I had this great idea to write a whole news story making fun of Throw Me The Statue’s band name -- something about how they maybe picked it after one of the guys was, uh, throwing a statue or something like that. But then I looked up their Wikipedia entry and found out that the Wiki gods state the band likely took its name from the 1984 movie, Romancing The Stone. Um, what the fuck, Wikipedia?! Thanks for ruining my story idea! I still don't know exactly how Throw Me The Statue relates to the film -- I was born a year after it was released and don’t spend my free time watching Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner movies from the 80s -- but feel free to email and enlighten me.
In more relevant news, Throw Me The Statue have a new album coming out August 4 on Secretly Canadian. Creaturesque is its name, and the tracklisting is as follows:
1. Waving At The Shore
2. Pistols
3. Tag
4. Ancestors
5. Noises
6. Snowshoes
7. Dizzy From The Fall
8. Cannibal Rays
9. Hi-Fi Goon
10. Baby, You're Bored
11. Shade For A Shadow
12. The Outer Folds
Romancing The Tour Dates:
07.11.09 - Seattle, WA - Neumos #
07.31.09 - Seattle, WA - Mural Ampitheatre %
08.23.09 - Spokane, WA - Empyrean Coffee $
08.26.09 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry $
08.27.09 - Urbana, IL - Courtyard Café $
08.28.09 - Madison, WI - The Annex $
08.29.09 - Chicago, IL - Subterranean $
08.30.09 - Toronto, ON - TBA $
08.31.09 - Montreal, QE - Il Motore $
09.01.09 - Boston, MA - Middle East Upstairs $
09.02.09 - NYC, NY - Mercury Lounge $
09.03.09 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's $
09.04.09 - Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel $
09.05.09 - Durham, NC - Duke Coffee House at Duke University $
09.07.09 - Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn $
09.08.09 - Tallahassee, FL - Club Down Under $
09.09.09 - Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon $
09.10.09 - Houston, TX - Rudyards $
09.11.09 - Austin, TX - Mohawk $
09.12.09 - Dallas, TX - Cavern $
09.14.09 - Phoenix, AZ - Modified Arts $
09.15.09 - Los Angeles, CA - Echo $
09.16.09 - San Diego, CA - The Loft $
09.17.09 - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw $
09.18.09 - Sacramento, CA - Luigi's Fun Garden $
# Robin Pecknold
% Blitzen Trapper
$ The Brunettes
