J. Roddy Walston & The Business Announce UK Dates, Spring Tour with Cage the Elephant & Foals
Performing at Coachella and with the Red Hot Chili Peppers at ‘Big Hello To Brooklyn’ pre-Super Bowl Show at Barclays Center on 2/1
Best known for their live shows, we are thrilled to announce J. Roddy Walston & The Business’s upcoming string of tour dates, including a spring run with Foals and Cage the Elephant set to begin April 21st.
Watch Previously Unreleased Studio Footage Set to “Heavy Bells.”
Melting all manner of stereotypes into an as-yet-unnamed breed of New American, each of J. Roddy Walston & The Business’s live performances finds hipsters hugging Teamsters and sweating till it hurts, and art-school cynics and metalheads screaming out every lyric in some gorgeously desperate attempt to connect. There seems to be a competition between the band and the crowd as to who will give more each night.
“J. Roddy Walston and the Business … comes off like a more polished White Stripes or an edgier My Morning Jacket” ~ Time Out New York
In addition to their epic performances, the band’s relentless rock single “Heavy Bells” has been charting at alternative radio for five months with a peak position of #12 this week. It has also spent five consecutive months on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart and is not letting up any time soon. For a peek into their recording habits, out this previously unreleased footage of the band in producer/engineer Mark Neill (The Black Keys) own Soil of the South Studios HERE.
The music of J. Roddy Walston & The Business honor both their southern roots and punk spirit with a mix of heavy hooks and elegant melodies, revealing their affinity for artists as disparate as Led Zeppelin, pre-disco-era Bee Gees, The Replacements, Randy Newman, and the Southern soul outfits that once populated the Stax Records label.
Tour Dates
2/1 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center
2/23 – Glasgow, UK – Broadcast
2/24 – Bristol, UK – Louisiana
2/25 – London, UK – The Borderline
2/26 – Manchester, UK – Night & Day Café
4/11 – 4/13 Indio, CA – Coachella, Weekend 1
4/18 – 4/20 – Indio, CA – Coachella, Weekend 2
4/21 – Tuscon, AZ – Rialto Theater%
4/22 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater%
4/24 – San Antonio, TX – White Rabbit%
4/25 – Houston, TX – House of Blues%
5/2 – Raleigh, NC – Red Hat Amphitheater*%
5/4 – Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre*%
5/6 – New York, NY – Terminal 5*%
5/10 – Richmond, VA – The National*%
5/13 – Toronto, ON – Kool Haus*%
5/14 – Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom*%
5/15 – Saint Paul, MN – Myth Live Event Center*%
5/17 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre*%
5/18 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex*%
5/20 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater*%
% with Cage the Elephant
* with Foals
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