moe. has signed with Sugar Hill Records, the band’s first label sojourn in nearly a decade to release their new album What Happened to the La Las on Jan 24th. The group also chose to work with an outside producer for the first time since 1998’s Tin Cans & Car Tires, with John Travis (Kid Rock, Social Distortion, No Doubt) getting the call.
"For most of our career we’ve done everything on our own in a very cottage industry, home-y kind of way," notes Chuck Garvey.
Continues Garvey, "With most of our recordings, we’ve gotten the equipment together, we’ve paid for everything ourselves, we’ve produced it ourselves and we’ve had complete control over it. For this album we actually made the leap of putting ourselves in someone else’s hands to help us come out with something different."
of compact melodies, each textured by moe.’s signature rock riffs and flourishes, and backed by a roller coaster ride of pulsing drums. It’s that pure moe. sound which the band’s ardent fans — affectionately dubbed moe.rons — have come to love over the band’s decades of industrious touring.
moe. 2011 Tour Dates
NOVEMBER
4 Dallas, TX Granada Theater
5 Houston, TX Fitzgerald’s
6 Pensacola, FL Vinyl Music Hall
8 Oxford, MS Lyric Oxford
9 Lexington, KY Buster’s Billiards and Backroom
10 Cleveland, OH House of Blues
11 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
12 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
13 Charlottesville, VA Jefferson Theater
16 Winston-Salem, NC Ziggy’s
17 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel
18 Birmingham, AL WorkPlay SoundStage
19 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle
25 New York, NY Terminal 5
26 New York, NY Terminal 5
DECEMBER
30 Portland, ME State Theatre
31 Portland, ME State Theatre
2-night passes also available!
moe. 2012 Tour Dates
JANUARY
27 Seattle, WA Showbox At The Market
28 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
29 Eugene, OR McDonald Theatre
FEBRUARY
1 Crystal Bay, NV Crystal Bay Club
2 San Francisco, CA The Independent
3 San Francisco, CA The Independent
4 Los Angeles, CA Nokia Theatre
6 Flagstaff, AZ Orpheum Theater
7 Salt Lake City, UT The Depot
9 Aspen, CO Belly Up, Aspen
10 TBD
11 TBD
12 Lawrence, KS Liberty Hall
15 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue and the 7th Street Entry
16 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
17 Nashville, TN The Cannery Ballroom
18 Chicago, IL The Riviera Music Theatre