MASTODON - Brent Hinds' WEST END MOTEL Announce Tour Dates
October 15, 2012, 11 years ago
MASTODON guitarist Brent Hinds has just announced a three-week tour with his side project WEST END MOTEL in support of their sophomore release Only Time Can Tell (out October 30th on Warner Bros). Kicking off November 28th in Washington, D.C., the tour will make stops in New York, Boston, Chicago, and more, wrapping up December 15th in Hinds' hometown of Atlanta; the complete routing is detailed below.
Only Time Can Tell is the highly-anticipated follow-up to Hinds' acclaimed 2011 debut Don't Shiver, You're A Winner. The 8-song set is now available to pre-order on iTunes and via the Amazon link below. The album's first single ‘Burn It Down’ is currently streaming:
West End Motel began in 1993 under a bridge in Atlanta, where Hinds first met longtime friend Tom Cheshire. Describing themselves as a "conglomerate of losers, poets and hobo-sexuals," the pair write acoustic-guitar driven songs enriched with horns and keys, with the end result sounding like Nick Cave fronting Gogol Bordello. The project pre-dates Mastodon and offers an important glimpse into Hinds' musical influences.
"I grew up listening to Chet Atkins play guitar, and I grew up listening to Brian Setzer play guitar," explains Hinds. "Jimmy Bryant, Speedy West, all these country-chicken-pickin'-flying-'round-the-guitar-neck guitar players. I got really inspired by it. I'm from way down in the country. It was pretty common to have the interests I had when I was that age. MTV had some hair metal on there, but I was more interested in this rockabilly vibe. STRAY CATS were really big at the time, in the '80s. It was epic."Only Time Can Tell contains the following eight songs:
‘Burn It Down’
‘El Myr’
‘Witch Is Dead’
‘If I Only Had Tomorrow (Second Chances)’
‘Forgiveness’
‘Only Time Can Tell’
‘Valentine’
‘Bite’
Confirmed West End Motel tour dates:
November
28 - Vienna, VA - Jammin' Java29 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
30 - West Chester, PA - The Note
December
1 - Winooski, VT - The Monkey House2 - Allston, MA - Great Scott
4 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool
5 - Cleveland, OH - The Grog Shop
6 - Bloomington, IN - The Bishop
7 - Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club
8 - Chicago, IL - Double Door
9 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
11 - Kansas City, MO - The Riot Room
13 - Knoxville, TN - Pilot Light
14 - Birmingham, AL - The Nick
15 - Atlanta, GA - 529
