Clutch, a rock foursome from Maryland, is set to release their 9th studio album Strange Cousins From the West on July 7, 2009, with its first single and video called “50,000 Unstoppable Watts” coming out this month. The album is produced by Clutch and J. Robbins at Magpie Cage Studios in Baltimore. It’s the first album to be released on the band’s own Weathermaker Music through RED Distribution.
Clutch has just began a 7 month worldwide tour, with support acts Wino and Maylene & the Sons of Disaster, followed by a July tour with Baroness as the main support. Clutch will also appear in music festivals such as City Austin Limits, and UK’s Download Festival.
Strange Cousins From the West Track List:
Motherless Child
Struck Down
50,000 Unstoppable Watts
Abraham Lincoln
Minotaur
The Amazing Kreskin
Witchdoctor
Let a Poor Man Be
Freakonomics
Algo Ha Cambiado
Sleestak Lightning
Tour Dates:
05/6 – Lost Horizon Syracuse, New York*
05/7 – The Cellar Struthers, Ohio*
05/8 – Headliner’s Toledo, Ohio*
05/9 – Otto’s Nightclub DeKalb, Illinois*
05/10 – Riverside Ballroom Green Bay, Wisconsin*
05/12 – Canaries Stadium KRRO Fest Sioux Falls, South Dakota*
05/13 – People’s Court Des Moines, Iowa*
05/14 – The Cotillion Wichita, Kansas*
05/15 – The Blue Note Columbia, Missouri*
05/16 – Jake’s Nightclub Bloomington, Indiana
05/17 – Columbus Crew Stadium “Rock on the Range” Festival Columbus, Ohio*
05/19 – The Music Farm Charleston, South Carolina*
05/20 – Cat’s Cradle Carrboro, North Carolina*
05/21 – The Norva Norfolk, Virginia*
05/22 – The Note West Chester, Pennsylvania*
05/23 – The Bakerton Group @ 930 Club Washington, DC, Washington DC*
06/13 – Corporation Sheffield
06/14 – Download Festival Donington
06/15 – HMS Hammer Gig Boat to Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards London
06/16 – Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth
06/17 – TJ’s Newport
06/18 – Cockpit Leeds
06/19 – King Tut’s Glasgow
06/21 – De Helling Utrecht
06/22 – Kulturfabrik Esch-sur-Alzette
06/23 – Underground Koln
06/24 – Molotow Hamburg
06/25 – Knaak Berlin
07/3 – House of Blues Atlantic City, NJ
w/ Monster Magnet and Wino
*w/ Wino and Maylene and the Sons of Disaster