Live: School of Seven Bells tour with Black Moth Super Rainbow + new remix

May 28, 09

(photo by Amanda Merten)

We've never posted about Brooklyn's own School of Seven Bells, and, basically, it's because we're idiots. We've listened to them for a long time, have seen them live and have spoken their praises to friends, but never a post. What gives? Did we want to keep a secret? No. Did we overlook them? Don't think so. Maybe we just couldn't find the right words to fully describe how the trio have created--and will continue to create--ethereal, dreamy, open-spaced independent rock music that's so fluttery and gorgeous, it just seems to crawl into your person and then, just like that, it's gone. The band have a new single, "My Cabal", along with a video for the track, and they're heading out on the road in support of Black Moth Super Rainbow, so something tells me that you, us and everyone we all know will have plenty to say about them in the future tense to make up for our lack of coverage. Oh yeah, and we also just got our hands on a track that appears on the single, a remix of the band's "Face To Face On High Places", remixed by Jesu.

Dates:

May 22 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock Social Club*
May 25 Seattle, WA Sasquatch Festival*
May 26 Portland, OR Holocene*
May 28 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill*
May 29 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour*
May 30 Costa Mesa, CA Detroit Bar*
May 31 Phoenix, AZ Rhythm Room*
Jun 02 Austin, TX Mohawk*
Jun 03 Denton, TX Hailey's*
Jun 04 Little Rock, AR Sticky Fingerz*
Jun 05 Nashville, TN Exit In*
Jun 06 Columbus, OH Circus*
Jun 12 New York City, NY Bowery Ballroom
Aug 07 Tokyo, JP Summer Sonic Festival
Aug 08 Mashima, JP Summer Sonic Festival
Oct 02 Austin, TX Austin City Limits
Oct 04 San Diego, CA Casbah
*w/ Black Moth Super Rainbow