featuring a super star cast of Seattle bands,
Seattle faves The Blakes add even more tour dates
that will keep them on the road through December!
If you haven't checked out "Ramshackle Hearse,"
play "spot that band" HERE!
Full tour dates below!
Tour Dates
Nov 21 - Senor Burrita Cantina - Lancaster, PA
Nov 22 - TT the Bears - Boston, MA
Nov 23 - Jerky's - Providence, RI
Nov 24 - Valentine's - Albany, NY
Nov 28 - Schuba's - Chicago, IL
Nov 30 - Vaudeville Mews - Des Moines, IA
Dec 3 - The Parlour @ Southgate House - Newport, KY
Dec 4 - Radio Radio - Indianapolis, IN
Dec 5 - Frankies - Toledo, OH
The Blakes also debut their new iPhone App
For More Information Click HERE!
If you missed it, check out their performance of Basket on KEXP during CMJ!
You can listen to all of Souvenir on AOL Spinner HERE!
Spend some time with The Blakes on their new You Tube Channel -
Check out Charmed...YOU MUST!
Who Loves The Blakes?
Don Yates, KEXP
This Seattle band's latest album is another strong set of hook-filled garage-pop incorporating some notable 60s influences (Kinks, Beatles, Stones), highlighted by some gorgeous harmonies while also broadening their sound a bit with a wider variety of song arrangements and instrumentation.
NPR
...similarly primed for success... there's no containing the primal, giddy energy that crackles through it...
It's innocent and raunchy, wide-eyed and tunnel-visioned, all at once.
Blurt
Gritty, ‘60s garage rock is The Blakes' specialty and they've continued down the same path for sophomore LP Souvenir.
Spin
Soak the Kinks in cheap booze, reignite the Stooges' strut and add some
modern Strokes of ambition, and you have the Blakes
Pitchfork
One of the pleasant surprises of the festival were the Blakes, the group blended
Dandy Warhols-ish swampy guitars, twitchy Strokes rhythms, and
power-pop vocal harmonies, offering an energetic and unmannered romp through
modern rock radio. With messy arrangements and a theatrical drummer fond of
the both-sticks-in-the-air poses, their bluesy-cool rock brought a bit of
a dirty nightclub vibe to the sunny (if already very windy) afternoon.
Daytrotter
The same kind of Seattle Band that takes you on with their dirty fast and
dangerous rock-n-roll. They've made Iggy Pop stop and take notice.
All Music Guide
...they nevertheless, on sheer raw musical terms, have the stuff to break
into the big leagues and after hearing them tear it up live, it's hard not to
want to hear a full album of theirs.
Seattle PI
...their live shows definitely credit the band's authenticity and adoration.
Seattle Weekly
The Blakes are incredibly hard workers, earnestly committed to their craft,
and practically academic in their obsession with executing the perfect pop song.
Good stuff to know about The Blakes
The origins of the Blakes are rooted somewhere in the backwoods of central Maine, where brothers Garnet & Snow Keim created a shared ambition to deviate from their seemingly inevitable fates as lifelong paper mill employees (or something of that nature), and try their hands at music.
In the spring of 1999, the duo found themselves in Seattle, where they ended their epic search for a drummer in Bob Husak, who was toiling away as a barista.
From there, the trio took off for the sunny skies of LA landing at the Days Inn in Glendale and recording their first full-length album during the TV off-season at CBS studios.
Here is where they decided to take on the name "The Blakes." The name came to Garnet in a dream after he¹d attended a showing of the works of William Blake.
The newly formed Blakes recorded two EP's in succession. The Bottle was recorded in 2004 and another called Little Whispers in 2005. AND along with a relocation back to Seattle, The Blakes had become notable for their chaotic and highly energetic live shows.
Ever ambitious, the boys recorded over forty songs for their third full length. When it was whittled down, The Blakes personally took several copies over to KEXP, which immediately championed the band and catapulted them to #1 on their charts. They eventually signed to local indie imprint Light in the Attic Records. In the summer of 2007, the label issued an EP, Streets, which featured three album tracks and two exclusives.
In the meantime, the band played several high profile Northwest shows, including appearances at Sasquatch, Bumbershoot and Capitol Hill Block Party and started embarking on cross country national tours.
In Europe, the boys played the TV show Album de la Semaine in France and toured with the Gossip, the Kills and Pete and the Pirates as part of the Musicale en Tournee tour, which was filmed and edited into a TV special
for Canal + and supported the Wombats across the UK. Other touring partners abroad include the Brian Jonestown Massacre in England, France, and Germany.
Festival dates in the US followed including Sasquatch and Bumbershoot, and also performed at Lollapalooza, SXSW, MusicFest NorthWest, CMJ and Sunfest in Miami.
iTunes voted the Blakes album one of the Top 10 records of 2007.
Garnet and Snow put out a full-length record consisting of more introspective songs as BEADS earlier in the year.
Souvenir is out now!
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