PELICAN Announce New EP Instrumental Quartet Unveils First New Material In Two Years

Thunderous post-instrumental outfit PELICAN have announced the long awaited follow-up to their sprawling 2009 full length What We All Come To Need, a new four song EPAtaraxia/Taraxis to be released via Southern Lord on April 10. With members now residing in separate cities, the EP represents a new chapter in the band’s evolution with a reenergized focus on composition and the utilization of the recording studio as a creative tool in the songwriting process, yielding one of the most diverse efforts in the band’s prolific discography.

The four new songs highlight the manifold sonic strengths of the band by delving into moments of triumphant melodic rock, smokey doom, ambient soundscape, acoustic desert-folk, and minimalist electronics. In contrast to the EP’s origin as the product of four different recording studios, including stints with engineers Sanford Parker (Twilight, Circle of Animals, Nachtmystium) and Aaron Harris (ISIS), the carefully crafted track listing boasts a cohesive narrative flow, lending the release an epic feel worthy of a full album.

Ataraxia/Taraxis Track Listing:

1. Ataraxia

2. Lathe Biosas

3. Parasite Colony

4. Taraxis

PELICAN is supporting the release with a two-week run of dates in Europe and the UK, including coveted spots at Roadburn and Dunk! Festivals.

PELICAN Upcoming Tour Dates:

4/06/2012 Dunk! Festival - Zottegem, BE

4/07/2012 The Garage - London, UK w/ Chelsea Wolfe

4/08/2012 Vudu Club - Birmingham, UK w/ Chelsea Wolfe

4/09/2012 Brudenell Social Club - Leeds, UK

4/10/2012 Stereo - Glasgow, UK

4/11/2012 The Ruby Lounge - Manchester, UK

4/12/2012 The Haunt - Brighton, UK

4/13/2012 The Cooler - Bristol, UK

4/14/2012 Roadburn Festival - Tilburg, Netherlands

4/15/2012 La Maronquinerie - Paris, France

4/16/2012 Jubez - Karlsruhe, Germany w/ Tombs

4/17/2012 Bad Bonn - Dudingen, Switzerland

4/18/2012 Magnolia - Milan, Italy

4/19/2012 Feierwerk - Munich, Germany w/ Tombs

4/20/2012 Cassiopeia - Berlin, Germany w/ Tombs

4/21/2012 Nosturi - Helsinki, Finland

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PELICAN Announce West Coast Tour Dates

Chicago Quartet Joins The Power Of The Riff & Boomslang Festival Lineups

Chicago instrumental quartet PELICAN have announced a string of west coast engagements this summer, ending a period of dormancy that has seen the band receding from stages to work on new material and a growing number of side-projects. Joining forward-thinking metal label Southern Lord’s multi-city The Power of The Riff Festival, which sports a lineup including luminaries Pentagram, Winter, Noothgrush, among several others, PELICAN will play installments in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle in addition to their own headlining dates in San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Fresno, and Portland. The following month PELICAN will make a select appearance at Kentucky’s Boomslang Festival alongside Swans, Secret Chiefs 3, Horseback, and many more. 

Since 2001 PELICAN has presented a distinct brand of rock that draws on varied, occasionally contradictory, traditions of post-rock, stoner metal, and innumerable other styles, synthesizing a heady amalgam of soaring melody and dizzying distortion. As best experienced on their 2009 full length What We All Come to Need, the seemingly operatic compositions take on a life of their own, unfolding melodically and conceptually, as the four men are lost in performance, heads banging and feet stomping

PELICAN West Coast Tour w/ ÆGES:

8/12/2011 The Casbah - San Diego, CA

8/13/2011 Echo/Echoplex - Los Angeles, CA @ The Power of The Riff Festival [info]

8/14/2011 SLO Brewing Company - San Luis Obispo, CA

8/15/2011 Audie’s Olympic - Fresno, CA

8/16/2011 The Mezzanine - San Francisco, CA @ The Power of The Riff Festival [info]

8/17/2011 Hawthorne Theatre - Portland, OR

8/18/2011 Neumo’s - Seattle, WA @ The Power of The Riff Festival [info]

9/24/2011 Buster's - Lexington, KY @ Boomslang Festival [info]

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PELICAN Chicago Shows + Songs To Air On CBS And IFC

PELICAN will be embracing their hometown roots, playing at Chicago's annual Do Division Street Fest this June. The event takes place on Saturday & Sunday, June 5th & 6th, on Division Street in Downtown Chicago. The outdoor festival will draw in over 50,000 people for the two-day event, and will showcase PELICAN playing at dusk on Saturday, June 5th. They'll share the stage with Headlights, CoCoComas, Maritime, headliners The Hood Internet and more, as their stage is hosted by comedian Neil Hamburger! Get the full scoop at: http://www.do-divisionstreetfest.com. The band will play their hometown again following night at The Empty Bottle, headlining over local acts Medusa and Miracle Condition, featuring members of celebrated cult Chicago band US Maple.

Also just confirmed; PELICAN's song "The Creeper" -- the second track on their most recent release What We All Come To Need -- will appear in the season finale of CSI: Miami, on CBS this Monday, May 24th (we recently announced this as airing on May 31st - sorry about that)! Check your local listings. You can then tune in on June 8th, to indie film channel IFC, as music from the album will appear on the show Dinner With The Band, in an episode hosted by the reunited Murder City Devils.

PELICAN Live:

6/05/2010 Do Division Street Fest - Chicago, IL

6/06/2010 The Empty Bottle - Chicago, IL

What We All Come To Need -- PELICAN's fourth full-length album, and first for Southern Lord Recordings -- was released in October, and has been praised by many as the band's most intelligent and cohesive material yet. Stay tuned for more updates on the band to be announced shortly.

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PELICAN: LP Info, Release Show, Coffee Blend, Scion Rock Fest Participation

PELICAN's Southern Lord Recordings debut full-length What We All Come To Need - originally released in October - will be issued in double-LP format on February 23rd. The deluxe vinyl version bears a beautiful heavyweight gatefold jacket, and the fourth side of the release contains three bonus tracks not available on the CD version.

In celebration of the vinyl release of the album PELICAN will play a hometown show in Chicago on March 12th alongside Pinebender and Follows (ex-Russian Circles). This record release show will also be the sole location to purchase PELICAN's Ephemeral Bean Blend; the band's own limited edition collaboration with Intelligentsia Coffee of Chicago. The band states: "The richest, most complex flavors take patience and skill to craft and are over far too quickly. In that spirit we are proud to present this blend of coffee beans, who have known artisan care from their moment of inception at the farms at which they were grown to the roastery where their delicate nuances were honed to perfection by the skilled craftsmen at Intelligentsia. Enjoy the moment while it lasts."

PELICAN will also take part in the recently-announced Scion Rock Fest in Columbus, Ohio on March 13th. The free event features more than 20 bands including Shrinebuilder, Yob, Absu, D.R.I., Cannibal Corpse, Voivod, Trap Them and more. See the full lineup here: http://www.scion.com/rock.

Check out the band's recently released video for their song "Final Breath", which is the first PELICAN song to ever feature vocals: http://tinyurl.com/y9b8l96.

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PELICAN: "Final Breath" Video Posted

New Album - WHAT WE ALL COME TO NEED - Available Now
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PELICAN's "Final Breath" video is available online now! The track closes the band's new album What We All Come To Need, released by Southern Lord Records in late October. This track in particular breaks new ground for PELICAN, as the band’s first song to feature vocals! With video direction by Matt Santoro, known for his gorgeous and otherworldly conceptual work, the song comes to life as an entirely new entity within the video. Check out the video here:

Pelican-Final breath

Recently, Scion announced the launch of its latest audiovisual initiative, Scion A/V Video, a vibrant collection of high-quality music videos spanning disparate genres with six pioneering independent record labels - DFA, Fool’s Gold, Hydrahead, IHEARTCOMIX!, Southern Lord and Vice Records - to select nine musicians and emerging directors of the labels’ choice to produce original music videos for Scion A/V Video. As part of the brand’s continued support of creative expression, the automaker fully funded the productions and will distribute the videos across all Scion social media and video streaming sites, including ScionAV.com, iTunes and Vimeo, as well as a promotional DVD release.

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Out Today: Fight Amp, Pelican, Shrinebuilder, Theatre of Tragedy

New releases available today:

FIGHT AMP - Manners and Praise (Translation Loss)

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PELICAN - What We All Come To Need (Southern Lord)

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SHRINEBUILDER - Shrinebuilder (Neurot)

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THEATRE OF TRAGEDY - Forever Is The World (AFM)

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All records are available for review; all bands are available now for interviews. Contact Earsplit with all requests.

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In advance of its October 27th release, all eight tracks of PELICAN's upcoming Southern Lord debut album What We All Come To Need is now streaming on the band's Myspace page! Stop by and check it out today: 2009/10/21

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PELICAN Announce In-Store Performances; Pelican Burger Unveiled; CD Pre-order with exclusive content begins Tuesday

In anticipation of the release of their fourth full length, What We All Come To Need, PELICAN will celebrate with an in store performance at Reckless Records in Chicago followed by an album listening party on October 16th at 11:30 pm at Kuma`s Corner (http://www.myspace.com/kumascorner) , a renowned restaurant/bar responsible for dozens of burgers named for fellow members of the Metal pantheon. Here they'll unleash the "Pelican Burger"; a ten ounce Kobe Beef patty, with pan seared scallops and lardons, in a garlic white wine sauce on top of a parmesan crisp, and served with white wine-garlic Aioli!

PELICAN are also pleased to announce several more in-store appearances along the way when they hit the road this month. This is a great opportunity to see the band for free in a intimate setting! (See all details below) The US tour kicks off on October 18th, alongside label mates BLACK COBRA. See the full tour routing below.

Additionally it should be noted that pre-orders for the new album will begin online this Tuesday, October 13th at the Southern Lord website as well as on Pelican’s own webstore (http://bluecollardistro.com/pelican) exclusive content will be available from both to celebrate this monumental release including a special mailorder-only double disc version.

Pelican's fourth full-length release What We All Come To Need will be released by Southern Lord on October 27th. Interviews, photos, bio available on request.

PELICAN in-store performances:

10/16/2009 Reckless Records (Wicker Park) / 1532 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL - 7:00 pm

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10/22 2009 The Record Exchange / 1105 West Idaho St, Boise ID - 5:30 PM

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10/24/2009 Easy Street Records (Queen Anne) / 20 Mercer St, Seattle WA - 3:00 pm

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10/25/2009 Jackpot Records (Hawthorne) / 3574 SE Hawthorne St, Portland OR - 3:00 pm

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**this is a DJ SET, Pelican will be playing their favorite records!

11/1/2009 End of an Ear / 2209 South First St, Austin TX - 3:30 pm

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PELICAN Fall US Tour:

10/18/2009 Triple Rock Social Club - Minneapolis, MN w/ Minsk, Sweet Cobra

10/19/2009 Riot Room - Kansas City, MO w/ Minsk, Sweet Cobra

10/20/2009 The Marquis Theatre - Denver, CO w/ Black Cobra, Sweet Cobra

10/21/2009 Club Vegas - Salt Lake City, UT w/ Black Cobra, Sweet Cobra

10/22/2009 Neurolux - Boise, ID w/ Black Cobra, Sweet Cobra

10/24/2009 El Corazon - Seattle, WA w/ Black Cobra, Sweet Cobra

10/25/2009 Hawthorne Theatre - Portland, OR w/ Black Cobra, Sweet Cobra

10/27/2009 Independent - San Francisco, CA w/ Black Cobra, Sweet Cobra

10/28/2009 The Troubadour - West Hollywood, CA w/ Black Cobra, Sweet Cobra

10/29/2009 The Casbah - San Diego, CA w/ Black Cobra, Struck By Lightning

10/30/2009 Clubhouse - Tempe, AZ w/ Black Cobra, Struck By Lightning

11/01/2009 Emo's - Austin, Texas w/ Black Cobra, Struck By Lightning

11/02/2009 Granada Theater - Dallas, TX w/ Black Cobra, Struck By Lightning

11/04/2009 Outland Ballroom - Springfield, MO w/ Black Cobra, Struck By Lightning

11/05/2009 The Picador - Iowa City, IA w/ Black Cobra, Struck By Lightning

11/28/2009 The Shelter - Detroit, MI w/ Black Cobra, Gods & Queens

11/29/2009 The Soundlab - Buffalo, NY w/ Black Cobra, Gods & Queens

12/01/2009 First Unitarian Church - Philadelphia, PA w/ Black Cobra, Disappearer

12/02/2009 Highline Ballroom - New York, NY w/ Black Cobra, Disappearer

12/03/2009 Harper's Ferry - Allston, MA w/ Black Cobra, Disappearer

12/04/2009 Rock And Roll Hotel - Washington, DC w/ Black Cobra, Disappearer

12/05/2009 The Orange Peel - Asheville, NC

12/07/2009 Earl - Atlanta, GA w/ Black Cobra, Disappearer

12/08/2009 Bottletree Cafe - Birmingham, AL w/ Black Cobra, Disappearer

12/09/2009 Cider House - Knoxville, TN w/ Black Cobra, Disappearer

12/10/2009 Ravari Room - Columbus, OH w/ Black Cobra, Disappearer, Brainbow

12/11/2009 Empty Bottle - Chicago, IL w/ Black Cobra, Disappearer

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Shows

18 Out 2009 22:00 Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, Minnesota 19 Out 2009 21:00 Riot Room Kansas City, Missouri 20 Out 2009 20:00 The Marquis Theatre Denver, Colorado 21 Out 2009 20:00 Club Vegas Salt Lake City, Utah 22 Out 2009 20:00 Neurolux Boise, Idaho 24 Out 2009 17:00 El Corazon Seattle, Washington 25 Out 2009 20:00 Hawthorne Theatre Portland, Oregon 27 Out 2009 19:30 Independent San Francisco, California 28 Out 2009 20:00 The Troubadour West Hollywood, California 29 Out 2009 20:30 The Casbah San Diego, California 30 Out 2009 20:00 Clubhouse Tempe, Arizona 1 Nov 2009 21:00 Emo’s Austin, Texas 2 Nov 2009 19:00 Granada Theatre Dallas, Texas 4 Nov 2009 19:00 Outland Ballroom Springfield, Missouri 5 Nov 2009 21:00 The Picador Iowa City, Iowa 28 Nov 2009 19:30 The Shelter Detroit, Michigan 29 Nov 2009 20:00 Soundlab Buffalo, New York 1 Dez 2009 19:30 First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2 Dez 2009 20:00 Highline Ballroom New York, New York 3 Dez 2009 20:00 Harper’s Ferry Allston, Massachusetts 4 Dez 2009 20:30 Rock And Roll Hotel Washington, Washington DC 5 Dez 2009 20:00 The Orange Peel Asheville, North Carolina 7 Dez 2009 20:30 Earl Atlanta, Georgia 8 Dez 2009 20:00 Bottletree Cafe Birmingham, Alabama 9 Dez 2009 20:00 Cider House Knoxville, Tennessee 10 Dez 2009 21:00 Ravari Room Columbus, Ohio 11 Dez 2009 21:00 Empty Bottle Chicago, Illinois

Pelican - New Music - More Music Videos

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