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The first single off our new album is called "Let The Day Begin" and it is available now to stream and download for free from our official site.

Our new album "Specter At The Feast" will be out March 18th(UK/Europe) and March 19 (North America) and we have UK, European and North American Tour Dates on Sale now...you can grab tickets now from our site as well.

More information on album pre-sales in the next few weeks.

Got word that Kat Corbett is going to play our new single tonight on The World Famous KROQ's Local's Only around 9pm. You can stream it online from betaplayer.radio.com/player/kroq

Word also has it that it will be playing again on Kat's Box on KROQ around 12pm tomorrow as well as some stations in the UK so we'll be making another announcement tomorrow.

The North American Headline Dates are all on-sarle now from our official site 
(a few go on sale tomorrow)... 

http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/

Support will come from:

BASS DRUM OF DEATH (April 22nd - May 6th)
thenewno2 (May 8th - June 1st)

Also, our March 25th date in Glasgow has been moved to Barrowland due to demand for tickets.

Both Paris shows are now sold out.

Thanks to everyone that has picked up tickets already! We'll be seeing you soon!

The Big Pink will be supporting at the following shows:

24th March Manchester Ritz
25th March Glasgow Barrowland
26th March Birmingham Institute
27th March London 02 Brixton Academy
29th march Nottingham Rock City

Tickets for all these dates are on sale now from our website - and tickets for most of the US shows will be going on sale over the next few hours. We'll make an announcement when all the ticket links are live for the US.

http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/

AS WE ANNOUNCED THIS MORNING, THE NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR HAS BEEN CONFIRMED AND TICKETS ARE GOING ON SALE THIS WEEK, HOWEVER.....

THE SAN FRANCISCO DATE WAS LISTED INCORRECTLY, BUT HAS BEEN REVISED. THE CORRECT LIST OF DATES AND ON-SALES ARE NOW BELOW.

WE TRIED TO FIT IN AS MANY CITIES AS WE COULD ON THIS INITIAL RUN, BUT COULDN'T GET THEM ALL IN THIS TIME AROUND. 

MORE NEWS COMING SOON!

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4/22/13 - SAN FRANCISCO, CA / THE FILLMORE - ON SALE: FRI 1/18
4/23/13 - SAN DIEGO, CA / HOUSE OF BLUES - ON SALE: FRI 1/18
4/26/13 - AUSTIN, TX / PSYCH FEST - ON SALE: NOW
4/27/13 - DALLAS, TX / HOUSE OF BLUES - ON SALE: THU 1/17
4/28/13 - HOUSTON, TX / HOUSE OF BLUES - ON SALE: FRI 1/18
4/30/13 - ATLANTA, GA / MASQUERADE - ON SALE: FRI 1/18
5/01/13 - NASHVILLE, TN / CANNERY BALLROOM - ON SALE: FRI 1/18
5/03/13 - BOSTON, MA / HOUSE OF BLUES - ON SALE: FRI 1/18
5/04/13 - NEW YORK, NY / TERMINAL 5 - ON SALE: FRI 1/18
5/05/13 - PHILADELPHIA, PA / THEATER OF THE LIVING ARTS - ON SALE: FRI 1/18
5/06/13 - WASHINGTON, DC / 9:30 CLUB - ON SALE: THU 2/07
5/08/13 - MONTREAL, QC / CORONA THEATER - ON SALE: FRI 1/18
5/09/13 - TORONTO, ONT / KOOL HAUS - ON SALE: THU 1/17
5/10/13 - DETROIT, MI / ST. ANDREW'S HALL - ON SALE: FRI 1/18
5/11/13 - COLUMBUS, OH / NEWPORT MUSIC HALL - ON SALE: SAT 1/19
5/13/13 - INDIANAPOLIS, IN - THE VOGUE - ON SALE: FRI 1/18
5/14/13 - MILWAUKEE, WI / TURNER HALL - ON SALE: THU 1/17
5/15/13 - MADISON, WI / BARRYMORE THEATER - ON SALE: FRI 1/18
5/17/13 - CHICAGO, IL / VIC THEATER - ON SALE: SAT 1/19
5/18/13 - MINNEAPOLIS, MN / FIRST AVE - ON SALE: FRI 1/18

5/20/13 - DENVER, CO / GOTHIC THEATER - ON SALE: SAT 1/19
5/21/13 - ASPEN, CO / BELLY UP ASPEN - ON SALE: WED 1/16
5/24/13 - VANCOUVER, BC / COMMODORE BALLROOM - ON SALE: WED 1/16
5/26/13 - PORTLAND, OR / WONDER BALLROOM - ON SALE: FRI 1/18
5/27/13 - RENO, NV / KNITTING FACTORY - ON SALE: FRI 1/18
5/29/13 - TEMPE, AZ / THE MARQUEE - ON SALE: FRI 1/18
5/30/13 - TUCSON, AZ / RIALTO THEATER - ON SALE: 1/18
5/31/13 - LAS VEGAS, NV / VINYL at THE HARD ROCK HOTEL
6/01/13 - LOS ANGELES, CA / THE WILTERN - ON SALE: THU 1/17

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (Official Page)

We'll be joining Dave Grohl and lots of other amazing artists from the Sound City movie in LA at The Palladium on Jan 31st. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 12pm. Will be a great night!

ASK iAN PRESENTS ‘HunKillers Interview with Robert Levon Been/ BRMC’

01/14/2013

‘HunKillers Interview with Robert Levon Been/ BRMC’

1) Hey, thanks for taking the time to answer some questions i’ve always had. I guess i’ll just fire away the ones that I have off the top of my head, in no particular order. My first question is… You guys have written new tracks/songs just jamming off the end of previous songs, such as Salvation/Heart & Soul, Fail Safe/Stop. And I know you mentioned to me at the Weapon of Choice Toronto video shoot that there were at least 2 or 3 other such instances where this has happened. I vaguely remember ‘In like the Rose’ or Red Eyes and Tears being one of them. Can you list the songs that have evolved into other songs.

I remember ‘Red Eyes and Tears’ developing a lot over the course of touring, we ended up with an extended outro which we’ve always nicknamed ‘Red Eyes Reprise’. That sort of thing kind of happened a lot with our songs. The ones that stick out are ‘Weight Of The World’, ‘Six Barrel Shotgun’, and ‘Mercy’ those in particular all developed considerable extended sections (musically and lyrically) as we’d play them live over the years. I don’t like to think of a song as finished after it’s been recorded. Some songs are just shy, and don’t like to come out and play all at once. You have to be patient.

However as far as ‘new songs’ that were directly born out of other songs. I remember ‘Spread Your Love’ coming directly out of the ashes of ‘Down Here’ (an old b-side which we used to play live a lot). One day though at a show i just didn’t stop playing bass at the end of ‘Down Here’ after the song had ended, because it felt so damn good. Peter and Nick just looked across the stage at me like i was a total spaz, but then Nick just kicked in on that big ass shuffle beat and the next thing we knew Spread Your Love was alive. I like when songs give birth to other songs like that, it’s kind of like Gremlins (‘don’t play them after midnight, don’t get them in direct sunlight, and never, ever, no matter what keep jamming out on a riff after the song is over’).

2) Can you (roughly) list the order in which you wrote the songs from the self titled album, including the songs from the Screaming Gun demo?

Jesus, you weren’t kidding these really aren’t easy questions are they. That’s gonna take me a minute to recall… I guess the interesting thing is that far more songs than you’d think were writen in those early days. Way before we’d recorded the first album, and even before Spread Your Love, Awake, or even Whatever Happened To My Rock’N’Roll were written.

These here were pretty much the very first batch of songs that we ever had… (in chronological order)
1. Blown Away (unreleased)
2. Too Real
3. Evol
4. Am I Only (acoustically)
5. Screaming Gun
4. Red Eyes
5. Love Burns
6. 1:51 (originally called B.R.M.C.)
7. Shuffle Your Feet (acoustically, with only some lyrics)
8. Suddenly
9. As Sure As The Sun
10. White Palms
11. At My Door
12. Down Here
13. Martyr
14. 20 Hours (acoustically, with only some lyrics)
15. Wasting Away (unreleased)
16. Weight Of The World (acoustically, with only some lyrics)
17. Seasons (unreleased)
18. Rifles
19. Going Under
20. U.S. Government

That was in the first year or so. The second wave came around when we moved to Los Angeles and that’s when we wrote Spread Your Love, Awake, Whatever Happened To My Rock’N’Roll, Head Up High, Pretend, Shade Of Blue, etc,.

3) I have a bootleg version of ‘Blown Away’ and I think it’s great. Is it not good enough for an official release in the bands opinion?

‘Blown Away’ is the infamously cursed BRMC Song. That song has literally been the bane of our existence for over a decade. We have tried to record that fuckin song for nearly every single album. And every single time we’ve tracked it, we’ve ended up taking it off the album at the very last minute, for one reason or another. It’s like Ahab & The Whale at this point, i don’t know we’ll ever truly catch it.

We’ve passed the point of madness with that tune, never has a group of people (who never went to collage) given more ‘college try’s’ to anything before. I think someday we should just release an entire album of like 11 different versions of just that one song. It would probably win a Grammy on gumption alone.

4) Does the band own the rights to your music videos? I’m just wondering why there isn’t a comprehensive DVD that has all the bands music videos. If they’re not owned by the band is it too expensive to ‘buy them back’ from their music labels (or whomever owns them). The fans would help you with that if you needed help. This also makes me think that there aren’t enough music videos made by the band. There should be at least 3 per album (coming from a selfish fan!)

We honestly haven’t looked into that, it would be very unpleasant for whomever would have to do the leg work. All of the legal departments at these defunct Record Labels now are a complete nighmare. If all of our music videos had been on one label though then it wouldn’t be very difficult. However since DVD sales are dropping just as much as CD sales these days, the motivation isn’t there for distributors. The other half of people would argue that you can watch them all on youtube just as easily.

5) Why wasn’t All You Do Is Talk released as a single?!

Good question.

6) The 1st time I met your old man (I hope that term isn’t taken as a disrespectful or derogatory term for him. It was an affectionate term of endearment that I’ve always used for him. I can call him Michael or ‘your Dad’ from here on if you wish), I talked to him for probably more than half an hour inside some family owned bar next door to St. Andrews hall in Detroit. He shone the light on so many interesting things in the bands history that I implored him to write a book. I dunno if he ever made notes or kept a diary, but your bands history is so full and rich that I really think it’s imperative that there is some sort of official biography. He talked about you, Nick and Pete and your relationships, and it was so interesting! If it was the story of the behind the scenes of the Stones or Beatles or the Verve or Joy Division or even some other piss poor band it would be documented, and it couldn’t be half as interesting as the story behind the family of your band. Would anyone consider writing such a biography? Even yourself? Just my 2 cents worth, but I think an official record be made even for future or historical reasons. (Just a selfish fan talking)

We’re just getting started brother. Why look backwards when there’s still so much to look forward to. haha

7) When in Santa Cruz, my wife Sadaf and I went to a park (dunno the name at this point but I’m gonna look it up (Henry Cowell Redwood National park) just about 5 miles
East(or North) of Santa Cruz where there were some awesome redwood trees. Is this where the second segment of the current documentary was shot? I know you said you were from a place called Ben Lomond, and I had seen a signpost for it on the way to the redwoods. I’m originally from a place called Dumbarton, Scotland, and it’s quite close to a place called Loch Lomond (a lake), and there is a very visible mountain that can be seen called Ben Lomond and that is where your hometown is probably named after. (Not so much a question, but a possibly interesting factoid)

Wow, you have a scary good eye, i can’t believe you could could recognize that footage as Henry Cowell Park. Our friend Malia James filmed a lot of things right up near there.
I was born in Ben Lomond, however i grew up a few minutes away over in Felton and Boulder Creek, i lived there till i was seven.
We worked on a lot of this new album up in the hills there, and recorded a bunch of tracks at the old ‘Boulder Creek Post Office’ believe it or not. Strange days up there man, strange days.

8) What was the original title of the track called 1:51? Is there any way at all possible that I could get to hear the original version? When I talked to Pete at the Weapon of Choice video shoot, he said that you would have it on your phone or computer. I know it’s a longshot! But I had to ask.

I’d have to dig around to find that, i’m not sure where it is. Trust me though, the new version is far far superior.
Even though we could write a lot of good songs early on, that didn’t’ mean we could play them, sing them, or record them worth a piss. We were truly amateurs in every respect besides writing i suppose. Thank god we didn’t have the means of recording those songs back then, we would’ve sounded just as bad as those early ‘Stone Roses’ demos, before they came into ‘musical puberty’.
That song ’1:51′ though was actually called ‘B.R.M.C.’ originally.
Funnily enough when we first saw the film ‘The Wild One’ we didn’t know what the hell the letters BRMC actually stood for, so we just decided to name a song that at first, to be on the safe side (just incase later on we found out that it stood for something stupid).
This was all back when the band was called ‘The Elements’ though, and we were constantly scratching our heads to come up with a better band name. We were almost going to call ourselves ‘Turner Purple’ (which was the name of Mick Jaggers fictitious band in the film ‘Performance’). However i wanted to use Turner as my last name. So we decided to go back and watch ‘The Wild One’ again to see if we could find out what the hell ‘B.R.M.C.’ stood for. But since they only say the full name once it the entire damn film, we had to watch it like 3 times to catch it. Once we finally heard it though we knew that was it. A lot of people made fun of us in San Francisco for that name, we got a lot of shit in the beginning. I remember people saying saying that we don’t sounding anything like what a ‘Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’ would sound like. It’s funny how things change.

9) Weapon of Choice…. Is this a drug reference? I heard a similar reference on a tv show. Maybe Law and Order.

It can be taken a few ways. The chorus peter wrote though ‘i won’t waste my love on a nation’ is a cutting statement calling for a revolt. Peter wrote half of that song and i wrote the other half. That is the way a lot of our songs have come about. It can be difficult to find balance with two writers, you have to know each other so well, and also prepare yourself for something you love not being used, or a line they really like that you don’t understand for the life of you why it’s included, ha. That’s all part of it though. It’s a beautiful dance of the perfect madness. But thankfully after the is game is over, the king and the pawn both go back into the same box.

10) Do you still watch that early shoeless Ashcroft – Verve dvd I gave you? Have you found a multi region dvd player yet? Have you heard the Voyager1 bootleg? Do you have it on vinyl?

Yeah I have Voyager 1 on vinyl. And i was also finally able to play that DVD while we were on tour in Europe, It was interesting to watch, given how long it has been since i saw them back on those tours, it’s crazy how your perception changes over the years. Still as great as ever, but so different than how i remembered.

11) Do you have any BRMC pre-2000 jam sessions recorded? I’m curious which songs you covered first or recorded first in your musical career.

Yeah we have quite a lot, i think there’s around 30 cassette tapes that are full of random jams, which most likely have a lot of cool lost things that none of us would even have the foggiest recollection of. I keep on telling myself that i should start weeding through those someday, but it would probably take me ages to sort through. I also don’t like looking over my shoulder too much.

You’re probably regretting giving me permission to ask you questions not that I’ve just scratched the surface!

Haha, they were defintely harder than i thought you’d ask. Some serious memory exercises. I always appreciate a good challenge, but I believe this round goes to you my friend. Well played… ha

i've just watched the 3 part of new album teaser and went          o_O

ehhh...didn't really wanted to do that but looks like i've been almost forced to...because of really stupid new policy introduced by currently used hoster Rapidshare...i was satisfied and very happy with their service but when the whole ACTA and piracy issue emerged if i've still used their service You and i wouldn't be able to use main service that the hoster provided which is simply DOWNLOADING FILES !

so bye, bye Rapidshare

and warm welcome to :

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I've chosen them considering the above features which will make our life and download easier and free but maybe not all of us will be satisfied as the zippy hoster will not provide as good ( ! FREE ! ) service as other famous payed hosters.  

My current subscription period for Rapidshare expires on 2013-01-22 so i will download the whole section and re-upload it to Zippyshare in a few days.It will take a while as the section went up to more than 20 GB ! and i have a full DVD concert still to be organized and uploaded as a small gift and Thank You for the approaching 100 000 visitor count ;-)

So stay tuned and i will let You know by posting here and the Facebook Page when the whole transition will be complited !

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (Official Page)

We're excited to finally announce that our new called "Specter At The Feast" is confirmed for release on March 18th (UK/Europe), March 19th (US, Canada, Everywhere else).

Information on album pre-sale will be coming in the next few weeks, but for now, here is the cover and track listing

1. Fire Walker
2. Let The Day Begin
3. Returning
4. Lullaby
5. Hate The Taste
6. Rival
7. Teenage Disease
8. Some Kind of Ghost
9. Sometimes The Light
10. Funny Games
11. Sell It
12. Lose Yourself

 

 

by Steve Baltin 

January 7, 2013 2:05 PM ET

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club will release their as-yet-untitled seventh studio album this March. The new record comes three years to the month since Beat the Devil’s Tattoo. BRMC wasn’t planning on taking any sort of break, but they were left with an uncertain future following a devastating loss. Just five months after releasing the record, Robert Levon Been’s father, former Call frontman Michael Been, passed away while on tour with the band.

Although BRMC is active again, with a superb new album and a few warm-up shows in December, they are still finding their way. That seemed apparent as Been and drummer Leah Shapiro sat in the VIP loft at L.A.’s Troubadour talking to Rolling Stone.

Stream: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's 'Shadow on the Run'

"I haven’t heard of anyone going through this before, and if anyone has please contact me. Please let me know how to deal with it, because it could really help," said Been. "It’s closer to losing a band member or losing a Brian Epstein, where we have to carry the weight of that loss, and at the same time carrying all the gifts that are bestowed or things that made us capable of doing it on our own."

Been admits he wasn’t sure how the group would carry on. "It terrified us that we were robbed of the very thing that we could always call on," he said. "I described it once where playing rock & roll was an escape. It begins out of, 'I just want to transport myself out of this pain, this place,' and it was always like that growing up. And then all of a sudden it switched, and now music is the place where kind of you can’t hide from anything. Everything’s turned around."

Yet he did find some solace in music when the trio united. "There was a heart, and there was something kind of special that had happened from us coming together and making the choice to come together with no plan at all," he said.

It did take some time, though, to channel all of that into writing the new material, and it took longer – agonizingly so – to find their groove on the new music. "The writing of it has been a really long process. We were in the rehearsal studio for like a year before I even laid down the first batch of drum tracks," said Shapiro.

No one wanted to confront the feelings that came with losing the elder Been, who was touring with the group as a sound man but had long been a mentor to the whole group. "That was why this record took so long," said his son. "No one really wanted to find those words or dig in deep. So we were faking it for a while, not really digging that deep. You have to go back again and dig a bit deeper, and it was excruciating."

All of that depth and pain is evident in the band’s superb new album. A 14-song journey through all of their emotions during the last two years, it captures the group not only at their fiery best ("Rival," "Teenage Disease"), but also at their most emotionally open on the sweet "Lullaby" and the gorgeous "Returning."

"I think it was the weight of everything that was looming on us while making it. The best way to describe it is it stretched us apart," Been said. "It pulled us further into that fiery rage that comes from all that energy and the anger just spitting out fire. And then stretched on the other side is this ability to find the counterbalance, that depth, which I don’t think we were able to go to before, either. So how we dealt with what we were going through was to feel it all and not really water down one or the other to make something fit."

Originally unsure if they’d be able to marry the two contrasting moods on one album, they decided to embrace the full soundscape of the new material. "We always were fans of Pink Floyd and Spiritualized records. As far as real albums where we wanted to attempt to take people on a ride and have songs crossfade and reach over and different tricks we’d always wanted to do, it was kind of fun to get to play around with that," Been said.

Onstage at the Troubadour for their third show in three nights, the band melded the two tempos, mixing familiar tunes such as "Ain’t No Easy Way," "Six Barrel Shotgun" and "Spread Your Love" with several new songs, including "Lose Yourself," "Lullaby," "Funny Games" and "Rival."

They opened the show with a song that is new for them, their cover of the Call’s "Let the Day Begin."

"We all wanted to cover a Call song for this record. It means a lot to us to be able to pay respect to Michael for all he's done for us," Been said. "I don't think any of us actually thought 'Let the Day Begin' would be the one, though. It wasn't until one day Leah just started storming away on a new drumbeat, which sounded ferocious. We all jumped in on bass and guitar, and literally 10 minutes later the song was wrapped. Without saying a word we all just fell into it. All the rhythms locked together. It wasn't even a question anymore after that."