[press release] Big Business has announced the release of its fifth studio album, Command Your Weather, due out July 8th as a co-release between Joyful Noise Recordings and the band's own Gold Metal Records. It's currently available for pre-order on all formats, including gold colored vinyl and a limited VIP edition on clear & gold vinyl.
Command Your Weather sees Big Business return to its original two-man lineup of Jared Warren & Coady Willis, who also have ties to other notable bands: both are current members of the Melvins, Willis is an original member of The Murder City Devils and plays in the all-drumming project Hew Time (with Dale Crover and Joe Plummer), and Warren played in KARP. For a preview of the new record, you can stream lead single "Father's Day" via Soundcloud.
Founded in Seattle in 2003, Big Business has spent the past thirteen years making records and touring the world. With Jared on bass and Coady on drums, their sound is big, loud, and chaotic, with songs that hit listeners head-on like a bombastic low end attack. Recorded in Joshua Tree, CA, Command Your Weather is an album about the struggle for dominance of will over the power and unpredictability of nature...or it's just a really great rock record (it depends on how weird you're willing to get.)
Big Business will tour in support of their new album this summer -- see below for
upcoming dates.
Big Business Summer Tour 2016:
June 18 - Joshua Tree- Yucca Man Shakedown
June 20 - Las Vegas - Backstage Bar & Billiards
June 21 - Salt Lake City - Urban Lounge
June 22 - Boise - Neurolux
June 24 - Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown
June 25 - Portland, OR - B Side Anniversary
June 26 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile
June 28 -Billings, MT- Pub Station
June 30 - Fargo, ND - The Aquarium
July 1 - Minneapolis, MN - The Triple Rock (D4th of July weekend)
July 2 - Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen
July 3 - Ferndale, MI - The Loving Touch
July 4 - Toronto, ON - Velvet Underground
July 5 - Rochester, NY - The Bug Jar
July 6 - Brooklyn, NY - St. Vitus
July 7 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
July 8 - Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts
July 9 - Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop
July 10 - Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe
July 12 - Nashville, TN - The Basement East
July 13 - Atlanta, GA - Aisle 5
July 14 - Birmingham, AL - Saturn
July 15 - Gainesville, FL - High Dive
July 16 - Tallahassee, FL - Sidebar Theater
July 17 - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa
July 19 - San Antonio, TX - Paper Tiger
July 20 - Austin, TX - Barracuda
July 21 - Dallas, TX - Gas Monkey
July 23 - El Paso, TX - Lowbrow Palace
July 24 - Phoenix, AZ - The Rebel Lounge
July 25 - San Diego, CA - Casbah
July 28 - Santa Barbara, CA - Velvet Jones
July 29 - Los Angeles - Bootleg Theater - Bar Stage
July 30 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
Command Your Weather Track List:
1. Last Legs
2. Regulars
3. Father's Day
4. Blacker Holes
5. Popular Demand
6. Own Throats
7. Send Help
8. Diagnostic Front
9. Horses