Everybody loves garage rock, right? Whether you’re at a summer festival, stuck watching an iPhone commercial on Hulu, or just at some dumpy bar in the middle of nowhere, a ragin’ lo-fi guitar riff inevitably strummed by a dude in tight black skinny jeans will get heads bobbin’ faster than… well, whatever. The point is that EVERYBODY LIKES GARAGE ROCK. You could say that Tempe, AZ five-piece Destruction Unit play damned good garage rock, but that wouldn’t exactly be it: these guys play damned good garage rock from HELL.
And you can consider the band’s first proper studio LP, Deep Trip, your invitation to the hellmouth. Coming atcha August 20, thanks to the space oddities over at Sacred Bones, Deep Trip is the evil sexy lovechild of the men of Destruction Unit and recording wizard Ben Greenberg (and member of The Men, Pygmy Shrews, Hubble, ex-ZS) and studio owl Kyle Keays at Vacation Island in NY. (Warning: Deep Trip will steal your drugs AND your boy/girlfriend.)
In advance of unleashing the new LP into the world, Destruction Unit are touring this summer:
06.10.13 - Winooski, VT - The Monkey House *
06.11.13 - Montreal, Quebec - Il Motore *
06.12.13 - Toronto, ON - Izakaya Sushi House &
06.13.13 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison #
06.14.13 - Taylor, PA - Underwood Skatepark $
06.15.13 - Brooklyn, NY - 285 Kent *
06.16.13 - Brooklyn, NY - Shea Stadium ^
06.17.13 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s *
06.18.13 - Washington, DC - DC9 *
06.19.13 - Richmond, VA - Strange Matter *
06.20.13 - Charlotte, NC - The Milestone *
06.21.13 - Atlanta, GA - 529 Club *
06.22.13 - Gainesville, FL - The Atlantic *
06.23.13 - Miami, FL - Churchill’s *
06.24.13 - Tallahassee, FL - Office Lounge Gallery %
06.25.13 - Memphis, TN - Hi Tone %
06.26.13 - New Orleans, LA - Siberia %
06.27.13 - Houston, TX - Mangos %
06.28.13 - Mcallen, TX - Thirsty Monkey %
06.29.13 - Austin, TX - Beerland %
07.01.13 - El Paso, TX - Lowbrow Palace %
07.05.13 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo @
* Merchandise, Milk Music
# Milk Music, Roomrunner
& Vaginors (Aus)
$ Title Fight
^ Nu Sensae
% Milk Music
@ Oblivians, Milk Music
• Destruction Unit: https://www.facebook.com/pages/DESTRUCTION-UNIT/111553368888795
• Sacred Bones: http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com
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