LOVE LOVE LOVE EP OUT APRIL 3, 2012
PLAYING MULTIPLE SHOWS AT SXSW;
OPENING FOR FUN. BEGINNING MARCH 20
NEW YORK, NY (February 29, 2011) – Roadrunner Records is pleased to announce the signing of New Zealand’s Avalanche City in North America. Avalanche City is the brainchild of Dave Baxter, a singer songwriter who wrote, produced, recorded and played every instrument on his debut album Our New Life Above The Ground, which was released July 8, 2011 in New Zealand. Baxter recorded the now platinum album in just one week. Avalanche City is the fastest selling debut artist in New Zealand history.
Roadrunner Records will release the four-track Love Love Love EP on April 3, 2012 (see track listing below). The first single “Love Love Love†will go to radio in May 2012 with a full length album to be released later this year. “Love Love Love’†debuted at #1 on the New Zealand singles charts.
The story of Avalanche City begins with David Baxter in a house, alone, for hours and hours each day for months, slowly learning how to sing by process of scales, recording, and self critique. Six months after taking the first steps towards singing, Baxter played his first solo show as Avalanche City. Six months after the first show, one year after beginning the process of teaching himself how to sing, the first tracks were laid for Avalanche City’s debut album Our New Life Above The Ground. Armed with a sack full of vegetarian single serve curries, Dave Baxter headed into the countryside and moved into a little community hall just north of Auckland. There he spent the week alone recording and playing everything himself with only the cows and the milk trucks as company. Once completed, the album was available free to download for four months – it received over 11,000 downloads. When it was commercially released shortly after, it rocketed up the charts.
Avalanche City’s live show will feature various musicians and instruments from mandolin, ukulele, and glockenspiel to accordion. See Avalanche City at SXSW and on tour with Fun. at the end of March. Tour dates are listed below.
Love Love Love EP Tracklisting:
1. Love Love Love
2. Go
3. The Streets
4. The Silence
SXSW Performances:
3/14 Afternoon Showcase La Zona Rosa The Warner Sound Captured by Nikon
3/15 7:15pm – 8:00pm Brush Square Park New Zealand Night @ SXSW
3/15 9:00pm – 9:40pm Buffalo Billiards
3/16 TBD Stubbs
Tour dates with Fun.:
3/18 House Of Blues New Orleans, LA
3/20 Warehouse Live Houston, TX
3/21 Dallas, TX House Of Blues
3/23 Tucson, AZ Rialto Theater
3/24 Pomona, CA The Glass House –SOLD OUT
3/26 Sacramento, CA Sac State University
3/28 San Francisco, CA The Independent – SOLD OUT
3/29 San Francisco, CA Bottom Of The Hill – SOLD OUT
3/31 Salt Lake City, UT In the Venue
About Roadrunner Records:
Originally founded in 1980 in the Netherlands, Roadrunner Records earned its place as one of the most prominent international independent record labels. Established primarily as a hard rock label, Roadrunner now boasts depth and variety in its artists. The label has experienced unprecedented success with multi-platinum artists Nickelback and Slipknot, platinum Theory of a Deadman, gold-certified Stone Sour and Killswitch Engage, as well as modern heavy hitters Korn, Dream Theater, Megadeth, Trivium and Opeth. Roadrunner’s current roster also includes Lenny Kravitz (via a partnership with Atlantic Records), plus diverse acts such as up and comers Young The Giant, The Parlor Mob, Black Stone Cherry and Airbourne. Loud & Proud Records, a label joint-venture with Roadrunner, is home to established rock acts including Rob Zombie, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, The Steve Miller Band and KISS (Europe and select territories). The Roadrunner catalog includes now-classic albums from seminal artists such as Type O Negative, Sepultura and King Diamond. For more information about Roadrunner, visit: www.roadrunnerrecords.com.
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