Saustex Records has announced the upcoming release of Lords & Ladies, a split album between Boston’s The Upper Crust and San Francisco’s The Grannies – available September 16th on CD/digital and September 30th on LP. The split will be accompanied by the “Lords & Ladies Across The Colonies” tour, featuring the two band, America’s foremost purveyors of costume rock. See dates below.
The record promises to please fans of punk and hard rock alike. Though known for over the top stage antics, the bands deliver the goods in the grooves. The Upper Crust reimagine High Voltage era AC-DC filtered through the lyrical lens of 18th Century nobles on this, their first new release since 2009‘s Revenge For Imagined Slights. Meanwhile The Grannies bust chops with another fresh set of Jack Endino-produced tunes (Nirvana, High On Fire, etc.) that are reminiscent of grunge in its punk nascence and The Dwarves at their most chaotic.
The tour brings the bands together again to offer American cities the kind of pummeling given to European audiences when they joined forces for a 10 day tour across the pond in 2015. This will be the longest U.S. tour The Upper Crust has undertaken since the 90’s and the most extensive Grannies American tour ever. Oddsmakers in Vegas, Atlantic City and London are licking their chops as wagers are made on whether one or both acts will go the distance. In spite of their lordly finery and/or predilection for thrift store dresses these guys are all rock’n’roll lifers and the finish line is part of the continuum, not the end.
“Lords & Ladies Across The Colonies” Tour 2016
9/29 – Ft. Worth, TX – Fred’s Texas Cafe w/ Pat Todd & The Rank Outsiders
9/30 – Austin, TX – The Lost Well
10/1 – San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger w/ Bellringer
10/2 – New Orleans, LA – Siberia w/ Angry Lovers
10/4 – Memphis, TN – Midtown Rockhouse Live
10/5 – Little Rock, AR – White Water Tavern w/ The Frontier Circus
10/6 – Tulsa, OK – Mercury Lounge
10/7 – Kansas City, MO – Davey’s Uptown Rambler
10/8 – TBA
10/9 – Chicago, IL – Cobra Lounge w/ Black Actress
10/10 – Detroit, MI – Small’s
10/11 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
10/12 – Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery w/ Western Star
10/13 – Washington, D.C. – Hill Country Live *
10/14 – New York, NY – The Bowery Electric *
10/15 – Somerville, MA – Once Ballroom *
* with Hickoids
