Ezra Furman

Hey just runnin’ a small business over here - perhaps you’d like to support us? All ya gotta do is pre-order our record from this website and thus receive a physical copy of this creation that I feel so proud of called TWELVE NUDES. We got the vinyl, the CD, the digital, what chu neeeeed. There are worthwhile liner notes, cool art, lyrics, a gatefold thingy. All done in collaboration with Cristina Daura, amazing Spanish artist who visually captured the particular visceral madness of this record with her iconic drawings. I’m proud of what we’ve created! Get in on this! Hell, buy a T-shirt while you’re at it! (BTW: “12 Nudes”-related shirt designs coming soon, they are super cool yer gonna love em but so are the old designs so don’t be shy) https://www.ezrafurman.com/merch

Hello just posting to say don’t forget that I exist please - and that you can express that unforgetting that I exist by preordering our album (da link in the bio) and/or buying tickets to our many upcoming shows, see Ezra furman dot com for details. This is me last month on the red line in Chicago, my hometown - playing Lincoln hall on September 7th by the way, two days after my dang birthday which is also Freddy Mercury’s birthday (the 5th). Okay I will stop with the babbling now thank you and have a good day

Enormous thanks to the UK - everyone who came to our shows this past week and a half. Wales, Norwich, Sheffield and, of course, our poor sweet London. I had the best time. IN THE MEANTIME we’ve just announced more UK dates, happening in November! Tickets go on sale tomorrow! Glasgow Manchester Bristol London. Sell ‘em out for us and we’ll keep coming back! We love ya!! Oh and don’t forget to preorder our album so it’s firmly melted into your brain by the time you come see us (LINK IN BIO)

We're coming back to the UK and Europe in November! Here's where we're playing: Monday 11th November - Glasgow, QMU, UK Tuesday 12th November - Manchester, Albert Hall, UK Wednesday 13th November - Bristol, O2 Academy Bristol, UK Thursday 14th November - London, O2 Forum Kentish Town Saturday 16th November - Luxor, Cologne, DE Sunday 17th November - Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE Tuesday 19th November - La Maroquinerie, Paris, FR Friday 20th November - Botanique / Rotonde, Brussels, BE Saturday 21st November - Paradiso Noord, Amsterdam, NL Monday 23rd November - Molotow, Hamburg, DE Tuesday 24th November - Vega, Copenhagen, DK Wednesday 25th November - Pustervik, Gothenburg, SE Thursday 26th November - Debaser Strand, Stockholm, SE Ticket pre-order: https://www.ezrafurman.com/live

Surprise London. We’re playing a show in Dalston tomorrow night. The Shacklewell Arms, where I’ve witnessed many a grimy rocknroll show and am proud to now present our own. I love little pub venues and I hope you will come to see us at this one. Tickets won’t last long. Mwah Tickets: https://bit.ly/2IcwPpI

Our new song “Calm Down” is going to be discussed on this show tonight! BBC 6 Music, coming through for us once again. I have not heard this show? Is it a good show? Do they ever talk about songs and decide they hate them and asks that none of their audience ever listen to that artist again? That would be bad

Thank you Wales for last night. That was just what I needed. Thanks Hay-On-Wye for including our version of literature at your literary festival. It was an honor

Hi honey. We have new music. Look up “Ezra furman Calm Down” and you will find the music video @du.blonde made for our new song “Calm Down.” We have a new record coming out in August and you can preorder it from Bella Union. It’s called 12 Nudes and it’s very good. Come to our shows. Ezra furman dot com. Yaaaaa

Behold, our new freaked-out banger “CALM DOWN” (with a wild video by friend/co-conspirator Beth Jeans Houghton), the first single from our next record TWELVE NUDES, out August 30th and available for pre-order now: http://smarturl.it/ef_twelve I am very fired up about this record. It is essentially a slice of pure agitated rage. It is the punk album I have always dreamed of making. It is about the refusal to accept this poisoned world, and admitting how bad it feels to live in it sometimes. We hope to use visceral negativity like a controlled forest fire to clear a space for the alternate reality we can and must build together. We recorded this in October and November 2018 as the world burned. We were in West Oakland at Coyote Hearing studio, with the brilliant Trevor Brooks engineering. We drank and smoked and did everything fast. I screamed ‘til I got sick. We made something of which I am very proud. We are, naturally, going on tour in the US and Europe—and probably other places later. These shows will be seizures of power, mass healing scream therapy, expositions of our fragile treasures and our smoldering meteorites. Here are the places you can come see us do this live, with renewed fury and evolved style: www.ezrafurman.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLecVxlnZG8

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Ezra Furman

Tomorrow is our big news day, we have multiple things to tell you. It's a good feeling to have a good secret you're about to tell. It makes me feel playful and powerful. Only because I know some of you will care, for which I am very grateful. Rock'n'roll is a fun thing to be involved in. The more you get into it the more fun it is. So thanks for being into it. Talk to you tomorrow, Luv Ezra

New music is coming sooon ...

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Thank you to everyone who showed up in person to my shows on the West Coast this week with Pancho Morris @panchomorris (and one with Girl Friday @girlfridaytm ). They were our first shows in six months and it felt like a lot of our band’s identity was riding on them being good. They were better than good. They were great, and your presence in the room with us made them great. As I often say to people after our shows, you could stay home and listen to our music for free. The fact that you show up and lay down your hard-earned money makes my dream-come-true occupation a possibility. Thank you also to my band, we who labor together to make songs burn brightly in real time again and again, discovering new depths of rhythm and harmony each time, and deepening our connection with one another daily. Same goes for Trevor who did sound for us, quietly and expertly making us loud and ugly and beautiful, as the moment requires. A new friend and fellow soldier in this joyful battle. Thank you also to Pancho ( @panchomorris ), who deeply understands the near-holy exchange between artist and audience and is a hell of a performer, songwriter and friend. Go buy his music, because it's more than worth it. Thank you to all the people who work at venues and make a container in which magic can happen: the lights, the hospitality, the house sound, the maintenance, the management, the food, the drinks. Thanks to everyone. I love this stuff. Photo by @seattlekirk

Hi everyone. You should know we’re going on KEXP today in Seattle at noon (Pacific time). A legendary radio station. I’ve listened to and watched tens, maybe hundreds of KEXP sessions. We’re honored to get to do one of our own. So. You can listen live at 90.3 FM in Seattle, and worldwide at KEXP.org. You can hear the performance in KEXP’s streaming archive for two weeks after the broadcast. Thanks for listening, thanks for your support. It means a lot. Makes this whole lil dream possible. Thank you. This picture has nothing to do with anything. It is something I found on the sidewalk in Los Angeles. -Ezra

Thank Los Angeles for last night at the Teragram. Thank you @teragramla for having us and being one of my favorite rooms to play in. Thanks to all the people who come support us and pour out their hearts or just have a good time while I pour out mine and play rocknroll. We’re playing Slim’s in San Francisco tonight. What a dream. See you there, no holds barred, claws out

Went to this show last night. We are so lucky this band exists. Missed Le Butcherettes to my dismay. But damn. The world needs Bikini Kill and all they have to offer. See you tomorrow at the Teragram Los Angeles for our own version of revolution tomgirl style ..... (Footnote: I am a tomgirl you can call me that if anyone asks about my gender)

Gettin ready for our return to the Teragram Saturday night in Los Angeles. Should we do a set of all a cappella Steely Dan covers? Let me know what you think

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From 2012, our 2nd tour as a band. Our west coast tour starts tomorrow! Good god i am excited to play again. First time since early November. Are you coming? US Tour Dates: 5/1/19 La Santa Santa Ana, CA 5/4/19 Teragram Ballroom Los Angeles, CA 5/5/19 Slim's San Francisco, CA 5/7/19 The Wise Hall Vancouver, BC Canada 5/8/19 Tractor Tavern Seattle, WA 5/9/19 Aladdin Theater Portland, OR (We were so little. This is in the parking lot outside the Loving Touch in Ferndale, Michigan. Photo by perennial tour buddy @wskent .... Oh and later, in Europe: May 29th - The Waterfront Norwich,United Kingdom May 30th - The Foundry Sheffield,United Kingdom June 2nd - All Points East festival London,United Kingdom. July 23rd - Cyprus Avenue Cork, Ireland July 24th - Button Factory Dublin, Ireland July 28th - Deer Shed Festival Topcliffe, UK

We’re just over three weeks away from our first shows since November and I’m EAGER. This great poster by @cdaura explains it all. Some of these shows are nearly sold out! Also. I would like to note that a number of these shows are ALL AGES - Santa Ana, Los Angeles and Portland to be specific, and Vancouver is 19+. Please come see us we are ever so lonesome. And freaking @panchomorris is playing and he is just fantastic

At last we can announce our little run of UK dates at the end of June! We are so excited to come back to the Kingdom and so excited to show you this amazing poster by the amazing @cdaura ... also coming up, though not on this poster, is the Deer Shed Festival on 26-28 July in Topcliffe, UK in North Yorkshire. So there’s that if you can’t make any of these dates. Or even if you can. These shows are going to be great and we’re going to play you new songs and I’m just feeling really fired up to get back out there and scream

We are pleased to inform you that we’ll be playing All Points East festival in London on Sunday, June 2nd. It’s a delight to be on a list of bands like this with my name in a font this large. We plan to be the best band there. Whether that works out for us or not, it’s going to be a good show. For thus I decree. Tickets here: https://apefe.st/bonivertix

First, we are going on tour on the US west coast, May 1st through May 10th. Dates below; it’s gonna be lit. Second of all. This is a picture of me by @colinlanephoto - who took many a picture of @thestrokes that I drooled over when I was fifteen. It was a thrill to take photos with him. I still think of he face Julian Casablancas made in the liner notes photo of him for Is This It? any way US Tour Dates: 5/1/19 Marty's On Newport Tustin, CA 5/4/19 Teragram Ballroom Los Angeles, CA 5/5/19 Slim's San Francisco, CA 5/7/19 The Wise Hall Vancouver, BC Canada 5/8/19 Tractor Tavern Seattle, WA 5/9/19 Aladdin Theater Portland, OR