NEW YORK, NY – MAY 15, 2015 — Today, Heartless Bastards shares their video for the first track, “Gates of Dawn”, from their highly anticipated new record, Restless Ones, out June 16 on Partisan. The video premiered yesterday on Stereogum and is also available to view on YouTube.
Watch the video of “Gates Of Dawn” on Stereogum or YouTube
Restless Ones is the band’s fifth album and was produced by GRAMMY® Award-winning producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Angel Olsen, Swans). Restless Ones was tracked in August 2014 during a 10-day session at El Paso, TX’s renowned Sonic Ranch. Located on 2,300 acres of pecan orchards bordering the Rio Grande and Mexico, the studio – the largest residential recording complex in the world – provided the perfect setting, miles away from all real world responsibilities and thus able to fully invest themselves in the act of creation.
“We took a lot of chances,” says singer/songwriter Erika Wennerstrom says, “taking the sounds in different directions in order to grow. I don’t ever want to make the same album twice.”
Heartless Bastards — Wennerstrom, guitarist Mark Nathan, bassist Jesse Ebaugh, and drummer Dave Colvin — have spent the past decade in motion, boldly pushing their unique brand of rock ‘n’ roll into new shapes over four acclaimed albums and nearly non-stop roadwork. Now, with Restless Ones, the band sets out once again, blazing a path to a place of shifting moods, seasoned songcraft, and unbridled spontaneity. Restless Ones is the follow-up to 2012’s breakthrough Arrow, the album finds Wennerstrom exploring as-yet-unvisited avenues of sound and sensation, her bravery and ambition readily apparent in the emotional timbre and the sheer physicality of her songs. Her spellbinding vocals are of course front and center, her one-of-a-kind voice as primal, cathartic, and indefinable as ever.
Heartless Bastards are setting off on a summer tour this June with support from Craig Finn (of The Hold Steady). The tour kicks off on June 10 at the Thirsty Hippo in Hattiesburg, MS taking them across the east coast and Midwest before ending on July 2 at Trees in Dallas, TX. All tour and festival dates are listed below and can be found on their interactive website experience RestlessOnes.net. Their fans will also be able to share photos, videos and check out new music directly from the band.
Heartless Bastards Tour Dates
June
10 – Hattiesburg, MS – Thirsty Hippo #
11 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn #
12 – Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge #
13 – Raleigh, NC – Cats Cradle #
14 – Baltimore, MD – Ottobar #
15 – New York, NY – Webster Hall
17 – Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts #
18 – Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls #
19 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
20 – Toronto, ONT – Horseshoe Tavern/NXNE #
21 – Detroit, MI – St. Andrews #
23 – Grand Rapids, MI – Wealthy Theater #
24 – Columbus, OH – A&R Music Bar #
25 – Cincinnati, OH – Woodward Theater #
26 – Cincinnati, OH – Woodward Theater #
29 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue #
30 – Omaha, NE – Slowdown #
July
1 – Kansas City, MO – Record Bar #
2 – Dallas, TX – Trees #
24 – Newport, RI – Newport Folk Festival
September
9 – New Orleans – One Eyed Jacks*
10 – Atlanta – Terminal West*
11 – Asheville – The Orange Peel*
12 – Washington DC – 930 Club
13 – Bearsville – Bearsville Theater*
16 – Northampton – Pearl Street Downstairs*
17 – Portland, ME- Port City Music Hall
18 – Boston – Paradise Rock Club*
23 – Chicago – Metro*
24 – Indianapolis – Deluxe*
26 – Madison – Majestic*
27 – Milwaukee – Turner Hall*
29 – St Louis – Off Broadway*
30 – Little Rock – Revolution Music Room*
October
16 – Marfa – El Cosmico
17 – Albuquerque – Launchpad
18 – Phoenix – Crescent Ballroom
19 – Solana Beach – Belly Up
20 – Pomona – Glass House
22 – Los Angeles – Fonda
23 – Calpine – Sierra Valley Lodge
24 – Napa – City Winery
25 – San Francisco – The Fillmore
27 – Vancouver – Venue
28 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
29 – Seattle – Neumos
30 – Missoula – Top Hat Lounge
31 – Boise – Neurolux
November
2 – Salt Lake City – Urban Lounge
3 – Denver – Bluebird Theater
4 -Boulder – eTown Hall
7 – San Antonio – Sam’s Burger Joint
21 – Austin – Mohawk
# – Craig Finn supporting
* – Alberta Cross supporting
TRACK LISTING
01. Wind Up Bird
02. Gates of Dawn
03. Black Cloud
04. Hi-Line
05. Journey
06. Pocket Full of Thirst
07. Into The Light
08. The Fool
09. Eastern Wind
10. Tristessa
