Von Bondies return with new LP, tour
Indie-rockers The Von Bondies [ tickets ] return from a three-year reprieve with a spring headlining term of enlistment and a new studio album, "Passion, Hatred and Then There's You."The Motown band kicks away the jaunt May 15 in Windy City, and volition hit a add of 14 cities on the trek, which runs through early June. All dates ar under.The group has gone through several par-for-the-course lineup changes, only returns with frontman Jason Stollsteimer, longtime drummer Father Blum and bassist Leann Banks for "Dear, Hate and Then There's You," The Von Bondies' third studio album and number one since 2004's "Pawn Shoppe Bosom." "When we got off of touring 'Pawn Shoppe Nub,' we were so exhausted," Stollsteimer told Hoarding.com lately. "In my possess head, I was like, 'I don't want to of all time do it once more.' Merely these three years hold revived my energy to do it over again.The stripe, which continues to shop the album to various platter labels, hopes to departure it subsequently this class. The grouping released a four-song EP, "Roundabout way," to begin with this year through its MySpacepage.Stollsteimer too plans to create a dual CD/DVD come out of an Aug. 4 concert by his side-project, Hound Below, which he credited in the Hoarding interview as "organism a good electrical outlet to help oneself me publish better lyrics and aid me finish the Von Bondies record."
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