Van Hunt has put up some tour dates for September and October! Check them out! I'll be a both NYC shows.

http://www.vanhunt.com/un...-the-road/

I got this email yesterday. I can do the first NY show, but probably not the second. I've been to Southpaw before and it's a nice intimate venue, but I'm anticipating having to work late that night.

he's coming to Austin! I def will be going to see him for the first time.

I hate driving to VA, but for Van... I'll be there

Now that's what I'm talkin' about! Saw him listed for VA and put it on my calendar immediately.

thekidsgirl said:

AlexdeParis said:

thekidsgirl said:

I hate driving to VA, but for Van... I'll be there

You should come to Richmond and we can have a meetup!

That could be fun. I wonder if there are enough MD/DC/VA orgers (who are cool) to have a little "invasion"

Tickets on sale now for most shows!

From Brooklyn Southpaw:

With his new What Were You Hoping For?, Van Hunt employs a spare but dizzyingly vibrant meld of day-glo psychedelic soul laced with glammed-up riffs and the acerbic energy of punk. A joint venture between the Nashville-based Thirty Tigers and Hunt’s own label, godless-hotspot, the album sees the Grammy-winning musician/songwriter/producer turning up the volume on his genre-smashing songcraft and the results are altogether gripping. From the breakneck “Watching You Go Crazy Is Driving Me Insane” and “A Time Machine Is My New Girlfriend” to the metallic k.o. of the album’s first single,“Eyes Like Pearls,” Hunt unleashes a sound that reverberates with caustic wit, passion, and the thrilling excitement of an artist operating at the peak of his powers. Careening with exhilarating intensity and frenetic, inventive musicality, What Were You Hoping For? is Van Hunt’s most daring and provocative work to date.

“I’m really excited about this record,” Hunt says. “I love the way it sounds. I’m nervous about the way it’ll be received, even by big Van Hunt fans, and I think that’s good. I want the record to be disruptive.”

Hunt both produced and played, with former drummer Ruthie Price his only accompaniment. Together they constructed a series of tracks radiating raw power and vivid color, later enlisting keyboardist/programmer Peter Dyer to “build a landscape of sound around the songs.” Hunt declares the record’s minimalist approach to be “musically adept but also stringently unique. People might describe it as futuristic.”

Hunt’s low-key line of attack only serves to further amplify his audacious songwriting, his lyrical eye for detail as sharp and quick as his camera. Songs like the meaty beaty “North Hollywood” or the beguiling title track crackle with all the dissonance and tension of modern life in the golden west.

“All of these elements are coming together to create this combustion,” Hunt says. “My experience of trying to live here and survive myself is really where this record was born.”

“We’re gonna play until we either make a lot of money or run out of it,” Hunt says. Hunt has returned to action invigorated and re-energized, his time in the wilderness spurring on his already ambitious sound and vision. What Were You Hoping For? marks a genuine milestone for Van Hunt, the moment in which this sonic adventurer lit out for territories all his own.

“I feel like I’ve finally shed the music that I grew up with,” he says. “I made a record that doesn’t sound like anything I’ve heard before.”

thekidsgirl said:

AlexdeParis said:

thekidsgirl said: You should come to Richmond and we can have a meetup!

That could be fun. I wonder if there are enough MD/DC/VA orgers (who are cool) to have a little "invasion"

Depends where you're trying to invade...