Streets Of Laredo Get Streamed By NYT

New York Times Streams Streets of Laredo’s New Album

Volume I & II Out Tuesday, Oct 7th

Catch Them Live This Fall

“Bound to become a mainstay on playlists this fall with their bright, echoing vocals”
– Paste

“…rollicking indie-folk layered with giddy boy-girl harmonies and the occasional fulsome brass section: they’re both talented and approachable and their music is so unabashedly heart-on-the-sleeve warm and genuine that the band’s Volume I & II will burnish even the most tarnished and cynical of souls.” – Noisey

We are elated to share the New York Times’ full album stream of Brooklyn-based New Zealander’s Streets of Laredo upcoming album Volume I & II. This debut album will be out October 7, via Dine Alone Records.

Founded by close-knit family members Daniel, Dave and Sarahjane Gibson and inspired by the fervour and madness of the 70’s folk-rock circuit, Streets of Laredo was born out of trying to escape the mundane everyday working life.
Refining their sound and songs one holiday weekend at a beach house on the New Zealand coast, the Gibsons started to fashion a sound that was equal parts folk storytelling and psychedelic madness. With just one home-town show under their belt, a handful of demos and a whole lot of hope, they took the plunge and decided to move halfway around the world. Fast-forward to the summer of 2012 and Streets of Laredo in a rehearsal space in Brooklyn NY with a guitar, a drum-machine and no money, trying to figure out what comes next.

Quickly adding fellow countryman Thom Darlow and local Brooklynites Sean McMahon and Andrew McGovern to the mix, this now rambling, multi-instrumental, seven-piece started to craft a dance-inducing mix of vocal hooks, beats and wild sounds that saw the New York music scene embrace them as their own.

A quick trip back to New Zealand saw the band record the bones of ‘Volume I & II’ – ten songs inspired by their old life in NZ and their new life in NYC – in an old converted Auckland theatre where, courtesy of friendships and favors, they locked down that distinctive Streets of Laredo sound.
Catch the band live, this fall! Dates are below.

Streets of Laredo Fall Tour Dates
Oct 1, 2014 — The Bowery Ballroom — New York, NY w/ Delta Spirit (SOLD OUT)
Oct 26, 2014 — Boot & Saddle — Philadelphia, PA
Oct 27, 2014 — Smiling Moose — Pittsburgh, PA
Oct 28, 2014 – T.T. The Bears – Boston, MA
Oct 29, 2014 — Mercury Lounge — New York, NY
Oct 30, 2014 – La Vitrola – Montreal, QB
Nov 01, 2014 — The Drake — Toronto, ON
Nov 04, 2014 — Schubas Tavern — Chicago, IL
Nov 05, 2014 —7th Street Entry — Minneapolis, MN
Nov 06, 2014 — The Record Bar — Kansas City, MO
Nov 07, 2014 — Larimer Lounge — Denver, CO
Nov 08, 2014 — Urban Lounge — Salt Lake City, UT
Nov 10, 2014 — Electric Owl — Vancouver, BC
Nov 11, 2014 — Doug Fir Lounge — Portland, OR
Nov 12, 2014 — Barboza — Seattle, WA
Nov 15, 2014 — Neck of The Woods — San Francisco, CA
Nov 17, 2014 — Casbah — San Diego, CA
Nov 18, 2014 — The Satellite — Los Angeles, CA
Nov 20, 2014 — Stubbs Jr — Austin, TX
Nov 21, 2014 — The Beatnik — New Orleans, LA
Nov 22, 2014 — The High Watt — Nashville, TN
Nov 24, 2014 — DC9 — Washington, DC