MONO ANNOUNCE MASSIVE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR IN SUPPORT OF NEW ALBUM FOR ‘MY PARENTS’

ACCLAIMED JAPANESE QUARTET TO EMBARK ON BICOASTAL TOUR SEPTEMBER 11

Acclaimed Japanese instrumental rock quartet MONO have announced an epic North American tour in support of their new album For My Parents, an engrossing and masterful five song suite being released on September 4th by Temporary Residence Ltd. MONO is, and has always been, a force to reckon with in the live environment, maintaining unparalleled control over dynamics that are as capable of bringing a dingy rock bar to pindrop silence as filling an symphony hall with cacophonous sheets of euphoric noise. Full tour dates follow below.

The new album is the band’s most realized to date, a synthesis of neoclassical and instrumental rock influences whose soaring, expansive melodies and emotionally evocative string arrangements (prepared by the band themselves and executed by NYC’s Wordless Music Orchestra) make for an immersive listening experience. Nowhere is this evidenced as clearly as the first song release from the album, the boundless “Dream Odyssey” (link above).

FULL NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES

9/11 Pittsburgh, PA Mr Smalls
9/12 Toronto, ON Horseshoe
9/13 Montreal, PQ Il Motore
9/14 New York, NY LPR
9/15 Brooklyn, NY Glasslands
9/16 Boston, MA Brighton
9/17 Buffalo, NY Soundlab
9/18 Cleveland, OH Now That’s Class
9/19 Columbus, OH Ace Of Cups
9/20 Bloomington, IN The Bishop
9/21 Chicago, IL Subterranean
9/22 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
9/23 Iowa City, IA Gabes
9/25 Omaha, NE Waiting Room
9/26 Kansas City, MO Riot Room
9/27 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
9/28 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
9/29 Boise, ID Neurolux
10/1 Vancouver, BC The Media Club
10/2 Seattle, WA Crocodile
10/3 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
10/5 San Francisco, CA Rickshaw
10/6 Los Angeles, CA Bootleg
10/8 San Diego, CA Casbah
10/9 Phoenix, AZ Rhythm Room
10/10 Albuquerque, NM Launchpad
10/11 El Paso, TX Lowbrow Place
10/12 Dallas, TX Sons of Hermann Hall
10/13 Austin, TX Mohawk
10/14 Houston, TX Fitzgeralds
10/15 Baton Rouge, LA Spanish Moon
10/17 Tampa, FL Crowbar
10/18 Orlando, FL Social
10/19 Jacksonville, FL Jack Rabbits
10/20 Birmingham, AL Bottletree
10/21 Atlanta, GA Masquerade (purgatory stage)
10/23 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506
10/25 Washington, DC Rock N Roll Hotel
10/26 Hamden, CT The Space
10/27 Philadelphia, PA Kung Fu Necktie