AU

Memorial Day Weekend Tour 2013

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:34:00 -0700

Dana and I are off for a few shows this weekend in some particularly unique spots.

5/23 - LaGrande, OR - Easter Oregon Film Festival @ Art Center

5/25 - Tumbleweeds, ID - Ranch Fest!!!

5/26 - Boise, ID - Red Room

We’re trying some new stuff this time around and are super excited to be heading back to Idaho. Seemingly our home away from home these days.

Hope to see some of y’all out there!

by Roberto Ortu

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:52:12 -0700

by Roberto Ortu

JOHN from DEERHOOF REMIX ‘SOLID GOLD’

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:55:25 -0700

JOHN from DEERHOOF REMIX ‘SOLID GOLD’

US TOUR DATES 2012

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:19:00 -0700

New tour dates and a remix of Solid Gold by Deerhoof!
We leave in just a week!

07-20 - Portland, OR - PDX POP NOW FEST@RefugePDX
07-25 - Fargo, ND - The Aquarium
07-26 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry %
07-27 - Madison, WI - Terrace Club @ UW Madison %
07-28 - Chicago, IL - Schuba’s Tavern %
07-30 - Toronto, ON - Drake Hotel %
07-31 - Montreal, QC - Divan Orange %
08-01 - Allston, MA - Great Scott %
08-02 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge %
08-03 - Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands %
08-04 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s %
08-05 - Washington, DC - The Black Cat %
08-06 - Columbus, OH - The Tree Bar %
08-07 - St Louis, MO - The Grammophone %
08-08 - Kansas City, MO - The Record Bar %
08-09 - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge %
08-10 - Salt Lake City, UT - Bar Deluxe %
08-11 - Boise, ID - Red Room %
09-08 - Portland, OR - Musicfest Northwest @ Pioneer Courthouse Square^^^
09-27 - Garden City, ID - Visual Arts Collective (Luke solo) $
10-27 - Wichita, KS - Rock Island
10-29 - Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom @
10-30 - San Diego, CA - Soda Bar @
10-31 - Santa Barbara, CA - Muddy Waters @
11-01 - Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour @
11-02 - Santa Cruz, CA - Crepe Place @
11-03 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent @
11-05 - Portland OR - The Doug Fir Lounge @
11-06 - Seattle, WA - Barboza @
11-07 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret @

% w/Tu Fawning
^^^ w/Girl Talk & Starfucker
$ w/Deerhoof, Buke and Gase, Raleigh Moncrief
@ w/Zammuto (ex-The Books)

WILD THING

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:58:45 -0700

WILD THING

Happy Birthday Holocene! Here’s ‘Epic’ from...

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:08:31 -0700

Happy Birthday Holocene! Here’s ‘Epic’ from that lovely night.

We’re honored to be playing Holocene’s 9th...

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:03:00 -0700

We’re honored to be playing Holocene’s 9th Anniversary Show on June 6th! We’ll have the full BIG BAND with us for this one. Great line up, great venue, great people. And it’s FREE!

Takafumi Tsuhiya STRIKES AGAIN!!

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:45:06 -0700

Takafumi Tsuhiya STRIKES AGAIN!!

UK Ticket Giveaway (click here)!

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:23:54 -0700

UK Ticket Giveaway (click here)!:

The Leaf Label is giving away two tickets to each of our UK shows. All you have to do is email them an answer to the question at the link.

23rd, April - Bristol @ the Louisiana

24th, April - Manchester @ the Castle Hotel

25th, April - London @ Shacklewell Arms

26th, April - Brighton @ Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar

“I think the red one is for you…” - Terni,...

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:49:00 -0700

“I think the red one is for you…” - Terni, Italy.

Luke outside of Palmetta in Terni, Italy. One of the finest...

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:46:00 -0700

Luke outside of Palmetta in Terni, Italy. One of the finest nights of tour thus far.

Solid Gold Live for the Terroreyes DayParty @ SXSW

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:50:14 -0700

Solid Gold Live for the Terroreyes DayParty @ SXSW

Live Recording of our Cameo Gallery Set in Brooklyn:

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:48:00 -0700

Live Recording of our Cameo Gallery Set in Brooklyn::

AU European Tourdates!! Apr 03 - Home Plugged - Brussels,...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:24:00 -0700

AU European Tourdates!!

Apr 03 - Home Plugged - Brussels, Belgium
Apr 04 - Papiersaal - Zurich, Switzerland
Apr 05 - Clandestino - Faenza, Italy
Apr 06 - Init - Rome Rm, Italy
Apr 07 - Palmetta - Terni, Italy
Apr 08 - Studio 2 - Vigonovo, Italy
Apr 09 - WUK - Vienna, Austria w/ Xiu Xiu
Apr 10 - Kranhalle at Feierwerk - Munich, Germany w/ Xiu Xiu
Apr 11 - Festsaal Kreuzberg - Berlin, Germany w/ Xiu Xiu
Apr 12 - Kampnagel - Hamburg, Germany w/ Xiu Xiu
Apr 14 - Powiekszenie - Warsaw, Poland
Apr 15 - Puzzle Club - Wroclaw, Poland
Apr 17 - Video - Ghent, Belgium
Apr 18 - Le Fiacre - Liege, Belgium
Apr 19 - Bar le Barabas - Nancy, France
Apr 20 - Les Trinitaires - Metz, France
Apr 21 - Bar L’Estaminet - Vagney, France
Apr 22 - WORM - Rotterdam, Netherlands
Apr 23 - Louisiana - Bristol, United Kingdom
Apr 24 - The Castle Hotel - Manchester, United Kingdom
Apr 25 - Shacklewell Arms - London, United Kingdom
Apr 26 - Sticky Mikes Frog Bar - Brighton, United Kingdom
Apr 27 - Pompidou Centre - Paris, France
Apr 28 - Bergen Kjott - Bergen, Norway
Apr 29 - Revolver - Oslo, Norway
Apr 30 - Valborgskalas - Gothenburg, Sweden
May 02 - Fritz’s Corner @ Lilla Hotellbaren - Stockholm, Sweden
May 03 - Huset i Magstraede - Copenhagen, Denmark
May 04 - Haldern Pop Bar - Rees, Germany
May 05 - EXIT07 - Luxembourg, Luxembourg

AU+Both Lights Cover art and track listing revealed for AU’s...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:12:00 -0700

AU+Both Lights

Cover art and track listing revealed for AU’s new album, Both Lights, out April 3 on Hometapes. tour dates announced, including SXSW & shows with The Dodos, Deerhoof, & more.

MP3: AU “Solid Gold” (from Both Lights & Solid Gold 7”)

AU Both Lights

Epic
Get Alive
Crazy Idol
OJ
The Veil
Solid Gold
Today/Tonight
Why I Must
Go Slow
Old Friend
Don’t Lie Down

Both Lights hit me like a wave. I walked right into it, eyes open.

The music writer Bob Palmer once described “a fusion of music and poetry accomplished at a very high emotional temperature.” He called it “a gigantic field of feeling…something enduring, something that could be limitless.”

Palmer was talking about the Blues. But all I can think about is AU.

Like all waves, it keeps on coming. AU’s third album, Both Lights, is a recurring dream. Eleven songs made by the Portland, Oregon-based duo Luke Wyland and Dana Valatka, it’s a story of Time. Three years to be exact: since their critically-acclaimed 2008 album Verbs and its 2009 EP evolution Versions, there’s been a long exhale. A little defiance of the double-speed countdown of the indie hype clock. And a hell of a lot of living. Turn it on. More than a mere accompaniment, it’s a gleaming mirror. It’s an exaltation, an exhalation, a monument of extreme composition, the child of collaboration and isolation, a preamble to a wild live show, a statue intact in the violent wind of art and commerce, and, simply, a record about love. It’s for itself, and, in being that, it’s an album that can be understood like a person. “It’s the topography of me,” says Wyland. So you follow the coordinates.

The record begins with “Epic” — count it among the world’s greatest lead tracks. Complete with earth-cracking saxophones by man-machine Colin Stetson, “Epic” defines ascension — from the slow motion of an Oregon sunrise to a ‘67 Barracuda barreling off a bridge. It’s a thesis statement for an album that began as a series of improvisations in Wyland’s attic, a one-man tug of war with love, loss, pain, anger, and desire. Wyland calls “Epic” a “real re-introduction to the band” and it encompasses that extreme confidence. It sets the tone for Both Lights, illuminating the frantic energy that drives AU.

AU Joins the Hometapes Family // New Single Out Today // New Album Coming Spring 2012

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:58:00 -0700

MP3: AU “Solid Gold”

Check out the premiere on Pitchfork.

What are you hearing when you hear AU?
What are you seeing when you see AU?

These are the questions I’ve been asking myself over the past few months of getting to know Luke Wyland and Dana Valatka. Stroll down the street with them or see them side-by-side on stage: this Portland, Oregon-based duo embodies remarkable, frantic energy. It permeates everything they touch. More than any band I’ve ever known, AU brings into question the moment and where you are in it.

- Hometapes