Canadian electroclash-punk-dance duo Death From Above have announced a new tour with a very specific theme according to Consequence of Sound. They’ll take fans way back to the early days of the band, when Jesse F. Keeler and Sebastien Grainger originally went by the moniker Death From Above (to avoid confusion with James Murphy’s DFA records they changed it to Death From Above 1979 for a short period of time). They’re repressing their debut EP, titled Heads Up, and to celebrate the band will be hitting the road to perform the six-song extended play in full.
Death From Above are fresh off of the release of a new album, called Outrage! Is Now. While it took the duo nearly 10 full years to release a follow-up to their massive debut LP Romantic Rights, the wait was relatively short for the band’s fans to wait for album number three.
The tour also has some strong opening support. After Death From Above play a few shows across the Atlantic, they’ll return to the West Coast for shows with CRX, the band led by Nick Valensi of The Strokes. CRX released a strong debut LP in 2016 called New Skin, a strong showing for the side project. Then, beginning in Texas DFA will be joined by the caustic Mexican punk band Le Butcherettes, led by enigmatic and intense lead singer Teri Gender Bender. The tour heads east from Texas, moving north up the Atlantic seaboard before concluding in Niagra Falls, not far from the duo’s hometown of Toronto.
Heads Up track list
1. “Dead Womb”
2. “Too Much Love”
3. “Do It!”
4. “My Love Is Shared”
5. “Losing Friends”
6. “If We Don’t Make It We’ll Fake It”
Death From Above Fall 2018 Heads Up! Tour Dates:
08/21 – Prague, CH – Lucerna
08/22 – Munich, DE – Strom
08/24-26 – Reading, UK – Reading Festival
08/24 – Wetherby, UK – Leeds Festival
10/30 – Seattle, WA – Neumos Crystal Ball &
10/31 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom &
11/02 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall &
11/03 – San Diego, CA – Music Box &
11/04 – Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom &
11/06 – Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory &
11/07 – Phoenix, AZ – Press Room &
11/09 – Denver, CO – The Marquis Theater &
11/11 – Dallas, TX – Gas Monkey Live #
11/12 – Houston, TX – The Studio at Warehouse Live #
11/13 – Austin, TX – Mohawk #
11/15 – Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge #
11/16 – Chicago, IL – Metro #
11/17 – Detroit, MI – Magic Stick #
11/18 – Cincinnati, OH – Bogart’s #
11/20 – Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live #
11/21 – Philadelphia, PA – The Foundry #
11/23 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsehall #
11/24 – Allston, MA – Brighton Music Hall #
11/25 – Niagara Falls, NY – The Rapids Theatre #
& = w/ CRX
# = w/ Le Butcherettes
Photo Credit: Marisa Rose Ficara
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