NASHVILLE |
ADEMA SET TO LAUNCH CO-HEADLINING TOUR
WITH POWERMAN 5000
AS “UNSTABLE” IMPACTS RADIO;
BAND TO DEBUT SINGLE ON ‘JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE’
TUESDAY, AUGUST 19
After a six-week headlining U.S. tour that culminated with a sold-out show at The Roxy in Los Angeles, ADEMA will join Powerman 5000 on the road July 18 for a co-headlining trek. While on tour, ADEMA are previewing material from their second Arista album UNSTABLE, due out August 19. At the Roxy show, the band’s explosive set included their new songs “Co-Dependent,” “Rip The Heart Out Of Me,” “Stand Up,” “Unstable,” “Promises” and “Stressin’ Out.” The band will return to Los Angeles August 19–the day their new album is released–to perform “Unstable” on ABC-TV’s Jimmy Kimmel Live.
UNSTABLE comes on the heels of the group’s self-titled 2001 debut, which spawned the Top 15 Modern Rock hits “Giving In” and “The Way You Like It,” and the 2002 EP INSOMNIAC’S DREAM. After being certified gold by the RIAA in March 2002, ADEMA’s debut continues to climb towards platinum status even as the single and title track from the band’s latest effort builds rock radio momentum of its own. Key stations including WAAF in Boston, KUPD and KEDJ in Phoenix, WRIF in Detroit, KXXR in Minneapolis, WIYY in Baltimore, KBPI in Denver, KEDJ in KNRK in Portland and WLZR in Milwaukee have already added the track.
“Unstable” is one of eleven new songs revealing the fevered imagination and chilling vocals of lead singer MARK “MARKY” CHAVEZ. The video for “Unstable”–recently shot in Los Angeles by esteemed director Kevin Kerslake (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins)–paints an impressionistic picture with its apocalyptic interpretation of CHAVEZ’s lyrics and is currently spinning on MTV2 and FUSE. “They shot all these leaves at us, and [drummer] Kris Kohls was picking leaves out of his teeth,” CHAVEZ told MTV.COM (June 23, 2003). “The concept of the video is the world is at its breaking point, and there’s tornadoes and stuff flying around. We’re flying in the video, and there are people flipping out of the atmosphere. And we’re playing through the whole thing.”
While the video presents a singular vision, ADEMA–CHAVEZ, guitarists MIKE RANSOM and TIM FLUCKEY, bassist DAVE DEROO and drummer KRIS KOHLS–have a much more complex and varied vision on UNSTABLE. The album, produced by Howard Benson (P.O.D., Cold), ranges from the delicate beauty of “Promises” to the grimly brutal “Needles” as the band wraps its scalding riffs and dark textures around potent melodies. Drawing inspiration less from metal contemporaries than from the likes of U2 and Nirvana, ADEMA smooth the raw edges of UNSTABLE with unexpectedly poignant songs like “So Fortunate” (written about CHAVEZ’s infant son) and “Let Go.”
This vigorous pursuit of melody hardly keeps ADEMA from rocking out while bearing their emotions, as evidenced by songs like “Rip The Heart Out Of Me,” “Stressin’” and the vitriolic “Needles.”
Of the latter song, CHAVEZ revealed it was “inspired by a really hard time in my life. I have a close family member who’s really struggling with heroin addiction. I was so mad and angry and pissed off, and I asked the band to play something that was dirty and heavy and fast and had anger written all over it. When you’re stuck to a needle, that shit calls your name constantly. It was real tough having to watch a family member destroy himself” (MTV.COM, June 23, 2003).
ADEMA’s success in the past two years has not only led to a gold record and marquee tours like the 2001 Music As A Weapon tour (with Disturbed and Drowning Pool), the Projekt Revolution tour with Linkin Park and Cypress Hill, OzzFest 2002 and the 2002 SnoCore Rock Tour, but to critical praise both stateside and abroad.
Britain’s NME raved, “Adema’s visceral, artfully succinct rock punch comes brilliantly wrapped in killer whistleable tunes,” while the August 30, 2001 issue of Rolling Stone echoed, “Moody, hard and melodic, guitarists Mike Ransom and Tim Fluckey go beyond the genre’s generic crunch and offer a creative palette of soaring solos, singing lines and textures.”
For more information, check out the band’s website at www.ademaonline.com.
ADEMA’s co-headlining dates with Powerman 5000 are as follows:
Date City Venue
Sun 7/20 Fargo, ND Play Makers
Mon 7/21 Sioux Falls, SD Dakota Room
Wed 7/23 Sauget, IL Pops
Thu 7/24 Columbia, MO Blue Note
Sat 7/26 Des Moines, IA Launch Field
Sun 7/27 Springfield, MO. Remington’s
Mon 7/28 Chicago, IL House of Blues
Thu 7/31 Columbus, OH Al Rosa Villa
Fri 8/1 Detroit, MI Harpo’s
Sat 8/2 Cleveland, OH The Agoura
Sat 8/3 Albany, NY Northern Lights
Tue 8/5 Allentown, PA Crocodile
Wed 8/6 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero
Thu 8/7 Poughkeepsie, NY The Chance
Fri 8/8 Old Bridge, NJ Birch Hill
Sat 8/9 Worcester, MA Palladium
Mon 8/11 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
Wed 8/13 Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues
Fri 8/15 Atlanta, GA Masquerade
Sat 8/16 New Orleans, LA House of Blues
Sun 8/17 Dallas, TX Tree’s
Contacts:
Kristine Ashton/Libby Henry/Mitch Schneider at MSO (818 380 0400 ext. 233/224/235) or kashton@msopr.com, lhenry@msopr.com
Hillary Siskind at Arista Records (212 830 2142) or hillary.siskind@bmg.com
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