Brooklyn experimentalists EXTRA LIFE will embark on a month-long cross-country North American tour, kicking things off in NYC tomorrow! Extra Life is fronted by Charlie Looker, former member of brutal chamber pop heavyweights Zs and name brand in the New York experimental underground in his own right, having collaborated with Dirty Projectors, Glenn Branca, William Parker and the S.E.M. Ensemble, among others. The tour is in support of their forthcoming album, Made Flesh, out March 30 on LOAF recordings. Their engaging blend of Medieval chant, metallic hardcore, dark neofolk, abstract modernism, and lush pop is sure to shake you out of the winter blues. Be sure to catch them along the way!

The band has also released a brand new video for their song “Head Shrinker.” Check out the Stereogum premiere here!

EXTRA LIFE ON TOUR:
Feb 20 Brooklyn, NY @ Death By Audio w/ Pink Reason, Silk Flowers, M Lamar
Feb 22 Providence, RI @ Machines with Magnets w/ Bellows, Tinsel Teeth
Feb 23 Kittery, ME @ Buoy w/ Comma
Feb 24 Montreal, QUE @ Green Room w/ Elfin Saddle
Feb 25 Toronto, ON @ Teranga w/ Brides
Feb 26 Ann Arbor, MI @ Arbor Vitae w/ Our Brother the Native
Feb 27 Detroit, MI @ Division Gallery w/ Deastro
Feb 28 Grand Rapids, MI @ DAAC
Mar 1 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle (free show) w/ Tirra Lirra
Mar 2 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry w/ Vampire Hands, To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie
Mar 4 Vancouver, BC @ Honey Lounge
Mar 5 Seattle, WA @ Comet Tavern w/ Lesbian, Sean
Mar 6 Seattle, WA @ Josephine w/ Trees, Bill Horist
Mar 7 Portland, OR @ Ground Kontrol w/ Hot Victory
Mar 9 San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern w/ Ora Cogan
Mar 10 Sacramento, CA @ The Hub w/ Appetite, Afternoon Brother
Mar 11 Oakland, CA @ 21 Grand w/ Religious Girls
Mar 12 Irvine, CA @ UC Irvine
Mar 13 Los Angeles, CA @ Echo Curio w/ Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound, Halloween Swim Team
Mar 14 San Diego, CA @ Radio Room w/ Vaginals, Witt
Mar 16 Tucson, AZ @ Solar Culture w/ Xiu Xiu
Mar 17 Phoenix, AZ @ Trunk Space w/ Past Lives
Mar 18 El Paso, TX @ Dominic’s Piano Bar w/ Past Lives
Mar 20 St. Louis, MO @ Lemp Arts
Mar 21 Cincinnati, OH @ CS13
Mar 22 Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artworks
Mar 23 Cleveland, OH @ Now That’s Class
Mar 26 Baltimore, MD @ Windup Space
Mar 27 Queens, NY @ Silent Barn w/ Skeletons, Nine Eleven Thesaurus, Zs

Austin’s favorite foursome, The Octopus Project, are excited to reveal the track listing and details for their forthcoming Golden Beds Enhanced EP, out July 14th (Peek-A-Boo Records). The Golden Beds EP is the follow-up to 2007′s spectacular full-length Hello, Avalanche, which earned high praise from such tastemakers as Rolling Stone, Spin, Wired, Magnet, The Village Voice, Pitchfork and Stereogum. The band will also be reissuing their first two albums, One Ten Hundred Thousand Million and Identification Parade, on vinyl towards the end of the summer.

The members of The Octopus Project (Josh Lambert, Yvonne Lambert, Toto Miranda, and Ryan Figg) are collectors of sounds – beautiful, noisy, soothing exciting sounds; electronic, acoustic, natural and unnatural sounds. Since playing their first tentative shows in the summer of 1999, The Octopus Project has developed into a powerful and prolific group, both in the studio and on the stage. Following a handful of self-released recordings, the first proper full-length was 2002′s Identification Parade, which also served as the occasion to launch their work as a touring band. Fast-forward to 2009, and we find our intrepid musicians three albums in, with a plethora of singles, remixes and collaborations under their belts and a worldwide touring schedule that has recently included the UK’s All Tomorrow’s Parties festival, Taiwan’s Spring Scream fest and the Coachella, Lollapalooza and ACL festivals here in the States.

The Octopus Project will be touring extensively behind this EP, starting with a handful of dates at the end of June that will include an exciting 4th of July performance at Stubb’s Outdoor Theater with Explosions in the Sky and The Wooden Birds. The quartet’s club dates will also include a handful of non-traditional theater appearances where they will perform “Visual Music,” a unique and somewhat psychedelic multimedia experience the band first presented to sold-out audiences at Austin’s beloved Alamo Drafthouse Theater earlier this summer.

Golden Beds Enhanced EP track listing:
1. Wet Gold
2. Moon Boil
3. Rorol
4. Wood Trumpet
5. Half a Nice Day

Golden Beds Enhanced EP Videos:
1. Wet Gold (dir. by Zellner Bros.)
2. I Saw the Bright Shinies (dir. by Divya Srinivasan)
3. An Evening with Rthrtha (dir. by Double Triple & Ryan Junell)
4. Truck (dir. by Zellner Bros.)
5. Music is Happiness (dir. by Nick Smith)
6. Exit Counselor (dir. by Toto Miranda)
7. Truck (live at the Austin City Limits Festival 2008)

The Octopus Project On Tour:
06/25 – Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon
06/26 – Birmingham, AL @ Bottle Tree
06/27 – Knoxville, TN @ Pilot Light
06/28 – Louisville, KY — film show
06/29 – Memphis, TN @ Hi tone
06/30 – Norman, OK @ Opolis
07/04 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s w/ Explosions in the Sky, The Wooden Birds