Ume Announces Tour With Helmet and The Toadies

LOS ANGELES, CA – MAY 16, 2012 – UME today announced that they will hit the road on a second tour this summer, the previously announced co-headline tour with The Life and Times in June and the newly revealed tour with Helmet and The Toadies.

Hailing from Austin, Texas, Ume is Lauren Larson (Vocals, Guitar), Eric Larson (Bass), and Rachel Fuhrer (drums). The trio’s music is one of beautiful juxtapositions: the loud and soft, the aggressive and eerie, buoyant melodies bursting through wall-of-noise dissonance. Ume explores the artier, heavier side of indie rock, post-punk, and alternative rock.

With Phantoms, their full-length album released last August by Modern Outsider Records, Ume harnessed their carefully crafted chaos into ten tracks, capturing the unhinged passion and raw catharsis of their live shows while pushing their ever-evolving sound to impressive new heights. Like a bridge between Black Sabbath and Bat For Lashes, the LP is heavy, anthemic, beautiful and mesmerizing.

Ume has already garnered impressive reviews in the media. Nylon declared, “this band is ready to break out in a whole new way…A little like fuzzy shoegaze, raw garage rock and irresistible pop all rolled into one fiery package,” while Relix proclaimed the music as “heavy rock and ethereal indie pop with deft precision, finding new ground somewhere in between Warpaint, Metric and Mogwai.” Ume recently caught the attention of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain who attended and taped one of the band’s many packed shows at SXSW for an upcoming episode of his TV show No Reservations. To quote Bourdain, it was “… a shitload of rawk in a tiny little room.”

The band will be returning to the studio later this year to record their next studio album.

UME Tour Dates

JUNE*

2nd-3rd Houston, TX Free Press Houston Summerfeset

8th Austin, TX Red 7

11th Phoenix, AZ The Rhythm Room

12th Los Angeles, CA The Satellite

13th San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill

15th Portland, OR Bunk Bar

16th Seattle, WA Barboza

18th Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge

19th Denver, CO The Walnut Room

JULY^

15th Cincinnati, OH Bunbury Festival

21st Pensacola Beach, FL Capt’n Fun Beach Club

22nd New Orleans, LA Tipitina’s

24th Jacksonville, FL Jack Rabbits

25th Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution

26th St. Petersburg, FL State Theatre

27th Orlando, FL House of Blues

28th Atlanta, GA The Masquerade

29th Charlotte, NC The Fillmore Charlotte

31st Silver Spring, MD The Fillmore

AUGUST

1st Philadelphia, PA Trocadero

2nd New York, NY Webster Hall

3rd Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club

4th Rochester, NY Water Street Music Hall

5th Lansing, MI Michigan Rock N Brew @ Adado

7th Cleveland, OH House Of Blues

8th Pontiac, MI The Crofoot Ballroom

9th Chicago, IL House Of Blues

10th Indianapolis, IN The Vogue

11th Sauget, IL Pop’s

12th Kansas City, MO The Beaumount Club

* Co-headlining dates with The Life and Times.

^ all dates with Helmet and The Toadies except July 15th