In support of Tokyo Police Club’s upcoming North American tour with Weezer, Saddle
Creek Records and the MuseBox have teamed up to bring you the Tokyo Police Club
‘Graves’ Remix Contest, exclusively on MySpace.com. All contestants have to do is
go to Tokyo Police Club’s MySpace page at
http://www.myspace.com/tokyopoliceclub,
download the individual tracks from ‘Graves’ and submit their remix by Oct. 8th to tokyoremix@themusebox.net
The winner of the contest, will have their remix feature on Tokyo Police Club’s
MySpace player, as well as appear on an upcoming TPC/Saddle Creek release in the
near future.
Contest run dates are September 17th to October 8th.
http://www.myspace.com/tokyopoliceclub
http://www.themusebox.net
http://www.saddle-creek.com
TOKYO POLICE CLUB TOUR DATES:
SUPPORTING WEEZER:
Sep 23 Boston, MA Tsongas Arena
Sep 24 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
Sep 26 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Casino
Sep 27 Philadelphia, PA Susquehanna Center
Sep 29 Detroit, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills
Sep 30 Toronto, ON Air Canada Center
Oct 2 Chicago, IL All State Arena
Oct 3 St. Paul, MN Xcel Arena
Oct 5 Denver, CO Broomfield
Oct 7 Salt Lake City, UT E Center
Oct 9 Portland OR Memorial Coliseum
Oct 10 Vancouver, BC GM Place
Oct 11 Seattle, WA Key Arena
Oct 13 San Jose, CA Events Center
Oct 14 Los Angeles, CA The Forum
Oct 17 San Diego, CA Cox Arena
Oct 18 Phoenix, AZ Arizona State Fair
TOKYO POLICE CLUB will play live on MTV’s F’N MTV Friday, July 25, performing “Graves” from its acclaimed debut album Elephant Shell. TOKYO POLICE CLUB’s live performance on F’N MTV marks a logical progression from previous performers and obvious TPC peers Lil Wayne, Maroon 5 and Snoop Dogg, and will school the show’s audience as to why the Newmarket Ontario quartet is “poised to be the biggest Canadian export since Molson” (ROLLING STONE).
Prior to the F’N MTV live performance, TOKYO POLICE CLUB returns to its native Canada this weekend for the Summersonic and Rogers Picnic festivals, while the remainder of July and August finds the band making its way through Australia, Japan and London.
TOKYO POLICE CLUB will continue its relentless touring regimen with another string of U.S. dates beginning September 8 in Baltimore and featuring headline dates at the likes of Los Angeles’ Henry Fonda Theater, as well appearances at the Street Scene, Treasure Island and Voodoo Festivals.
TOKYO POLICE CLUB U.S. DATES FALL 2008
Sept 08 BALTIMORE MD OTTOBAR
Sept 10 ATHENS GA 40 WATT
Sept 12 AUSTIN TX EMOS
Sept 14 DENVER CO MONOLITH FESTIVAL
Sept 16 PHOENIX AZ BRICKHOUSE
Sept 18 LOS ANGELES CA HENRY FONDA THEATER
Sept 19 POMONA CA GLASSHOUSE
Sept 20 SAN DIEGO CA STREET SCENE
Sept 21 SAN FRANCISCO CA TREASURE ISLAND
Sept 26 OMAHA NE SLOWDOWN
Sept 29 LAWRENCE KS JACKPOT
Oct 25 NEW ORLEANS LA VOODOO FESTIVAL
TPC - In A Cave (live)
Although Tokyo Police Club is already embarked on a summer itinerary that includes Denmark, Japan, and Australia, the band has begun plotting a fall return to the US. In addition to previously announced appearances at the Monolith and Treasure Island Festivals in September, the band will headline the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles on September 18th, and New York’s Webster Hall on October 18th.
The band’s incessant touring is in support of their debut full length album Elephant Shell, which was released earlier this year by Saddle Creek Records. Elle called the album “a smart, furiously played, sugar-rush debut that sounds like it was inspired by Red Bull benders and unrequited love.” The Los Angeles Times seconded that emotion, describing the album as “like being in love for the first time, in musical form - that kind of rush.” Men’s Health also weighed in, calling Elephant Shell “an aural adrenaline rush, all the way.”
Finally, the band is teaming with the Lupus Foundation Of America to raise money for continued research of lupus, an incurable disease that affects over 1.5 million Americans. Tokyo Police Club’s cover of The Rentals’ song “Friends Of P” is streaming (and available for download if you’re clever) at FriendsofP.org, where visitors can make donations and possibly receive a limited-edition Friends Of P tote bag.
Confirmed US tour dates are below, stay tuned to TokyoPoliceClub.com for further tour announcements. For more info on the band’s upcoming tour dates and new album drop me a line, or contact Steve Martin and Eliot Wadsworth at Nasty Little Man.
7/24/08 – Los Angeles, CA – Hammer Museum (Indie 103 show)
9/14/08 – Morrison, CO – Monolith Festival @ Red Rocks
9/18/08 – Los Angeles, CA – Henry Fonda Theater
9/20/08 – San Diego, CA – Street Scene Festival
9/21/08 – San Francisco, CA – Treasure Island Music Festival
10/18/08 – New York, NY – Webster Hall
Check out the new Tokyo Police Club video for “In A Cave”. It was part of MTVU & Best Film On Campus’ “Breaking the Video” competition. TPC choose Olan Rogers and his cup on a string telephone idea to direct. We couldn’t be happier with the result!
Also, be sure to catch TPC on their remaining US/Canada tour dates!
TOUR:
Mon-May-12, Edmonton, AB, Starlite Room
Wed-May-14, Kelowna, BC, The Habitat
Fri-May-16, Vancouver, BC, The Plaza
Sat-May-17, Victoria, BC, Sugar Nightclub
Sun-May-18, Seattle, WA, Neumos
Mon-May-19, Portland, OR, Hawthorne Theatre
Thu-May-22, Denver, CO, Bluebird
Fri-May-23, Omaha, NE, Slowdown
Here’s a cool, new Tokyo Police Club remix for you done by Tom Campesinos! of Los Campesinos! The remix is featured on a brand new Tessellate 7 inch as well as the limited edition version of Elephant Shell. Check it out:
Tokyo Police Club - “Tessellate” Tom Campesinos! Remix
Video for the album version of “Tessellate:
GENERAL TPC LINKS:
http://www.myspace.com/tokyopol
Here it is! The first MP3 from the much anticipated Tokyo Police Club debut full length, Elephant Shell. The song is called “In A Cave”, and the album comes out April 22nd. See below for tour dates, these guys are not to be missed!!!
Tokyo Police Club - “In A Cave”
BIO:
Following on one of the most well received 16 minutes of music in recent history (2006’s A Lesson In Crime EP), Newmarket Ontario’s Tokyo Police Club will release a debut album entitled Elephant Shell, due out late April on Saddle Creek in North America and Memphis Industries in the UK.
Elephant Shell lands roughly a year and half after A Lesson In Crime (with last year’s Smith EP and “Your English Is Good” digi-single and a ton of touring also bridging the gap) and barely four years from the band’s 2005 formation. Not bad for four friends who learned to play during senior year in high school, later naming themselves for a nonsensical lyric from the song that would become track one on their first EP, which would in turn sell over 70,000 copies-probably about 69,000 more than they expected-and garner accolades from Entertainment Weekly (”We can hardly wait for the full length A-), Rolling Stone (”If only all young guitar bands were smart enough to rock out this fast, banging out seven first-rate mod-punk party starters in barely more than sixteen minutes”), Interview, Blender, Nylon and The New York Times among others.
If bassist/vocalist David Monks once described the band’s music as “wide-eyed post-punk with a tendency to get over excited-so much so that someone has to come and tell it to settle down,” Elephant Shell is the sound of four early-20-somethings now seasoned through hundreds of shows from tiny clubs to the festival throngs at Coachella and Glastonbury, maturing a bit and learning to temper and modulate their own more varied musical moods. Or maybe Canada’s socialized health care means easier access to generic Ritalin and Adderall?
Either way, Elephant Shell delivers on every bit of promise in Tokyo Police Club’s rapid-fire barrage of material to date. The opening one-two of “Centennial” and “In A Cave” barely evaporates before “Graves” and “Juno” pack innumerable hooks and “what-does-that-remind-me-of” glimmers into meager 2-minute-and-change frameworks, while “Tessellate” and “Sixties Remake” encapsulate everything great about the manic TPC live experience: soaring guitar signatures and keyboard figures, driving backbeats and irresistible singalongs abound. Elsewhere, “The Harrowing Adventures Of…” and the down tempo standout “Listen To The Math” find our young protagonists ably adapting their energy into more subdued structures before the rousing coda of “The Baskervilles” brings the record to an all-too-early halt.
LINKS:
http://tokyopoliceclub.com/
http://www.myspace.com/tokyopoliceclub
http://www.saddle-creek.com
TOUR DATES:
Sat-Mar-08, Toronto, ONT, Canadian Independent Music Awards @ Canadian Ballroom
Tue-Mar-18, London, ONT, Call The Office
Wed-Mar-19, Indianapolis, IN, Birdy’s Bar and Grill
Thu-Mar-20, Lawrence, KS, Jackpot Saloon
Fri-Mar-22, Salt Lake City, UT, Kilby Court
Mon-Mar-24, San Francisco, CA, The Independent
Tue-Mar-25, Pomona, CA, The Glass House
Wed-Mar-26, Hollywood, CA, Troubadour
2nd troub show added soon
Fri-Mar-28, San Diego, CA, Soma
Sat-Mar-29, Tempe, AZ, The Clubhouse
Mon-Mar-31, Houston, TX, Meridian Red Room
Tue-Apr-01, Dallas, TX, House of Blues
Thu-Apr-03, Tallahassee, FL, Club Downunder
Fri-Apr-04, Miami, FL, Studio A
Sat-Apr-05, Orlando, FL, Backbooth
Tue-Apr-08, Nashville, TN, Exit/In
Wed-Apr-09, Cleveland, OH, The Spot
Fri-Apr-18, Ottawa, ONT, Barrymore’s Music Hall
Sat-Apr-19, Montreal, QC, Cabaret du Musee Juste Pour Rire
Sun-Apr-20, New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
Mon-Apr-21, Brooklyn, NY, Music Hall of Williamsburg
Tue-Apr-22, New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
Thu-Apr-24, Boston, MA, Paradise Rock Club
Sat-Apr-26, Northampton, MA, Pearl Street Night Club
Mon-Apr-28, Philadelphia, PA, First Unitarian Church
Tue-Apr-29, Washington, DC, Black Cat
Wed-Apr-30, Buffalo, NY, Big Orbit’s Soundlab
Sun-May-04, Detroit, MI, Magic Stick
Mon-May-05, Chicago, IL, Metro
Tue-May-06, Minneapolis, MN, Varsity Theater
Thu-May-08, Winnipeg, MB, The Garrick
Fri-May-09, Saskatoon, SK, Louis’ Pub
Sat-May-10, Calgary, AB, The Warehouse
Sun-May-11, Calgary, AB, The Warehouse
Mon-May-12, Edmonton, AB, Starlite Room
Wed-May-14, Kelowna, BC, The Habitat
Fri-May-16, Vancouver, BC, The Plaza
Sat-May-17, Victoria, BC, Sugar Nightclub
Sun-May-18, Seattle, WA, Neumos
Mon-May-19, Portland, OR, Hawthorne Theatre
Thu-May-22, Denver, CO, Bluebird
Fri-May-23, Omaha, NE, Slowdown
Finally! Wow, this debut has been a long time coming, it seems Tokyo Police Club have been riding their 4 song EP A Lesson in Crime for years! Can’t wait for this one, read below for more info on the album due in late April.
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Following on one of the most well received 16 minutes of music in recent history (2006’s A Lesson In Crime EP), Ontario’s favorite sons TOKYO POLICE CLUB confirm the completion and release of their first full length album, Elephant Shell, due out late April on Saddle Creek in North America and Memphis Industries in the UK.
Tokyo Police Club was formed in 2004 by David Monks (vocals, bass), Josh Hook (guitar), Graham Wright (keyboards) and Greg Alsop (drums) during their senior year in high school. Within two years they had released the aforementioned debut EP, immediately eliciting raves from Entertainment Weekly (”We can hardly wait for the full lengthŠ A-),Rolling Stone (”If only all young guitar bands were smart enough to rock out this fast”), Interview, Blender and Nylon among others. Since then, TPC has been touring virtually non-stop, pausing only to release last year’s Smith EP and digital-only single “Your English Is Good” / “Swedes In Stockholm,” and of course to record Elephant Shell.
The complete track listing for Elephant Shell is: “Centennial,” “In A Cave,” “Graves,” “Juno,” “Tessellate,” “Sixties Remake,” “The Harrowing Adventures Of…,” “Nursery Academy,” “Your English Is Good,” “Listen To The Math,” “The Baskervilles”
Tokyo Police Club begins a tour January 23rd at Connexion in Oakville, ONT, with dates running up to the release of Elephant Shell and beyond (Tonight’s show at Ottawa’s Algonquin College has been rescheduled due to weather conditions). See the attached listing of all confirmed dates.
TOKYO POLICE CLUB ON TOUR:
Jan. 23, 2008 Connexion - Oakville, ONT
Jan. 24, 2008 The Wall - North Bay, ONT
Jan. 25, 2008 Quarters - Hamilton, ONT
Jan. 26, 2008 Nathan Phillips Square - Toronto, ONT
Jan. 30, 2008 The Ale House - Kingston, ONT
Jan. 31, 2008 Algonquin College - Ottawa, ONT (re-scheduled from Jan. 22)
Feb. 1, 2008 Forwell Hall - London, ONT
Feb. 2, 2008 Sleeman Centre - Guelph, ONT
Mar. 18, 2008 Call The Office - London, ONT
Mar. 19, 2008 Birdy’s Bar and Grill - Indianapolis, IN
Mar. 20, 2008 Jackpot Saloon - Lawrence, KS
Mar. 22, 2008 Kilby Court - Salt Lake City, UT
Mar. 24, 2008 The Independent - San Francisco, CA
Mar. 25, 2008 The Glass House - Pomona, CA
Mar. 26, 2008 Troubadour - Hollywood, CA
Mar. 28, 2008 Soma - San Diego, CA
Mar. 29, 2008 The Clubhouse - Tempe, AZ
Mar. 31, 2008 Meridian Red Room - Houston, TX
Apr. 1, 2008 House of Blues - Dallas, TX
Apr. 3, 2008 Club Downunder - Tallahassee, FL
Apr. 4, 2008 Studio A - Miami, FL
Apr. 5, 2008 Backbooth - Orlando, FL
Apr. 8, 2008 Exit/In - Nashville, TN
Apr. 9, 2008 The Spot - Cleveland, OH
Apr. 18, 2008 Barrymore’s Music Hall - Ottawa, ON
Apr. 19, 2008 Cabaret du Musee Juste Pour Rire - Montreal, QC
Apr. 20, 2008 Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY
Apr. 21, 2008 Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY
Apr. 24, 2008 Paradise Rock Club - Boston, MA
Apr. 26, 2008 Pearl Street Night Club - Northampton, MA
Apr. 28, 2008 First Unitarian Church - Philadelphia, PA
Apr. 29, 2008 Black Cat - Washington, DC
Apr. 30, 2008 Big Orbit’s Soundlab - Buffalo, NY
It seems like Tokyo Police Club has been an “it” band for like 3 years now and they’re still riding on the buzz of a few EP’s… They’re apparently nearing completion of their first LP, but in the meantime its been the aforementioned EP’s, some scattered touring and this song, “Your English Is Good”. I believe the song will be on the upcoming debut, and if its any indication of what we can expect, then all the built up and delayed buzz for these guys will be justified. I think they’re one of the most exciting new bands out there and really can’t to hear some more from them. Do yourself a favor and check them out immediately:
Tokyo Police Club - “Your English Is Good” (right click, save as)
Check out more online:
http://www.myspace.com/tokyopoliceclub
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