Wednesday, September 19, 2012

LONDON-DWELLING INDIE POP EXPAT PINEY GIR PLOTS RETURN TO US FOR NATIONAL TOUR BEHIND "DIVINE… EXUBERANT" (Q) ALBUM 'GERONIMO!'

CMJ SHOWCASE OCT 20 & NPR WEEKEND EDITION PROFILE AIRING OCT. 27

Piney Gir – the US-born indie pop artist who has found success in London – will return to the States in October for a national tour when her new album 'Geronimo!' is released in the US on Highline Records.

NPR's Weekend Edition is planning a profile on Piney Gir, currently set to air October 27. Growing up in Kansas in a strict Pentacostal household, she was not allowed access to pop culture until adolescence, though she was singing harmonies in the church from a young age.

She will also join the Highline Records / Indie Dark Room CMJ party at Pete's Candy Store October 20, on the bill with Sweet Lights (Kurt Vile), Correatown, Backlights and Leland Sundries.

Music video for "Oh Lies"

Baeble Music recently praised 'Geronimo's' "sun-faded retro pop [and] all out go go boots affair," continuing, "After all, if Piney Gir's buzzing electric guitars and relentlessly charming vocals were enough to brighten up the UK, we gotta think they'll be enough to make us Americans cheery."

PINEY GIR TOUR DATES

October 20 - Pete's Candy Store - Brooklyn, NY (Highline Records / Indie Dark Room CMJ party with Sweet Lights)
October 21 - Velvet Lounge, - Washington DC
October 25 - The Burlington – Chicago, IL
October 26 - 400 Club – Minneapolis, MN
November 2 - The Make Out Room - San Francisco, CA (with Red Pony Clock)


UNCUT gave the album four stars while The Sun called 'Geronimo!' "undeniably charming." Q Magazine called it "exuberant, bursts with joy, divine." Piney has opened for the likes of Brian Jonestown Massacre, Wanda Jackson, Erasure, and Martha Wainwright.

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