Miniature Tigers' Mia Pharaoh Streaming Exclusively Today On Spin.com

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MINIATURE TIGERS' MIA PHARAOH STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY TODAY ON SPIN.COM!

MIA PHARAOH OUT MARCH 6th VIA MODERN ART RECORDS

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Starting today, Miniature Tigers<http://www.miniaturetigers.com/>' brilliant abstract-pop record, Mia Pharaoh, is streaming exclusively on Spin.com HERE<http://www.spin.com/articles/first-spin-hear-miniature-tigers-sexy-mia-pharaoh-lp>. The new album will drop on Tuesday, March 6th via Modern Art Records, in conjunction with Warner Music's Independent Label Group, and is available for pre-order on iTunes HERE<http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPreorder?id=498861104>. The deluxe edition of Mia Pharaoh is also available on iTunes HERE<http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPreorder?id=498861483> with bonus tracks.
As previously announced, the four-piece will serve as the main support for Fun.'s Spring 2012 Tour, which comes on the heels of their headlining spot on  THE MODERN ART TOUR<http://www.modernartrecords.com/>, a 24 date run that begins March 1st in Seattle, and features labelmates Geographer, The Chain Gang of 1974, Pretty & Nice, and SPEAK.  All tour dates listed below.

Mia Pharaoh highlights 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."
More praise for Miniature Tigers:
"They [Miniature Tigers] have a really ethereal way of translating music - actually, they have a very different approach to our "You Got Me" song  [during our session with Red Bull's Soundclash] 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." -drummer ?uestlove of  The Roots
-[Mia Pharaoh, one of the] the best 25 albums of 2012" - Paste Magazine
 "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
"...if Shakespeare's Romeo had been in a band, Brand's vocals would have come out his mouth. A total loverboy voice..." - The Huffington Post

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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