Frightened Rabbit Confirmed For Coachella And Spring Tour

Frightened Rabbit will make their Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival debut when they perform alongside Muse, MGMT, the Dead Weather, Hot Chip, Devo and many others on day two of the three-day desert fest taking place April 16-18 in Indio, Calif. SXSW in March will launch their first set of US appearances in support of forthcoming third LP, "The Winter Of Mixed Drinks," due March 9 on FatCat Records, and offer an opportunity to warm up for the Festival and six-week North American tour to follow. The extensive run will commence April 19 in Tempe, Ariz., hit NYC's Webster Hall on April 28 and conclude on the West Coast in May. The band is currently warming up in Australia where they have traded in a frigid UK winter for a sunny summer tour in the down under.

Two years ago, a foursome from Glasgow named Frightened Rabbit, crashed onto US shores and quickly impressed audiences with their cathartic and fiercely passionate performances. The band unveiled their jangly, anthemic songs from their sophomore LP, "The Midnight Organ Fight," which would go on to earn numerous accolades including Best of 2008 honors from such notables as Village Voice's Pazz & Jop Poll, Pitchfork, The Onion, Magnet and many others. Now, they return a markedly different band - one equipped with an eagerly awaited new album, a fifth member, an ever-growing fanbase and hundreds of shows under their belts.

"The Winter Of Mixed Drinks" is a collection of ambitious, moving, and gloriously accomplished songs that fully underscores the band's progression both sonically and artistically. Musically, the album is expansive, airy, gorgeously tarnished; grand like a ballroom in a sunken ocean liner, tipped with blood and rust, gold-flecked and salt-scarred. Early feedback of singles "Swim Until You Can't See Land" and "Nothing Like You" have been nothing short of glowing with Stereogum calling the latter: "a kinetic dose of the band's increasingly refined brand of upbeat and hooky, doe-eyed melodrama." The song, a fast-paced kiss-off complete with driving guitar and propulsive drums, was recently unveiled by the band and can be heard on their MySpace page and can be heard over at FatCat.

FRIGHTENED RABBIT ON TOUR

• March 17 - Austin, Texas @ SXSW
• March 18 - Austin, Texas @ SXSW
• March 19 - Austin, Texas @ SXSW
• March 20 - Austin, Texas @ SXSW
• April 17 - Indio, Calif. @ Coachella
• April 19 - Tempe, Ariz. @ The Clubhouse
• April 21 - Houston, Texas @ Walters
• April 22 - Dallas, Texas @ Loft @ Palladium Ballroom
• April 23 - Little Rock, Ark. @ Revolution
• April 24 - Atlanta, Ga. @ The Masquerade
• April 25 - Carrboro, N.C. @ Cat's Cradle
• April 27 - Washington, D.C. @ Black Cat
• April 28 - New York, N.Y. @ Webster Hall
• April 29 - Boston, Mass. @ Paradise
• April 30 - Philadelphia, Pa. @ First Unitarian Church
• May 3 - Montreal, QC @ Petit Campus
• May 4 - Toronto, ONT @ Opera House
• May 6 - Newport, Ky. @ Southgate House
• May 7 - St. Louis, Mo. @ The Old Rock House
• May 8 - Chicago, Ill. @ Metro
• May 9 - Milwaukee, Wisc. @ Pabst Theatre
• May 10 - Minneapolis, Minn. @ Varsity Theater
• May 12 - Denver, Colo. @ Bluebird Theatre
• May 13 - Salt Lake City, Utah @ Urban Lounge
• May 15 - Vancouver, B.C. @ Biltmore Cabaret
• May 16 - Seattle, Wash. @ Neumo's Crystal Ball Reading Room
• May 17 - Portland, Ore. @ Berbati's Pan
• May 19 - San Francisco, Calif. @ The Fillmore
• May 22 - San Diego, Calif. @ Casbah