Tennis: January West Coast Tour, Small Sound EP Out Now on Communion Records

TENNIS JANUARY WEST COAST TOUR

SMALL SOUND EP OUT NOW ON COMMUNION RECORDS

 

“Tennis have broadened their horizons just the right amount,
adding rock’n’roll muscle and a more purely pop clarity.”—Pitchfork

 

“Their dreamy, nostalgic pop laps and recedes like waves hitting the shore.”—The New York Times

“The group turns up the volume and starts downright rocking.”—TIME

Celebrated Denver-based husband and wife duo Tennis will continue to tour to support their new EP Small Sound with a run of dates in January on the West Coast. The band is currently the headlining act on the November run of Communion’s monthly club night series in nine cities with additional performances in several markets including Chicago, Toronto and their beloved Denver. The new EP which is out now is the bands first collaboration with Communion Records. Please see below for a full list of tour dates.

 

Small Sound follows their much lauded full-length efforts, 2011’s Cape Dory and 2012’s Young and Old. Four of the tracks were produced by Richard Swift (Foxygen, The Shins, The Mynabirds) with the fifth track “Cured of Youth” produced by Jim Eno (Spoon, Polica, Gayngs). The band inked a new deal with Communion Records and will return to the studio to work on new music for a Spring 2014 full-length album. Small Sound is available as a limited 10” vinyl release, as well as CD and digital formats—all of which can be purchased directly from the band’s website, www.tennis-music.com. Noisey recently premiered their lyric video for the song “Mean Streets” which can be viewed HERE and shared HERE.

 

Tennis was born aboard Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley’s nearly seven-month sailing trip. Upon returning home, the duo began writing music together as a way to document the history of their shared experience. The result was Cape Dory, an intimate and concise recollection of life on a 30-foot sloop.

 

Moore and Riley followed Cape Dory with Young and Old, which The New York Times called “striking indie-pop” and The New Yorkerdescribed as “winsome as it is ebullient.” The album debuted #1 on Billboard’s Heatseeker Chart, #1 on CMJ Top 200, where it remained for three weeks in a row and debuted on Soundscan’s “New Artist Chart” at #1, remaining there for nine consecutive weeks. The band performed on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “Conan” and “Last Call with Carson Daly.”

 

TENNIS TOUR

January 3                                                Salt Lake City, UT                                            Kilby Court

January 4                                                       Boise, ID                                                       Neurolux

January 5                                                    Portland, OR                                    Mississippi Studios

January 6                                                   Vancouver, BC                                                      Fortune

January 7                                                     Seattle, WA                                                        Barboza

January 10                                              San Francisco, CA                                   Bottom of the Hill

January 11                                               Los Angeles, CA                                             The Satellite

January 12                                                 San Diego, CA                                                   Soda Bar

January 13                                                   Phoenix, AZ                                       Crescent Ballroom

January 15                                                    Austin, TX                                                    The Parish

January 16                                                    Dallas, TX                                                     Club Dada

January 17                                                  Norman, OK                                                         Opolis

January 18                                               Kansas City, MO                                              Record Bar