Co-headlining April Tour Dates
Two of the best rising acts in the country will pair together for a string of April Dates. If you aren’t familiar with Moon Taxi, buckle up & brace yourself to Ride the Moon Taxi. They ARE one of the best national touring acts, they ARE primed for the big-stage, and bring aggressive jaw-dropping performances with their growing songwriting skills accompanied by improvisational dexterity only the best of bands deliver in the live setting. You are missing out and we feel sorry for those of you who have yet to Ride the Moon Taxi. Change that and catch them on this tour.
Similarly, the Revivalists are another incredible New Orleans act that is capturing the ears of fans across the country. They’re ready to bring soul, funk, and rock to your favorite venues across the country. You will be hearing more from them in the near future. Here at Live Music Daily we have thoroughly enjoyed watching the progression of this act.
In all this tour in April is going to be hands down a highlight tour in the live music community during the month of April, get ready.
In case you missed it the first time check out our interview with Trevor Terndrup (Guitar, Vocals) and Tom Putnam (Bass) of Moon Taxi Mountains Beaches Cities, their short-term & long-term ambitions as a group, and their evolution as a band. Read Here
April Tour Dates
April 3 | Auburn, AL @ Skybar
April 4 | Charleston, SC @ North Charleston Performing Arts Center
April 7 | Augusta, GA @ Jessye Norman Amphitheater
April 9 | Baton Rouge, LA @ Varsity Theatre
April 10 | Oxford, MS @ The Lyric
April 13 | Ft Lauderdale, FL @ Tortuga Music Festival
April 16 | Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live
April 17 | Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bowl
April 18 | Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bowl
April 19 | Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
Moon Taxi
For the members of Moon Taxi, their third album, Mountains Beaches Cities, represents the idea of exploration – searching both the world and themselves for new experiences. The Nashville rock group, who had honed in on a notably compelling aesthetic with their previous album Cabaret, focused on extending the sonic landscape they’d created in earlier recordings, but this time around they amp up the speed and turn up the volume – creating an overall bigger sound.
The album was self-produced by Moon Taxi’s own guitarist Spencer Thomson with the help of keyboardist Wes Bailey and was mixed by Vance Powell (Jack White, The Dead Weather) and mastered by Greg Calbi (Talking Heads, Paul Simon, Fleet Foxes). “One thing we didn’t want to do was stray too far from what we did before,” Wes says. “We really knew that things for the band had shifted in a good direction and we were growing because of our last record. We wanted to continue the energy we created from that record.” “Like Cabaret, this project started with rough demos that slowly evolved into a statement from not just the initial songwriter, but evolved into a representation of what each of us individually have experienced in this band and how we’ve grown over the years as players,” Tyler adds.
The band, which was founded in 2006, toured extensively in support of Cabaret, appearing at Bonnaroo, Forecastle, and Lollapalooza. Additionally, they have opened for such artists as Matisyahu, Dr. John, and Dirty Heads, and ended 2012 selling out multiple theaters on their own. While on the road, the musicians began to stockpile song ideas and demos, inspired by the trials and tribulations of traveling around the country to play shows. In early 2013, the band went into the studio to begin recording Mountains Beaches Cities with these touring experiences in mind. Much of the recording was done in Spencer’s apartment with only a few days of drum and bass riffs laid down in Nashville’s Sony Tree studio. Although Mountains Beaches Cities feels like an extension of Cabaret’s aesthetic, the new album is explorative, and its lyrics recount a new narrative for the musicians.
The Revivalists
The formation of The Revivalists was all about chance, but everything since then has been a combination of hard work, awesome music, and friendship. The septet has been playing nonstop since 2007, crafting a genre-hopping sound that rounds out traditional rock instrumentation with horns and pedal steel guitar and mixes the divergent backgrounds of its individual members with the humid, funky undercurrents of the band’s New Orleans home. The result is like English spoken with an exotic accent: familiar, yet difficult to pin down.
Religion aside, a revival is all about the tangible electricity that can only be created when enough like minds are crammed under a single roof for a singular purpose. It’s a spiritual spectacle, a carnival of the divine, a whole greater than the sum of its parts. The same could be said for The Revivalists’ searing live performances. The band has a knack for bringing music to life on a stage, and they have tuned their talents to Swiss-watch precision over years of relentless touring. Their bombastic showmanship is the outgrowth of a desire to connect with audiences on a personal level, and that intimate connection is what elevates their shows above simple entertainment.
True to their name, The Revivalists lean more heavily on the older styles and warmer sounds of the golden age of rock ‘n roll, but the band isn’t afraid to dabble in electronics and sleight-of-studio when it’s right for the song. The group tends not to bother with questions like “does this sound like us?” or “does this fit with our other stuff?”, instead allowing songs to define themselves and take shape organically, each on its own terms. Is this a dark, heavy rock manifesto driven by a steel guitar line that borders on electronica, or is it an airy, acoustic story about star-crossed lovers, rich in vocal harmony and sparsely arranged until the coda? This one’s funky, that one’s sweet, this one’s heavy….
To The Revivalists, it doesn’t matter. They just write songs that they want to play.