MUSIC NEWS - Chicago’s Umphrey's McGee is entering its second decade together with a new release, Mantis, and with more tour dates! Mantis, (buy copy here) their most progressive, melodic and artistically cohesive album to date has been receiving critical acclaim and fan praise! The band will tour this spring in support of the album, and will be playing at many of the festival this summer (full itinerary below)
Over 2 years in the making, Mantis is yet another innovative music experience to be offered by Umphrey's McGee, who have continually proven to be adaptive and inventive both in music and music biz over the last 10 years. Through their online community building, creative web-based promotions, and open taping policies allowing live music sharing among fans, Umphrey's McGeehas harnessed the internet's momentum to spread their music far and wide. The band's download store UMLive.net is an archive of their ever-diverse live performances, hosting downloads of over 300 shows with 750,000 tracks sold since 2004. Umphreys.com hosts the iTunes friendly UM Podcast which releases two 75-minute episodes of live material each month to its 20,000 subscribers. Since 2001, Umphrey's has released soundboard recordings of each night's shows immediately after the gig in both physical and digital formats – and each show typically sells nearly 300 copies per night. The band's unique approach to online and digital distribution, paired with word of mouth buzz, has helped Umphrey's McGee sell out shows nationwide while keeping their fans a top priority.
Umphrey's McGee 2009 Spring Tour -
April 03 Penn's Peak Jim Thorpe, PA
April 04 Ram's Head Live! Baltimore, MD
April 05 Toad's Place New Haven, CT
April 07 Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel Providence, RI
April 08 Calvin Theatre Northampton, MA
April 09 House of Blues Boston, MA
April 10 Nokia Theatre Times Square New York, NY
April 11 Nokia Theatre Times Square New York, NY
April 16 Taft Theatre Cincinnati, OH
April 17 Egyptian Theatre Dekalb, IL
April 18 Morris Performing Arts Center South Bend, IN
April 29 Bama Theatre Tuscaloosa, AL
April 30 House of Blues New Orleans, LA
May 01 House of Blues New Orleans, LA
May 02 The Lyric Oxford MS
May 22 Summer Camp Chillicothe, IL
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