FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 11, 2018
Ike Reilly plans to head to the East Coast on tour; NYC residency planned at Rockwood Music Hall in June
Chicago and Minneapolis residencies continue in May
Chicago, IL-based indie rock singer-songwriter Ike Reilly is set to release his seventh studio album, Crooked Love, on CD and digital formats on May 18, 2018 via Rock Ridge Music. (A vinyl version will be released later this year.) Today, he is announcing additional tour dates in support of the album release, including a late-June residency at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City, and shows in Boston, Philadelphia, Asbury Park, and Washington, DC. (See tour schedule below for a list of all confirmed dates.)
To kick off next week’s album release, Reilly is currently in the midst of dual solo residencies in Chicago (at Old Town School of Folk Music) and Minneapolis (at Icehouse). The remaining residency show dates are included in the list of confirmed dates below. When promoting the residency appearances in the Twin Cities area, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune admired his “hard-to-resist new album” as “a sharp collection of shambling folk-punk blues with Dylanesque echoes,” and gave his live show some props for “his facile and funny between-song observations and comments.”
The New York Times has praised Reilly’s performances in the past: “Ike Reilly is a kind of natural resource, mined from the bedrock of music. All the values that make rock important to people—storytelling, melody, rage, laughter—are part and parcel of every Ike Reilly show I have ever seen. One of the best touring acts in the country, Reilly’s band takes it as a personal challenge to upend and amaze every room they play in.”
Since his major label debut, the groundbreaking Salesmen and Racists, Reilly has been making punk/folk/blues influenced rock ’n’ roll records that lean heavily on stories of outsiders with keen details and broad strokes that insinuate a crack in the American dream. Reilly’s band, The Assassination, has been called one of the best live bands in America, and the body of recorded work they’ve turned out has been poetic, rebellious, wholly original, and critically acclaimed.
For Crooked Love, joining Reilly (vocals, guitar, harp) and Phil Karnats (guitar) in the studio were Peter Cimbalo (bass, percussion), Dave Cottini (drums, percussion, vocals), and Adam Krier (guitar, keyboards, vocals), and the album shows how Reilly has landed himself squarely in the raw, emotional zeitgeist of the times. This collection of succinct, tight-but-loose songs reflects the continuing evolution of Reilly’s ever-visceral wordsmithing, as married with a Murderer’s Row of backing tracks forged out of the intuitive interplay of his longstanding Assassination bandmates, not to mention the input of a few special guests, too, including guitarist Tommy O’Donnell, pianist Ed Tinley, and saxophonists Mars Williams and Bill Overton, as well as family legacies Mickey Reilly on vocals and Peter John Cimbalo on drums. The album was co-produced by Reilly and Karnats.
Press praise for Reilly’s music has been extensive over the years. Chicago Magazine praised Reilly’s “outlandish storytelling, underdog combativeness, and slapstick humor.” Minneapolis City Pages said, “Equal parts punk rocker, poet, and blue-collar barfly, Reilly’s stories are as bizarre and filthy and honest and pure as the people who come out to his shows. His songs reach out and grab people, shake them by the collars, make them jump up and down.” Chicago Tribune admired that Ike “merges his affinity for folk-punk narrative and anthemic guitar chords with hip-hop’s vocal cadences and rhythmic drive.” PopMatters.com called him “the best songwriter in America… Hilarious, unsettling, raw… but mostly just rocking.” USA Today hailed Reilly as “never less than original… ferociously intelligent… always worth listening to.” And Los Angeles Times described Reilly’s music as “…barroom rock narrated by a wiseguy who’s as comfortable regaling PhDs and poets as he is pimps and porn stars.”
Ike Reilly Tour Schedule
May 11th – Ft. Wayne, IN – The B-Sides
May 12th – St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway
May 16th – Icehouse, Minneapolis, MN (w/Hannah Vonderhoff)
May 17th – Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL (w/Gia Margaret)
May 18th – Cedar Rapids, IA – CSPS Hall (Legion Arts
May 23rd – Icehouse, Minneapolis, MN (w/Natalie Lovejoy)
May 24th – Old Town School of Folk Music (w/Half Gringa [solo])
May 31st – Old Town School of Folk Music (w/actor-comedian David Pasquesi)
June 20th – Cambridge, MA – Atwood’s
June 21st – Cambridge, MA – Atwood’s
June 22nd – New York, NY – Rockwood Music Hall
June 23rd – New York, NY – Rockwood Music Hall
June 25th – New York, NY – Rockwood Music Hall
June 26th – Asbury Park, NJ – The Saint
June 27th – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
June 28th – Vienna, VA – Jammin’ Java
July 20th – Sturgeon Bay, WI – Makers Space (w/Brett Newski)
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