The Black Heart Procession join up with Chelsea Wolfe for a tour made in sad heaven

The Black Heart Procession join up with Chelsea Wolfe for a tour made in sad heaven

From the murkiest depths of sunny California, comes the winter season’s darkest West Coast tour! Long-running sad band The Black Heart Procession are shaking out their gloomiest monk robes and blazing a trail of melancholic indie pop all the way from San Diego on up to Vancouver. Along the way, they’ll be picking up much-buzzed-about Los Angeles-based doomfolk songstress Chelsea Wolfe, and then together these two critical darlings will hit clubs along the West Coast and into the Southwest. It’s the ultimate in summer fun!!!!! But like, if you put summer fun in a freezer alone with just a skeletal tree and a Bauhaus record for company.

So basically this is like a match made in Sad Heaven. (I know, I know — while both group’s aesthetic sensibilities lean toward the spooky, neither one produces particularly gothtacular music.) Wolfe’s Apokalypsis has been lighting music journalists’ hearts afire since it was released late this summer on Pendu Sound Recordings. The boys in Black Heart Procession toured earlier this year with J. Mascis, but haven’t had a studio release out since last year’s Blood Bunny/Black Rabbit EP (TMT Review) for Temporary Residence. So what kind of wacky hijinks will these crazy kids get up to once they all get on the bus? The only thing we can say for sure is MAGICK. MAGICK for all.

Dates:

12.02.11 - San Diego, CA - Casbah
12.03.11 - Los Angeles, CA - Satellite Club
12.04.11 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
12.06.11 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
12.07.11 - Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theatre
12.08.11 - Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern
12.10.11 - Boise, ID - Neurolux
12.11.11 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
12.12.11 - Denver, CO - Hi Dive
12.13.11 - Albuquerque, NM - Low Spirits
12.14.11 - Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom

• The Black Heart Procession: http://www.theblackheartprocession.com
• Temporary Residence Ltd.: http://temporaryresidence.com

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