Kevin Devine & The Goddamn Band Announce Spring Tour Supporting Murder By Death

Kevin Devine & The Goddamn Band has announced they will be on the road supporting Murder By Death this spring. Kevin Devine & Goddamn Band will be on the east coast run of the tour. A full list of dates can be found below.

Over the course of 2015, Kevin Devine has been unveiling his Devinyl Splits Series, a six-7″ series featuring Devine teaming up with a different partner every release. So far, the series has included Devine and Matthew Caws of Nada Surf covering each others songs, Devine and Meredith Graves of Perfect Pussy each recording an intimate original song (the first solo song ever released from Graves), Devine and Tigers Jaw each taking on a song by The Cure, and Kevin Devine & The Goddamn band releasing their first new song since Bubblegum, while Cymbals Eat Guitars released their first new song since Lose on Devinyl Splits No. 4. Now, Devine is teaming up with a split Owen for his newest split. Devinyl Splits No. 5 is set to be released December 18th digitally and on vinyl via Bad Timing Records.

Kevin Devine Tour Dates:

02/04 – Manchester, UK – Club Academy#
02/05 – Leeds, UK – University#
02/06 – Gateshead, UK – Riverside#
02/07 – Glasgow, UK – Garage#
02/08 – Birmingham, UK – Library#
02/10 – Nottingham, UK – Rescue Room#
02/11 – Cardiff, UK – Globe#
02/12 – Bristol, UK – Marble Factory#
02/13 – Brighton, UK – Concorde 2#
02/14 – Southsea, UK – Wedgewood Rooms#
02/16 – London, UK – Koko#
04/13 – Newport, KY – The Southgate House Revival*
04/14 – Millvale, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre*
04/15 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza*
04/16 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair*
04/17 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair*
04/20 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle*
04/21 – Richmond, VA – The Broadberry
04/22 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club*
04/23 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer*
04/24 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop*

# w/ The Front Bottoms
* w/ Murder By Death

Brooklyn singer-songwriter Kevin Devine is a powerhouse in the contemporary indie rock world. Devine began releasing solo records in 2002, slowly gaining steam through extensive touring and a steady release of increasingly impressive records. In 2009, Devine released Brother’s Blood and the I Could Be With Anyone EP through Favorite Gentlemen Recordings. The records quickly sparked across the scene as Devine became a cult favorite in the indie-rock world. His sharp lyrical style combined with 90s inspired bedroom indie rock connected instantly with fans, leading Brother’s Blood to become Devine’s best selling record to date.

After releasing three consecutive Billboard-200 charting records with 2011’s Between The Concrete And The Clouds and the first two Bad Books albums (Devine’s band with members of Manchester Orchestra), Devine looked to the crowd sourcing website Kickstarter to fund his next two records Bubblegum and Bulldozer. His fans responded – Devine met his $50,000 target funding within only 8 hours of the 45-day campaign, and ultimately fans pitched in to the tune of $115,000, more than double his initial goal.  The funds resulted in the simultaneous October 2013 release of Bulldozer, produced by Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck and Guided By Voices) and laced with folk-rock and pop ballads, and Bubblegum, a proper rock record produced by Jesse Lacey of Brand New, hooky and fast and wrapped in fuzz & feedback. The two records were Devine’s highest-charting Billboard releases to date.

In 2014, Bad Timing Records, Devinyl Records and Favorite Gentlemen Recordings began their partnership with the release of a double A-side 7″ single, featuring the song “She Can See Me”, which appeared in different versions on both Bulldozer and Bubblegum. The three teamed up in 2015 to re-release Devine’s classic record Brother’s Blood as a double LP, before announcing a year long split 7” series: Devinyl Splits began releasing every two months throughout the year, starting this past February. The first three partners announced were Matthew Caws (of Nada Surf), Meredith Graves (of Perfect Pussy), and Tigers Jaw. The last three split partners will be announced later this year. The first three splits are available now via Bad Timing Records! All year-long subscriptions have sold out. Individual orders for the remaining three splits will become available later in the year.