BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR

February 26 Sacramento, CA Harlow's
February 27 Reno, NV Knitting Factory ( POST-PONED )
February 28 Las Vegas, NV Wasted Space @ Hard Rock Hotel
March 2 Denver, Gothic Theatre
March 4 Boise, The Record Exchange
March 4 Boise, ID Knitting Factory
March 5 Seattle, WA Showbox Market
March 6 Vancouver, B.C. Commodore ( SOLD OUT )
March 7 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom
March 9 San Francisco, CA Slim's
March 10 San Francisco, CA Slim's 
March 11 Los Angeles, CA Echoplex ( SOLD OUT )
March 12 Los Angeles, CA Echoplex ( SOLD OUT )
March 13 San Diego, CA House of Blues
March 14 Los Angeles, CA Echoplex ( SOLD OUT )
March 16 Anaheim, CA House of Blues
March 18 Dallas, TX House of Blues
March 19 Austin, TX SXSW
March 20 Houston, TX House of Blues
March 21 Tulsa, OK Cain's Ballroom
March 23 St. Louis, MO Vintage Vinyl
March 23 St. Louis, MO Pageant
March 24 Madison, WA High Noon Saloon
March 25 Chicago, IL Metro
March 26 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall Ballroom
March 27 Minneapolis, MN First Ave.
March 29 Grand Rapids, MI The Intersection 
March 30 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
March 31 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues

April 1 Toronto, ONT Phoenix Concert Hall ( SOLD OUT )
April 2 Montreal, QC La Tulipe
April 3 Boston, MA House of Blues
April 5 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
April 6 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of Living Arts
April 7 Pittsburgh, PA Mr Small's Theatre 
April 8 New York, NY Webster Hall ( SOLD OUT )
April 11 Toronto, ONT Phoenix Concert Theatre

Support for the US Tour will come from The Whigs ( from Feb 26th Sacramento show till Mar 14th Los Angeles show ) and from Mar 18th Dallas show by Band Of Skulls.


Support for the rest of the US dates will be announced soon. 

Support for the UK Electric Ballroom show will come from  Little Fish and the UK & European support will be announced shortly.

BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB UK & EUROPEAN HEADLINE TOUR

April 15 London, UK The Electric Ballroom ( SOLD OUT )
April 16 Glasgow, UK Barrowlands ( SOLD OUT )
April 17 Whitehaven, UK Civic Hall
April 19 Newcastle, UK University
April 20 Manchester, UK Ritz ( SOLD OUT )
April 21 Leamington, UK Spa Assembly
April 22 Southampton, UK Uni ( SOLD OUT )
April 23 London, UK Forum ( SOLD OUT )
April 24 Nottingham, UK Rock City ( POST-PONED )
April 26 Leeds, UK Academy
April 27 Liverpool, UK Academy
April 28 Wolves, UK Wulfun Hall
April 29 Brighton, UK Concorde 2 ( SOLD OUT )
May 1 Copenhagen, DK Vega ( SOLD OUT )
May 2 Hamburg, DE Markthalle ( SOLD OUT )
May 3 Cologne, DE Essigfabrik
May 4 Berlin, DE Postbahnoff ( SOLD OUT )
May 5 Munich, DE Backstage Werk ( SOLD OUT )
May 7 Milan, IT Magazzini Generali
May 8 Bologna, IT Estragon
May 9 Rome, IT Piper
May 11 Clermont, FR Ferrand Coop De Mai
May 12 Paris, FR Bataclan ( SOLD OUT )
May 13 Amsterdam, NL Paradiso ( SOLD OUT )
May 14 Belgium Les Nuits Festival, Marquee ( SOLD OUT )
May 15 Switzerland Longirock
May 17 Vienna, AT Arena
May 18 Salzburg, AT The Rockhouse ( SOLD OUT )

May 19th: Luxembourg / Den Atelier
May 21st: Prague / Sasazu 
May 23rd: Warsaw / Stodola 
May 26th: Aahurus, Denmark / Train
May 27th: Malmo, Sweden / KB
May 28th: Stockholm, Sweden / Nalen
May 29th: Gothenburg, Sweden / Brewhouse

Tickets for most of the shows are available on www.pollstar.com

 

 1. Beat The Devil's Tattoo

2. Conscience Killer
3. Bad Blood
4. War Machine
5. Sweet Feeling
6. Evol
7. Mama Taught Me Better
8. River Styx
9. The Toll
10. Aya
11. Shadow's Keeper
12. Long Way
13. Half-State

14.1:51 (limited edition)

15.Martyr (limited edition)

And yet another great song was revealed on www.nodepression.com

If it's go like that we will soon be able to listen the whole album :)

Plus on the Official BRMC YouTube Channel we've get the candid interview with the band during pre-produciton for the Beat The Devil's Tattoo World Tour

 

If “Beat the Devil’s Tattoo,” the fifth studio album from California psych-rockers Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, sounds like the work of a hungry young band that’s just starting out, that’s because in a way, it is. Despite over a decade of success, BRMC’s co-frontmen—guitarist Peter Hayes and bassist Robert Levon Been—finished their most recent world tour flat broke, having self-financed their last several months on the road after parting ways with their label, RCA Records.

“Every dime we made, we put in to going to crazy places like Israel and Russia and South America,” Been explains by phone from the band’s Los Angeles rehearsal space. “So when we got home, we were strapped.” Hayes and Been didn’t even have any place to live, having given up their apartments in anticipation of spending nearly two years on tour.

With nowhere else to go, the pair—along with new drummer Leah Shapiro—retreated to the same house outside Philadelphia where they had worked on “Howl,” their bluesiest and most acoustic-based record. “A lot of people think we went there to recapture what we had before,” says Been, “but really, they just offered us a free bed to sleep on.”

Conceived and recorded in that suburban house’s basement, the songs on “Tattoo” find Been and Hayes at their loudest and grittiest, unleashing tangled layers of reverb-soaked guitar and fuzzed-out bass over Shapiro’s martial drums. Released through Vagrant Records on the band’s own Abstract Dragon label, it’s BRMC’s rawest record since their 2001 debut, but still informed by the classic blues and folk they explored on “Howl” and the arena-rock swagger they perfected on their last album for RCA, “Baby 81.”

Been took a break from rehearsals to talk about the new album’s “Twin Peaks”-like genesis, finding inspiration in Edgar Allen Poe, and getting arrested while performing a little guerrilla marketing overseas.




You worked on “Beat the Devil’s Tattoo” at the same house where you worked on “Howl,” right?

Yeah, but we lived at the place this time. We have these really good friends that are in this band called the Cobbs out in Philly, and they had a house, which is just their family house they grew up in. And they’ve got a little rec room, halfway-studio in the basement. And the father, Wally, he still lives there. He was the only one we were nervous about, because we were rehearsing in his basement at ear-piercing volumes, and he’s right above the ceiling, just sitting there watching his sports games. We thought we’d get kicked out within a couple weeks. But he’d come down with a scotch in hand and just start rockin’—and he’d bring his friends over from the bar. He’d be like, “Play that one that’s got the thing.” [Laughs] He’d want us to show off to his friends. It was the coolest, weirdest, “Twin Peaks” experience.

So you’re down there in the basement working on some new songs—and at some point during this process, Leah brings one of you guys a book of Edgar Allen Poe stories, and that winds up becoming the inspiration for the album title?

Yeah, that’s a shorthand way of putting it. I asked her for it because there was a poem called “Annabel Lee” that I wanted to make into a song. And then there was a short story in that book called “The Devil in the Belfry” that’s kind of amazing—and one [phrase], “beat the devil’s tattoo”…I didn’t have any idea what it meant, but it just kind of jumped out. The thing I loved about it the most was that the original, original meaning of it was the military tattoo drummers would beat at night, calling soldiers home, back to the camp. And I liked that image. And it felt like a blues title to me, too—you know, like me and the devil at the crossroads. And then you know, of course, we’re all wrestling our demons all the time. I don’t think that’s anything special to this album.

Yeah, I think God and the devil make cameo appearances on all of your albums, in one way or another.

One way or another, that’s for sure. I think somebody asked us, if the devil had a tattoo—which is pretty much the worst question we’d ever been asked—what would the tattoo be? And I think Peter said, “Well, of course, it would be a full body tattoo of Christ.”

The first two stops on your tour are Sacramento and Reno—is that coincidence, or are those high on your list of favorite places to play?

I think we’re just trying to comb through the country from left to right. [Laughs] And then further right, because we go from New York, and then London, and then continue east to Berlin. “From Reno to Berlin”—that should’ve been the name of the record.

Well, you guys do already have a good Berlin connection, having a song named after it. And you filmed part of your DVD ["Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Live"] there.
And I just got arrested there last week.

In Berlin?

In Berlin. A lot of shit goes wrong in Berlin. We were doing a press tour—doing interviews in London and Paris and Berlin and Copenhagen. And I’ve been really into graffiti art for years, and we don’t really have a proper label anymore—so everywhere we go, we’re tagging our album title, just for fun. So me and Leah went out, and it was 18 below zero…

So fairly deserted.

Fairly—except for a squad car of fucking [cops] are driving by when we were shaking, trying to do this thing. Yeah, we got a little in trouble, but it wasn’t too bad. [Laughs] We pretended to be engaged. We tried to tell them we were just putting our initials on there as like a honeymoon thing. We were so scrambling—because it’s German police. You’re freaked the fuck out when anyone talks to you in German and they’re like an authority figure. It’s not like “Hogan’s Heroes”—it’s the real shit. So we started saying—‘cause we only got the “B” and the “E” done—so we tried to say, “Well, it’s just our initials.” I think it got us out of the ticket, ‘cause they were like, “Oh, when’s your wedding?”

source: www.cleveland.metromix.com

 

Amazon - well known worldwide retailer released at his German website whole "Beat The Devil's Tattoo" ( Limited Edition ) album preview in MP3 format...just click

here... 

from that small and short listening i can say that it's gonna be great album with it's mixed new and old BRMC sound...

CAN'T WAIT... 

 

 1. Beat The Devil's Tattoo

2. Conscience Killer
3. Bad Blood
4. War Machine
5. Sweet Feeling
6. Evol
7. Mama Taught Me Better
8. River Styx
9. The Toll
10. Aya
11. Shadow's Keeper
12. Long Way
13. Half-State

14.1:51 (limited edition)

15.Martyr (limited edition)

Thanks to www.rcrdlbl.com we can listen and download "Conscience Killer" third song from the upcoming new album...

Link to the song above in track listing...

 

iTunes Pre-Sale Now Available 

All pre-orders will come with an instant download of the single, "Beat The Devil's Tattoo" - which is also available now as a single purchase.

The iTunes version of "Beat The Devil's Tattoo" will also include the album only track "1:51" as well as the track "Annabel Lee" which is exclusive to the pre-order period.

Currently the pre-order is limited to the US, but an iTunes pre-sale for the UK & Europe is in the works and more info will be available soon.

 

You can also pre-order the record from Newbury Comics. The first 500 orders will include an autographed CD booklet.

In touring news, two more shows have been added in the United States. 

Tues 16-Mar-10 in Anaheim, CA at The House of Blues

Mon 29-Mar-10 in Grand Rapids, MI at The Intersection.

Tickets for the Anaheim show are On Sale Now and tickets for The Intersection go on sale this weekend.

Support has also been confirmed for the remainder of the US Dates as well as the UK dates with European support coming soon. 

  

Wed 31-Mar-10 Cleveland, OH House of Blues
Thurs 1-Apr-10 Toronto, ONT The Phoenix - SOLD OUT
Fri 2-Apr-10 Montreal, QUE La Tulipe
Sat 3-Apr-10 Boston, MA House of Blues
Mon 5-Apr-10 Washington, DC 930 Club
Wed 6-Apr-10 Philadelphia, PA TLA
Wed 7-Apr-10 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls Theatre
Thurs 8-Apr-10 New York, NY Webster Hall *

* support will come from ZaZa

 

Thurs 15-Apr London Electric Ballroom -SOLD OUT **
Fri 16-Apr Glasgow Barrowlands
Sat 17-Apr Whitehaven, UK Civic Hall
Mon 19-Apr Newcastle, UK University
Tues 20-Apr Manchester, UK Ritz
Wed 21-Apr Leamington, UK Spa
Thurs 22-Apr Southampton, UK Uni
Fri 23-Apr London, UK Forum - SOLD OUT
Sat 24-Apr Nottingham, UK Rock City
Mon 26-Apr Leeds, UK Academy
Tues 27-Apr Liverpool, UK Academy
Wed 28-Apr Wolverhampton, UK Wulfrun Hall
Thurs 29-Apr Brighton, UK Concorde 2 - SOLD OUT

** support will come from Little Fish

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PLEASE REPOST THIS: 
The band's personal storage locker was broken into and Michael Been's (Robert's dad and our sound man) had his vintage equipment stolen. Items were 1954 Fender Esquire (Yellow with Black Pick Guard), 1968 Black Ampeg Scrolltop Fretless Bass, 1964 Black Fender Precision Bass and a 1968 Gretsch Chet Atkins. Please repost this and help spread the word - these items were extremely personal and the band, Michael, crew and management are devastated over this brazen act. 
Thank you.