RECENT TV PERFORMANCES INCLUDE “LETTERMAN”, “LENO” AND
“CARSON DALY”
YOUNG AND OLD OUT ON FAT POSSUM RECORDS
“It’s winsome as it is ebullient.”—The New Yorker
“The group turns up the volume and starts downright
rocking.”—Time Magazine
“Their dreamy, nostalgic pop laps and recedes like waves
hitting the shore.”—The New York Times
“Toughened by garage-rock production from The Black Keys
Patrick Carney.”—Rolling Stone
“Lyrically, the album’s wider in scope, musically it’s
tighter and more muscular.”—Billboard
“Tennis have broadened their horizons just the right amount,
adding rock’n’roll muscle and a more purely pop clarity.”—Pitchfork
Denver-based Tennis will kick off their
summer U.S. tour with a hometown show on June 16 at The Chautauqua
Auditorium in Boulder. The band will tour with Sharon
Van Etten while playing select solo dates including Outside
Lands, The El Rey Theater in Los Angeles and a performance at The
Pygmalion Festival. Please see full list of tour dates below.
Since the release of their sophomore album Young
and Old, the band has performed on “The Late Show with David
Letterman,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and “Last Call with
Carson Daly”. Young and Old, out now on Fat Possum
Records, debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Heatseeker
Chart, #1 on CMJ Top 200, where
it remained for three weeks in a row and debuted on Soundscans “New
Artist Chart” at #1 remaining there for nine consecutive weeks.
The band recently performed on KCRW’s “Morning
Becomes Eclectic” on May 23. Their music has been featured in television
programs “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Revenge” and “The Secret Circle”
and included in Tory Burch and Marc Jacobs online
promotions.
For their new album guitarist Patrick Riley, vocalist Aliana
Moore and drummer James Barone headed to Nashville to work with The
Black Keys’ Patrick Carney. Carney noted “I am really proud to say I
worked on the new Tennis album. I think they are a really talented band, and
it’s exciting to work with a band whose trying to move forward. Patrick, Alaina
and James have great ideas—everything really comes together on this record.”
TENNIS TOUR
*with Paper Bird
**with Sharon Van Etten
June
16 Chautauqua
Auditorium
Boulder, CO*
July
28 The
Mill Iowa
City, IA
July
29 Lincoln
Hall Chicago,
IL
July
31 Phoenix
Concert
Theater
Toronto, ON**
August 2
Turner Hall
Ballroom
Milwaukee, WI**
August
3 High Noon
Saloon
Madison, WI
August
4 First
Avenue
Minneapolis, MN**
August
7 The Neptune
Theater
Seattle, WA**
August 8
Aladdin
Theater
Portland, OR**
August
10 Outside
Lands Music & Arts
Fesival San
Francisco, CA
August
12 El Rey
Theater Los
Angeles, CA
August
13
Constellation
Room Santa
Ana, CA
August
14 Belly Up
Tavern Solana
Beach, CA**
August
15 The
Crescent
Ballroom
Phoenix, AZ**
August
17 Urban
Lounge Salt
Lake City, UT**
September
27/29
Pygmalion Music Festival
Champaign, IL/Cincinnati, OH
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