Director Nathan Christ and featured artists, Sunset, Dana Falconberry, and The White White Lights, will be onsite at select Q&As and performing live shows.

Echotone Sneak Preview Tour Schedule and Line Ups

Oct. 4
Echotone Sneak Preview Seattle & Q&A
@ SIFF CINEMA, 7:30 PM
Tickets $7 w/ RSVP
The Rumble: Seattle @ Havana Social Club, 9:00 PM FREE
With Performances by SUNSET, The White White Lights, Dana Falconberry

Oct. 5
Echotone Sneak Preview Portland & Q&A
@ Someday Lounge, 7:30
Tickets $7 w/ RSVP –
The Rumble: Portland @ Someday Lounge, 9:30 PM FREE
With Performances by SUNSET, The White White Lights, Dana Falconberry

Oct. 6
Echotone Sneak Preview San Francisco & Q&A
@ Café Du Nord, 7:00 PM
Tickets $7 w/ RSVP
Echotone and the Recording Academy San Francisco Chapter presents a live streaming panel @ Café Du Nord, 8:45PM
Tune in at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/echotonefilm.
The Rumble: San Francisco, CA Café Du Nord, 9:30 PM FREE
With Performances by SUNSET, The White White Lights, Dana Falconberry

Oct. 7
The Rumble: Los Angeles @ 3 Clubs, 9:00 PM FREE
With Performances by SUNSET, The White White Lights, Dead Trees

Oct. 8
Echotone Sneak Preview Los Angeles w/ Q&A
@ Downtown Independent 8:00 PM
Tickets $10 w/ RSVP

Oct. 9
The Rumble: San Diego @ Bar Pink, 9:00 PM FREE
With Performances by SUNSET, The White White Lights, Chairs Missing

Oct. 10
The Rumble: Las Vegas @ Bunkhouse, 9:00 PM FREE
With Performances by SUNSET, The White White Lights

EXCERPTED FROM SUNSET MISSIVE
Hello from yr friend Bill.

Been working a while on a tour that will span 6 weeks. Thanks to my friends Paul and Tommy and Latane for bringing “the heat” in making this happen.

I called this tour the “Hot Pink Haze tour,” in honor of Himi Jendrix. That’s Jimi’s half -brother who played keyboards with Boz Scaggs and released a solo album called “Hot Pink Haze.” That album can be found in thrift store record bins.

A few words about the groups touring:
Sunset has just finished a new double vinyl album, LOVESHINES BUT THE MOON IS SHINING TOO, and will be playing songs from that, as well as a few old favorites.

We will be selling a “greatest hits” c.d., more like an intro to the band spanning our many releases in our 2 years of existence. A few rare cuts on there. There will also be an accompanying DVD of a live performance by us at Baby Blue, shot on Pixelvision and super8 film. This is a tour-only item at this point, and should be very special. It will cost only $5 ! We will also have t-shirts I screen-printed and some new pamphlets of my fiction and non-fiction writing.

Sleep Good just released an album, “Skyclimber” and they will be touring with us for the East Coast portion to support the album. If you haven’t heard their music yet, check it out now:http://sleepgood.autobusrecs.com/

It’s really good dream pop with heavy rhythm section. Sleep Good will also have tshirts and other assorted ephemera. A great live band, not to be missed!

For the west coast portion, Sunset will be doing some dates with Jesse Woods. I played with him at this year’s ACL fest and it was surreal and fun. His songs are in the modern folk vein, which means somewhere between old folk and new weird. We (Sunset) will be backing him on some songs, so it should get interesting.

Here are the dates (with some additions and corrections to come as we approach departure):
East Coast (all dates with Sleep Good except 7/8)
July 1 – Houston, TX – The Mink
July 2 – New Orleans – Dragon’s Den – w/ The White Bitch, Bipoloroid
July 3 – Tallahassee, FL – Engine Room w/ Jane Jane Pollock, Port City
July 4 – Atlanta – house party @ 4four collective
July 5 – House Party – Chapel Hill w/ Curtains
July 6 – Baltimore – Metro Gallery
July 7 – Washington, DC – DC9 – w/ Matthew Hemerlein, True Womanhood
July 8 – Brooklyn, NY — Rooftop Film Series at BROOKLYN TECH, Roof of Brooklyn Technical High School
July 9 – Philly, PA – Philebrity show on a YACHT – details on philebrity.com
July 11 – NYC – Cake Shop – w/ Inoculist, The Due Diligence
July 12 – Boston – Butcher Shop w/ Four Eyes, Spring Totem
July 14 – Easthampton, MA – The Flywheel – w/ Matt Krefting Band, Bourgeois Heroes

Midwest:
7/15 – 7/20 – eating lots of cheese curds and trying not to get caught speeding and watching the rivers catch on fire

West Coast (all dates with Jesse Woods except Seattle):
July 21 – Los Angeles – Spaceland – w/ Superhumanoids
July 23 – Venice, CA – AC Lounge
July 25 – Big Sur, CA – Alanna’s Unicorn Palace !
July 27 – Monterey, CA – East Village Coffee House
July 28 – Santa Cruz, CA – Crepe Place
Aug 1 (day show)- San Francisco, CA – Milk Bar – w/ Mark David Ashworth
Aug 1 – Hemlock Tavern
Aug 3 – Portland, Or – Rotture w/ Tango Alpha Tango
Aug 4 – Seattle, WA – High Dive – w/ Pill Wonder
Aug 7 – Boise, ID – Neurolux
Aug 9 – Missoula, MT – The Badlander
Aug 10 – Salt Lake City, UT — Urban Lounge
Aug 11 – Denver, CO – Hi Dive – w/ Gauntlet Hair

Hope to see you for one or all of the shows! If you live somewhere along the way and can put us up or want to hang or let us play on your radio show, etc, please be in touch! We love house parties and small events and even people hopping in the van with us for a day or two.

We will not be playing in Austin again until our album is released in the fall. Which means it will have been like a 7-month break. More, maybe. But it will be worth the wait. It will be a very special event… more details to come.

Yrs,
Bill Baird

Thats all he wrote, but for those of you not in Austin, be sure to check out their new live show, which is INCREDIBLE!!!

CD release poster, design: Daniel Perlaky, City On Fire

Look for upcoming performances at the Sneak View event at The Independent on Jan. 30th, the Sixteen Deluxe reunion show at Mohawk on March 13th, and the unofficial kick-off party during SXSW, Art Disaster, on March 16th at Beauty Bar.
Cheers to a solid 2010 to all the musicians, artist, and producers involved with Echotone!

Echotone featured artist Bill Baird and his band, Sunset, are featured on National Public Radio’s World Café program with legendary host, David Dye. They perform a sprawling, layered song called “Fishtown” into a fabulous rendition of “Rivers of Babylon.”

Click to listen to the performance on NPR’s World Café.