ENDLESS BOOGIE & HOWLIN RAIN

ENDLESS BOOGIE will be coming for the 4th or 5th time (no one is sure, and, as the saying goes, if you can remember an ENDLESS BOOGIE tour you weren’t really there).Formed in 1997 by a group of like-minded Matador Records employees and legendary record dealer/collector Paul “Top Dollar” Major, the band played its first show four years later opening for fellow Matador alumni and Coloured Balls fan Stephen Malkmus of Pavement. They’ve never been in a hurry; their first studio album was 2008’s Focus Level. Fifth and latest studio album proper Admonitions was a 3RRR Album of the Week in December last year. HOWLIN RAIN, who are the creation of Comets On Fire main man and guitarist Ethan Miller, will be visiting for the first time. 

HOWLIN RAIN’s arrival will mark the first time that Ethan Miller plays Australia since Comets on Fire lit up the Meredith sky with an unforgettable appearance at Golden Plains in 2007. HOWLIN RAIN already existed at that point; Miller formed the group in 2004. Initially an attempt to do something more rustic, the group found it hard to tone things down; the result was an electrifying sound that mixed high energy with soulful harmony. Rick Rubin signed them to American Recordings and decided to make the Great 21st Century West Coast Rock Album with them. They achieved that – their third album The Russian Wilds is both breathtakingly audacious and accomplished, but the slow, painstaking work with Rubin broke the band, and Miller eventually had to start a-fresh.

This is one super wham bam thank you jam for the ages. Ticket on sale now from links, below.

THU 14 - THE TOTE, MELBOURNE - TIX
WED 20 – MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE - TIX
THU 21 - THE ZOO, BRISBANE - TIX
FRI 22 - ELTHAM HOTEL, NSW - TIX
MON 25 – CROWBAR, SYDNEY - TIX

ALSO PLAYING BOOGIE FESTIVAL, APRIL 15-17 IN TALLAROOK, VIC