We've longed for the day when LA-via-DC transplants DEAD MEADOW would
drop a studio album that matched the power of one of the best shows on the
planet. With Old Growth, the firm of Simon, Kille and McCarty have delivered a
remarkably clear, powerful and confident recording that should elevate the trio
into the pantheon of great guitar bands of our time[...]

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02/26/08 — New April-May dates
4/15 Hoboken NJ Maxwell's
4/16 Washington DC Black Cat
4/17 Philadelphia PA Johnny Brenda's
4/18 Brooklyn NY Williamsburg Music Hall
4/19 Danbury CT Heirloom Arts Theatre
4/20 Boston MA Middle East Downstairs
4/21 Northampton MA Iron Horse
4/22 Winooski VT Higher Ground
4/23 Montreal QC Club Lambi
4/24 Toronto ON Lee's Palace
4/25 Buffalo NY Sound Lab
4/26 Rochester NY Bug Jar
4/28 Newport KY Southgate House
4/29 Bloomington IN Bluebird Nightclub
4/30 Cleveland OH Beachland Ballroom
5/1 Columbus OH The Basement
5/2 Detroit MI Magic Stick
5/3 Chicago IL The Abbey with Indian Velcro Lewis
5/5 Madison WI High Noon Saloon
5/7 Minneapolis MN 7th Street Entry
5/8 Fargo ND Aquarium
5/9 Sioux City SD Nutty's
5/10 Iowa City IA Picador
5/11 Omaha NE The Waiting Room
5/12 Lawrence KS Jackpot
5/13 Denver CO Larimer Lounge
5/15 Salt Lake City UT Kilby Court
5/16 Boise ID Neurolux
5/24 San Francisco CA Slim's

11/30/07--Dead Meadow - ‘'Old Growth' NYC Gig + Early CD Scheme Unveiled

The band formerly and, well, currently known as Dead Meadow may not have a fancy symbol. One that can be disturbingly transformed into a guitar and used with a simple silhouette effect to make people cringe nationwide. Well, we’d listen to arguments that an Orange Amp perfectly symbolizes Dead Meadow. Ahhh, such a robust, and psychedelic sound. What that has to do with the Super Bowl or Prince admittedly isn’t clear to even us. So with all due respect to the man from Minneapolis and football fans far and wide, we’ll get to the point. Think of this as a sort of touchdown + two point conversion, within a rock context of course.

Dead Meadow will be playing a special show at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City on Wed, Jan 16th, 2008 to celebrate the release of their new album ‘Old Growth’ (out 2/5/08). So excited to get it out, the band is willing to give anyone who attends the opportunity to pick it up a whole 3 weeks early. For $25 anyone looking to get their hands on Old Growth can purchase a ticket to Dead Meadow’s Jan 16th show + their new CD. One great price, 2 great Dead Meadow experiences. Sorry, those searching for vinyl you’ll have to wait for the proper street date — this offer applies to CDs only. Now you can purchase this package deal through Matador’s online store, the Bowery Ballroom or in person at Other Music (15 East 4th Street between Broadway and Lafayette, NYC). However, you’ll not receive the album at the time of purchase but instead, the night of the gig (1/16/08). You’ll just need to swing by the merch table at the Bowery, present your receipt to our sales person and they’ll hand over your Dead Meadow goods. Very important, no receipt, no CD, no exceptions.

Here’s a further selection from what we’re pretty confident will be one of 2008’s most exciting releases :

“What Needs Must Be” - from ‘Old Growth’ (mp3)

5/24/07--Dead Meadow Tour The UK
Dead Meadow have just confirmed an eleven date trip through the UK. See where on the tour page, those that can swing tickets are likely to get a sneak peek at the mammoth material from the band's upcoming "Old Growth."

3/29/07--Dead Meadow Prepping For Bigger Than Life Things
And by the above, we mean we're about an update away from releasing details surrounding Dead Meadow's 5th studio album, the astonishingly powerful 'Old Growth'.

2/21/07 —Some New March Tour Dates In The Southwest
It's like the headline says. Click over to the tour page for the full details.

2/7/07 —New Tour Dates

(poster by Tim Clark) Dead Meadow have just confirmed a new bunch of tour dates for March, all with Spindrift as the opener. Click over to the tour page and see if they're coming to a town near you.

1/22/07 —Dead Meadow speaks: Report from the recording studio
Story and pictures from Steve of Dead Meadow

At the time of writing this paragraph we are in Sunset Sound recording our fifth studio album, third for Matador Records. Sunset Sound is definitely haunted by lots of history. Appearantly the ghost of Jim Morrison walks the secret storage rooms and echo chambers in the fifty-year old studio on the Sunset strip. A vibe and energy to this place that is totally unique and hopefully and energy that can color our new music. Even more than the vibes we have received in this sound temple was that of the energy and evp noises captured indiana.jpgduring our tracking a month earlier in Indiana. In trying to reach out to our more atmospheric side we returned to our drummers families farm/estate in rural Indiana. The natural setting and a chance to "get away from it all" that first brought us there to record "Howls from the Hills" took us back again for this creative endeavor. Instead of tracking in the barn the fall weather forced to move the operation into the nearby original inn/farmhouse that was the basis of the property. For years abandoned (his grandparents who own the land have always lived in a newer house they built on the other side of thefarm) the house was recently rebuilt to be used as a guest house project by our drummers uncle.

A totally empty, beautifully restored and warm farm house was definitely a great place to spend the next few weeks tracking the basic instruments. His uncle added some beautiful features that added to the sound and ambience. A huge greatroom with fourteen foot tall ceilings were perfect for the drum sounds. Old cuboards and closets were great isolation rooms. Even an architectual old well was built into the new kitchen floor. Instead of covering the well up with the new construction instead they covered it up with thick glass in a light at the bottom, a perfect reminder of the building past in the now modern updated kitchen, only if you did not watch "The Ring".

The location was perfect but the only problem was the constant haunting issues along the way. At first we did not think of it but as it became consistant there is hidden Evp sounds on some of the guitar sounds and buzzing bits. Even a violin noise from no where and walking when no one was upstairs. Luckily we were recording so we plan to throw some of the sounds on the final piece. I guess it will be something for the heads to trip out to. To add icing on the cake of the story we found out that the last renters of the home that were there before renovations or even Howls were recorded broke their lease do to apparitions. These guys were park rangers and one of them even pulled his gun on hand prints walking towards him in the carpet as he laid in bed… I hope the energy will come across and maybe the good vibes of our music helped this home. I always felt a good vibe even with the weird noises. I like to think as if something was there it was just trying to have it voice on the record.. like "I can play something too."


the "haunted" vaults above Sunset with tons of old reels (Zippedoodah, Disney stuff and maybe a lost Doors reel????)


Studio shot.


my favorite… basketball in the Sunset courtyard.. onthe left is Studio 1, the right Studio 3 and the photois taken from Studio 2..

— Steve Kille

11/30/06 —Dead Meadow Keep On Trucking
Rolling into December, Dead Meadow has a whole lotta dates lined up through the western half of the US. Rumor has it they're previewing new material at these gigs, and further rumor has it that said new material is pretty awesome. Click over to the tour page and see if they're coming to a town near you.

09/25/06 —New Tour with Wolfmother
Dead Meadow is heading out on the road with Wolfmother in November. See if they're coming to your city here.

08/16/06 —Discography updated
Dead Meadow's discography page has been updated. If anything is missing, let us know, because we're trying to be completists. Check it out here.

06/01/06 —Let's hope this doesn't steal their soul
Dead Meadow recently played some tremendous gigs in the UK, including this one at Bush Hall in London (photos courtesy of underexposed.org.uk):

04/27/06 —Forthcoming UK dates
May 2006
18 LONDON SONIC CATHEDRAL at THE LEGION
19 ALL TOMORROWS PARTIES, Camber Sands, Rye, UK
21 MANCHESTER ACADEMY W/DINOSAUR JR
22 BIRMINGHAM ACADEMY W/DINSOAUR JR
23 BRISTOL ACADEMY W/DINOSUAR JR
26 CARDIFF CLWB IFOR BACH -
27 LONDON BUSH HALL
28 NOTTINGHAM DOT TO DOT at THE SOCIAL

03/10/06 — Dead Meadow + Dinosaur Jr. = Aww Yeeaahh
After a wildly successful series of shows on the West Coast, Dead Meadow hit the road again this March in support of Dinosaur Jr.

3/29 - Dallas, TX - Gypsy Ballroom
3/30 - Austin, TX - Stubb's
3/31 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
4/1 - New Orleans, LA - House Of the Blues
4/2 - Tallahassee, FL - The Moon
4/3 - Jacksonville, FL - Free Bird Cafe
4/4 - Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues SC
4/5 - Washington DC - 9:30 Club
4/6 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
4/7 - Asheville, NC - the Orange Peel
4/8 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
4/9 - Nashville, TN - City Hall
4/10 - Memphis, TN - Young Ave Deli
4/11 - Indianapolis, IN - The Vogue

11/12/05 — Wish we were there

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those that understand that Dead Meadow are one of the universe's most amazing bands. And those that want to see Roy Horn receive proper medical care.

NOVEMBER (All dates with Black Mountain)
11 NL, UTRECHT - EKKO
12 NL, DEN BOSCH - WILLEM II
13 DE, HAMBURG - MOLOTOW
14 DE, BERLIN - KNAACK
15 DE, DRESDEN - STAR CLUB
16 DE, MUNICH - FEIERWERK
17 A, VIENNA - FLEX
18 IT, BERGAMO - CLUB ZERO
19 IT, BOLOGNA - IL COVO
20 CH, BASEL - KASERN
22 FR, EVREUX - MJC
23 UK, LONDON - SCALA
24 UK, NOTTINGHAM - RESCUE ROOMS
25 UK, GLASGOW - ABC2
26 UK, MANCHESTER - ROADHOUSE
28 FR, PARIS - LA BOULE NOIR
29 BE, HASSELT - M.O.D.
30 NL, AMSTERDAM - PARADISO

DECEMBER
8 NY, NEW YORK - BOWERY BALLROOM

10/11/05 — Tour with Black Mountain
Dead Meadow shortly commence upon on an exhaustive UK/European tour with Black Mountain:

NOVEMBER
11 NL UTRECHT - EKKO
12 NL DEN BOSCH - WILLEM 2
13 DE HAMBURG - MOLOTOW
14 DE BERLIN - KNAACK
15 DE DRESDEN - STAR CLUB
16 DE MUNICH - FEIERWERK
17 A VIENNA - FLEX
18 IT BERGAMO - CLUB ZERO
19 IT BOLOGNA - IL COVO
20 CH BASEL - KASERN
22 FR EVREUX - MJC
23 UK LONDON - SCALA
24 UK NOTTINGHAM - RESCUE ROOMS
25 UK GLASGOW - ABC2
26 UK MANCHESTER - ROADHOUSE
28 FR PARIS - LA BOULE NOIR
29 BE HASSELT - MUZIEK O DROOM
30 DE AMSTERDAM - PARADISO

06/08/05 — Video for "At Her Open Door"
An appropriately engulfing video for "At Her Open Door", one of the standout tracks from 'Feathers', is available here. Dead Meadow will be on the road throughout the June supporting Sleater-Kinney:

6/15 - Minneapolis at First Ave
6/16 - Chicago at Riviera Theater
6/17 - Cleveland at Beachland Ballroom
6/18 - Toronto at the Phoenix
6/19 - Montreal at Club Soda
6/21 - Burlington at Higher Ground
6/22 - Boston Avalon
6/23 - NYC Roseland
6/24 - Philadelphia at Trocadero
6/25 - DC at 9:30
6/29 - Winston-Salem at Ziggy's
7/1 - Atlanta at Variety

plus more dates on their own, available on the tour page.

02/10/05 — Tours with Trail Of Dead and Jennifer Gentle
European dates with Trail Of Dead in March, and US dates with Jennifer Gentle in March/April, have been announced on the tours page. Keep an eye peeled because we'll be confirming more over the next few weeks.

01/26/05 — Album out in less than a month
We're scrambling like Michael Vick to let you, the educated public know that Dead Meadow's forthcoming "Feathers' CD/LP , is an enthralling, expansive work that adds new colors to the sonic pallette of America's heaviest guitar band. Prior to their SXSW appearance, Dead Meadow will be touring Europe with And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, with a full North American schedule planned for April.

01/06/05 — New bio, new photos, upcoming tour
A new bio and new photos have been posted. Stay tuned for info on the nationwide tour which will begin shortly after release of 'Feathers' on February 22.

12/15/04 — First MP3 from new album
now available for your listening pleasure, an MP3 of "At Her Open Door," from Dead Meadow's forthcoming 'Feathers' CD/LP, in stores Feb 22 (and Mar 7 in Europe). Users of the hook-up-tastic My Space.com can become close personal friends of Dead Meadow by visiting this link.

11/16/04 — On tour with the Warlocks
Currently on tour throughout the USA with the Warlocks, Dead Meadow have completed work on their new Matador CD/LP, 'Feathers,' scheduled for release next February. The first DM opus to feature the additional guitar work of newest member Corey Shane, 'Feathers' is a brave, expansive take on the band's signature psychedelia. There's little happening in guitar rock that compares favorably at the moment, and not that we're rooting for the rest of the music world to slip up or anything, but we're sure you'll be impressed.

09/03/04 — In studio, various dates
Dead Meadow are headlining Baltimore's Ottobar on Saturday, September 18, with Oneida in support. Prior to that, Dead Meadow will be in New York's LoHo Studios (of GBV's 'Isolation Drills' fame) working on their next Matador album alongside engineer Tom Gloady and producer Bob Ebeling.

In addition, they are undertaking fall tour dates with the Warlocks and others. Check the tours page for details.

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