Akron/Family: Love Is Simple, and fall tours
Akron/Family is about to release the anticipated Love Is Simple, set for September 24 on Young God Records. The four piece is known for energetic live shows, and has received much love from music blogs for their experimental freak folk songs. Akron/Family spent two weeks tracking the album with Andrew Weiss (Ween) at Zion House Of Flesh in New Jersey.
Akron/Family are currently touring with Megafaun and Greg Davis in the East, Midwest, and Ontario. Megafaun and Greg Davis are not only opening for Akron/Family, they are performing in their band during the tour, stretching Akron/Family into an eight-piece. The month of October will find them touring the West Coast with the Dodos.
Exhausted from extensive touring, Akron/Family members spent a year away from each other in 2006. But the magnetic pull of writing music brought them back together for the better part of a year, piecing songs together for Love Is Simple.
“This record is both a love letter to the past and a launching pad into the future. And in a way not before captured, this record has the unmistakable field holler of friendship and brotherhood… Hues from all our records emerge and then dematerialize back into the portaled journey from beginnings to new ends. On the way we see the friendly sounds we love so much only to have them eventually submerge back into the watered universal womb to prepare for what is TRULY next, what new lunged Hendrixian wonder world lays ahead for humanity and sound.”
Akron/Family – Ed Is A Portal
Akron/Family – Phenomena
Akron/Family at eMusic
Akron/Family at Beucher.de
Akron/Family at iTunes [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoqqDIC_Mgw[/youtube]
Akron/Family with Megafaun and Greg Davis:
Sep 6 :: Magic Stick, Detroit, Mi
Sep 7 :: Logan Square Auditorium, Chicago, IL
Sep 8 :: Creepy Crawl, St Louis, MO
Sep 10 :: New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL
Sep 11 :: Back Booth, Orlando, FL
Sep 12 :: Downunder Club @ FSU, Tallahassee, FL
Sep 13 :: BottleTree, Birmingham, AL
Sep 14 :: Bijou Theater, Knoxville, TN
Sep 15 :: 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
Sep 17 :: Pour Haus, Raleigh, NC
Sep 18 :: Rock & Roll Hotel, Washington, DC
Sep 19 :: First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, PA
Sep 21 :: Wexner Center for Arts at OSU, Columbus, OH
Sep 22 :: LOLA Festival, London, ON
Sep 23 :: Lee’s Palace, Toronto, ON
Sep 25 :: Vinyl, Guelph, ON
Sep 26 :: Barrymore’s Music Hall, Ottawa, ON
Sep 27 :: Club Metronome, Burlington, VT
Sep 28 :: Harper’s Ferry, Boston, MA
Sep 30 ::Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
Akron/Family with the Dodos:
Oct 10 :: Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Oct 11 :: Independent, San Francisco, CA
Oct 12 :: The Troubadour, Hollywood, CA
Oct 13 :: Fernwood Resort, Big Sur, CA
Oct 18 :: Richards on Richards, Vancouver, BC
Oct 19 :: Crocodile Cafe, Seattle, WA
Oct 20 :: Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR