MINIBOONE SHARES VIDEO FOR “WAKE UP FACTORY BOUQUET“
BAD SPORTS OUT NOW ON ERNEST JENNING RECORD CO.
Ernest Jenning Record Co. is excited to share the video for “Wake Up Factory Bouquet” fromMiniboone‘s recently released album Bad Sports. The video is available to stream or embedHERE. This comes after the band revealed the video for “Erasure,” which features members in a shot-for-shot reenactment of one of the most infamous music videos of all time — David Bowie andMick Jagger‘s “Dancing In The Street.” The “Erasure” video is available to stream or embedHERE. The group also recently premiered their track “Any Other City” via Impose Magazine, who called it “simple, resonant and snarky enough to become a quiet anthem.” The track is available to stream or embed HERE.
Miniboone begins a stretch of tour dates tonight at The Happy Dog in Cleveland, OH, and the run concludes at Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar in Charlottesville, VA. The full list of tour dates are listed below, with more to be announced soon.
Sometime during the waning days of 2008, in a dusty Williamsburg basement, beneath the haze of a burgeoning financial crisis, ripe with youthful energy and drunk on hope, Miniboone began the endless search for satisfaction that is the life of a rock band. That search has led them to their second LP, Bad Sports, a chronicle of looking for joy and failing, only to find that joy hiding within the soul-crushing hunt itself.
In their search, Miniboone has shared stages with acts as diverse and acclaimed as the B-52s, Art Brut, and Real Estate, and brought their kinetic, unabashedly-delivered power pop to audiences at festivals such as Bonnaroo, SXSW, CMJ and more. They’ve produced an LP (2013’s Miniboone), as well as numerous EPs and singles, which have received praised from likes of the Village Voice,NPR, the L Magazine and Vice.
To record their second LP, Miniboone (Tony Aquilino – bass, Craig Barnes – guitar / keys, Drew St. Aubin – drums, and Doug Schrashun – guitar) retreated from the skyrocketing rents of New York’s inwardly advancing but still outer boroughs and decamped to an historic and reputedly haunted upstate manor with producer Travis Harrison (Built to Spill, Homosexuals, Dope Body). What they emerged with is an album that uses the thunder, fury, and layered vocal harmonies of classic rock’s latter day gods to draw attention to the absurdity of rock in 2015. Bad Sports is the frantic chord changes and bilious sneer of vintage Elvis Costello beat over the head by the techno-beauty and IRL-disappointment of the 21st century, the booming right foot of John Bonham and the precisely twirled microphone of Roger Daltrey combining forces to smash a perfectly good smart phone.
Bad Sports track list:
1. Basic Song
2. Fake A Way
3. IRL
5. A Message To You Eddie
7. I Don’t Wanna Write An Email
8. Erasure
9. Mysterious Intoxicants
10. No Fun In The Funhouse
11. I Know You Would Do Anything For Love But What Would You Do For Me?
Miniboone tour dates:aa
5/6 – The Happy Dog – Cleveland, OH
5/7 – Blind Bob’s – Dayton, OH
5/8 – Mike & Molly’s – Champaign, IL
5/9 – Sounds By South Bend Festival – South Bend, IN
5/10 – Quencher’s – Chicago, IL
5/11 – Satellite Records – Grand Rapids, MI
5/12 – The Crossroads – Ypsilanti, MI
5/14 – Butler Arts Center – Pittsburgh, PA
5/15 – Fredericksburg All Ages – Fredericksburg, VA
5/16 – 80/20 Burger Bar – Norfolk, VA
5/17 – Glenwood Books – Greensboro, NC
5/18 – Slim’s – Raleigh, NC
5/19 – Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar – Charlottesville, VA
