Good morning,
We’re excited to announce our largest European tour ever, running through the entire month of February. It’s been far too long since we’ve toured the Continent, so beginning the first of the month, we’ll be playing simultaneous European residencies in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Paris, along with several other shows in places like London, Antwerp, Zurich, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, and Cologne (Köln). Some of these cities, we’ll be visiting for the first time. Others, for the fourth or fifth time (we’re talking to you, Cologne). The last show of the tour will be in Amsterdam on February 28th. As for now, we’re putting the finishing touches on our new album, buffing and waxing, etc. See you in a few..
Photo Credit: Lizzie Roberts
For those of you who are unfamiliar with residencies, this means that we’ll be returning to the same place once a week on the same day of the week for the month of February. To clarify:
Every Monday, we’ll play in Amsterdam.
Every Tuesday, we’ll play in Berlin.
And every Friday, we’ll play in Paris.
The shows in Amsterdam and Berlin will be at the same venue each week (Paradiso and White Trash, respectively), while the Paris venues will change each week.
On Wednesdays and Thursdays, we’ll play shows in various other cities.
One of these performances will be at HMV’s NEXT BIG THING Music Festival at Heaven in London on February 10th. Details below..
EUROPEAN RESIDENCIES IN FEBRUARY:
Tue Feb 1 – Berlin – White Trash – ON SALE DEC 20
Wed Feb 2 – Antwerp – Trix Club – ON SALE DEC 21
Thu Feb 3 – Munster – Gleiss 22 – ON SALE DEC 20
Fri...
Greetings from London,
When we arrived here yesterday, we were exhausted, relieved, and then ecstatic to be back in the U.K., in that order. Despite the jet lag, we rushed out onto the streets and stumbled around in a daze, trying to remember where our favorite things were, to varying degrees of success. A couple years ago, we played our “30 shows in 30 days” tour here, in towns which—when we talk about now—have made the average Londoner scratch his or her head in bewilderment. Aldershot? Cornwall? Fife? Really? Yep. We drank in some very strange pubs, ate more kebabs than we probably should have, got beaten down by weather, and then we returned several more times. So yes, coming back here to the U.K. feels, strangely, like coming home.
Photo Credit: Prue Hyman
ALL I EVER WANTED DVD AVAILABLE NOW ON ITUNES AND AMAZON
Back in our actual home of North America, our documentary film All I Ever Wanted: Live from Walt Disney Concert Hall is finally, officially out TODAY in the U.S. and Canada on DVD and Blu-ray. It has new songs, old songs, random covers, a string quartet, a high school marching band, a children’s choir, a horn section, ballet folklórico dancers, and of course, an accordion player. We hope you enjoy it. We did, though we also almost went crazy putting the whole thing together.
You can buy it on iTunes HERE.
And on Amazon HERE.
SECOND SCREENING ADDED IN LONDON
The Raindance Film Festival has added a second screening of All I Ever Wanted: Live from Walt Disney Concert Hall at the Apollo Cinema in Piccadilly, this Friday, October 1st at 2:30 p.m.
If you’d like to attend, you can buy tickets HERE.
Also, a few tickets are also still available for our premiere this Thursday, September 30th at 7:15 p.m. (at the Apollo Cinema in Piccadilly), which we’ll be attending..
Good morning,
D.C., Boston, Philly, New York, Toronto, Chicago. It’s been a bit of a blur, but the good kind, where you can’t wait to see what happens next, and there’s a string section accompanying you.. We’ve been wandering into cities with our friends and cohorts the Calder Quartet, and setting up our instruments inside some unique, historical sites: a synagogue, a church, a former vaudeville theatre, an old suffragist meeting hall.. We’re still reeling from the experience and currently hurtling across the country, back to the West Coast. Seattle, San Francisco, L.A., we’ll see you in a few.
Sixth and I Historic Synagogue, Washington D.C. (Photo Credit: Corey Mowery)
Tickets for the London premiere of our documentary film All I Ever Wanted: Live from Walt Disney Concert Hall on September 30th at the Apollo Cinema in Piccadilly Circus are available NOW.
You can buy them at the Raindance Film Festival website HERE. Showtime is 7:15 p.m.
OPENING NIGHT LIVE SET IN LONDON
To mark the occasion, we’ll be performing at the Raindance Opening Night Party on September 29th. This is our first U.K. show in nearly a year. It’s been too long, we can’t wait to get back.
NOTE: The venue location has changed. The new venue is now Café De Paris in Piccadilly. All tickets purchased for the previous venue (Heaven) will be honored at the new one. Doors open at 9:00 p.m.
Café De Paris
3-4 Coventry St
London W1D 6BL
For more info, click HERE
CLIPS:
Vevo recently posted the DVD performance of the title track “All I Ever Wanted.” To watch it, click HERE.
Also, AbsolutePunk.net posted a video of our cover of “The Book of Love” by the Magnetic Fields at Disney Hall. It’s a song close to our hearts. You can watch that...
Join the Airborne Toxic Event on September 9 at 7pm EST for the online premiere of a 30 minute excerpt from their documentary film “All I Ever Wanted: Live from Walt Disney Concert Hall.” An on camera camera Q+A with the band and director Jon Danovic will follow. Leave questions now or ask questions to the band LIVE:
Good morning,
It’s a Tuesday morning in Washington D.C. and the tour bus is rumbling with the sounds of string players stirring softly in their sleep. For this tour, we have brought with us the Calder Quartet: world-class players, performers, former Juilliard artists-in-residents. They are accustomed to slightly more formal digs and this is their first time on a crowded tour bus. The smell of string resin and priceless wood commingles with that of stale beer. Ah, tour.
We are the pirates, the cowboys, the lonesome spacemen of our time — dreamily contemplating the view of earth from a rocket-ship bound for the sun.
Photo Credit: Prue Hyman
TONIGHT, is the first show of this special acoustic “we’re-doing-this-because-we-can” tour. We’ll be playing some new songs as well as some old, as well as some very old. We’ll be playing a synagogue (tonight), churches, town centers, small hilly amphitheaters surrounded by coyotes and scrub-pine, the errant swell of viola notes wafting in the air. We look forward to seeing you, we look forward to meeting you, we look forward to adding you to this dizzy mess of spacemen and cowboys, virtuosos and pirates.
TONIGHT, we play the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue starting at 8:00 p.m..
Next: Boston (Somerville), then: Philadelphia (Glenside), New York, Toronto, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. After that: London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Cardiff.
Here’s the deal on tickets:
Tue Sep 7 – Washington, DC – Sixth & I Synagogue – BUY TIX
Wed Sep 8 – Somerville, MA – Somerville Theater – SOLD OUT
Fri Sep 10 – Philadelphia, PA – Keswick Theatre – BUY TIX
Sat Sep 11 – New York, NY – Town Hall – BUY TIX
Mon Sep 13 – Toronto, ON – Trinity St. Paul’s Church – BUY...
Good morning,
It’s a beautiful day here here in L.A. We look forward to seeing you TONIGHT at the premiere of our documentary film All I Ever Wanted: Live from Walt Disney Concert Hall at the Vista Theater in Los Angeles (Los Feliz). It means a lot to us to be able to show the film for the first time in our own neighborhood, where this whole thing got started.. The whole thing starts at 9:00 p.m.
Also, we still have some tickets available for our New York premiere at the Sunshine Theater next week:
Thu Sep 9 – New York, NY – Sunshine Theater (Lower East Side) – BUY TIX
For those of you in London, we’ll be playing the opening night party of the Raindance Film Festival at Heaven, Under the Arches in London. Tickets are on sale now.
Wed Sep 29 – London, UK - Heaven – BUY TIX
CALENDAR:
Los Angeles Movie Premiere:
Thu Sep 2 – Los Angeles, CA - Vista Theater (Los Feliz) – SOLD OUT
New York Movie Premiere:
Thu Sep 9 – New York, NY – Sunshine Theater (Lower East Side) – BUY TIX
Acoustic Evening with the Calder Quartet:
Tue Sep 7 – Washington, DC – Sixth & I Synagogue – BUY TIX
Wed Sep 8 – Somerville, MA – Somerville Theater – BUY TIX
Fri Sep 10 – Philadelphia, PA – Keswick Theatre – BUY TIX
Sat Sep 11 – New York, NY – Town Hall – BUY...
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Good morning,
It’s been a chaotic past few weeks for us here in L.A. We’re winding down the recording and production for our new album and getting ready for our upcoming tour, plus a show this weekend at LouFest this Saturday in St. Louis. Also, Daren got a haircut.
Photo Credit: Prue Hyman
We’re extremely happy to announce three upcoming premieres for our documentary DVD All I Ever Wanted: Live from Walt Disney Concert Hall, in Los Angeles, New York, and London.
We’ll be in attendance at all of them, and we hope you can join us to celebrate the release of this film. A limited number of tickets for the L.A. and New York premieres go on sale exclusively through our website, starting TODAY at 9:00 a.m..
L.A. and New York Premiere:
(tickets can be picked up at will call)
Thu Sep 2 – Los Angeles, CA - Vista Theater (Los Feliz) – BUY TIX
Thu Sep 9 – New York, NY – Sunshine Theater (Lower East Side) – BUY TIX
London Premiere:
Thu Sep 30 – London, UK – Apollo Cinemas – Raindance Film Festival Premiere
The DVD/Live Album and Blu-Ray will now be released in North America on September 28th and in Europe on October 4th. You’ll be able to buy them at all premieres and concerts. All DVDs purchased with the pre-sale tickets for the tour will be sent out the week of September 1st.
Performance at Raindance Opening Night Party in London:
To help kick off the festivities, we’ll be playing a full electric set for the opening night party of the Raindance Film Festival at Heaven, Under the Arches in London. Tickets are on sale now.
Wed Sep 29 – London, UK - Heaven – BUY TIX
Good morning,
Greetings from deep inside the studio.. We just want to remind you that tickets for our upcoming dates in the U.K. go on sale TODAY Friday. The first three performances, in Edinburgh, Manchester, and London, will be more intimate acoustic performances at some “nontraditional” venues, followed by a fourth non-acoustic show in Cardiff. These dates are in support of our documentary DVD All I Ever Wanted: Live From Walt Disney Concert Hall, which comes out in the U.K. on October 4th (September 7th in North America). Watch the trailer HERE.
Photo Credit: Prue Hyman
Here are the U.K. dates:
Acoustic sets:
Fri Oct 1 – Edinburgh, Scotland, UK – Pleasance Theatre – BUY TIX
Sat Oct 2 – Manchester, UK – Deaf Institute – BUY TIX
Sun Oct 3 – London, UK – Union Chapel – BUY TIX
Non-acoustic set:
Mon Oct 4 – Cardiff, Wales, UK – Millennium Music Hall – BUY TIX
Also, our North American dates with the Calder Quartet are on sale NOW:
Tue Sep 7 – Washington, DC – Sixth & I Synagogue – BUY TIX
Wed Sep 8 – Somerville, MA – Somerville Theater – BUY TIX
Fri Sep 10 – Philadelphia, PA – Keswick Theatre – BUY TIX
Sat Sep 11 – New York, NY – Town Hall – BUY TIX
Mon Sep...
Good morning,
We’re excited to announce four upcoming tour dates in the U.K. in early October in support of the release of our documentary DVD All I Ever Wanted: Live From Walt Disney Concert Hall on October 4th in the U.K. (September 7th in North America). We love going back to the U.K. whenever we can, and we can’t wait to see you this time around.
Photo Credit: Autumn de Wilde
In the spirit of the Disney Hall performance back in December 2009, we’ll be playing three special acoustic sets at more intimate “nontraditional” venues, followed by a show in Cardiff. Tickets go on sale this Friday, July 30th. See below for info.
Acoustic sets:
Fri Oct 1 – Edinburgh, Scotland, UK – Pleasance Theatre – BUY TIX
Sat Oct 2 – Manchester, UK – Deaf Institute – BUY TIX
Sun Oct 3 – London, UK – Union Chapel – BUY TIX
Non-acoustic set:
Mon Oct 4 – Cardiff, Wales, UK – Millennium Music Hall – BUY TIX
All I Ever Wanted: Live From Walt Disney Concert Hall will premiere in Europe at the Raindance Film Festival in London on September 30th. More info to come.
You can watch the trailer for the film HERE.
Our North American dates with the Calder Quartet are on sale NOW:
Tue Sep 7 – Washington, DC – Sixth & I Synagogue – BUY TIX
Wed Sep 8 – Somerville, MA – Somerville Theater – BUY TIX
Fri Sep 10 – Philadelphia, PA – Keswick Theatre – BUY...
General Public Tickets for The Airborne Toxic Event’s Acoustic Tour with the Calder Quartet ARE NOW ON SALE:
TOUR DATES:
Tue Sep 7 – Washington, DC – Sixth & I Synagogue – BUY TIX
Wed Sep 8 – Somerville, MA – Somerville Theater – BUY TIX
Fri Sep 10 – Philadelphia, PA – Keswick Theatre – BUY TIX
Sat Sep 11 – New York, NY – Town Hall – BUY TIX
Mon Sep 13 – Toronto, ON – Trinity St. Paul’s Church – BUY TIX
Wed Sep 15 – Chicago, IL – Park West – BUY TIX
Sat Sep 18 – Seattle, WA – Town Hall – BUY TIX
Sun Sep 19 – San Francisco, CA – Regency Ballroom – BUY TIX
Wed Sep 22 – Los Angeles, CA – John Anson Ford Amphitheater – BUY TIX
SOME VIP PACKAGES ARE STILL AVAILABLE. CLICK HERE FOR TIX:
Vip Packages Include:
- Tickets to the Show
- Admittance to Meet and Greet with the Band
- Early Entry to the venue for GA Shows or Best Reserved Seats for Seated Shows
- 1 “All I Ever Wanted” DVD Per Order.
Good morning,
A day in the studio: Guitars twang, keyboards pulse, the sound of repeated riffs waft maddeningly. We record. We discuss. We have long conversations about reverb..
We’re excited to announce the release of the documentary DVD All I Ever Wanted: Live From the Walt Disney Concert Hall on September 7th in North America and October 4th in Europe on Blu-Ray or Deluxe DVD/CD. It chronicles the lead-up and preparation for last December’s concert—the last of 354 shows in support of our first record—which involved a world-class string quartet, a children’s choir, a high school marching band, horn players, visual artists, and traditional Mexican folkórico dancers. It was an amazing experience for us, though we went a little bit crazy putting it on.
The film will be premiering in Europe at the Raindance Film Festival in London on September 30th. More info soon.
You can watch the trailer below or by clicking HERE:
In support of the film, we’ll be embarking on a limited North American tour with our good friends the Calder Quartet, who performed with us at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. We’re thrilled that they’ll be joining us for the entire tour. You can learn more about these phenomenal musicians HERE.
A quick note about these upcoming dates: The shows will be special, more intimate acoustic affairs at a variety of nontraditional venues (with seats), including a synagogue, a church and an old vaudeville theatre,...
Hello,
We’re excited to announce that our song “Neda” is now available for download on iTunes in the U.K. You can download it HERE, or by visiting the link below:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/neda-single/id377233544
We wrote this song in remembrance of Neda Agha-Soltan, who was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran by a government militia group on June 20th of last year during a peaceful protest of the disputed Iranian presidential election.
Many others died that week and more were wrongfully imprisoned, beaten, tortured and executed in the year since.
All proceeds go to Amnesty International’s work on human rights around the world.
Watch the video HERE.
Show your support for human rights in Iran by uploading a photo of yourself holding a sign saying “I am Neda” at Nedaspeaks.org.
Spread the word. On Twitter, Facebook, etc.
Good morning –
It is with full hearts that we write to you this morning to announce the release of our first song in almost two years. “Neda” — a song about Neda Agha-Soltan, whose brutal murder at the hands of the Iranian regime during the protests in Tehran last year made her a symbol of human rights the world over — is now available on iTunes. All proceeds from the sale of the song will benefit Amnesty International. To purchase the song, click HERE, or go to the link below:
http://idj.to/AmnestyNeda
In addition, we have made a web-only video for the song. The video is a retelling of the historic events surrounding Neda’s death: the disputed Iranian Presidential election, the brutality of the regime in cracking down on dissent, the desecration of Neda’s grave, the massive movement towards freedom and peace in Iran… You can watch the video above, or on YouTube.
We believe that the viral video of Neda’s death was a sea change in political power in the world. It was the first viral video to change the course of history, a symbol that the power of broadcasting is no longer simply in the hands of governments and corporations, but in the hands of people. It is in the hands of anyone with a cell phone camera and an internet connection. It is in your hands right now.
There’s also something about Neda herself. About the simplicity of her request (that her vote be counted) and the violence of the response her government gave her. She represents the most fundamental decency of the human spirit standing in the face of the most base corruption of that spirit. All she wanted was for her vote to be counted. For that, she was shot through the heart in the street in broad daylight holding a sign that said simply “freedom.”
Good afternoon,
So we got a call from the Red Cortez crew saying that the Neda Project is a cause near and dear to their own soulful, bohemian hearts. As such, they will be joining us for the return to the Echo benefit on May 25th in Los Angeles. Red Cortez joined us for our entire fall North American tour last year and suffice it to say, they put on a SCORCHING live show. Thanks, lads.
Here’s a video for their song titled, appropriately enough, “In the Fall”:
(You can also click HERE.)
Tickets for the show sold out immediately. Thank you all for supporting the cause.
We will be debuting our new song “Neda” at the show. The song will be also released June 8th on iTunes, with all proceeds to benefit Amnesty International’s work on human rights in Iran.
The video for the song will also be released online on June 8th. It will retell the events surrounding the death of Neda Agha-Soltan and the historic protests in Iran against the disputed presidential election.
Neda is in our hearts as are the many who gave their lives for basic freedoms and the chance to stand up to tyranny. June 12th is the one-year anniversary of the historic disputed election. June 20th is the one-year anniversary of Neda’s death.
In the coming weeks, we will be asking you to join us to make a statement in solidarity with the people of Iran, a statement in support of basic human rights, a statement about the democratization of broadcasting and the new freedom that represents.
People have asked us: Why now? Why this? Why Neda?
Because there are people halfway across the world in jail cells—people we’ll never meet—who need our help.
Because Neda represents the most basic morality of the human spirit confronted by the most violent...
Good afternoon,
We are thrilled to announced that we will be returning to the first place we ever played a show for a very special benefit concert to raise funds for the Neda Project, a series of events we are doing with Amnesty International about Neda Agha-Soltan and digital democracy in Iran.
The show will be in two weeks on May 25th, 2010 at the Echo here in Los Angeles. Tickets are very limited and will be first come, first served. They went on sale today at noon PST. They are $30 each. All proceeds will benefit the Neda Project. Here is the LINK to purchase tickets.
The Neda Project
Neda Agha-Soltan was a young woman living in Iran—a student, who was shot in the street by government militia for participating in peaceful protests against the disputed election of Mahmoud Ahmadenijad. Her death was captured on video, uploaded to YouTube and within hours seen by millions around the world. She quickly became a symbol for the resistance and for the brutality of unchecked tyranny.
Like millions of people, we were deeply touched by the video and the horrific treatment of Neda and her family by the regime afterwards: the desecration of her grave, the intimidation of those who wished only to mourn her death, the allegations of torture of those who deny the government’s claim that it was a foreign plot that killed Neda and not the Basij. (A member of the Basij was caught red-handed on the scene and confessed. His ID was confiscated, though he was released for fear of punishment. He has not been brought to justice).
We wrote a song, called simply “Neda,” in tribute to her. We will be releasing the song and an accompanying video telling Neda’s story on June 8th, 2010 in preparation for the one-year anniversary of...
Boston radio station WFNX will invite twenty listeners and their guests to Ames hotel for a stripped-down performance by the Airborne Toxic Event. The band’s set will be the latest in a series of invite-only Ames Acoustic Sessions presented by the station and the new hotel in downtown Boston.
Fans must win their way into the session by listening to WFNX. The station will record the Ames Acoustic Session and broadcast it on-air and at www.wfnx.com on Monday, April 12th at 11:00 pm, during its new music feature “The Nightly News.” WFNX and Ames plan to release a compact disc of songs from the sessions in late 2010.
Good morning,
We’re in New York today, about to head over to Trenton to play a show tonight, where we’ll be debuting a bunch of new songs. We’re excited about it, and we hope to see you there.
Make sure you check out tonight’s episode of Last Call with Carson Daly after Jimmy Fallon on NBC for a previously unaired performance of “Gasoline” shot at the Glass House in Pomona. On the show, we’ll also be giving an album update from our rehearsal space.
At the airport:
Good morning,
The earth was shaking early Monday morning here in Los Angeles. If you’ve never been in an earthquake, it’s kind of terrifying and exhilarating. Equal parts doomsday and roller coaster. Luckily, nobody was hurt.
We are playing four shows to work on new songs we’ve written for the new record. They will be in four cities nationwide. Jack Daniels is sponsoring the whole thing.
Photo Credit: Prue Hyman
You can get free tickets by going to the Jack Daniels website. You must be 21 to attend. (Sorry to those under 21. We promise to get you back when we swing back into town with shows sponsored by a milk company or something.)
Dates:
Thu Mar 25 – Trenton, NJ – Kat Man Du – FREE TIX
Wed Apr 7 – Boston, MA – Royale – FREE TIX
Sat Apr 10 – Atlanta, GA – The Loft – FREE TIX
Mon Apr 12 – Scottsdale, AZ – Martini Ranch – FREE TIX
We’d also like to point out that we will probably play some songs from the first record too.
We’re also putting the finishing touches on our live DVD/CD from our Walt Disney Concert Hall performance in December. It’s called “All I Ever Wanted,” and it’s part concert, part documentary. We’ll have a release date in the very near future.
we miss you and love you and have stories to tell you about the surreality you have given us.