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\nIke Reilly plans to head to the East Coast on tour;\u00a0NYC residency planned at Rockwood Music Hall in June<\/b><\/p>\n
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Chicago and Minneapolis residencies continue in May<\/strong><\/p>\n To kick off next week\u2019s 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).\u00a0 The remaining residency show dates are included in the list of confirmed dates below.\u00a0 When promoting the residency appearances in the Twin Cities area, the\u00a0Minneapolis Star-Tribune<\/em>\u00a0admired his \u201chard-to-resist new album\u201d as \u201ca sharp collection of shambling folk-punk blues with Dylanesque echoes,\u201d and gave his live show some props for \u201chis facile and funny between-song observations and comments.\u201d<\/p>\n The\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0has praised Reilly\u2019s performances 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 Since his major label debut, the groundbreaking\u00a0Salesmen and Racists<\/em>,\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 For\u00a0Crooked Love<\/em>, 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. \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 Press praise for Reilly\u2019s music has been extensive over the years.\u00a0\u00a0Chicago Magazine<\/em>\u00a0praised Reilly\u2019s \u201coutlandish storytelling, underdog combativeness, and slapstick humor.\u201d\u00a0Minneapolis City Pages<\/em>\u00a0said, \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\u00a0Chicago Tribune<\/em>\u00a0admired that Ike \u201cmerges his affinity for folk-punk narrative and anthemic guitar chords with hip-hop\u2019s vocal cadences and rhythmic drive.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0PopMatters.com<\/em>\u00a0called him \u201cthe best songwriter in America\u2026 Hilarious, unsettling, raw\u2026 but mostly just rocking.\u201d\u00a0USA Today<\/em>\u00a0hailed Reilly as \u201cnever less than original\u2026 ferociously intelligent\u2026 always worth listening to.\u201d And\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u00a0described 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 Ike Reilly Tour Schedule<\/b> www.ikereilly.net<\/a> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 11, 2018 Ike Reilly plans to head to the East Coast on tour;\u00a0NYC 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,\u00a0Crooked Love, on CD and digital formats … <\/p>\n
\nChicago, IL-based indie rock singer-songwriter Ike Reilly is set to release his seventh studio album,\u00a0Crooked Love<\/em>, on CD and digital formats on May 18, 2018 via Rock Ridge Music.\u00a0 (A vinyl version will be released later this year.) \u00a0Today, 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.)<\/p>\n
\nMay 11th \u2013 Ft. Wayne, IN \u2013 The B-Sides
\nMay 12th \u2013 St. Louis, MO \u2013 Off Broadway
\nMay 16th \u2013 Icehouse, Minneapolis, MN (w\/Hannah Vonderhoff)
\nMay 17th \u2013 Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL (w\/Gia Margaret)
\nMay 18th \u2013 Cedar Rapids, IA \u2013 CSPS Hall (Legion Arts
\nMay 23rd \u2013 Icehouse, Minneapolis, MN (w\/Natalie Lovejoy)
\nMay 24th \u2013 Old Town School of Folk Music (w\/Half Gringa [solo])
\nMay 31st \u2013 Old Town School of Folk Music (w\/actor-comedian David Pasquesi)
\nJune 20th \u2013 Cambridge, MA \u2013 Atwood\u2019s
\nJune 21st \u2013 Cambridge, MA \u2013 Atwood\u2019s
\nJune 22nd \u2013 New York, NY \u2013 Rockwood Music Hall
\nJune 23rd \u2013 New York, NY \u2013 Rockwood Music Hall
\nJune 25th \u2013 New York, NY \u2013 Rockwood Music Hall
\nJune 26th \u2013 Asbury Park, NJ \u2013 The Saint
\nJune 27th \u2013 Philadelphia, PA \u2013 Johnny Brenda\u2019s
\nJune 28th \u2013 Vienna, VA \u2013 Jammin\u2019 Java
\nJuly 20th \u2013 Sturgeon Bay, WI \u2013 Makers Space (w\/Brett Newski)<\/p>\n
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