Miniature Tigers Tours With Fun. This Spring 2012!

Tue Feb 21 14:50:10 CST 2012

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MINIATURE TIGERS
TOURS WITH FUN. THIS SPRING 2012!

NEW ALBUM MIA PHARAOH OUT MARCH 6th

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Photo Credit: Modern Art Records

Modern Art Records<http://www.modernartrecords.com/> is thrilled to announce that Miniature Tigers<http://www.miniaturetigers.com/> will serve as the main support for Fun.'s Spring 2012 Tour in anticipation of Mini T's upcoming record Mia Pharaoh (out March 6th), which Paste Magazine declared, "25 albums we're looking forward to in 2012..."  The tour kicks-off on April 13th in Minneapolis, MN and will make its way through Detroit, Columbus, Toronto, Quebec, with sold-out shows in Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and more!   The tour with Fun., whose hit "We Are Young" is currently #3 on the Billboard's Hot 100, comes on the heels of  THE MODERN ART TOUR<http://www.modernartrecords.com/>, a 24 date run that begins March 1st in Seattle, with support bands Geographer and The Chain Gang of 1974.  All tour dates listed below.

Additionally, fans can pre-order Miniature Tigers' brilliant abstract-pop record Mia Pharaoh on iTunes HERE<http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPreorder?id=498861104>. And for the ultimate fan, a deluxe version of the upcoming LP with bonus tracks is also available for pre-order HERE<http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPreorder?id=498861483>.

Mia Pharaoh encompasses a musical departure from the band's last two successful records, Tell It to the Volcano and F O R T R E S S.  Lead singer Charlie Brand was heavily inspired by "teenage dream" pop music, and said, "Halfway through making Mia Pharaoh, I fell in love with pop all over again and was strictly listening to Top 40 music. Instead of studying Simon & Garfunkel drum tones, I was figuring out what samples The Dream and Kanye used, or trying to write a song that Katy Perry or Rihanna could sing-a real outsider pop record."

Recently the band and GRAMMY award winning group The Roots had the pleasure to perform one another's songs for Red Bull's Soundclash. Drummer ?uestlove comments on Mini T's approach to creating music by saying, "They [Miniature Tigers] have a really ethereal way of translating music - actually, they have a very different approach to our "You Got Me" song that I never thought of in the fifteen years I've been playing it, so I told those guys, 'the second we are done with the Soundclash I'm gonna steal all of your arrangements for like all of our songs.'  Never once did I ever think to reinterpret it the way that they reinterpreted it."

Mini T has performed countless headlining shows, shared numerous stages with such acts as The Walkmen, Neon Indian, Freelance Whales, The Morning Benders, and Tennis, and has given stellar performances at Lollapalooza, RVA Music Festival, Austin City Limits and POPPED! Music Festival.  Huffington Post describes Brand's live vocals as, "...if Shakespeare's Romeo had been in a band, Brand's vocals would have come out his mouth. A total loverboy voice..."
More praise for Miniature Tigers:
 "What I like about them [Miniature Tigers] is that they could probably be a very successful, standard-issue indie-rock band aping Death Cab or Grizzly Bear or Vampire Weekend, but they're too restless and busting with ideas." -Spin

"Wedged between a dreamy throwback sound and rapid-fire backing harmonies, Brand [lead singer Charlie Brand] carries a degree of self-seriousness, lending nuanced shades of gray to an otherwise chipper mood." - NPR

THE MODERN ART TOUR 2012 Dates:

*with Pretty & Nice
3/1/12  Tractor Tavern Seattle, WA
3/2/12  Branx Portland, OR
3/3/12  The Independent San Francisco, CA
3/4/12  Troubadour Los Angeles(West Hollywood), CA
3/6/12  The Casbah San Diego, CA
3/7/12  Club Congress Tucson, AZ
3/8/12  The Crescent Ballroom Phoenix, AZ
3/16/12  The Prophet Bar Dallas, TX
3/17/12  Fitzgerald's Houston, TX
3/19/12  The Social Orlando, FL
3/20/12  The Masquerade-Purgatory Atlanta, GA
3/21/12  Nightlight Chapel Hill, NC
3/22/12  DC9 Washington D.C.
3/23/12  Milkboy Philadelphia, PA
3/24/12  Brighton Music Hall Boston(Brighton), MA
*with SPEAK

3/25/12 Bowery Ballroom New York, NY
3/27/12  Club AE Pittsburg, PA
3/28/12  Grog Shop Cleveland Heights, OH
3/29/12  The Intersection Grand Rapids, MI
3/30/12  Schubas Tavern Chicago, IL
3/31/12 Off Broadway St. Louis, CO
4/2/12 The Black Sheep Colorado Springs, CO
4/3/12 Marquis Theatre Denver, CO
4/5/12 Beauty Bar Las Vegas, NV

Spring 2012 Tour with Fun.:

4/13/12 The Brick Minneapolis, MN
4/14/12 Vic Theatre Chicago, IL
4/15/12 St. Andrews Hall Detroit, MI
4/19/12 Newport Music Hall Columbus, OH
4/20/12 Water Street Music Hall Rochester, NY
4/25/12 The Guvernment Toronto, ON
4/27/12 Northern Lights Clifton Park, NY
4/28/12 Theatre of the Living Arts Philadelphia, PA
4/30/12 Cabaret Du Mile End Montreal, QC
5/3/12 9:30 Club Washington, DC
5/4/12 9:30 Club Washington, DC
5/5/12 Jefferson Theater Charlottesville, VA

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For press inquiries on Miniature Tigers<http://www.miniaturetigers.com/> please contact:
Tasya Swisko // tasya at pressherepublicity.com<mailto:tasya at pressherepublicity.com>
212.246.2640

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