Tours: Natalie Portman's Shaved Head + mp3s

(photo by Sophia Goldfarb)

Almost as good a name as Kathleen Turner Overdrive, the four kids in Seattle-based electro group Natalie Portman's Shaved Head  take the tried and true formula of holding onto one's youth and hoping to never let go (cf. Black Kids, Be Your Own Pet, Tilly and the Wall) and put synths to it.  It's a less menacing version of The Faint, a more peppy rendition of 80s Italo-disco classics.  For us, it seems like the more simple the song, the more fun to listen to.  Sometimes, we don't actually want to overthink this whole indie-rock-is-pensive-and-difficult thing.  The band is setting out on tour this month with a few dates opening up for the one-less-chick'ed CSS.

Dates:

Jul 15 Seattle, WA Easy Street Records! CD RELEASE In-Store Performance
Jul 19 San Francisco, CA Download Festival
Jul 25 Seattle, WA Capitol Hill Block Party
Jul 30 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue*
Jul 31 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Turner Hall*
Aug 05 Toronto, Ontario Kool Haus*
Aug 06 Pittsburgh, PA Garfield Artworks
Aug 07 Philadelphia, PA The Trocadero Theater
Aug 08 Boston, MA The Pill @ Great Scott
Aug 09 Worcester, MA The Palladium
Aug 10 Atlantic City, NJ House Of Blues*
Aug 14 Chicago, IL Subterranean
Aug 18 Provo, UT Verlour
Aug 19 Boise, ID Neurolux

* opening slot for CSS

(mp3)    Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - Me + Your Daughter

(mp3)    Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - Slow Motion Tag Team

Godspeed!