VELVET REVOLVER
ANNOUNCE U.S. TOUR DATES AS SINGLE “SLITHER” BLOWS UP AT RADIO;
TRACK IS #1 MOST ADDED AT MODERN, ACTIVE AND MAINSTREAM ROCK;
BAND SHOOTS VIDEO FOR “SLITHER” WITH DIRECTOR KEVIN KERSLAKE;
DEBUT CD ‘CONTRABAND’ IN STORES JUNE 8
VELVET REVOLVER will jump-start the June 8 release of their much-anticipated debut album CONTRABAND (RCA) with their first-ever tour. Launching May 13 in St. Louis, the intimate venue trek will take the band–who’ve only played one show before (last year in Los Angeles)–across the U.S. into such cities as New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco and Detroit, among others.
“Slither,” the album’s first single, exploded at radio in its first week of release, airing on over 130 stations. The song was #1 Most Added at Modern Rock, Active Rock and Mainstream Rock.
For the “Slither” video, VELVET REVOLVER–lead vocalist SCOTT WEILAND, guitarist SLASH, bassist DUFF McKAGAN, drummer MATT SORUM and guitarist DAVE KUSHNER–joined forces with video director Kevin Kerslake (Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Iggy Pop). The band performed the powerful song in an underground “catacomb party” in front of hundreds of fans packed into the sprawling basement of a downtown Los Angeles warehouse. Other portions of the “Slither” video are being shot in Europe, where “catacomb parties” take place underground, reachable only by following a series of clues and traveling through the maze of tunnels that lay nearly a half-mile underneath the city. Look for the “Slither” video to premiere Thursday, April 29 at 9:00 PM Eastern/Pacific as part of MTV2 “Makes The Video.”
While VELVET REVOLVER inevitably offers a few echoes of its members’ illustrious pasts, their sound is defiantly forward-looking and truly fresh in all senses of that word. “Slither” is an epic rock song that merges musical ferocity with the urgent drama of such lines as “Yeah, here comes the water/It’s come to wash away the sins of you and I/This time you see/Like holy water/It only burns you faster than you’ll ever dry/This time with me.”
Stay tuned for future news and additional tour dates and check out velvetrevolver.com.
Date City Venue
Thur May 13 St. Louis, MO Pagent
Fri May 14 Kansas City, MO Memorial Hall
Sat May 15 Minneapolis, MN Quest
Wed May 19 Chicago, IL The Riviera
Thur May 20 Detroit, MI TBA
Fri May 21 Toronto, ONT Kool Haus
Wed May 26 New York, NY Roseland
Thur May 27 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
Fri May 28 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
Sat May 29 Boston, MA Avalon
Fri June 4 Seattle, WA Moore Theater
Sat June 5 Portland, OR Roseland
Mon June 7 San Francisco, CA Warfield
Tues June 8 Los Angeles, CA Wiltern Theatre
Wed June 9 Los Angeles, CA Wiltern Theatre
Contacts
MSO 818-380-0400:
Todd Brodginski toddb@msopr.com ext. 239
Kristine Ashton kashton@msopr.com ext. 233
Mitch Schneider mschneider@msopr.com ext. 235
RCA Records:
Pamela Murphy pamela.murphy@bmg.com 212 930 4394
Maggie Wang maggie.wang@bmg.com 212 930 7007
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