Long ago, Rilo Kiley left the Omaha where they went “to work and exploit the booming music scene and humility” and returned to LA. It's the hometown where front woman Jenny Lewis and band mate Blake Sennett grew up as child actors. (Troop Beverly Hills, The Wizard and Salute Your Shorts, Boy Meets World, respectively). Re-situated amidst their hometown glitz, their head nod towards indie cred has become noticeably less emphatic. Since putting out work on their own imprint Brute/Beaute Records via Warner, they've moved entirely into the major camp since 2005, with their new LP, The Moneymaker, coming out on Warner August 21. Beyond the requisite layer of “silkiness” and/or “pop sheen” their past recordings already started accruing circa The Execution of All Things, the band seems to hit at the same well-worn tricks, particularly in the addictive title-track single. Check out their MySpace page.
The band will tour through North America in September and October, including a recently added date at Musicfest NW in Portland on September 7.
TOUR DATES
SEPTEMBER
06 San Francisco, CA Warfield
07 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom – MFNW 2007
08 Seattle, WA Showbox
10 Salt Lake City, UT McKay Events Center, w/Modest Mouse
11 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
12 Columbia, MO University of Missouri – Jesse Auditorium
13 Omaha, NE Sokol Auditorium
14 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
15 Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre
17 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre
18 Toronto, ONT Phoenix Theatre
19 Montreal, QUE La Tulipe
21 Boston, MA Avalon
22 New York, NY Webster Hall
23 New York, NY Webster Hall
25 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero
26 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
27 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
28 Asheville, NC Orange Peel
29 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
OCTOBER
01 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution
02 Lake Buena Vista, FL House of Blues
04 New Orleans, LA Republic
05 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
06 Dallas, TX Palladium
07 Austin, TX Stubb's BBQ
09 Tucson, AZ Rialto Theatre
10 Tempe, AZ Marquee Theatre
12 San Diego, CA SOMA
13 Las Vegas, NV The Joint
15 Los Angeles, CA Santa Monica Civic
