PEPPER Confirmed for This Summer’s “Unity Tour” with 311 and The Offspring/Set to Release New Single “Wake Up”

FR:      ALEXANDRA GREENBERG/BARI LIEBERMAN

PEPPER
CONFIRMED FOR THIS SUMMER’S “UNITY TOUR”
WITH 311 AND THE OFFSPRING

SET TO RELEASE NEW SINGLE
“WAKE UP”

After spending the first half of 2010 writing and recording new music, PEPPER—KALEO WASSMAN (guitar/vocals), BRET BOLLINGER (bass, vocals), and YESOD WILLIAMS (drums)—is ready to get back on the road and bring the party to the masses. The Hawaiian-bred, Southern California-based band will be rocking amphitheatres and arenas across the country on the annual summer “Unity Tour“ with longtime friends 311 and The Offspring.

Those attending the shows this summer are in for a treat as the band is set to debut their new single “Wake Up.” According to drummer Yesod Williams, the song is “a proud moment in our career; in my eyes we’ve struck a well of essence!”  PEPPER’s new music comes as a follow-up to their latest studio album Pink Crustaceans and Good Vibrations which was released July 2008 via their self-run label LAW Records and reached #11 on the Billboard “Independent Albums” chart.

PEPPER will start the summer off June 11 with a poolside performance at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas as part of their “Friday Night Live” series before kicking off the “Unity Tour” in Pittsburgh, PA on June 22. The 25-date tour will tear through the Midwest with stops in such cities as Milwaukee, Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit before hitting up the East Coast with a July 9 show at the Jones Beach Music Theatre in Wantagh, NY and a July 10 show at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ. The tour will move along the Atlantic Coast stopping in Boston, Philadelphia, Charlotte, and Atlanta as it makes its way west with shows in Denver and Salt Lake City before ending with two big shows in Southern California on July 24 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine and July 25 at Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre in San Diego. PEPPER will also be performing select headline shows throughout the tour in Grand Rapids, Charlotte and Reno. See below for full tour dates.

Having grown up surfing on the Big Island of Hawaii, PEPPER has mixed their rock “shock and ah” flare with their mellow island rhythm roots to create their own truly diverse sound. The prolific touring trio has sold over half a million records independently, spent numerous summers on the Vans Warped Tour, hit the road with The Wailers, Snoop Dogg, Flogging Molly, Slightly Stoopid and Pennywise, co-headlined two outings of the Jagermeister Music Tour and have had a number of album tracks appear on Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart, including “No Control” off their album No Shame, which peaked at #18, as well as “Give It Up.” PEPPER has also performed at several festivals including Lollapalooza, Mile High Festival, West Beach Music Festival and the 2009 Sunset Strip Music Festival, and their LAW Records label now distributes three other artists’ music for Iration, Passafire and The Supervillians.

Catch PEPPER on tour this summer:

^ notes Pepper headlining club shows (no 311)

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For more information on PEPPER, contact:
MSO    818-380-0400
Alexandra Greenberg x223, agreenberg@msopr.com
Bari Lieberman (tour) x222, blieberman@msopr.com