaimeson Durr, who engineered the band's well-received, self-released Palace of Industrial Hope (2007), recorded in part at San Francisco's famous Hyde Street Studios, and mastered by the legendary John Cuniberti, who also mastered Palace of Industrial Hope. Broken Machine will be available on major digital music retailers in August 2008, on http://www.thenewup.com and on http://www.myspace.com/thenewup. The New Up's digital catalog is represented exclusively by IRIS Distribution, one of the leading worldwide digital distribution and marketing companies for independent artists.
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