Cold Cave, with new line up in tow, will be hitting a number of international markets in the coming months. They kick off a tour supporting the Editors in Lincoln, England tomorrow night and hit QUITE A FEW markets following.
Mar Saturday 06 London, UK – Engine Shed %
Mar Sunday 07 Preston, UK – Guildhall %
Mar Monday 08 Bradford, UK – St. George Hall %
Mar Wednesday 10 Glasgow, UK – The Academy %
Mar Thursday 11 Dundee, UK – Fat Sams %
Mar Friday 12 Iverness, UK – Ironworks %
Mar Saturday 13 Aberdeen, UK – Music Hall %
Mar Monday 15 Newcastle, UK – The Academy %
Mar Tuesday 16 Marchester, UK – The Apollo %
Mar Wednesday 17 Cambridge, UK – Corn Exchange %
Mar Thursday 19 Bournemouth, UK – The Academy %
Mar Friday 20 Brighton, UK – The Dome %
Mar Saturday 21 Cardiff, UK – Cardiff University %
Mar Sunday 23 Folkestone, UK – Leas Cliff Hall %
Mar Monday 24 London UK – Brixton Academy %
Apr 25 Sunday WBAR-B-Q Barnard College, NY
Apr 29 (Le) Poisson Rouge New York, NY
May Friday 07 Minehead, AD – All Tomorrow’s Parties
May Saturday 08 Leeds, UK – Nation of Shopkeepers
May Sunday 09 Glasgow, UK – Captain’s Rest
May Monday 10 Manchester, UK – Deaf Institute
May Wednesday 12 London, UK – Cargo
May Thursday 13 Brighton, UK – Great Escape Festival
May Friday 14 Amsterdan – Paradiso
May Saturday 15 Brussells, BE – Rotonde
May Sunday 16 Hamburg, DE – Ubel & Gefarlich
May Tuesday 18 Stockholm, CH – Svenska
May Wednesday 19 Copenhagen, DK – Rust
May Thursday 20 Berlin, DE – Bang Bang Club
May Friday 21 Berlin, DE – Offenbach
May Saturday 22 St. Gallen, CH – Theater Palace
May Sunday 23 Fribourg, CH FRI-SON
May Monday 24 Bologna, IT – Rocker Festival
May Tuesday 25 Turin, IT – Spazio 211
May Thursday 27 Paris, FR – Point Emphere
May Saturday 29 Barcelona, ES – Primavera Club
% w/ The Editors
In other news, those paying close attention may have noticed some truly negligible “NSFW”-content in Cold Cave’s recent video for “Life Magazine”. YouTube did too — fortunately the folks at Focus Creeps saved the day with a brand new edit of the video. Check it here:
Cold Cave have canceled the remainder of their Midwest dates as they reconfigure their live setup. Over the past two nights, Cold Cave’s performances in Las Vegas and Pomona featured founder Wesley Eisold and Dominick Fernow with an extended lineup comprised of Guy Licata (formerly of Hercules and Love Affair and longtime Bill Laswell collaborator) and Jennifer Clavin (formely of Mika Miko). The same members will take the stage at the Echoplex in Los Angeles tonight.
The band will be resuming dates beginning March 6 at London’s Engine Shed with the Editors. They hope to reschedule all canceled dates in the near future.
The following dates are on schedule as planned:
February
Thursday 18 Echoplex, CA The Glass House w/Smith Westerns, Best Coast
March
Saturday 06 Lincoln, UK Engine Shed w/ The Editors
Sunday 07 Preston, UK Guildhall w/ The Editors
Monday 08 Bradford, UK St. George Hall w/ The Editors
Wednesday 10 Glasgow, UK The Academy w/ The Editors
Thursday 11 Dundee, UK Fat Sams w/ The Editors
Friday 12 Iverness, UK Ironworks w/ The Editors
Saturday 13 Aberdeen, UK Music Hall w/ The Editors
Monday 15 Newcastle, UK The Academy w/ The Editors
Tuesday 16 Marchester, UK The Apollo w/ The Editors
Wednesday 17 Cambridge, UK Corn Exchange w/ The Editors
Thursday 19 Bournemouth, UK The Academy w/ The Editors
Friday 20 Brighton, UK The Dome w/ The Editors
Saturday 21 Cardiff, UK Cardiff University w/ The Editors
Sunday 23 Folkestone, UK Leas Cliff Hall w/ The Editors
Monday 24 London UK Brixton Academy w/ The Editors
We here in New York City are a little tired of our west coast friends telling us about their recent streak of 80 degree days. It’s February. It’s supposed to be cold. It’s supposed to be dark. It’s supposed to be gloomy. Deal with it. So to combat the sunshine we’re sending a little bit of the East Coast over to Echo Park tomorrow night when Cold Cave takes over Origami Vinyl for a few hours before their show at The Echoplex.
The store will feature a wall of LPs curated by Cold Cave frontman Wes Eisold, some books and records from Eisold’s own Heartworm Press, a special DJ set/meet-and-greet from the band and free Colt 45.
So quit applying your sunscreen and get your February on.
Official Cold Cave Pre-Party Origami Vinyl
7pm
1816 W. Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles
213 413 3030
Unfortunately unforeseen circumstances (mainly involving the blizzard along the East Coast) have led to the cancellation of the following Cold Cave shows — There are plans to reschedule dates in each of these cities.
We’re excited to unveil the new music video from Cold Cave for the track “Life Magazine”. Directed by Ben Chappell and Aaron Brown (Focus Creeps), the video stars Marti Domination whom you might recognize from the cover of Cold Cave’s ‘Love Comes Close’ LP and earlier, as Goodyear in Matthew Barney’s ‘Cremaster I‘. Learn more about the video over at The Quietus and stay tuned to the Matablog for more news relating to the “Life Magazine” single, coming very soon.
Alongside this video debut, we’re excited to announce newtour dates that find Cold Cave across Europe this spring (including stops at the All Tomorrow’s Parties and Primavera Festival amongst many others). The band has also added two shows in Los Angeles, CA and a free all-ages in-store in Atlanta along their current routing. All new tour dates below in bold:
2/4 New York, NY – Mercury Lounge (w/ Nite Jewel) SOLD OUT
By Jeremy P. Goldstein on Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Philly/New York City tagteam agitsynthers (say that five times fast) Cold Cave paid a visit recently to the hallowed halls of the WXPN studios and recorded a session for Y-Rock on XPN. Luckily for you, that session is due to air tonight at 9PM EST. In the greater 215, tune in at 88.5FM and for the rest of you darkwave fanatics, feel free to listen online.
The gentlemen and lady of Cold Cave just capped off a great run of West Coast tour dates with two shows in Los Angeles. They’ll be back in more frigid northeastern climes soon, but before that they’ll be making an appearance on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic at 11:15AM PST / 2:15 EST. Angelenos should listen at 89.9FM; Non-gelenos can join the party at kcrw.com.
Cold Cave just released the limited edition Death Comes Close 12″ EP. Both it and their full-length debut, Love Comes Close, are available at our webstore.
At this weekend’s Cold Cave shows, the first 100 lucky attendees will receive a limited edition cassette tape with a mix curated by Cold Cave’s Wes Eisold and manufactured in conjunction with the folks at FYF Fest. Rumor has it that these cassettes contain a very special demo recording by Cold Cave but we can’t confirm or deny that. You’ll just have to find out for yourself. Each cassette is hand numbered and will only be made available at these shows.
Friday, December 4th (TONIGHT!)
Cold Cave
Abe Vigoda
Former Ghosts
@ Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
2225 Colorado Blvd.
LA, CA 90041
&
Sunday, December 6
Cold Cave
Nite Jewel
@ Echo
1822 Sunset Blvd
LA, CA 90026
For those of you in the middle and southeastern quadrants of these United States, wondering when Cold Cave was going to be in your town – today is your lucky day. In February, Cold Cave will hit the following cities.
**NEW DATES IN BOLD**
11/23 Boston, MA – Wilbur Theater (w/ Sonic Youth)
11/30 Seattle, WA – The Vera Project
12/01 Portland, OR – Rotture (w/ Former Ghosts)
12/03 San Francisco, CA – Bottom Of The Hill (w/ Former Ghosts)
12/04 Los Angeles, CA – Center For The Arts, Eagle Rock (w/ Former Ghosts)
12/05 San Diego, CA – Casbah (w/ Nite Jewel, Ale Mania)
12/06 Los Angeles, CA – Part Time Punks Night/The Echo (w/ Nite Jewel)
12/11 Philadelphia, PA – Voyeur
2/5 Charlottesville, VA – Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar
We subtly mentioned it last week, but here’s your official heads up on an upcoming Cold Cave West Coast tour. The tour kicks off in Seattle and features select runs with support from Nite Jewel and Former Ghosts:
November 30 – The Vera Project, Seattle WA
December 1 – Rotture, Portland OR (w/ Former Ghosts)
December 3 – Bottom Of The Hill, San Francisco CA (w/ Former Ghosts)
December 4 – Center For The Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles CA (w/ Former Ghosts)
December 5 – Casbah, San Diego CA (w/ Nite Jewel)
December 6 – Part Time Punks at the Echo, Los Angeles CA (w/ Nite Jewel)
Don’t forget, Cold Cave play SUNY Purchase tonight and have the following East Cost dates:
November 12 – SUNY Purchase, Purchase NY (w/ Violenthour and Andy Giles)
November 13 – Rock And Roll Hotel, Washington DC (w/ Silk Flowers)
November 14 – The Pill @ Great Scott, Boston MA
November 21 – Terminal 5, New York NY (w/ Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.)
November 23 – Wilbur Theater, Boston MA (w/ Sonic Youth)
The time has come. The long-awaited Matador re-release of Cold Cave’s debut long-player, ‘Love Comes Close’ is out today! The album hits your favorite record shops in formats including-but-not-limited-to compact disc and vinyl. It’s also available via your favorite digital retailer.
As a special treat with your digital purchase and/or with your download coupon bundled with the vinyl, we’re offering the three bonus tracks featured as the b-sides on the celebrated, and still available, ‘Death Comes Close’ 12″.
In celebration of the release, we’re offering a special download of one of the extra tracks – Get “Theme From Tomorrowland” here.
Cold Cave are currently trekking across the UK. You can catch them tomorrow (Wednesday) speaking live at 4PM-7PM GMT on Steve Lamaq’s BBC6 Music show and performing at the following venues:
November
Tuesday 03 London, UK White Heat @ Madame Jo Jo’s
Wednesday 04 Manchester, UK Camden Barfly
Thursday 05 Manchester, UK The Corner
Friday 06 Bath, UK Moles
Saturday 07 London, UK Be @ Proud Galleries
Thursday 12 Purchase, NY SUNY Purchase Student Center
Friday 13 Washington, DC Rock and Roll Hotel
Friday 20 Allston, MA Great Scott
Saturday 21 New York, NY Terminal 5 w/Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth
As we eagerly approach the November 3 release date for ‘Love Comes Close’, in conjunction with The Heartworm Press, we are pleased to announce the following event.
Tomorrow night, at powerHouse Arena (37 Main Street, Brooklyn NY 11201) in the D.U.M.B.O neighborhood of Brooklyn, Heartworm Presswill be hosting a reading event that begins with a special listening party for ‘Love Comes Close’ (Cold Cave merch will be available and you’ll receive a free poster with purchase) As you may know, The Heartworm Press is a limited-edition book/zine publishing house run by Wesley Eisold of Cold Cave and Max G. Morton.
This event, will kick off at 6:30 sharp with a playback of ‘Love Comes Close’ followed by readings by the Cro-Mags’ John Joseph, Max G. Morton and Jonathan Shaw. F. Sean Martin (Cage, Hatebreed) will be DJing with visual accompanyment by BeteNoir and the Philadelphia group, Salvation will close out the event. Be sure to RSVP to heartworm@powerhousearena.com - We’ll see you there!
With Tuesday officially welcoming “Love Comes Close” to the Matador canon, here’s an opportunity to check out Cold Cave’s debut masterwork in its entirety. Listen, then order the album to own forever.
Photo taken from Rezflicks’ photo stream, without permission.
There’s going to be a lot of these ‘insert band name’ tour starts tonight! posts from me over the next month, so make sure you’re not caught out with gig clashes by keeping up to date with the Tours page. Europe’s the place to be in November it seems. At least for the majority of Matador’s roster. As I write, Cold Cave should have just touched down on UK soil to head straight to Bristol to start their 10 date tour.
Here’s the dates and at the bottom, a lovely flyer from our friends at Transparent blog who are promoting the show on Tuesday at White Heat.
Aside from tonight’s killer showcase lineup we’ve had a last minute addition for tomorrow (not related to CMJ), an all ages Pitchfork + Todd P benefit show at Market Hotel (Myrtle and Broadway) for Showpaper from 1pm until 6am – Cold Cave has been confirmed to play. and moar: Lemonade, Delorean, and Jamie (the XX) DJ set.
Press play below to watch Cold Cave’s music video for the title-track from their debut LP ‘Love Comes Close’, premiering over at Stereogum today.
Directed by Art Boonparn
The ‘Love Comes Close’ CD/LP is available on November 3rd and is up for preorder now. Earlier today, the limited-to-100 version of Cold Cave’s ‘Death Comes Close’ 12″ sold out in minutes. The second version is now available. Head over to the Matador Store for both.
Don’t miss Cold Cave this week in New York for CMJ, in the United Kingdom and with Sonic Youth in the next few weeks.
October
Tuesday 21st – Stereogum CMJ Showcase @ Studio at Webster Hall, New York NY
Wednesday 22nd – VICE Late Night Party @ Public Assembly, Brooklyn, NY
Friday 23rd – Matador/True Panther Sounds Showcase @ Flamboyan Theater, New York NY
This special version features exclusive artwork by Fernow is hand-assembled, stamped and editioned. Limited to one-hundred (100) copies, these records will make it into select stores and we’ll have it available for purchase at the Matador Store on Tuesday October 20 at 3:00 PM EST - They’re bound to go fast so mark your calendars and set your alarms.
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If you’re in New York City next week for the CMJ festivities, you can catch Cold Cave at the following venues:
November Sunday 1st – Optimo, Glasgow Monday 2nd – Liars Club @ Bodega, Nottingham Tuesday 3rd – White Heat @ Madame Jo Jo’s, London Wednesday 4th – Barfly, London Thursday 5th - The Corner, Manchester Friday 6th – Moles, Bath
Saturday 7th – Be @ Proud, London
(photo of Cold Cave at FYF Fest last week poached from Darling Darling blog)
A little under a year ago Fucked Up took over the Rogan Store here in New York for that epic 12-hour show. Tomorrow, Cold Cave is set to perform in that very space as part of a special, free event put on by the folks at Rogan. Will there be another John Joseph cameo this year? Hey, you never know…
ROGAN and The Smile along with Bowery district neighbors join forces to bring the party downtown with THE ROGAN LINEUP – an eclectic collective of events from 6pm-12am and perhaps even later.
The ROGAN Bouwerie shop, which formerly housed the Bouwerie Lane Theatre, will reach back into its theatrical roots and set the stage for the ROGAN LINEUP – a celebration of fashion, music and film.
FASHION: ROGAN opens its doors to designers Matohu, Risto, Ajna, daraGOY and Salvor.
MUSIC: ROGAN invites some of New York’s best noisemakers to perform on the mezzanine. The lineup for the night will include hourly guest DJ sets and a live performance by minimal, industrial synth-pop band, COLD CAVE.
FILM: A screening of rarely-seen footage shot by Albert Maysles including Little Edie, Sharon Tate, Ringo Starr and more. Also, photographic episodes by Anna Gaskell and film shorts from thought provoking artists. We will also be selling 12 limited edition ROGAN customized Fashion’s Night Out t-shirts
The Rogan Bouwerie Shop is located at 330 Bowery (@Bond St.) in NYC.
Cold Cave kick off their first ever west coast performances tonight in San Diego with a string of dates to follow in California through September’s early days. They include a stop at the FYF Fest in Los Angeles with fellow Matador acts, Fucked Up, Kurt Vile and Times New Viking.
September 3 @ Soda Bar, San Diego (w/ Strange Boys)
September 4 @ The Casbah, San Diego (w/ Glass Candy, Best Coast)
September 5 @ FYF Fest, LA Historic State Park, Los Angeles (w/ Fucked Up, Kurt Vile, Times New Viking and more – set times)
The band also has a handful of special events planned in the NYC area to follow which includes a special, free performance at the Rogan Bouwerie boutique, a slot on the WFMU Fest and opening for Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr.
Over the past 18 months, we’ve encountered a series of maddeningly limited vinyl and cassette releases* from the fantastic Philadelphia outfit, Cold Cave. With records on Dais, Hospital Productions and What’s Your Rupture, Cold Cave effortlessly marry elements of experimental noise, sound collage and synth pop. Last month, they released their debut longplayer and one of the most exciting debut albums we’ve heard, ‘Love Comes Close’, on their own publishing house, Heartworm Press. Not surprisingly, it sold out immediately.
We are happy to announce that Matador will be re-releasing ‘Love Comes Close’ worldwide on November 3 as well as additional odds and ends to be announced shortly.
Cold Cave is led by musical journeyman Wesley Eisold and is joined by an orbiting line-up that includes fellow allies Caralee McElroy (formerly of Xiu Xiu), Dominick Fernow (contemporary noise icon Prurient) and Max G. Morton (celebrated author).
We’ve provided two downloadable mp3s from the album:
“The Laurels of Erotomania” (160kbps mp3) showcases album’s rhythmic sensibility with menacing dissonance dappled atop.
“Life Magazine” (160kbps mp3), already an online favorite, brings sonic warmth emerging from Cold Cave’s electronic landscapes, and as The Fader writes, “swims soft, an unmistakable pop bubble bursting bar after bar.”
Cold Cave have collaborated with Prurient, contributed to 2009’s No Fun Fest and have gigged with groups ranging from NON to Comet Gain. You can find Cold Cave on the West Coast in September with many more dates being confirmed as we speak.
September 3: Soda Bar, San Diego w/ Crocodiles & Strange Boys
September 4: The Casbah, San Diego w/ Glass Candy
September 5: LA Historic State Park, Los Angeles: FYF Fest (w/ Black Lips, Lightning Bolt, Fucked Up, Times New Viking, Kurt Vile & More)
* latecomers can find many of these tracks compiled on the Hospital Productions collection ‘Cremations‘
