Presumably an ode to his Sad Clown series of B-sides and other oddities, Atmosphere is going on the road this fall with a tour name in tow: Everybody Loves a Clown. They're right. Maybe it's time for us to think about clowns as people too. That, or we could lock them in a cave and feed them to circus bears…
Slug and Ant are traveling through much of North America for their first tour in a year, accompanied by Mac Lethal, Grayskul and Lucky I Am (Living Legends).
Along with the shows being all ages (punk rock, dude!), the guys keep it real: one dollar of every pre-sale ticket purchased on Atmopshere's website will go towards an aid fund for the I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis.
We talked to Slug a few months back, and he dug into some of the realities of touring and making music:
Slug: Sales are one thing, but to me those are called royalties. It’s not like every time you buy a CD I’m popping off. No, you buy a CD and you’re helping me cover the cost of making the damn CD for starters. You’re also helping me cover the cost of bringing the CD to your city, bringing a tour to your city that is also bringing three other rap groups to your city that you may have never experienced. It’s not like I’ve got this incredibly genius business strategy. I ain’t really supposed to get rich off of rapping; I’m supposed to get rich off of everything else that makes itself available to me because I rap.
He also talked about expiration dates on women and why tattoos (of which he has 12) are retarded. Read it!
Grayskul, “Dope”:
TOUR DATES
SEPTEMBER
14 DULUTH, MN PIZZA LUCE
15 DULUTH, MN PIZZA LUCE
17 GRAND RAPIDS, MN INTERSECTION
18 MILLVALE, PA MR. SMALL'S THEATRE
20 BALTIMORE, MD RAM'S HEAD LIVE
21 PROVIDENCE, RI LUPO'S HEARTBREAK HOTEL
22 NEW HAVEN, CT TOAD'S PLACE
23 CARRBORO, NC CAT'S CRADLE
24 ATHENS, GA 40 WATT CLUB
26 NEW ORLEANS, LA TIPITINA'S
27 DALLAS, TX LOFT @ PALLADIUM BALLROOM
28 LUBBOCK, TX JAKE'S SPORTS CAFÉ
29 ALBUQUERQUE, NM T.B.A
OCTOBER
01 FLAGSTAFF, AZ ORPHEUM THEATER
02 LOS ANGELES, CA HENRY FONDA THEATER
03 SOLANA BEACH, CA BELLY UP TAVERN
04 SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA DOWNTOWN BREWING CO
05 BAKERSFIELD, CA THE DOME
06 SANTA CRUZ, CA CATALYST
08 BEND, OR MIDTOWN BALLROOM
09 BELLINGHAM, WA NIGHTLIGHT
10 BOISE, ID VENUE
11 SALT LAKE CITY, UT IN THE VENUE
12 DENVER, CO OGDEN THEATRE
13 ASPEN, CO BELLY UP
15 MILWAUKEE, WI PABST THEATER
16 MADISON, WI BARRYMORE THEATRE