Marriages will be heading out with Deafheaven as support on their US Tour in June. They will be playing some new material from their forthcoming full length album they are recording later this year for Sargent House. Joining them as drummer for this run will be Chris Common from These Arms Are Snakes.
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BORIS & DEAFHEAVEN & MARRIAGES
May 23 - Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
DEAFHEAVEN & MARRIAGES
Jun 19, 2013 - Tempe, AZ @ Yucca Tap Room
Jun 21, 2013 - Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
Jun 22, 2013 - Austin, TX @ Red 7
Jun 23, 2013 - Houston, TX @ Mango’s
Jun 25, 2013 - Orlando, FL @ Will’s Pub
Jun 26, 2013 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
Jun 26, 2013 - North Birmingham, AL @ The Forge
Jun 27, 2013 - Charlotte, NC @ The Milestone Club
Jun 29, 2013 - Raleigh, NC @ Kings Barcade
Jun 30, 2013 - Washington, DC @ Rock N Roll Hotel
Jul 1, 2013 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Barbary
Jul 2, 2013 - Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus Bar
Jul 3, 2013 - Cambridge, MA @ T.T. The Bear’s Place
Jul 5, 2013 - Cleveland Heights, OH@ Grog Shop
Jul 6, 2013 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
Jul 7, 2013 - Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick Lounge
Jul 8, 2013 - Kansas City, MO @ The Record Bar
Jul 9, 2013 - Denver, CO @ The Marquis Theater
Jul 10, 2013 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
Jul 11, 2013 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
Jul 13, 2013 - Portland, OR @ Bunker Bar
Jul 15, 2013 - San Francisco, CA @ The Bottom of the Hill
Marriages are now at work writing for their full length album. They will be playing a few shows in the meantime with Boris and in LA also with Deafheaven for a triple bill of Sargent House bands.
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Boris & Marriages
04/23 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah
04/24 Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent Ballroom
05/23 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echoplex also w/ Deafheaven
Below is a Live video of “Part The Dark Again” -
Check out 3 more live videos from Montreal HERE
Ride in My Place - from the album Kitsune by Marriages
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Last Friday we found our way (eventually…no thanks to Atlanta mass transit) to the Bosnian Rainbows show at Terminal West (which has been drawing quite a number of solid bookings as of late, might I say). I was pretty hyped going in, albeit because I partly didn’t know what to expect. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez has really on released two singles with his new band thus far, and Friday night was the first show on their US tour, so I especially intrigued for this show, and I’m glad that both my new German acquaintances (whom I met somewhere similarly lost in West Atlanta) made it just in time to see Marriages come onto the stage.
I had seen Marriages open up for Chelsea Wolfe and Russian Circles, and enjoyed them, but their set definitely grabbed my attention. Their sound is far more booming in person than on their recorded material; the sound of a live venue accentuates their driving bass and elaborate use of echoes. Incorporating a sludgy low end with glimmering picking patterns, now the main project of Red Sparowes’ Greg Burns and Emma Ruth Rundle (which also featured a heavy hitting as of yet unnamed drummer) has a weight that is hard for bands twice their size to match. At times Emma seemed to be channeling Tori Amos, and other times she and the band would sit back and let the music drive the audience where they wanted them. Their set had to be almost 50 minutes, and it was clear to see that it was an actually built set list, not just a bunch of songs picked at random. They were good the last time I saw them, they were great on Friday (and they stopped mid-set to help break a fight up, so bonus points for quelling douche-baggery).
See full show review by by Sean Mcgill
Marriages began about a year and a half ago, with Emma Ruth Rundle, Greg Burns, and Dave Clifford of post-rock outfit Red Sparowes. Their debut EP, Kitsune, produced by Toshi Kasai, was released last May on Sargent House. While the band has seemed to most regularly find themselves sharing stages with acts of some metal sub-genre or another, they’ve drawn comparisons to artists spanning the gamut from no-and-ethereal wave to prog rock… It’s quite hard to place it in a genre (always a good thing), but it’s certainly quite epic and quite moody. Their sound isn’t exactly a million miles from Red Sparowes, but the addition of vocals (which are non-existent in Red Sparowes) does seem to open up a new mode of expression for Marriages and they seem to be enjoying this new indulgence. Although Dave Clifford is no longer drumming, Marriages have recently welcomed-aboard full-time drummer and bandmate, Andrew Clinco. They are looking to record new music in the near future, but they are currently on the road with supergroup Bosnian Rainbows (including Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of At the Drive-In and the Mars Volta, Deantoni Parks of The Mars Volta, and Teri Gender Bender of Le Butcherettes) for what I am deeming the best-line-up-ed, most credibly-cool, and just plain fucking badass tour of 2013. And that tour will find itself at the First Unitarian Church this Monday, February 18th. I recently got a chance to chat with Marriages’ Emma Ruth Rundle about what we can expect of the show and what we can expect of Marriages in 2013. - SEE INTERVIEW BELOW / SEE ALL TOUR DATES HERE
Marriages tour with Bosnian Rainbows starts Feb 15th in Atlanta and just announced Marriages will also join Sargent House label mates Boris for two shows on the West Coast in April.
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Bosnian Rainbows & Marriages Tour 2013
Feb 15, 2013 - Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
Feb 16, 2013 - Asheville, NC @ Asheville Music Hall
Feb 17, 2013 - Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
Feb 18, 2013 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
Feb 19, 2013 - New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom
Feb 20, 2013 - Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
Feb 22, 2013 - Montréal, QC @ Cabaret du Mile-end
Feb 23, 2013 - Toronto, ON @ The Mod Club (Early Show)
Feb 24, 2013 - Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall
Feb 25, 2013 - Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop
Feb 26, 2013 - Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
Feb 27, 2013 - Madison, WI @ Majestic Theater
Feb 28, 2013 - Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music Cafe
Boris & Marriages
04/23 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah
04/24 Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent Ballroom
Many people have asked for us to post the audio from this video as a download. It was recorded live and acoustically for the Sargent House Glassroom session and is now available on Marriages’ bandcamp - any money donated will go towards gas money for tour and is very appreciated!
Recorded live on December 22, 2012 at The Observatory