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The Tower of Dudes kick off their West Coast tour tomorrow in Portland, Oregon and are then winding their way down through California (including a weekend stand at Oakland’s Disco Volante) and into Las Vegas, finishing up at the notorious Double Down Saloon….

The full list of dates:

14.4 Mississippi Pizza Portland, OR
16.4 Red Room Portland, OR
17.4 Soda Bar Portland, OR
21.4 KDVS 90.3 Live in Studio A Davis, CA
24.4 The Make Out Room San Francisco, CA (with Dovetail friends The Graves Brothers Deluxe….)
28.4 Disco Volante Oakland, CA (afternoon show)
28.4 The Starry Plough Berkeley, CA
29.4 Disco Volante Oakland, CA
30.4 Disco Volante Oakland, CA
5.5 Tokyo Garden Fresno, CA (Cinco de Mayo show)
6.5 The Las Vegas Country Saloon Las Vegas, NV
7.5 The Double Down Saloon Las Vegas, NV

Details, including times, maps, etc. available on the shows page…..

Check out The Tower of Dudes‘ “Hibernation” video from the album Earl….

Other videos from The Tower of Dudes can be found on the video page.

The Tower of Dudes will be touring the west coast of the US this spring. Check back for more details…..

Dovetail Records is proud to offer Earl – a new record by The Tower of Dudes – the story of a disgruntled accountant who breaks ranks with the world and gets quite a bit more than he bargained for……

Check out “Hibernation” from Earl….

The Tower of Dudes “Hibernation”

For more info, including additional tracks and reviews, visit their artists page and the music player.

We’re making some changes to the website…..stay tuned and thanks for your patience.

Pirate Cat Radio’s Mister Odom is featuring Trunk Show on this week’s weekly podcast. “A Bottle of Whiskey and a Dull Kitchen Knife”, a suicide ballad written by Marc Cram, is mixed in with San Francisco’s fantastic Seth Augustus, the legendary Charles Mingus and many others. Listen to Mister Odom’s podcast here or check out “A Bottle of Whiskey and a Dull Kitchen Knife” just below…..

Trunk Show “A Bottle of Whiskey and a Dull Kitchen Knife”

Trunk Show were featured on San Francisco’s 87.9 Pirate Cat Radio during Mister Odom’s Bottomless Pit on Wednesday Sep 1st, with an in-studio performance of “If There Be Dragons”, “Just Goes to Show You Can Never Go Home”, “Ain’t We So Proud”, “Junk”, “Hung the Moon”, “Pearl”, and “Ruby Slippers” and then a conversation with Mister Odom about, well…..Listen to the whole program here……

Also on the program was Trunk Show‘s “Second Building on the Right, Third Floor, Just Past the Free-Standing Toilet on the Left” and “A Bottle of Whiskey and a Dull Kitchen Knife” from Stay Bad, along with Prague’s own Ken Nash and his song “Webbed Feet” from his record Magic Squirrels.

Trunk Show will be performing live and interviewing with San Francisco’s inimitable Mister Odom on Mister Odom’s Bottomless Pit on Pirate Cat Radio 87.9 and are featured on Mister Odom’s weekly podcast. Listen to Trunk Show‘s “Ruby Slippers”, along with a live performance by Rapeaxe and many others from Mister Odom’s notable collection here….

The Tower of Dudes + Trunk Show are performing at The 22nd Trutnov Outdoor Music Festival – this Friday, August 20th @23:00 and Saturday, August 21st @22:00, respectively – in Trutnov, Czech Republic…..Manic Street Preachers are headlining this years’ event, which also features Jessie Evans, The Plastic People of the Universe, DJ Scratchy and many many more….more than 20,000 are expected at the 4-day event, more info and details about tickets can be found at the Trutnov Festival website…..

Trunk Show will be touring in August + September in both Europe + California. It promises to be a suitable follow-up to last summer’s seldom-heralded, often-brawling, blood-splattering Hot Ghetto Mess Tour 2009. Here are the current dates, with more to be added….Full details can be found on the shows page.

Aug 6 Fuchs und Elster   Berlin, Germany  @23:00

Aug 7 Circus 25    Berlin, Germany  @Midnight

Aug 9 Bassy Cowboy Club   Berlin, Germany  @22:00

Aug 19 Stara Pekarna   Brno, Czech Republic  @20:30

Aug 21 Trutnov Outdoor Music Festival   Trutnov, Czech Republic  @22:00

Aug 27-29 Cafe Van Kleef   Oakland, CA  @22:00

Sep 1 Mister Odom’s Bottomless Pit on Pirate Cat Radio (In-Studio & Interview)   San Francisco, CA  @17:00

Sep 2 Kimo’s Bar & Penthouse Lounge   San Francisco, CA  @22:00

Sep 3 Ghosttown Galleries   Oakland, CA   @Midnight

Sep 6 Kaleidoscope Free Speech Zone   San Francisco, CA   @19:00

Sep 8 Blue Cafe Live   Long Beach, CA   @22:00

Sep 10 Cafe Van Kleef   Oakland, CA   @22:00

For more info on Trunk Show, check out their artists page.