The Milk Carton Kids To Tour For Monterey

THE MILK CARTON KIDS ANNOUNCE

NORTH AMERICAN THEATER TOUR

New Album Monterey Out On May 19th

The Milk Carton Kids have just announced a Fall headlining tour of North America in support of their new album, Monterey, out May 19th. One year ago, their 55-city tour sold out months in advance and the band used the down time while out on the road to record Monterey. This Fall, the acclaimed duo will be performing in the biggest and most prestigious venues of their career. From New York City’s Town Hall, to Los Angeles’s Theatre at Ace Hotel, to Atlanta’s Symphony Hall, the ideal settings have been chosen to enable the duo to replicate the nuances and dynamics of their stirring new album.

It is the little details that the band will cherish most as they recognize the long road they’ve traveled in the short 4 years they’ve been together. Joey Ryan states: “We’re very excited for this tour, having been assured that none of the rooms we’re playing will have beer fridges that are louder than the PA.”

The Los Angeles-based duo has grown in popularity from a mixture of word of mouth, rave reviews, and a desire to provide an exceptional live experience. Their featured performances and interviews in T Bone Burnett and the Coen Brother’s 2014 concert documentary, Another Day/Another Time, brought the band its widest audience yet. The LA Times hails them for “absolute mastery of their craft.” Paste Magazine highlights the “intellectual sophistication of their songs,” and Garrison Keillor calls them “absolute geniuses at close harmony.” While praise from cultural purveyors is flattering to the band, they seem to be most excited by fans on Twitter who report that their music “gives them all the feels.” 

The meticulously curated dates of this tour will provide established fans and newcomers alike exemplary settings in which to experience The Milk Carton Kids – two intricately intertwining voices and guitars, immensely potent songwriting, and doses of genuinely entertaining between-song banter.

The band’s new album, Monterey, was recorded not in a studio, but on the stages of theaters and churches across North America that have always coaxed the band’s most uninhibited expressions. It is a method that allowed the band to finally capture on record the same fearlessness and spontaneity usually only achieved in a live setting.

The Milk Carton Kids North American Fall Tour Dates:

9/7/15 Northampton, MA – Academy of Music Theatre

9/8/15 Boston, MA – Berklee Performance Center

9/9/15 Philadelphia, PA – Keswick Theatre

9/10/15 Washington, D.C. – Lisner Auditorium

9/11/15 New York, NY – Town Hall

9/12/15 Brevard, NC – Mountain Song Festival

9/13/15 Durham, NC – Carolina Theatre

9/15/15 Knoxville, TN – Bijou Theatre

9/17/15 Louisville, KY – Bomhard Theatre

9/18/15 Columbus, OH – Lincoln Theatre

9/30/15 Santa Barbara, CA – Lobero Theatre

10/1/15 Los Angeles, CA – The Theatre at Ace Hotel

10/4/15 Chico, CA – Laxson Auditorium

10/5/15 Portland, OR – Newmark Theatre

10/6/15 Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre

10/7/15 Vancouver, BC – Vogue Theatre

10/9/15 Edmonton, AB – Winspear Centre Concert Hall

10/10/15 Calgary, AB – Central United Church

10/28/15 Toronto, ON – Queen Elizabeth Theatre

10/29/15 Ann Arbor, MI – The Ark

10/30/15 Chicago, IL – Fourth Presbyterian Church

10/31/15 Grand Rapids, MI – Covenant Fine Arts Center

11/2/15 St. Paul, MN – Fitzgerald Theater

11/3/15 Madison, WI – Barrymore Theatre

11/4/15 St. Louis, MO – Sheldon Concert Hall

11/5/15 Nashville, TN – James K. Polk Theater

11/6/15 Atlanta, GA – Symphony Hall

11/9/15 Asheville, NC – Diana Wortham Theatre

11/10/15 Charleston, NC – Charleston Music Hall

12/1/15 San Francisco, CA – The Palace of Fine Arts

12/2/15 Napa, CA – Uptown Theatre

12/3/15 Arcata, CA – Van Duzer Theatre

12/5/15 San Diego, CA – Balboa Theatre

12/7/15 Mesa, AZ – Ikeda Theatre

12/8/15 Santa Fe, NM – The Lensic

12/9/15 Boulder, CO – Boulder Theater

12/11/15 Dallas, TX – Majestic Theater

12/13/15 Austin, TX – Paramount Theatre