White Denim

Sighted Men is a loose collective of 15 musicians arranged by Daniel Dufour, Steve Terebecki, and James Petralli that will improvise in various combinations over the course of the evening of June 14 at the Radio Milk Recording Company. Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4254199 There will be two drum sets, percussion, acoustic and electric pianos, upright and electric basses, pedal steel, electric guitars, vibraphone, trombones, saxophone, and trumpet on the stage with musicians entering and exiting as the music demands. This will be a night of musical exploration and freedom showcasing some of the city’s finest improvisers. All of the players on this gig are so very heavy and we are thrilled to be able to host such an event. We will be capturing the performance inside the studio with intent to further expand the music in post production and manufacture and release vinyl records down the road. Art by Will Gaynor.

Thanks to everyone who came out to see us last week! We'll be back in the UK 29 July - 3 August: Portsmouth, Cardiff, Sheffield, Oxford (all with Boy Azooga supporting) and London for Visions Festival. https://whitedenimmusic.com/live Manchester photos by Anthony Harrison.

Heading back out this week! Red Rocks on June 1 with Moe. and Mike Gordon, then 3 UK shows. https://whitedenimmusic.com/live 1 Jun - Morrison, CO 5 Jun - Edinburgh, UK 6 Jun - Hebden Bridge, UK (sold out) 7 Jun - Manchester, UK 📷 Cook Camera

Sighted Men is a loose collective of 15 musicians arranged by Daniel Dufour, Steve Terebecki, and James Petralli that will improvise in various combinations over the course of the evening of June 14 at the Radio Milk Recording Company. There will be two drum sets, percussion, acoustic and electric pianos, upright and electric basses, pedal steel, electric guitars, vibraphone, trombones, saxophone, and trumpet on the stage with musicians entering and exiting as the music demands. This will be a night of musical exploration and freedom showcasing some of the city’s finest improvisers. All of the players on this gig are so very heavy and we are thrilled to be able to host such an event. We will be capturing the performance inside the studio with intent to further expand the music in post production and manufacture and release vinyl records down the road. Ticket link in bio

https://whitedenimmusic.com/live

This Tuesday, April 30th at 11:15am PT / 2:15pm ET / 7:15pm BST we’ll be live on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic! Stream live at https://facebook.com/kcrw

Thanks, San Francisco! LA tonight and Saturday, San Diego on Sunday. Tonight is sold out but still a few tickets left for Sat and Sun @ The Independent

New UK summer shows now on sale! https://whitedenimmusic.com/live

Thanks Seattle!! Also, tickets for our new UK summer shows are on sale today at https://whitedenimmusic.com/live

'Hallelujah Strike Gold', recorded live during SXSW 2019 at Patreon's House of Creativity. New UK tour dates announced this week! USA & Canada tour starts April 17. https://whitedenimmusic.com/live Created by Patreon Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Jonathan Kirchner Edited by Alexa Melo Shot by Plaid Pony Design by Alex Capasso Produced by Jane Kwett & SaraRose Fathi Directed by Joe Barham

Returning to the UK this summer! Keep a lookout for a London festival announcing tomorrow 👀 Very excited to have the excellent Boy Azooga joining us on a lot of these shows. Tickets for the new shows go on sale this Thursday at 9am from https://whitedenimmusic.com/live

Still tix left for this tomorrow! It’s gonna be nice out! https://m.bpt.me/event/4197180

Two new festival shows added in Norway this July! https://whitedenimmusic.com

Back on tour next week! 4/17 Seattle 4/18 Bellingham 4/19 Vancouver 4/20 Portland (sold out) 4/21 Portland (only a few left!) 4/23 Petaluma 4/24 Sacramento 4/25 San Francisco (sold out) 4/26 Los Angeles (sold out) 4/27 Los Angeles 4/28 Solana Beach w/ Son of Stan on the PNW shows w/ Once and Future Band on the CA shows Tickets: https://whitedenimmusic.com/live 📷 Lloyd Winters

9. ‘Introduce Me’ was written mostly on a Roland SP-404 in late 2014. The first sample I put down was the drum intro from a song called ‘Chief Kamanawanalea’ by The Turtles from an album called Battle of the Bands. (Greg Clifford replaced it with plenty of variation in case you are reading Flo and Eddie...plz don’t sue us. Love to take you to lunch next time we’re in Nashville🙂) The concept of this Turtles record as well as 25 o’clock by The Dukes of Stratosphear have remained super influential to us from 2006 to today. There were also some heavy Band of Gypsies and Beastie’s Check Your Head references getting thrown around when we were working on this tune. -JP 'Side Effects' is out now! https://whitedenim.lnk.to/SideEffects

Many thanks to the fine folks at BBC Radio 6 Music for featuring ‘Side Effects’ as their Album of the Day! Tune in throughout the day to hear cuts from the record. Keep a lookout for some UK tour news on the way soon 👀

+SF sold out! 'Side Effects' out now https://whitedenim.lnk.to/SideEffects

8. ‘Head Spinning’ is deeply indebted to both ‘Uncontrollable Urge’ by Devo and ‘Neat Neat Neat’ by The Damned. These are desert island Rock and Roll tunes for me. In terms of energy and construction this is one of my favorite songs that White Denim has released to date. When we started making music together back in 2👀4 we were called Parque Touch. Our singer, Byshop Massive, wore eyeliner and a sequined white glove on one hand which he used to occasionally touch the faces of people we planted in the audience (also pretty much the only people ever in attendance at PT gigs)...We are talking about finally finishing the Parque Touch record this year or next. ‘Head Spinning’ will definitely be updated on that record. -JP

'Side Effects' is out today! https://whitedenim.lnk.to/SideEffects Limited edition clear vinyl available in your local record shop or online. Thank you to the incredible musicians and engineers who made this record with us, and to all of you for listening. West Coast USA tour dates coming up in April + new 2019 shows brewing for UK/EU and East Coast USA.

'Side Effects' Out Now! https://whitedenim.lnk.to/SideEffects

6. Reversed Mirror - ‘Mirrored in Reverse’ from ‘fits’ was a live staple for us for many years. We would improvise on the intro for a few minutes each night. Lots of ideas came out of those improvisations, and we mashed a bunch of them together for this version. Basically anytime we play a droning shuffle in E we can’t help but quote ourselves a little bit. There’s a nod to Frank Zappa’s ‘King Kong’ and Yes’ ‘Heart of the Sunrise’ in there as well. This one is out now, full album out Friday!

Bring the whole family to Radio Milk to see the Radio Milk Wrecking Crew play the songs of the Grateful Dead! 11AM and 1PM on April 7! More info and tickets at https://radiomilkrecording.com/#details Poster art by Will Gaynor

Track 3 ‘Shanalala’ was started after the Corsicana Lemonade tour as a JP demo with drum machines and synths. ‘Side Effects’ is built around this tune in some ways. We always liked the song but were waiting for the right context. The final recording has (former touring member) Jordan Richardson on drums. Very excited to have his solo project Son of Stan out on the first few shows of this upcoming April run!

More ‘Side Effects’ previews! Track 2 is ‘Hallelujah Strike Gold’. It’s not in the clip here, but the riff at the top of this song is from a White Denim song called ‘Paint Silver Gold’ from 05/06. Also not in the clip is a grammy-worthy pig squeal by Steve. Guess you’ll have to pre-save/pre-order to hear it 😬. We played this one on the UK tour, with Daniel McNeill (who also engineered the initial tracking) live-squealing from the mix position through a delay pedal. 🐽

Side Effects is out next Friday the 29th! Pre-save and pre-order: https://whitedenim.lnk.to/SideEffects