EVERCLEAR IS MOVING IN ANYTHING BUT ‘SLOW MOTION’

DATE:   MARCH 19, 2003

FROM:  TODD BRODGINSKI/MITCH SCHNEIDER/MARCEE RONDAN

EVERCLEAR

IS MOVING IN ANYTHING BUT ‘SLOW MOTION’:

BAND TO DEBUT NEW SINGLE ON ‘LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O’BRIEN’ U.S. TOUR TO KICK OFF AS NEW ALBUM IS EMBRACED BY CRITICS

“I want to believe in this world

I want to believe in this life

I want to believe in a world

That does not seem real

When I read the New York Times”

–“The New York Times” by EVERCLEAR

Look for EVERCLEAR to debut their new single “The New York Times” Friday, March 28th on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien.”  Due at radio in April while the band is in the midst of a headlining national tour, the song is a highlight from their newly released album SLOW MOTION DAYDREAM (released 3/11/03 on Capitol), where “…loud guitars fuel sophisticated pop of brains and heart,” noted Steve Appleford in the  Los Angeles Times (3/9/03).

Elsewhere, Glenn Gamboa of Newsday (3/11/03), noted that the band’s sixth album “…plays like a counterculture call-to-arms, one guitar-heavy anthem after another that encourage listeners to stand up for their beliefs. If Bruce Springsteen's The Rising offered reassurances that life would go on in post-terrorist-attack America, Everclear takes the next step–calling for America's youth to build the country they want, not accept the one handed down to them.”  Gamboa goes on to say that “‘The New York Times’ shows what a dramatic leap forward Everclear has made on its latest album, striving for greatness and reaching it.”  

“It's really a song to America,” frontman ART ALEXAKIS told Newsday, adding that “it’s a song that says, ‘We're better than this. We're better than what we're accepting.'”  ALEXAKIS is critical of “the election of 2000, the economy, the joblessness,” as he told the Daily Insider news service (3/12/03).  “When I roll through Smalltown, USA, there are so many empty stores.  Where this country was five years ago is like a million miles away.”

EVERCLEAR–singer/songwriter/guitarist ART ALEXAKIS, bassist CRAIG MONTOYA and drummer GREG EKLUND–will be bringing their “catchy vocal hooks and fervent guitar solos, layered over driving rhythms” (Sarah Tomlinson, BOSTON GLOBE, 3/14/03) beginning April 1 in Kansas City, MO.  Tour dates are as follows, with many more to be added.

DATE                            CITY                                         VENUE

With The Exies & Authority Zero

Tue       4/1                    Kansas City, MO           Uptown Theater

Wed     4/2                    Minneapolis, MN            First Avenue

Thur      4/3                    Chicago, IL                    Riviera Theatre

Fri        4/4                    Norte Dame, IN              University of Notre Dame

Sun      4/6                    Lock Haven, PA             Lock Haven University

Mon      4/7                    Toronto, ONT                 Kool Haus

Tue       4/8                    Pontiac, MI                    Clutch Cargo’s

Thu       4/10                  Indiana, PA                   Indiana University of PA

Fri        4/11                  Washington, PA             Washington & Jefferson College

Sat       4/12                  Columbus, OH               Promo West Pavilion

Sun      4/13                  Cleveland, OH                Agora Ballroom

Tue       4/15                  Boston, MA                   Avalon Ballroom

Thu       4/17                  Philadelphia, PA            Electric Factory

Fri        4/18                  New York, NY                Roseland Ballroom

Sat       4/19                  Hartford, CT                   Webster Theatre

Mon      4/21                  Washington DC             9:30 Club

Tue       4/22                  Washington DC             9:30 Club

Fri        4/25                  Whitewater, WI              UW Whitewater/Whitewater Center

Sat       4/26                  Collegeville, MN St. John’s University

Sun      4/27                  Brookings, SD               Frost Arena/ SDSU

Fri        5/2                    Nashville, TN                 Nashville River Stages

Sat       5/3                    Birmingham, AL             Crawfish Boil–Schaeffer Eye Center

Sun      5/4                    Atlanta, GA                   Music Midtown

Wed     5/7                    Denver, CO                    The Fillmore Auditorium

Thu       5/8                    Colorado Springs, CO     City Auditorium

Sat       5/10                  Los Angeles, CA            Wiltern Theater

Tue       5/13                  San Francisco, CA         The Warfield

Thu       5/15                  Seattle, WA                  Paramount Theater

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