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We are VERY excited about our westcoast tour!! There are so many things happening right now. Some of you may have seen our DirectTV special. It has aired a number of times, and is still available on demand. In addition, we had our first top 100 CMJ single with "Literary Kind" from the new record. We will be taking the song "House Up on the Hill" to AAA radio this week, and there are some very promising signs. In addition, we will be filming a segment for Extra this week while in LA! A busy and fruitful fall indeed.
For those of you that are not up on the touring and such, this will be a full band tour behind our new release(August 14th) To Be Loved, on Justice Records. Here is what All Music Guide, which is the definitive, default, information source for new music on the internet, had to say about it(at bottom of page, in bold)
If you live in the Western half of the US, there is a good chance we will be visiting your town or a town near you. Here are the dates, come out if you can! There is more info at our site www.ianmoore.com
Wednesday, Oct 10: Stateline BBQ-El Paso, Tx
Thursday, Oct 11th: The Launchpad-Albuquerque, NM
Friday, Oct 12th: CLub Congress-Tucson, AZ
Sunday, OCt 14th: Rhythm Room-Phoenix, AZ
Monday, Oct 15th: Knitting Factory-LA, CA
Tuesday, Oct 16th: Annie's Social Club-SF, CA
Thursday, Oct 18th: Berbati's Pan-Portland, Or
Friday, Oct 19th: The Tractor Tavern-Seattle, Wa
Saturday, Oct 20th: Neurolux-Boise, Id
Sunday, Oct 21st: Urban Lounge- Salt Lake, UT
Tuesday, Oct 23rd: Walnut Room-Denver, CO
Wednesday, Oct 24th: Santa Fe Brewing Co-Santa Fe, NM
Thursday, Oct 25th: The Goldenlight-Amarillo, Tx
Friday, Oct 26th: Opolis-Norman, OK
Saturday, Oct 27th: Two Frogs-Ardmore, OK
With To Be Loved, Ian Moore has fashioned his most challenging and experimental album yet, moving toward moody soundscapes, haunting beauty, and nervy energy. The title track makes mesmerizing and surprising shifts, from mellow to abrasive and back again, coming off like a John Lennon composition re-imagined in a post-Wilco world. And it truly is Wilco that Moore evokes here, perhaps not directly in sound, but in that group's free ranging, limitless tendencies to marry abrasion and beauty and noise and song--and to not be held back by genre preconceptions. "Literary Kind" has a power-pop-like storming energy that calls to mind early Elvis Costello or Nick Lowe, while "Civil Light" sounds like the soundtrack to a Southern Gothic murder noir--if it were rendered by David Bowie in Berlin. "30 Days" finds Moore landing straight back in the land of ear-pleasing power pop, a pose he strikes quite well. It might be hard to remember that a decade before this album's release Moore was known as a guitar prodigy and as a sideman for such folks as Joe Ely. 2004's Luminaria found the transformation from hired guitar to master songwriter and sometimes experimental pop auteur complete. To Be Loved exceeds that mark; Moore has created a brand of challenging yet highly melodic new-millennium pop-rock that establishes him as an audacious songwriter and player. He has struck that rare balance between astute complexity and utter pop appeal. ~ Erik Hage, All Music Guide |
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