Alec Ounsworth Announces First Headlining Tour

Anti- Records is proud to announce Alec Ounsworth's first headlining tour ever. The dates will be in support of his critically acclaimed new albums: "Mo Beauty" and Flashy Python's "Skin and Bones." The tour begins with five shows opening for Cold War Kids and then Ounsworth and his band will do 18 headlining dates across the country. About the band's debut performance at 2009's CMJ, Jon Pareles of the NY Times wrote that they "set aside the brittle Talking Heads tinges of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah for slightly more old-school approaches -- meaty electric-piano funk with a New Orleans mambo flavor, bounding Rolling Stone guitar rock, and, from his band, guitar solos straddling blues jabs and post-punk dissoance."

Ounsworth's band is Matt Sutton, Peter Modavis, Brian Ashby and Jonas Oesterle. They will be playing songs from Mo Beauty, Skin and Bones as well as Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's catalog. "Mo Beauty" was recorded deep in the heart of musical New Orleans with an ensemble of local heavyweights including George Porter Jr. of the Meters and drummer Stanton Moore of Galactic, and was guided by veteran producer Steve Berlin (Los Lobos, Replacements).

All tour dates are below. More shows will be announced soon.

Jan

• 22 Los Angeles, CA Wiltern Theatre w/Cold War Kids
• 23 San Francsico, CA Fillmore w/Cold War Kids
• 28 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg w/Cold War Kids
• 29 New York, NY Terminal 5 w/Cold War Kids
• 30 Chicago, IL The Vic Theatre w/Cold War Kids

Feb (all headlining dates)

• 2 Birmingham, AL Bottletree
• 3 New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jacks
• 5 Austin, TX Emo's Alternative Lounge
• 6 Denton, TX Hailey's
• 9 Tucson, AZ Solar Culture
• 10 San Diego, CA The Casbah
• 11 Los Angeles, CA Bootleg Theater
• 12 San Francisco, CA Café du Nord
• 13 Brookdale, CA The Brookdale Lodge
• 15 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
• 16 Seattle, WA Neumo's
• 18 Boise, ID The Neurolux
• 19 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court Gallery
• 20 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
• 22 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room
• 23 Minneapolis, MN 400 Bar
• 24 Madison, WI High Noon Saloon
• 25 Chicago, IL Schuba's

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