Be sure to catch him at:

March 9 Seattle WA Tractor Tavern
March 11 San Francisco CA Cafe Du Nord
March 12 Los Angeles CA Troubadour
March 25 New York NY Bowery Ballroom

His new album is out on March 10th.

Visit Elvis at his official site.

MP3: Elvis Perkins – Shampoo

The self titled effort will see daylight on 3/10. It includes:

Shampoo
Hey
Hours Last Stand
I Heard Your Voice In Dresden
Send My Fond Regards To Lonelyville
I’ll Be Arriving
Chains, Chains, Chains
Doomsday
123 Goodbye
How’s Forever Been Baby

Visit Elvis at his official site.

MP3: Elvis Perkins – While You Were Sleeping

View all dates + an MP3 below.

Sep 20 – Troubadour Los Angeles, CA
Sep 22 – Largo Hollywood, CA
Sep 23 – San Diego Street Scene San Diego, CA
Sep 25 – The Independent San Francisco, CA
Sep 26 – The Independent San Francisco, CA
Sep 28 – Roseland Portland, Oregon
Sep 29 – Neumos Seattle, Washington
Sep 30 – Neumos Seattle, Washington
Oct 4 – Fine Line Minneapolis, Minnesota
Oct 5 – 400 Bar Minneapolis, Minnesota
Oct 6 – The Annex Madison, Wisconsin
Oct 7 – Lakeshore Theater Chicago, Illinois
Oct 9 – Blind Pig Ann Arbor, Michigan
Oct 19 – Apolo Barcelona
Oct 20 – Heineken Green Space Valencia
Oct 21 – Moby Dick Madrid
Oct 23 – Ziegel Oh Lac @ Rota Fabrik Zurich
Oct 24 – Musicdrome Milan
Oct 25 – Bad Bonn Dudingen
Oct 26 – Turmzimmer Hamburg
Oct 27 – AB Club Brussels
Oct 29 – Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin
Oct 30 – Gebaude 9 Cologne
Oct 31 – Tivoli Utrecht
Nov 2 – Night & Day Manchester
Nov 3 – Faversham (Nasty Fest) Leeds
Nov 4 – Nice n Sleazy Glasgow
Nov 5 – Bar Academy Birmingham
Nov 6 – Bush Hall London
Nov 8 – La Neff Angouleme
Nov 9 – Cabaret Electric Le Havre
Nov 10 – Aeronef Lille
Nov 11 – Cigale Paris
Nov 12 – Olympic Nantes
Nov 14 – Bikini Toulouse
Nov 28 – Horseshoe Tavern Toronto, Ontario
Nov 29 – Cabaret Music Hall Montreal, Quebec
Nov 30 – Higher Ground Showcase Lounge So. Burlington, Vermont
Dec 1 – AS220 Providence, Rhode Island
Dec 2 – Paradise Rock Club Boston, Massachusetts
Dec 3 – Iron Horse Music Hall Northampton, Massachusetts
Dec 5 – Jammin’ Java Vienna, Virginia
Dec 6 – Johnny Brenda’s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dec 7 – Bowery Ballroom New York, New York

MP3: Elvis Perkins – While You Were Sleeping

Official TMS rating: 7/10

MP3: Elvis Perkins – Ash Wednesday

Nathan Willett told the crowd before the show started that the best night of a long run is always the last. I don’t know how Friday and Saturday were at Bowery with Tokyo Police Club opening, but last night, the Cold War Kids kicked some major ass.

Opening the show last night was Elvis Perkins – a rather genius choice. I have never seen Perkins live and last night made me regret that. His brand of deeply rooted folk rock was a perfect compliment to CWK and provided for some fantastic onstage collaborations between the two bands (the above picture shows Willett playing piano for Perkins).

The boys from California put on a brilliant show. Full of heart and soul, each of their songs come out like a southern hymn. They remind me a bit of Johnny Cash actually. The same way Cash would sing about going to the gallows as if he personally made that walk, Nathan bellows about waiting on death row, waiting for a pardon.

‘Hang me up to dry,’ ‘Red wine, Success!,’ and ‘Saint John’ were the crowd pleasers of the evening, but as a whole, it was a wonderful show. For my sake and the bands though, I wish it had started earlier in the evening. Standing at a concert at 11:30pm on a Monday is a rough place to be.

The show was being filmed last night for reasons unknown. One of the camera girls, Thalia, had this to say on her MySpace blog: god, was filming Cold War Kids and Elvis Perkins at the Bowery for work and it was torture. torture. some music just needs to die a quick and painful death. some musicians need to realize how stupid they look on stage. and go home. and to think i could have been sitting on my couch reading about the history of africa last night.

Really Thalia? Really? I mean come on now. Couldn’t even get into that beautiful, soulful, Otis Redding cover for the encore?

All of the bands joined CWK onstage for the encore, including some randoms (friends perhaps?).

Nathan Willett told the crowd before the show started that the best night of a long run is always the last. I don’t know how Friday and Saturday were at Bowery with Tokyo Police Club opening, but last night, the Cold War Kids kicked some major ass.

Opening the show last night was Elvis Perkins – a rather genius choice. I have never seen Perkins live and last night made me regret that. His brand of deeply rooted folk rock was a perfect compliment to CWK and provided for some fantastic onstage collaborations between the two bands (the above picture shows Willett playing piano for Perkins).

The boys from California put on a brilliant show. Full of heart and soul, each of their songs come out like a southern hymn. They remind me a bit of Johnny Cash actually. The same way Cash would sing about going to the gallows as if he personally made that walk, Nathan bellows about waiting on death row, waiting for a pardon.

‘Hang me up to dry,’ ‘Red wine, Success!,’ and ‘Saint John’ were the crowd pleasers of the evening, but as a whole, it was a wonderful show. For my sake and the bands though, I wish it had started earlier in the evening. Standing at a concert at 11:30pm on a Monday is a rough place to be.

The show was being filmed last night for reasons unknown. One of the camera girls, Thalia, had this to say on her MySpace blog: god, was filming Cold War Kids and Elvis Perkins at the Bowery for work and it was torture. torture. some music just needs to die a quick and painful death. some musicians need to realize how stupid they look on stage. and go home. and to think i could have been sitting on my couch reading about the history of africa last night.

Really Thalia? Really? I mean come on now. Couldn’t even get into that beautiful, soulful, Otis Redding cover for the encore?

All of the bands joined CWK onstage for the encore, including some randoms (friends perhaps?).

Nathan Willett told the crowd before the show started that the best night of a long run is always the last. I don’t know how Friday and Saturday were at Bowery with Tokyo Police Club opening, but last night, the Cold War Kids kicked some major ass.

Opening the show last night was Elvis Perkins – a rather genius choice. I have never seen Perkins live and last night made me regret that. His brand of deeply rooted folk rock was a perfect compliment to CWK and provided for some fantastic onstage collaborations between the two bands (the above picture shows Willett playing piano for Perkins).

The boys from California put on a brilliant show. Full of heart and soul, each of their songs come out like a southern hymn. They remind me a bit of Johnny Cash actually. The same way Cash would sing about going to the gallows as if he personally made that walk, Nathan bellows about waiting on death row, waiting for a pardon.

‘Hang me up to dry,’ ‘Red wine, Success!,’ and ‘Saint John’ were the crowd pleasers of the evening, but as a whole, it was a wonderful show. For my sake and the bands though, I wish it had started earlier in the evening. Standing at a concert at 11:30pm on a Monday is a rough place to be.

The show was being filmed last night for reasons unknown. One of the camera girls, Thalia, had this to say on her MySpace blog: god, was filming Cold War Kids and Elvis Perkins at the Bowery for work and it was torture. torture. some music just needs to die a quick and painful death. some musicians need to realize how stupid they look on stage. and go home. and to think i could have been sitting on my couch reading about the history of africa last night.

Really Thalia? Really? I mean come on now. Couldn’t even get into that beautiful, soulful, Otis Redding cover for the encore?

All of the bands joined CWK onstage for the encore, including some randoms (friends perhaps?).