Ume were the first band featured on tonight’s season debut of Anthony Bourdain’s travel food show “No Reservations.” Check out all the cool delicacies they had (including chicken testicles) in the video below and catch Ume on tour this fall (dates)
Ume today announced that they will appear on the season premiere of the Emmy® award-winning series “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations – The Final Tour.” The episode will debut on Travel Channel on Monday, September 3rd at 9:00 PM ET / PT to launch the ninth and final season of the acclaimed series.
The one-hour season opener starts in Austin, TX where Bourdain soaks in all that is good in the hipster hotspot during the 2012 SXSW Interactive, Film, and Music Festival. With a variety of musical artists as his guides, Tony enjoys a great week of music, fantastic food and partying with a bunch of cool new rock star friends.
While in Austin, Bourdain attended Ume’s packed performance at Hotel Vegas for the Brooklyn Vegan SXSW party. To quote Bourdain, it was “… a shitload of rawk in a tiny little room.” Bourdain also enjoyed some hardcore eats with the local trio, over dinner at the Barley Swine restaurant. Check out the teaser below for a preview of the band’s time with Bourdain.
“We’re big fans of Anthony Bourdain,” said Ume’s Lauren Larson. “We’re thrilled to have had the opportunity to help show him what makes Austin such a unique place and honored he came out to see us play live in our hometown!”
Ume on No Reservations: Chicken Balls in Austin
Before Ume heads back out in the road in the fall, they will head back into the studio to work on the follow-up to their debut full-length album Phantoms. Ume will be recording their new album with Grammy® Award winning producer Adam Kasper (Foo Fighters, Cat Power, Queens of the Stone Age).
Hailing from Austin, Texas, Ume is Lauren Larson (Vocals, Guitar), Eric Larson (Bass), and Rachel Fuhrer (Drums). The trio’s music is one of beautiful juxtapositions: the loud and soft, the aggressive and eerie, buoyant melodies bursting through wall-of-noise dissonance. Ume explores the artier, heavier side of indie rock, post-punk, and alternative rock. Like a bridge between Black Sabbath and Bat For Lashes, the LP is heavy, anthemic, beautiful and mesmerizing.
By Michel Dussack
On August 2nd, Austin based rock trio Ume played a ferocious thirty minute set in the Grand Ballroom of Webster Hall as a part of their tour with Helmet and Toadies. Ume filled the room with heavily distorted guitar riffs during their set which comprised mostly of unreleased material thanks to guitarist and singer Lauren Larson. The band opened up with one of their bigger songs, ‘The Conductor’ and from the first few notes played, it was clear that Lauren would not be contained to a small area on the stage. Whenever she wasn’t singing, she was flailing all over the stage, guitar in hand, dropping to the floor to continue playing several times.
While on records the band has numerous intricacies on their songs, those were lost in the live mix in favor of aggression and distortion. Eric Larson on bass and Rachel Fuhrer on drums rounded out the sound of the band, though neither could quite match Lauren’s energy. New material followed the opening song and like most of the bands material, it was led by intricate, yet distorted riffs. While the songs haven’t officially been titled, the working titles of the songs are ‘Battlehead’, ‘Chase it Down’, ‘Bass Face’, and ‘Slow Pog’.
The more familiar sounding ‘Xie-Xie’ and ‘Black Stone’ closed out Ume’s set that went by far too quickly, and the band succeeded in setting the bar high for the next two bands to take the stage. When Ume first began playing, the venue wasn’t nearly full, however more and more people filed in throughout their set and they all seemed impressed. Numerous member of the crowd made their way to the merch table after the bands set to buy Ume’s music and to chat with the band.
Ume’s setlist
1. The Conductor
2. Battlehead (working)
3. Chase it Down (working)
4. Bass Face (working)
5. Slow Pog (working)
6. Xie-Xie
7. Black Stone
UME has announced that they will be opening for Jane’s Addiction at the official Lollapalooza Aftershow on Saturday August 4th at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. Ume was personally selected by Jane’s frontman Perry Farrell to perform at the SOLD OUT concert. Guitarist/singer Lauren Larson describes the exciting phone call from Perry:
“My cell phone rang while we were sitting by the dumpsters outside a club in Jacksonville, FL eating peanut butter on saltines. I’ve been dreaming of playing Lollapalooza ever since I was a kid in the early 90′s wearing my brother’s over-sized Lollapalooza shirts. To be called by the artist who started it all is surreal. One of the symbolisms of the word “ume” is perseverance and devotion. I’m glad we’ve stuck with this and never given up on our dreams.”
Ume is also excited to announce the second leg of their tour with the Toadies and Helmet set to kick off on October 18th at the Rialto Theatre in Tucson, Arizona. The tour includes a stop at the Fun Fun Fun Fest in the band’s hometown of Austin, Texas. Please see below for full dates.
Before Ume heads back out in the road in the fall, they will head back into the studio to work on the follow-up to their debut full-length album Phantoms. Ume will be recording their new album with Grammy® Award winning producer Adam Kasper (Foo Fighters, Cat Power, Queens of the Stone Age).
Hailing from Austin, Texas, Ume is Lauren Larson (Vocals, Guitar), Eric Larson (Bass), and Rachel Fuhrer (Drums). The trio’s music is one of beautiful juxtapositions: the loud and soft, the aggressive and eerie, buoyant melodies bursting through wall-of-noise dissonance. Ume explores the artier, heavier side of indie rock, post-punk, and alternative rock. Like a bridge between Black Sabbath and Bat For Lashes, the LP is heavy, anthemic, beautiful and mesmerizing.
UME Tour Dates
AUGUST
1st Philadelphia, PA Trocadero
2nd New York, NY Webster Hall
3rd Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club
4th Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom (opening for Jane’s Addiction)
5th Lansing, MI Michigan Rock N Brew @ Adado
7th Cleveland, OH House Of Blues
8th Pontiac, MI The Crofoot Ballroom
9th Chicago, IL House Of Blues
10th Indianapolis, IN The Vogue
11th Sauget, IL Pop’s
12th Kansas City, MO The Beaumount Club
14th Denver, CO Bluebird Theater
25th Paris, France Rock en Seine Festival
OCTOBER
18th Tucson, AZ Rialto Theatre
19th Phoenix, AZ Marquee Theatre
20th Las Vegas, NV Vinyl at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
21st Solana Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern
23rd Los Angeles, CA House of Blues
24th Anaheim, CA House of Blues
26th San Francisco, CA The Independent
27th Orangevale, CA The Boardwalk
28th Reno, NV Cargo @ CommRow
30th Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
31st Seattle, WA Showbox at the Market
NOVEMBER
1st Spokane, WA A Club
2nd Boise, ID Revolution Concert House
4th Austin, TX Fun Fun Fun Fest
7th Omaha, NE The Waiting Room
8th Fayetteville, AR George’s Majestic Lounge
9th Tulsa, OK Cain’s Ballroom
10th Lubbock, TX The Office
All dates with Toadies and Helmet except festivals and 8/4 Chicago
Our favorite Austin band Ume is on a co-headlining tour with The Life and Times. Last night, the tour came through to the Satellite in Los Angeles. Our photographer Marcello Abmriz was there to get some killer shots of the band.
Check them out below and catch Ume on tour now with The Life and Times and next month with Helmet and the Toadies.
Ume today announced a run of co-headlining dates with Life and Times. The trek will begin in the band’s hometown on June 8th and wind down in Denver, Colorado on June 19th.
Hailing from Austin, Texas, Ume is Lauren Larson (Vocals, Guitar), Eric Larson (Bass), and Rachel Fuhrer (drums). The trio’s music is one of beautiful juxtapositions: the loud and soft, the aggressive and eerie, buoyant melodies bursting through wall-of-noise dissonance. Ume explores the artier, heavier side of indie rock, post-punk, and alternative rock. The band merges soaring fretwork with indelible pop hooks, radiant choruses, and front-woman Lauren Larson’s ethereal vocals.
“Distortion-heavy jams invite comparisons to Sonic Youth, but Ume do more headbanging and wailing,” Rolling Stone exclaimed while declaring them one of the 16 best, unsigned acts in the country prior to their signing last year. While critics will inevitably clamor for comparisons, Ume is ultimately a beast unto itself.
With Phantoms, their full-length album released in August of 2011 by Modern Outsider Records, Ume harnessed their carefully crafted chaos into ten tracks, capturing the unhinged passion and raw catharsis of their live shows while pushing their ever-evolving sound to impressive new heights. Like a bridge between Black Sabbath and Bat For Lashes, the LP is heavy, anthemic, beautiful and mesmerizing.
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Ume has already garnered impressive reviews in the media. Nylon declared, “this band is ready to break out in a whole new way…A little like fuzzy shoegaze, raw garage rock and irresistible pop all rolled into one fiery package,” while Relix proclaimed the music as “heavy rock and ethereal indie pop with deft precision, finding new ground somewhere in between Warpaint, Metric and Mogwai.” Ume recently caught the attention of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain who attended and taped one of the band’s many packed shows at SXSW for an upcoming episode of his TV show No Reservations. To quote Bourdain, it was “… a shitload of rawk in a tiny little room.”
See them for yourself…
6/2 – 6/3 – Free Press Houston Summerfest – Houston, TX
6/8 – Red 7 – Austin, TX
6/11 – The Rhythm Room – Phoenix, AZ
6/12 – The Satellite – Los Angeles, CA
6/13 – Bottom of the Hill – San Francisco, CA
6/15 – Bunk Bar – Portland, OR
6/16 – Barboza – Seattle, WA
6/18 – Urban Lounge – Salt Lake City, UT
6/19 – The Walnut Room – Denver, CO
7/15 – Bunbury Festival – Cincinnati, OH
We can’t believe that we are ONE day away from our AWESOME PARTY IN AUSTIN TOMORROW!! Have you RSVP’d yet?
We figure that there’s a lot that you want to see during the festival so here are the set times for our party. Please keep in mind that we’ll have music playing in both rooms so once a band finishes on one stage, music starts on the other!
12:00 Elliot & The Ghost
12:30 Nightlife
1:00 American Royalty
1:30 Stepdad
2:00 1,2,3
2:30 Santah
3:00 Luster
3:30 Vanaprasta
4:00 Bleeding Knees Club
4:30 Stamps
5:00 Deleted Scenes
5:30 Saint Motel
6:00 The Chain Gang of 1974
6:30 Paper Route
6:50 Ume
7:30 Harriet
See you tomorrow!!
2012 marks our THIRD year of heading down to Austin, TX for SXSW. We’ve partied with some great friends in the past and we’re ready to party some more! Working with our friends at Knuckle Rumbler, we’re proud to present PERVEYORS OF ROCK!!!
On Wednesday, March 14th, we’re holding a tremendous day party at Peckerhead’s (402 E. 6th Street) that features a great mix of rock bands that will have you partying with us from NOON til 8PM!
Why do you wanna be there at NOON? For the FREE BEER OF COURSE!
We’ll have a lot more information about the show soon but here’s what you need to know now. The show is completely FREE! You don’t need a wristband or festival pass. You just need to RSVP at Do512.com.
This show wouldn’t be possible without Sophistic Arts and Husch Blackwell and all of our sponsors. See you on the 14th!
Seminal independent music festival Noise Pop will be celebrating their twentieth anniversary this February, and – as is their way – they’ll be doing it in style, showcasing some of the most impressive names throughout the last twenty years of independent music. The festival, which will take place throughout San Francisco from February 21st to February 26th, 2012, will play host to the likes of established indie rock mainstays, such as Built to Spill, Archers of Loaf, and Cursive, as well as genre-bending, new favorites, such as Die Antwoord, Grimes, Budos Band, and more. Some bands are Noise Pop mainstays; others, such as Christie Front Drive, will be playing their first Bay Area show in fifteen years in honor of Noise Pop’s twentieth birthday. A list of all confirmed performers thus far can be found below. More confirmations will be announced shortly.
ARCHERS OF LOAF
BLEACHED
BORN GOLD
BUDOS BAND
BUILT TO SPILL
CHRISTIE FRONT DRIVE
CRAIG FINN (THE HOLD STEADY)
CURSIVE
DIE ANTWOORD
DISAPPEARS
GRIMES
IMPERIAL TEEN
LAURA VEIRS
MOUNT MORIAH
oOoOO
PICKWICK
PORTER ROBINSON
SURFER BLOOD
TAXES
UME
VERONICA FALLS
VIRGIN ISLAND
Noise Pop Festival Early Bird badges, which are in limited supply, are available to purchase NOW on Noisepop.com/2012. Badges grant access to all general admission (non-seated) concerts, films, happy hours, Culture Club and other events during the festival, including Die Antwoord at the Regency. Regular badges will go on sale Friday, December 9th at 10am PST, and will not include the Die Antwoord show. All individual Noise Pop shows will go onsale on Monday, December 12th at 10am PST.
On December 8th, Noise Pop will host the official announcement party at Nightlife at California Academy of Sciences. The theme of the night is “SF Streets,” which ties in perfectly with this year’s artwork, designed by iconic street artist and frequent NP collaborator Shepard Fairey, whose illuminating image lives up to the history and energy of Noise Pop’s legacy. The Ferocious Few will perform their set of raucous pop gems. This event also marks the kickoff of the Nightlife Noise Pop collaboration to host 6 events throughout the year in this remarkable space. http://www.noisepop.com/noise-pop-nightlife-w-the-ferocious-few/
Tickets can be found here: http://www.calacademy.org/events/nightlife/
Since it began in 1993, Noise Pop Festival has become a north star for the music industry, bringing emerging and promising talent to the forefront of their lineup. Numerous acclaimed artists have graced their stages, from The White Stripes and Yoko Ono, to Death Cab for Cutie and Bright Eyes, and many more. This six-day festival takes place across numerous event spaces in the SF area, catering to upwards of 20,000 fans. The festival has expanded in recent years to also include art gallery shows, as well as a music-centric film festival, a pop-up shop, an art exposition, an album-inspired dinner series called Covers, a weekend workshop exploring independent culture called the Noise Pop Culture Club, and much more. With all of these events, Noise Pop has solidified itself as the true amalgamator of Bay Area culture, and continues to do what it has always done best: celebrating the independent arts with the city at large.
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