Reptar are thrilled to announce that they have signed to Vagrant Records, who will be working in partnership with Make Records Not Bombs on the upcoming Oblangle Fizz Y'all EP. The EP is due out digitally on August 2nd and an early taste of the EP is streaming on the bands Soundcloud pagehttp://soundcloud.com/reptarathens .
The band will later take to the road to support the Oblangle Fizz Y'all EP by playing both Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits music festivals. A nationwide tour with Foster The People and Cults will immediately follow ACL festival in September. See all current dates below.
Hailing from the greater Athens-Atlanta-Asheville area, Reptar has been playing music ever since recorded history, but playing shows as Reptar since December 2008. Since then, the fast rising fabulous four has created quite a sensation around the Southeast. It all started with their debut 7" recorded with producer Ben Allen (Sean P. Diddy Combs, Gnarls Barkley, Animal Collective, and Matt & Kim) and released on Allen's label Make Records Not Bombs: http://mrnb.bigcartel.com/.
Reptar likes to first and foremost make people dance, and have been likened to The Talking Heads, Animal Collective, Prince, Marky Mark, Lake, Air, and the Jackson 5. The band is made up of Andrew McFarland, a Brazilian native, classically trained snare drummer, and sophmore at UGA, Ryan Engleberger, who currently attends Dartmouth College in the Artic Circle majoring in Jaco Pastorius’ fretless bass, Graham Ulicny, a hernianted African Soukous guitarist and AstroBioElectroPhysics student at the University of North Carolina in Asheville, and William Kennedy, greatgodson to Herbie Hancock’s ARP 2600 and connosiour of fine chocolate (85% cocao or above) and sophmore at UGA. With Reptar's powers combined, they can topple small buildings, smaltzy restaurants, and shmuppy next-door-neighbors with their devastating wall of synthesizers and samples.
Tracklisting
1. Blast Off
2. Rainbounce
3. Context Clues
4. Stuck In My Id
5. Phonetics
Tour Dates
September 15 – House of Blues – Dallas, TX * ^
September 16 - Austin City Limits Music Festival -- Austin, TX
September 17 – House of Blues – Houston, TX * ^
September 19 – House of Blues – New Orleans, LA *
September 20 – Beacham Theatre – Orlando, FL *^
September 21 – Masquerade – Atlanta, GA *^
September 23 – The National – Richmond, VA *^
September 26 – 9:30 Club – Washington DC *
September 29 – House of Blues – Boston, MA *^
September 27 - Terminal 5 - New York, NY *
October 1 – Sound Academy – Toronto, ON *
October 2 – Newport Music Hall – Columbus, OH *^
October 4 – The Vogue – Indianapolis, IN *^
October 6 – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN *^
October 7 - The Aquarium - Fargo, ND
October 9- Showbox at the Market- Seattle, WA*
October 10 - Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC*
October 15 - The Wiltern - Los Angeles, CA
October 18 - The Wiltern - Los Angeles, CA
October 23 – Chicago, IL – Metro **
October 24 – Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon **
October 26 – Minneapolis, MN – First Ave **
October 27 – Omaha, NE – Waiting Room **
October 28 – Denver, CO – Marquis Theatre **
November 01 – Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s **
November 02 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore **
November 03 – Santa Barbara, CA – Soho **
November 04 – Los Angeles, CA – The Music Box **
November 05 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent **
November 08 – Dallas, TX – The Loft **
November 09 – Austin, TX – Mohawk **
November 10 – Houston, TX – Fitzgeralds **
November 11 – Baton Rouge, LA – Spanish Moon **
November 12 – Birmingham, AL – Workplay Theatre **
November 13 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade **
* w/ Foster the People
^ w/ Cults
** w/ Phantogram
For more information on Reptar please visit their Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/reptarmusic
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