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When Shelley Short performs time seems to stand still in the sweetest way. It has been said that, “it’s the singer not the song,” and, having been compared to both Cat Power and Mazzy Star, her intimate voice and sincere delivery lend her often dark and personal songs a sense of substance and caprice.

4/13 Portland, OR- Someday Lounge
4/25 Stockton, CA- Blackwater Café
4/26 Sacramento, CA- True Love
4/29 San Luis Obispo, CA- The Clubhouse
4/30 Los Angeles, CA- Knitting Factory
5/02 Modesto, CA- Deva Café
5/03 Davis, CA- Sophia’s Thai Kitchen

03/06/08 Denver, CO at Hi-Dive

03/07/08 Boulder, CO at Laughing Goat

03/08/08 Manhattan, KS at Dusty Bookshelf

03/10/08 Wichita, KS at Fisch Haus

03/11/08 Oklahoma City, OK at Sauced

03/13/08 Kansas City, KS at The Brick

03/14/08 Minneapolis, MN at Station 4

03/15/08 Minneapolis, MN at Acadia Cafe 
03/16/08 Chicago, IL at Subterranean

03/18/08 Philadelphia, PA at The Fire

03/19/08 Brooklyn, NY at Pete’s Candy Store

03/20/08 New York, NY at Knitting Factory

03/21/08 Winooski, VT at Monkey House

03/23/08 Cambridge, MA at the Lily Pad

03/27/08 Chicago, IL at Schuba’s

03/30/08 New Orleans, LA at One-Eyed Jack’s

03/31/08 Houston, TX at Super Happy Fun Land

04/01/08 Austin, TX at Annie Street Arts Collective

04/02/08 Austin, TX at Hole in the Wall

04/04/08 El Paso, TX at Q8

04/05/08 Albuquerque, NM at Atomic Cantina

04/11/08 Tempe, AZ at Yucca Tap Room

04/12/08 Jerome, AZ at Mojo Mountain Festival

04/12/08 Prescott, AZ at The Raven

04/15/08 Los Angeles, CA at Bordello

04/16/08 San Luis Obispo, CA at the Clubhouse

04/17/08 Chico, CA at Cafe Coda

04/18/08 Modesto, CA at Deva Cafe

04/19/08 Merced, CA at The Partisan

04/22/08 Sebastapol, Ca at Ace in the Hole Cider Pub

04/24/08 San Francisco, CA at Amnesia

04/25/08 Davis, CA at Sophia’s Thai Kitchen

04/26/08 Placerville, CA at Cozmic Cafe 

In support of two awesome new releases, Paper The Walls on Hush Records and the fresh of the press split 12″ with Portland’s The Builders and the Butchers to be released on Bladen County Records, Loch Lomond is hitting the road. If you’re located anywhere within a 200 mile radius of any of the dates below, you’d be plain silly not to catch this show. We promise. You’ll be touched…in that oh so special way.

11/10/07 Loch Lomond Knitting Factory (NY), New York, NY
11/12/07 Loch Lomond Monkey House, Winooski, VT with Steph Clark
11/13/07 Loch Lomond The Middle East Upstairs, Cambridge, MA with Sean Eden
11/14/07 Loch Lomond Purchase College Purchase, NY with Dr. Dog and XYZ Affair
11/15/07 Loch Lomond Union Hall Brooklyn, NY with Tiny Vipers and Jill Barber
11/16/07 Loch Lomond SoundFix Records Brooklyn, NYwith Dappled Cities and TBA
11/17/07 Loch Lomond The Sugar Tank Lancaster, PA with TBA
11/30/07 Loch Lomond Slabtown Portland, OR with The Builders & Butchers, Autopilot

The Builders and The Butchers co-promotion with Portland’s Bladen County Records. National PR send-out for self titled debut. We are honored for this to be World Atlas’ introduction to the world. Expect great things to follow. In the meantime, heres what Brandon Seifert of the Williamette Week had to say about his first time catching The Builders and The Butchers command a stage:

I first saw the Builders and the Butchers at Mississippi Pizza in September. They shunned the stage and set up in the middle of the room, playing without microphones or amps, hammering on their guitars, banjos, mandolins, etc. to make up for it. Frontman Ryan Sollee shouted rather than using a microphone. When they started that night in September, the audience was totally taken aback. “What the fuck is this?” they seemed to ask. Before the first song ended, that’d turned into “This is awesome!” You could see the same process of discovery on the faces of the band’s new live-attendees at the Towne Lounge. And the people who’d seen the band before were already hyped.

The Builders’ music is influenced by blues and gospel, but it’s solid, pared-down and rocking. They’ve started playing to large enough crowds that they need amps and mics to be heard, but their all-acoustic approach is part of a simplicity they continue to keep. Sollee (the frontman) still puts his guitar down so he can run around and sing through an old bullhorn, and there are two drummers, each focusing on a single drum—Paul Seeley on the bass drum and Ray Rude playing a snare with two brush sticks and shaking a tambourine attached to his ankle.