Blacklisted take black hearts to blacktop
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Not to spam you with tour dates – but good bands on the road deserve support. 99% of bands don’t mean anything to me. I might enjoy their music, but it doesn’t reach deeper than my ears. Blacklisted fall in the other 1%. …The Beat Goes On (Deathwish, 2005) helped me through a tough part of my life; even now, its crimson heart in a cavern stirs something within me.
Their new record, Heavier than Heaven, Lonelier than God, took getting used to. It was even more abrasive and desperate, and certainly not a sunny day listen. Now that sunny days are gone, I get it. It’s uncomfortable to face down one’s psyche. But it’s necessary. Flipping through the liner notes – whose amazing, atypical layout by Jacob Bannon is David LaChapelle-esque surreal – one sees the lurid banality of personal interiors. Joan Osborne posited a lonely god in “One of Us.” Blacklisted find one in all of us.
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– On tour with Have Heart, Ceremony, Let Down –
11/08 Madison, WI @ Club 770
11/10 Covington, KY @ Mad Hatter
11/11 Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick
11/12 Cleveland, OH @ Peabody’s
11/13 Pittsburgh, PA @ Roboto Project
11/14 Syracuse, NY @ Klub Polski
11/15 Boston, MA @ ICC Church
11/16 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
11/17 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory
11/18 Maplewood, NJ @ Garden State Music
11/19 Deer Park, NY @ Deer Park VFW
