The Mohawk Lodge Announce Album “Crimes” and Tour Dates

The Mohawk Lodge Announce Album “Crimes” and Tour Dates

We are delighted to announce that our friends, Toronto-based rock band THE MOHAWK LODGE, will be hitting the road soon in support of their highly anticipated album. Their record, ‘CRIMES,’ will be released on June 22nd by White Whale Records.

CRIMES–the third album from White Whale Records founder Ryder Havdale’s band The Mohawk Lodge–is partially about the feeling of punching out a friend for f**king your girlfriend (a crime Havdale himself did a little time for), but, more about crimes of the heart in general. It’s a record that runs the gamete of loneliness and pain and somehow finds a little light at the end of the tunnel: a tunnel that ended with Havdale and his label moving to Toronto this past year.

CRIMES started out like its precursor, the acclaimed “WILDFIRES”, in a cabin in Pt. Robert’s, WA with Arch, Cory Price, Rob Josephson and Paul Goertzen laying down the magic and Jordan Koop making sure it all sounded right: a few other people came and sang their hearts out: Leah Abramson, Dan Mangan, JP Carter, Larissa Tandy, Megan McDonald and Jay Arner.

Those initial recordings would’ve been the record, until the track ‘Cold Hearts’ ended up getting lyrically re-worked in the back seat of a van over a bottle of wine by Eamon McGrath. It was the day after a month-long European tour and Eamon and Ryder headed straight to Darryl Neudorf’s (Neko Case) studio to lay it down. Darryl played the drums and ‘Cold Hearts’, along with the freshly penned ‘Faster Than You Can’, came together live off the floor in a total of 2 hours; before rushing straight to the airport.

Going on crazy chaotic musical missions is one of Havdale’s favorite things to do and the band is about to set out on 4 months of shows including a month through Europe. There is also a video in the works for every song, to be released once a month for the next year.

The Mohawk Lodge has shared the stage with Constantines, Japandroids, Besnard Lakes, Chad VanGaalen, Athlete, Handsome Furs, Blood Meridian, Adam Franklin, and Apostle of Hustle to name a few.

You can pre-order The Mohawk Lodge’s album directly from the White Whale Records web store by clicking HERE.

TRACK LIST ::

THE MOHAWK LODGE
Crimes

01 Bad News
02 Cold Hearts
03 A Crime of Passion
04 Done Fighting
05 Let Go
06 Wrong Side of the Bars
07 Days When You Die
08 Games
09 Roll With The Punches
10 Faster Than You Can
11 Wicked Nights (Canadian Girl)

TOUR DATES ::

Canadian dates in bold.

19 May – Nottingham, UK @ Spanky Van Dyke’s
21 May – Liverpool, UK @ Leaf Cafe – Liverpool Sound City
21 May – Liverpool, UK @ Liverpool Sound City
22 May – Liverpool, UK @ Bumper – Liverpool Sound City
22 May – Liverpool, UK @ Liverpool Sound City
23 May – Bath, UK @ Moles Club w/ Eamon McGrath
25 May – Barnstaple, UK @ North Devon College
26 May – London, UK @ the Windmill
27 May – Northampton, UK @ the Bantam
28 May – Utrecht, NL @ ACU w/ Eamon McGrath
29 May – Brussels, BE @ Madame Moustache
30 May – Groningen, NL @ Zuidbroek-Uiterburen
1 Jun – Ghent, BE @ Den Drummer
2 Jun – Freiburg, DE @ SWAMP
3 Jun – Metz, FR @ L’Emile Vache
4 Jun – Offenbach @ Der Waggon
5 Jun – Locarno, CH @ Cantina Canetti
6 Jun – Lucerne, CH @ Treibhaus
8 Jun – Paris, FR @ Le Pop-In
9 Jun – St. Gallen, CH @ Grabenhalle
10 Jun – Hasselt, BE @ Cafe Cafe
11 Jun – Kassel @ Kunstochschule Underground
12 Jun – Eindhoven, NL @ The Rambler
14 Jun – London, UK @ Bull and Gate
18 Jun – Toronto, ON @ 159 Manning
24 Jun – Wakefield, QC @ the Blacksheep Inn
26 Jun – Brantford, ON @ the Ford Plant
01 Jul – Toronto, ON @ the Dakota “Crimes” CD Release Party!
07 Jul – Toronto, ON @ the Dakota “White Whale Wednesdays”
10 Jul – Ottawa, ON @ Ottawa Bluesfest
14 Jul – Toronto, ON @ the Dakota “White Whale Wednesdays” w/ Snailhouse
16 Jul – Hamilton, ON @ This Ain’t Hollywood w/ Wax Mannequin
17 Jul – Windsor, ON @ The Phog Wax Mannequin
21 Jul – Toronto, ON @ the Dakota “White Whale Wednesdays”
22 Jul – Montreal, QC @ Divan Orange
28 Jul – Toronto, ON @ the Dakota “White Whale Wednesdays”
Aug 20 – Vancouver, BC @ The Biltmore
Aug 21 – Victoria, BC @ TBC
Aug 27 – Calgary, AB @ Broken City w/ Dojo Workhorse and Eamon McGrath
Aug 28 – Edmonton, AB @ Likwid w/ Dojo Workhorse and Eamon McGrath