FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/b><\/p>\n
April 9, 2018<\/b><\/p>\n
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Ike Reilly plans Chicago and Minneapolis<\/b><\/p>\n
residencies in May to kick off<\/b><\/p>\n
the release of Crooked Love<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
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Chicago, IL-based indie rock singer-songwriter Ike Reilly is set to release his seventh studio album, Crooked Love<\/i>, on CD and digital formats on May 18, 2018 via Rock Ridge Music.\u00a0 (A vinyl version will be released later this year.) \u00a0To kick off the album release, Reilly is planning dual solo residencies in Chicago (at Old Town School of Folk Music) and Minneapolis (at Icehouse) in May.\u00a0 The show dates are as follows:<\/p>\n
May 2nd<\/sup> \u2013 Icehouse, Minneapolis, MN (w\/Laska) – tickets<\/a><\/p>\n May 9th<\/sup> \u2013 Icehouse, Minneapolis, MN (w\/Mary Bue) – tickets<\/a><\/p>\n May 10th<\/sup> \u2013 Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL (w\/Michael McDermott) – tickets<\/a><\/p>\n May 16th<\/sup> \u2013 Icehouse, Minneapolis, MN (w\/Hannah Vonderhoff) – tickets<\/a><\/p>\n May 17th<\/sup> \u2013 Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL (w\/Gia Margaret) – tickets<\/a><\/p>\n May 23rd<\/sup> \u2013 Icehouse, Minneapolis, MN (w\/Natalie Lovejoy) – tickets<\/a><\/p>\n May 24th<\/sup> \u2013 Old Town School of Folk Music (w\/Half Gringa [solo]) – tickets<\/a><\/p>\n May 31st<\/sup> \u2013 Old Town School of Folk Music (w\/actor-comedian David Pasquesi) – tickets<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tickets go on sale today for the shows.\u00a0 Ticket links are included above beside each date.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reilly has already been testing the songs from the new album live with band shows in March in the Midwest. \u00a0An album preview show in his hometown of Libertyville, IL is scheduled to take place on April 14th at Diamond City Studio (tickets: https:\/\/crookedlove.brownpapertickets.com\/<\/a>).\u00a0 More dates in additional markets will be announced soon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The New York Times<\/i> has praised Reilly\u2019s live show in the past: \u201cIke Reilly is a kind of natural resource, mined from the bedrock of music. All the values that make rock important to people\u2014storytelling, melody, rage, laughter\u2014are part and parcel of every Ike Reilly show I have ever seen. \u00a0One 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.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Since his major label debut, the groundbreaking Salesmen and Racists<\/i>,\u00a0Reilly has been making punk\/folk\/blues influenced rock \u2019n\u2019 roll records that lean heavily on stories of outsiders with keen details and broad strokes that insinuate a crack in the American dream.\u00a0Reilly\u2019s band, The Assassination, has been called one of the best live bands in America, and the body of recorded work they\u2019ve turned out has been poetic, rebellious, wholly original, and critically acclaimed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For Crooked Love<\/i>, 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\u00a0zeitgeist of the times. \u00a0This collection of succinct, tight-but-loose songs reflects the continuing evolution of Reilly\u2019s ever-visceral wordsmithing, as married with a Murderer\u2019s 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\u2019Donnell, 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.\u00a0 The album was co-produced by Reilly and Karnats.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Press praise for Reilly\u2019s music has been extensive over the years.\u00a0 Chicago Magazine<\/i> praised Reilly\u2019s \u201coutlandish storytelling, underdog combativeness, and slapstick humor.\u201d Minneapolis City Pages<\/i> said, \u201cEqual 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.\u201d\u00a0 Chicago Tribune<\/i> admired that Ike \u201cmerges his affinity for folk-punk narrative and anthemic guitar chords with hip-hop\u2019s vocal cadences and rhythmic drive.\u201d\u00a0 PopMatters.com<\/i> called him \u201cthe best songwriter in America\u2026 Hilarious, unsettling, raw\u2026 but mostly just rocking.\u201d USA Today<\/i> hailed Reilly as \u201cnever less than original\u2026 ferociously intelligent\u2026 always worth listening to.\u201d And Los Angeles Times<\/i> described Reilly\u2019s music as \u201c\u2026barroom rock narrated by a wiseguy who\u2019s as comfortable regaling PhDs and poets as he is pimps and porn stars.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n www.ikereilly.net<\/a><\/p>\n www.facebook.com\/ikereilly<\/a><\/p>\n