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11/02/09 - New Record, Good to Be, Coming February 16th, 2010
Photo: Georgianne Anderson |
Happy November! We're very excited to announce that our next record Good to Be which was produced by Los Lobos' Steve Berlin, will be released on February 16th. The record will be on our new record label Kelsey Street Records distributed by Thirty Tigers/SonyRed who've released records by some of our favorite artists like James McMurtry, Jason Isbell, and Patterson Hood over the past few years.
Track listing is as follows:
1 Roadsong #39
2 Ready or Not
3 Learning to Swim
4 Brady
5 Food for Thought
6 Estelle
7 Hell and Back
8 Good To Be
9 A Thousand Gigs Ago
10 Piss and Moan
11 Once Upon a Time
We'll be dropping more info on the album including song previews and videos over the coming weeks so stay tuned! We'll also be announcing a national tour starting in February, we're excited for 2010!
5/12/09 - Spring/Summer News
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Happy May! Our spring and summer schedule continues to grow. We've got shows coming up in 21 states.
We're excited to be sharing the stage with a ton of great bands including: Cracker, Hill Country Review, Reverend Horton Heat, Toadies, Chuck Ragan, Mark Bilyeu, and Gov't Mule! We've also got lots of festivals for you to catch us at: Summercamp Festival, Paddlefest, Tall Tree Festival, Forecastle Festival, and 10,000 Lakes Festival. Please check out full details on our tourdates page.
Of particular mention are the dates coming up in May with Cracker. They're one of our favorite bands from the past two decades. Great songs, great players and great guys. They just released a new record which is absolutely fantastic: Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey, support recorded music and pick yourself up a copy! Needless to say, these shows in St. Louis, Nashville, Sellersville, Harrisburg, and Richmond are not to be missed.
An early alert, our performance on Mountain Stage will be broadcast nationally on the radio the week of 6/12/09. Please check the broadcast schedule to find out what time/station it's playing in your market. Thanks again to Larry Groce and the entire Mountain Stage staff, you guys have built a great thing!
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- Spring/Summer News
- Our spring tour rolls on this week in the Midwest. Check out our tourdates page. We're looking forward to getting back to a lot of markets we haven't played since 2008: Kansas City, Columbia, St. Louis, Lexington, Louisville, Chicago, Minneapolis, Madison, Sheboygan, Elkhart Lake, Davenport, Des Moines, Sioux Falls. We've got two special guests out with us this spring, Scott Tipping on guitar and Andrew Weir from Bockman on keys. The band is sounding better than ever, check us out here: Download or stream our show from 3/26 @ Otto's in Dekalb on Archive.org Lots of new dates this spring/summer are popping up! We've got a bunch of dates with Cracker in May and dates with Reverend Horton Heat in June. We'll be hitting markets all over the US East of the Rockies with them so check out our full tourdates. We've been added to a number of summer festivals including (more to be announced soon): Summercamp Festival: Chillicothe, IL, May 24th: featuring Willie Nelson, Los Lobos, Umphrey's Mcgee, Les Claypool, Gomez, Junior Brown, Wood Brothers, Cornmeal, 56 Hope Road, Family Groove Company, Chicago Farmer, Medeski Martin Scofield and Wood, and many many more. Paddle Festival: Cincinnati, OH, June 26th: we're headlining! Also featuring Rumpke Mountain Boys and more. 10,000 Lakes Festival: Detroit Lakes, MN, July 24th: featuring Wilco, Widespread Panic, Trampled by Turtles, Junior Brown, Gomez, Sharon Jones and the Dap-kings, Todd Snider, William Elliot Whitmore, Joe Pug and many more.. |
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- Winter/Spring News - New tour announced for the winter/spring 2009, shows in Midwest and Southeast, co-bills with Bloodkin, Steepwater, Pokey LaFarge and Chicago Farmer. Check our dates page for the full info. - Paste Magazine's Band of the Week -- Sweet! - JamBase's Dennis Cook's Cook's Corner Best of 2008 -Mountain Stage date announced for April 5th! |
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- Year End Wrap Up Thanks everyone for making it out to our 3rd Annual Holiday Jamboree. We raised over $4,000 for the YWCA's Stepping Stones program. Backyard Tire Fire had an excellent 2008, thanks to everyone who bought The Places We Lived, came to a show (or 3) and told a friend about us. We'll be headed back into the studio to record our next record in February, with Grammy winning producer Steve Berlin helping out with production. To say that we're excited about the prospects would be an understatement. Here are some nice year end posts about the band as well as a few live nuggets for you to enjoy: Backyard Tire Fire in the "Best of"Game: Safety
Break blog Great year end feature on BTF: Three great recordings/interview See ya at our year end shows with Rusted Root or in 2009! Ed, Tim, and Matt |
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12/16/08
- 3rd Annual Holiday Jamboree featuring Backyard Tire Fire &
Friends
Proceeds will be donated to the YWCA Mclean County's sexual assault program. Stepping Stones provides 24-hour assistance for sexual assault and sexual abuse victims and their families in McLean County. Services focus on: empowering survivors, their families, and their friends on the path of healing, building relationships with professionals and agencies that will be part of the process, and educating the community about sexual assault. Saturday December 20th Peter Adriel 8-8:30 |
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10/27/08 - New Video for "How in the Hell Did You Get Back Here?" Check out our new video directed by our favorite NYC indie filmmakers, Filipe Bessa and Nick Schwartz. It was shot in our hometown of Bloomington, IL:
From the director Filipe Bessa: "What always struck us about Backyard Tire Fire is the idea of the musicians and the music coming from a working-class background and really embracing what that means by approaching their music as their craft. Upholding an artist as a craftsman is very important to us, because art shouldn't be looked at as something we do solely to 'express ourselves,' but rather as a craft, worked within and around its own contexts and environments. The local musician has a lot more in common with the local mechanic than we tend to imagine. Ideally they both represent what makes up the American landscape as we know it. The joy and the sadness of work are present in both, and that's a powerful correlation." If you dig what you see, add it to your Myspace, Facebook and blog! 10/08/08 - Backyard Tire Fire at HearYa, on Blurt and JamBase: Check out our features on Blurt Magazine and JamBase.com. The stories are written by two of our favorite journalists, thanks Andy Tennille and Dennis Cook! Some other news from the web, before our Metro gig on 9/5 we rolled by the HearYa Studios in Chicago to cut 5 tunes with them. You can check them out at in full on the HearYaBlog. Check out "Everybody's Down" from the sessions here:
08/26/08 - The Places We Lived - Out Now! Purchase the record here!
Here are all the stores to purchase at locally, support your local record store!
08/18/08 - Backyard Tire Fire album listening party on Rhapsody.com  We'll
be previewing The Places We Lived exclusively this week on August
19th with our friends at Rhapsody.com.
Click over next Tuesday 8/19 and listen to the entire album.
08/10/08 - New live videos for "Shoulda Shut It" and "Welcome to the Factory" Click on over to our media page to check out 2 live videos from songs off our new album, The Places We Lived. We've got "Shoulda Shut It" from our set at Live at FYI back in April, and "Welcome to the Factory" from Forecastle Festival on 7/27, courtesy of My Old Kentucky Blog!07/25/08 - Listen to the new album live on WFPK! We're very excited to be instudio at one of the coolest stations in America, WFPK playing for an hour today at 12pm EST. We'll be playing most of our upcoming album, The Places We Lived, live as well as some of our older favorites, and perhaps a never heard before track as well. You can stream the set live on WFPK @ 12pm EST on July 25th or in the archive at any point for the next year. 07/24/08 - Cracker's Johnny Hickman drops BTF as a favorite! Johnny Hickman, co-founder of one of our all-time favorite bands Cracker, mentioned Backyard Tire Fire in an interview in the Duluth Budgeteer yesterday: Q: Seeing as how Cracker's sound is so eclectic, what do you
listen to in your free time? 07/01/08 - September tour and autographed CD or Vinyl pre-sale! You can pre-order The Places We Lived right here, and we'll ship you an autographed version of the CD the week before it comes out (CDs will ship on 8/18)! Here is our September tour - we'll be giving a limited edition autographed 12 x 24 poster to anyone that buys advance tickets: August 22 & 23 / Paulie's / Bloomington, IL - Buy
Tickets 06/20/08 - Backyard Tire Fire @ Metro on September 5th! We're headlining our first show at the Metro on Friday September 5th. We're happy to have an awesome rock band, Ha Ha Tonka as the special guest on the show and September tour. Tickets are only $10 and are onsale tomorrow at 10am right here. We'll also be giving away a free limited edition poster to all advance ticket buyers. The poster will be designed by the very talented Anna Kipervaser, who did the artwork for Vagabonds and our new record, The Places We Lived. So what does that mean? Buy your tickets in advance! 05/22/08 - New record deal with Hyena Records, new album The Places We Lived due out on August 26th: We're very excited to announce that our next album, The Places We Lived will be released on August 26th on NYC based indie label, Hyena Records. Hyena Records was founded by legendary Atlantic producer/record man, Joel Dorn and we're happy to join their very talented roster. The new record was once again co-produced by Tony Sanfilippo and recorded Analog on two-inch tape. The LP will include 10 original compositions. You can stream the title track from the album on Myspace until the end of May. Starting on June 17th, we'll be premiering one new track per week on Myspace and Facebook, so stay tuned! 1. The Places We Lived Check out the guys talking about the new album from an interview on Palestra @ Langerado: |
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12/16/08
- 3rd Annual Holiday Jamboree featuring Backyard Tire Fire &
Friends
Proceeds will be donated to the YWCA Mclean County's sexual assault program. Stepping Stones provides 24-hour assistance for sexual assault and sexual abuse victims and their families in McLean County. Services focus on: empowering survivors, their families, and their friends on the path of healing, building relationships with professionals and agencies that will be part of the process, and educating the community about sexual assault. Saturday December 20th Peter Adriel 8-8:30 |
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10/27/08 - New Video for "How in the Hell Did You Get Back Here?" Check out our new video directed by our favorite NYC indie filmmakers, Filipe Bessa and Nick Schwartz. It was shot in our hometown of Bloomington, IL:
From the director Filipe Bessa: "What always struck us about Backyard Tire Fire is the idea of the musicians and the music coming from a working-class background and really embracing what that means by approaching their music as their craft. Upholding an artist as a craftsman is very important to us, because art shouldn't be looked at as something we do solely to 'express ourselves,' but rather as a craft, worked within and around its own contexts and environments. The local musician has a lot more in common with the local mechanic than we tend to imagine. Ideally they both represent what makes up the American landscape as we know it. The joy and the sadness of work are present in both, and that's a powerful correlation." If you dig what you see, add it to your Myspace, Facebook and blog! 10/08/08 - Backyard Tire Fire at HearYa, on Blurt and JamBase: Check out our features on Blurt Magazine and JamBase.com. The stories are written by two of our favorite journalists, thanks Andy Tennille and Dennis Cook! Some other news from the web, before our Metro gig on 9/5 we rolled by the HearYa Studios in Chicago to cut 5 tunes with them. You can check them out at in full on the HearYaBlog. Check out "Everybody's Down" from the sessions here:
08/26/08 - The Places We Lived - Out Now! Purchase the record here!
Here are all the stores to purchase at locally, support your local record store!
08/18/08 - Backyard Tire Fire album listening party on Rhapsody.com We'll
be previewing The Places We Lived exclusively this week on August
19th with our friends at Rhapsody.com.
Click over next Tuesday 8/19 and listen to the entire album.
08/10/08 - New live videos for "Shoulda Shut It" and "Welcome to the Factory" Click on over to our media page to check out 2 live videos from songs off our new album, The Places We Lived. We've got "Shoulda Shut It" from our set at Live at FYI back in April, and "Welcome to the Factory" from Forecastle Festival on 7/27, courtesy of My Old Kentucky Blog!07/25/08 - Listen to the new album live on WFPK! We're very excited to be instudio at one of the coolest stations in America, WFPK playing for an hour today at 12pm EST. We'll be playing most of our upcoming album, The Places We Lived, live as well as some of our older favorites, and perhaps a never heard before track as well. You can stream the set live on WFPK @ 12pm EST on July 25th or in the archive at any point for the next year. 07/24/08 - Cracker's Johnny Hickman drops BTF as a favorite! Johnny Hickman, co-founder of one of our all-time favorite bands Cracker, mentioned Backyard Tire Fire in an interview in the Duluth Budgeteer yesterday: Q: Seeing as how Cracker's sound is so eclectic, what do you
listen to in your free time? 07/01/08 - September tour and autographed CD or Vinyl pre-sale! You can pre-order The Places We Lived right here, and we'll ship you an autographed version of the CD the week before it comes out (CDs will ship on 8/18)! Here is our September tour - we'll be giving a limited edition autographed 12 x 24 poster to anyone that buys advance tickets: August 22 & 23 / Paulie's / Bloomington, IL - Buy
Tickets 06/20/08 - Backyard Tire Fire @ Metro on September 5th! We're headlining our first show at the Metro on Friday September 5th. We're happy to have an awesome rock band, Ha Ha Tonka as the special guest on the show and September tour. Tickets are only $10 and are onsale tomorrow at 10am right here. We'll also be giving away a free limited edition poster to all advance ticket buyers. The poster will be designed by the very talented Anna Kipervaser, who did the artwork for Vagabonds and our new record, The Places We Lived. So what does that mean? Buy your tickets in advance! 05/22/08 - New record deal with Hyena Records, new album The Places We Lived due out on August 26th: We're very excited to announce that our next album, The Places We Lived will be released on August 26th on NYC based indie label, Hyena Records. Hyena Records was founded by legendary Atlantic producer/record man, Joel Dorn and we're happy to join their very talented roster. The new record was once again co-produced by Tony Sanfilippo and recorded Analog on two-inch tape. The LP will include 10 original compositions. You can stream the title track from the album on Myspace until the end of May. Starting on June 17th, we'll be premiering one new track per week on Myspace and Facebook, so stay tuned! 1. The Places We Lived Check out the guys talking about the new album from an interview on Palestra @ Langerado: |
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12/16/08
- 3rd Annual Holiday Jamboree featuring Backyard Tire Fire &
Friends
Proceeds will be donated to the YWCA Mclean County's sexual assault program. Stepping Stones provides 24-hour assistance for sexual assault and sexual abuse victims and their families in McLean County. Services focus on: empowering survivors, their families, and their friends on the path of healing, building relationships with professionals and agencies that will be part of the process, and educating the community about sexual assault. Saturday December 20th Peter Adriel 8-8:30 |
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10/27/08 - New Video for "How in the Hell Did You Get Back Here?" Check out our new video directed by our favorite NYC indie filmmakers, Filipe Bessa and Nick Schwartz. It was shot in our hometown of Bloomington, IL:
From the director Filipe Bessa: "What always struck us about Backyard Tire Fire is the idea of the musicians and the music coming from a working-class background and really embracing what that means by approaching their music as their craft. Upholding an artist as a craftsman is very important to us, because art shouldn't be looked at as something we do solely to 'express ourselves,' but rather as a craft, worked within and around its own contexts and environments. The local musician has a lot more in common with the local mechanic than we tend to imagine. Ideally they both represent what makes up the American landscape as we know it. The joy and the sadness of work are present in both, and that's a powerful correlation." If you dig what you see, add it to your Myspace, Facebook and blog! 10/08/08 - Backyard Tire Fire at HearYa, on Blurt and JamBase: Check out our features on Blurt Magazine and JamBase.com. The stories are written by two of our favorite journalists, thanks Andy Tennille and Dennis Cook! Some other news from the web, before our Metro gig on 9/5 we rolled by the HearYa Studios in Chicago to cut 5 tunes with them. You can check them out at in full on the HearYaBlog. Check out "Everybody's Down" from the sessions here:
08/26/08 - The Places We Lived - Out Now! Purchase the record here!
Here are all the stores to purchase at locally, support your local record store!
08/18/08 - Backyard Tire Fire album listening party on Rhapsody.com We'll
be previewing The Places We Lived exclusively this week on August
19th with our friends at Rhapsody.com.
Click over next Tuesday 8/19 and listen to the entire album.
08/10/08 - New live videos for "Shoulda Shut It" and "Welcome to the Factory" Click on over to our media page to check out 2 live videos from songs off our new album, The Places We Lived. We've got "Shoulda Shut It" from our set at Live at FYI back in April, and "Welcome to the Factory" from Forecastle Festival on 7/27, courtesy of My Old Kentucky Blog!07/25/08 - Listen to the new album live on WFPK! We're very excited to be instudio at one of the coolest stations in America, WFPK playing for an hour today at 12pm EST. We'll be playing most of our upcoming album, The Places We Lived, live as well as some of our older favorites, and perhaps a never heard before track as well. You can stream the set live on WFPK @ 12pm EST on July 25th or in the archive at any point for the next year. 07/24/08 - Cracker's Johnny Hickman drops BTF as a favorite! Johnny Hickman, co-founder of one of our all-time favorite bands Cracker, mentioned Backyard Tire Fire in an interview in the Duluth Budgeteer yesterday: Q: Seeing as how Cracker's sound is so eclectic, what do you
listen to in your free time? 07/01/08 - September tour and autographed CD or Vinyl pre-sale! You can pre-order The Places We Lived right here, and we'll ship you an autographed version of the CD the week before it comes out (CDs will ship on 8/18)! Here is our September tour - we'll be giving a limited edition autographed 12 x 24 poster to anyone that buys advance tickets: August 22 & 23 / Paulie's / Bloomington, IL - Buy
Tickets 06/20/08 - Backyard Tire Fire @ Metro on September 5th! We're headlining our first show at the Metro on Friday September 5th. We're happy to have an awesome rock band, Ha Ha Tonka as the special guest on the show and September tour. Tickets are only $10 and are onsale tomorrow at 10am right here. We'll also be giving away a free limited edition poster to all advance ticket buyers. The poster will be designed by the very talented Anna Kipervaser, who did the artwork for Vagabonds and our new record, The Places We Lived. So what does that mean? Buy your tickets in advance! 05/22/08 - New record deal with Hyena Records, new album The Places We Lived due out on August 26th: We're very excited to announce that our next album, The Places We Lived will be released on August 26th on NYC based indie label, Hyena Records. Hyena Records was founded by legendary Atlantic producer/record man, Joel Dorn and we're happy to join their very talented roster. The new record was once again co-produced by Tony Sanfilippo and recorded Analog on two-inch tape. The LP will include 10 original compositions. You can stream the title track from the album on Myspace until the end of May. Starting on June 17th, we'll be premiering one new track per week on Myspace and Facebook, so stay tuned! 1. The Places We Lived Check out the guys talking about the new album from an interview on Palestra @ Langerado: |
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03/22/08 - Backyard Tire Fire Online - interview on JamBaseTV, Daytrotter session and Sun Studio Sessions: Check out "Jimmy, and Bob and Jack" from our Sun Studio Sessions:
Check out 2 brand new songs on Daytrotter.com: Check out our Interview @ Langerado on JamBase TV: |
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02/19/08- Sick of Debt free download! "We loaded into Oxide Lounge in Bloomington, IL on a cold December afternoon (12.17.07) to record a healthy dose of some acoustic Tire Fire twang. There had always been talk of sitting down in the same room and doing a stripped down recording and we finally found the time to do it! Some of these songs are favorites that have been around for years and never found a place on an album, while others were written only weeks before. All of the tunes feature our good friend Jerry "Muttonhead" Erickson on either dobro or pedal steel guitar and were recorded live with minimal overdubs. The result is a raw collection of some of our finest acoustic material that we decided to make available for FREE DOWNLOAD. Please enjoy and pass it around." - Ed Anderson Or download tracks individually (right click and hit "save link as"):1. "Sick of Debt" - download 2. "I Only Cry When My Momma's Sick" - download 3. "Honey to a Bee" - download 4. "Cigarettes and Coffee" - download 5. "Ice Cream Truck" - download 6. "Lost in Durango" - download
02/09/08 - Winter 2008 Tour Kicks off on 2/16! We're excited to get back on the road next week. We'll be hitting the Midwest, Texas, Southeast, Northeast, and Toronto over the next 3 months. We're even more excited about the bands we're playing with this winter/spring: Reverend Horton Heat, Nashville Pussy, The Beautiful Girls, Bloodkin, The Radiators and Blind Melon. Check our tourdates page for the full story.
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01/03/08 - Vagabonds and Hooligans makes several year end Best of Lists! While we're not into ranking music, we're very honored to have made these critics Best Albums of 2007 list, hopefully Rolling Stone will catch up to these guys next year:
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12/07/07
- New Years Eve!
Join us to ring in a rockin' 2008 at Heroes West in Joliet, IL. The show will be hosted and emceed by our good friend Adrianne Curry. Show details and hotel options are below. We expect the show to sell out so buy your tickets in advance to assure your entrance on New Years. Buy Tickets (username: backyardtirefire, password: tickets) Show Details: Hotel Options: |
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11/21/07
- 2nd Annual Holiday Jamboree featuring Backyard Tire Fire &
Friends
We're excited to announce the second coming of our Holiday Jamboree on December 21st, 2007 at Daddio's in Bloomington, IL. Proceeds of the charity show will once again be donated to the Salvation Army's Safe Harbor homeless shelter. Other artists performing sets at the show include: Bottle of Justus, 100 Year Picnic, Chicago Farmer, Scott Tipping, Wiplot and the Dirty Hands Band. Support live music! Support The Salvation Army! Buy Tickets (available locally at North Street Records in Normal and Monster Pawn in Bloomington) Show Details: |
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11/14/07 - Backyard Tire Fire @ Langerado 2008 We'll be playing Langerado Music Festival on March 6-9, 2008 at The Big Cypress Reservation - home to the Seminole Tribe located in Clewiston, Florida. The site is located 30 miles west of Ft Lauderdale. We'll be joining an amazing lineup that includes R.E.M, Beastie Boys, Phil Lesh & Friends, 311, Gov't Mule, Ani DiFranco, Ben Folds, Built to Spill and many others. Tickets will go on sale through our website on Friday November 16 at 12:00pm. Click here for tickets.
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09/18/07 - Vagabonds and Hooligans Fall tour! We're currently in the studio putting together our next album, in the meantime as a thanks to all of you we've set up a free download of 6 Live tracks from Vagabonds and Hooligans from our Double Door show on 2/17/07: Download tracks Live from the Double Door here! Here is a full list of our tourdates, more info with cost, times, and other bands playing is on our tourdates page: October 5 / University of Illinois / Urbana, IL |
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08/02/07 - BTF part of New Orleans Musician's Relief Fund Compilation - ReDefine! Backyard Tire Fire has contributed "The Wrong Hand", which was originally inspired by the horror of Katrina, to NOMRF's new benefit compiliation, ReDefine. Backyard Tire Fire is honored to be on the compiliation along with Dr. John, Ian Hunter, The Kaiser Chiefs, Edwin McCain & Maia Sharp Chicago Farmer, Susan Cowsill, the dB's, and many others. Every dollar spent on the downloads goes towards helping still-displaced NOLA musicians. Find out more about the compiliation here and contribute what you can. |
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08/02/07 - Catch a full hour of live Tire Fire on XM Loft Channel 50! Our hour long performance will be aired in full, 6 (SIX) times, the week of August 13th, check XM's website for more info. Here is the schedule: * Monday 8/13 - 12pm ET |
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07/26/07 - Clutch tour starts this week! Our 5 week tour with Clutch and Year Long Disaster begins this week. Click on the banner below to check out music from both bands. Look forward to seeing you out and tell your friends in each town!
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06/18/07 - Backyard Tire Fire to play Simple Man Cruise! We're happy to announce that we are playing Lynyrd Skynyrd's Simple Man Cruise from January 10th - 14th, 2008. The cruise will be departing Miami, FL, and visiting Key West and Calica. Other bands on the cruise include Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cowboy Mouth, Georgia Satellites, Marshall Tucker Band, Bang Bang Bang, and many others. Get your tickets early as the boat will sell out well in advance. More info is availabile here.
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06/13/07 - More dates with Clutch! We're very excited to announce that Clutch asked us back out for another 28 dates in July and August. We'll be making our first trip to Canada with them, as well as hitting the Pacific Northwest, Midwest and Northeast. year long disaster, a great rock & roll band from LA, will also be on the dates. We highly recommend that you make it out to the shows as all 3 bands bring the rock & roll. Check out a full list of dates on our tourdates page. |
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05/29/07 - Instudio @ WLCE in Springfield, IL & Instore @ Vintage Vinyl Check us out live instudio on WLCE in Springfield, IL - Wednesday June 6th@ 3pm CST. You Listen locally @ 97.7 or stream it online from a link off of their website. Also we'll be doing a free instore performance @ Vintage Vinyl in St. Louis on Thursday June 7th @ 5:30pm CST. And don't forget about our shows @ Mountain Jam in NY this weekend, if you can't attend the fest they'll be broadcasting it live via their website. We'll also be @ Twangfest in St. Louis on June 6thwith Centro-matic & William Elliott Whitmore and Wakarusa Festival in Lawrence on June 8th and 9th with folks like Alejandro Escovedo & Bobby Bare Jr. |
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05/09/07 - Instudio @ WNCW Check us out live instudio at one of the coolest radio stations in America, WNCW, in Spindale, NC - Wednesday May 9th@ 1pm EST. You Listen locally @ 88.7 (Spindale/Asheville), 92.9 (Boone), 100.3 (Charlotte), 97.3 (Greenville). You can also stream online nationally on their internet radio. |
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04/19/07 - My Old Kentucky Blog & Sirius Instudio + other reviews Check us out on one of our favorite blogs, My Old Kentucky Blog. We were instudio with Dodge and his crew in Indianapolis before the Mofro show. You can check out versions of "Vagabonds and Hooligans", "Tom Petty", and "Spinnin' Around", plus a new tune, "I Only Cry". The interview and performance will be broadcast on Sirius Radio's Left of Center, Channel 26 in the next few weeks @ 10pm EST. Also - check out the review of our show last night from Muzzle of Bees, another favorite blogger of ours in Madison. And a great review from Popmatters.com and interview with the band @ Firesideometer. |
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03/09/07 - Backyard Tire Fire tour rolls on Check out our tourdates folks, we've got some big shows coming up in March with Melissa Ferrick, The Slip, and Freddy Jones Band, plus some headlining shows in Plainfield, IL, Des Moines, IA, Sioux Falls, SD, Mankato, MN, & Moorhead, MN. April will bring us to the Southeast for our first show in Oxford, MS which will be sponsored by Honest Tune Magazine, then down to the Wanee Festival in FL. Next is a week with JJ Grey & Mofro that we're all really looking forward to. Our May is slamming as we'll be doing more dates with one of our favorite bands out there, The Mother Hips in NY & NJ, then 3 weeks of rock & roll with Clutch and The Bellrays taking us from DC to San Diego. Check the tourdates page for a full run down. |
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02/23/07 - Backyard Tire Fire cracks CMJ Top 200! We're excited that our new record, Vagabonds and Hooligans, has cracked the Top 200 on the CMJ radio chart, which tracks the most spinned records on college radio. If you listen regularly to college radio stations in your area don't hesitate to call and request Vagabonds and Hooligans. |
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02/19/07 - Backyard Tire Fire summer festivals! We've recently been added to WDST and Warren Haynes' Mountain Jam Festival on June 3rd in Hunter Mountain, NY. We'll be joined at the fest by Gov't Mule, Ozomatli, North Mississippi Allstars and many more.
We'll also be at Wanee Festival in Live Oak, FL on April 13th, with Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule, The Derek Trucks Band, Robert Randolph, Nickel Creek and many more.
We'll be back at Wakarusa Festival in Lawrence, KS on June 8th and 9th once again, joined this year by Ben Harper, Alejandro Escovedo, Bobby Bare Jr., North Mississippi Allstars and many more.
Hope we'll see you all out at the fests this summer. |
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02/09/07 - Backyard Tire Fire on WXRT We're going to be played on Chicago WXRT's Local Anesthetic on Saturday February 10th at 4:45 PM - you can listen on 93.1 FM in Chicago, or stream it online here. Thanks Richard Milne! |
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02/06/07 - Vagabonds and Hooligans is released! The new album, Vagabonds and Hooligans, is finally available ! You can order it online here, or if you like to purchase at your local record store here is a list of indie stores carrying us nationally, support local retailers! |
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01/18/07
- Vagabonds and Hooligans Record Release Tour
Happy New Year to y'all. We're very excited to announce our Vagabonds and Hooligans record release shows (more dates to be announced in next couple weeks): 02/10/07 The Picador IA
City, IA Co-bill with William Elliot Whitmore: 03/02/07 Lion's Den New York, NY Tour Notes: For our Chicago record release show at the Double Door on February 17th, we'll be playing one set of Tire Fire rock & roll followed by Vagabonds and Hooligans in order in its entirety. We're honored to have Jay Bennett as a special guest. Jay was a significant force behind the evolving sound of the twice Grammy-nominated Wilco for 7 years and recently released a fantastic rock & roll record called The Magnificent Defeat. We'll also be joined in Chicago by Death Ships, a great band from Iowa City, we'llbe playing with them in Iowa City and Normal as well. We're excited to be playing again with Will Hoge and Matt Mays (as well as Brent Best's new project, The Drams) in Urbana. Plus 2 weeks with a soulful singer-songwriter, William Elliot Whitmore and shows with The Slip in March and Mofro in April . Oh yeah, and we're set to play the mainstage at Wanee Festival in FL where we'll be followed by Nickel Creek, Robert Randolph, Gov't Mule and the Allman Brothers Band! And we're back at Wakarusa Festival with bands like Alejandro Escovedo, Bobby Bare Jr., OZO, North Mississippi Allstars & Ben Harper! We're looking forward to making a lot of new friends on the road and seeing a lot of familiar faces out as well! |
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