Butch Walker

New Album, New Shows, & More!

Butch Walker — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:39:05 -0000

Hi and hello to all my girls and boys.

Summer was fun and exciting between the walls of my new studio abode near the Santa Monica pier. Much love was put to tape, as I had the pleasure of collaborating with some awesome musicians and singers on their new forthcoming releases (Dashboard Confessional, Weezer, Cary Ann Hearst, NeverShoutNever, and a bunch more). Most importantly, I got to break in my new studio with my band of brothers (The Black Widows) for a new record!!!! We cut it mostly live in about a week. Mostly written as a collaborative effort, and really.... How should I say it in industry cliche.... SOLID.
The record "I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart" will be coming out shortly in the new year.

Of course, all good releases come packaged with a tour, so be excited about that! We will announce cities in the next weeks to come, and expect the tour to follow the release of the new record! Yay!!!

But I don't think I can wait til the new year to play some songs, so I've got an idea.. Or proposition for you...

What do u say about maybe me doing a little residency, every Wednesday, the whole month of November at The Hotel Cafe in LA? Sounds fun, right? As you know, the Hotel is very small, so it'll be very intimate and stripped down. Very fun as well!
Here's the twist...
I'm gonna play an entire record, each show, front to back, in chronological order (that's a different album each week), for the whole month.

*The first show will be "Letters"

*The next week will be "The Rise and Fall..."

*The 3rd show will be "Sycamore Meadows"

*And the last show will be.... Wait for it... A FANS CHOICE setlist! This will be chosen by your posts on Twitter - just post the song(s) you want to hear and add #butchwalkersetlist to your tweet. I'll be checking these and tweaking the setlist until the day before the show.

*Each of the 4 shows will also include a cover song of FANS CHOICE chosen on Twitter! Same game - post the cover(s) you want me to play and add #butchwalkercover to your tweet. I'll be checking for these all month too. Bonus: I'll play 1 new song from the upcoming record at each show.

Now this all means a few things... First, I love my fans. They are the best, most dedicated fans in the world. Second, you need to sign up for Twitter if you aren't already one of the 6gigabillion people on it, in order to vote. Third, if you don't live in LA.... Roadtrip baby!!!! I may never do this again, so you won't wanna miss it (and if it goes well, I may come do this in a couple of small places in some of my fave cities before the end of the year). Fourth, go get tickets now at Hotel Cafe before they're gone!

If that's not enough to make u fall out of your Laz-Y Boy, I'm also gonna have a cool contest on Twitter that will be a Name that guitar riff weekly video. The first person to reply with the correct answer will get something super cool!! Yay!!
This is ridiculous. I've gotta go do a lap around the block to get my head from spinning off. I love you.

Butch

Here Comes The...

Butch Walker — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:29:56 -0000

Here Comes The....Video!

Butch Walker — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:40:29 -0000

So we shot a fun video for the song "Here Comes The" and it's debuting on MTVu every hour on the hour for 24 hours beginning at 6am tomorrow and MTVu.com.

We want you to please watch it. It's pretty fun and we shot it in Asbury Park, NJ, which is the coolest little city I've seen in quite some time. I hope you like it and I will see you on the road this Fall!!!

Butch and the gang

Arigato

Butch Walker — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:46:01 -0000

I just want to say, "domo arigato" to anyone who bought my new record "Sycamore Meadows" that came out yesterday in Japan! I have always dreamed of having fans in Japan and being able to play there, so I guess my dreams have come true. Now, I would love to come over to your country and play for you this year, so don't forget about me! I will see you all very very soon!

Butch

good morning.

Butch Walker — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:56:35 -0000

i only have a few days left of normalcy before i jump in a bus with a total of 12 road-hungry musicians and hit the dusty trail for the west coast. i hope you will join us at these shows i am doing! should be a real hoot. i never go to Austin or Dallas too often (or hell, even Denver for that matter). so make sure to come join me and the Merry Musical Melody Makers (and special friends Shovels and Rope, Ponderosa, and maybe a merch person or two) for a fantastic voyage to the left-side. we have a little fun intimate gig in store for our closest friends in Atlanta after our rehearsals. gonna be fun times had by all (that little shindig is long sold out. only about 50 tix were released. small little space).

but please plan on coming out to the other shows as we make our way across the USA, k?

can’ wait to see you all for a good time. i think we are gonna be doing Tiny Dancer on this run as well… reason enough to come!

Butch

After the show it's the after party

Butch Walker — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:00:46 -0000

Why stop the fun once the show is over? We just got word of a few after parties on this upcoming tour, check out all of the info below:

May 20th @ The Club De Ville in Austin http://www.clubdeville.com/
May 21st @ Lee Harvey's in Dallas http://leeharveys.com

-Butch Walker's Elf

If an album falls in the forest, will anyone hear it?

Butch Walker — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:18:46 -0000

So, we have Sycamore Meadows on Amazin' Amazon today at a pretty damn good bargain ($2.99) to appease all of you Amazonians!! I hope you will join me in this festive occasion by picking up a copy of it.

And if you were the few who helped to sell out the advance presale tickets to the upcoming May Tour, then "Thank You Boy or Girl" for your kind support. But now we have all the rest of the tickets still on sale if you would like to go over here and buy them (if I am coming to your area)

May 20 - Stubb’s BBQ - Austin, TX
May 21 - Pontiac Garage - Dallas, TX
May 24 - Bluebird Theater - Denver, CO
May 27 - Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA
May 28 - The Glass House - Pomona, CA
May 29 - El Rey - Los Angeles, CA

Thank you, and I will see you on the road!

Butch

Fun times Atlanta

Butch Walker — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:02:21 -0000

There's this new band called Bradley Glenn Beck Hanson and the Old Radicals playing their first show in Atlanta on May 18.

Good friends of mine, you should check em out and show em some love if you can!

Ticket Link: http://tixx1.artistarena.com/BradleyGlennBeckHansonandtheOldRadicals

SHEWES TROC

2 words, figure it out where they go.

In cased ya missed 'em

Butch Walker — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:00:19 -0000

Pre-sales for the recently added Dallas, Austin, and Denver shows sold out in a day.. But don't fret. That's just pre-sales, yo! Only a small amount of tix are included in that pre-sale. The remainder of those tix go ON SALE TODAY!!

So go here to get tix to those shows. These are cities I don't get to frequent that often, so don't miss me, ok? I might be 89 before I come back through those towns (kidding.. Sorta...).

5/20 - Stubb's BBQ / Austin, TX (Presale begins 4/17 UN: butch PW: walker)

5/21 - Pontiac Garage / Dallas, TX (Presale begins 4/17 UN: butch PW: walker)

5/24 - Bluebird Theater / Denver, CO (Presale begins 4/17 UN: butch PW: walker)

Love ya like a skinny kid loves cake (and then forces themselves to throw it up)

Butch

Addendum:

Question... What's flat, made of vinyl, and has artwork on its sleeves? No, not the Paris Hilton action figure, stupid. My Record comes out today in record stores!! And by "record" I mean the kind you put on a turntable with a needle. Yes? No? Maybe? Am I confusing you?

It also happens to be National Record Store Day!! So you can do your part by acknowledging the first and best form of media to ever be distributed for music, and also put a dollar in my pocket. Everyone wins! Go to your favorite record store today and celebrate (if there are any still standing in your town). And if you're in Atlanta, Criminal Records in Little Five Points is the best record store on the planet. Go tell Eric (the owner) thanks for helping me get my record out on vinyl.

This Just In!!!

Butch Walker — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:58:58 -0000

Miley Cyrus has officially killed Radiohead's career! Its over! Well... Maybe only their chances of selling records to stupid people and ever getting admitted into Disneyland. But damn that sucks, y'all!!! (Said in my best Britney inflection).

Whew... So much drama in the LBC (Lohan-Britney-Cyrus), that I'm glad I am not famous. Can you imagine what new heights (or lows) of vapid context is next? I can't (wait)...

How about a new list of tour dates? I think we can do this. Its not much, but its all I could get (although I think it'll make some Texans and Colorado-ans giddy). It'll be a fun little romp across the great US of Hey! And it'll get us sittin' pretty out in Cali to wrap it up in LA (not without taking down SF and OC first). OMFG! ROTFLMAOMFG! Ok.. I'll stop. Mornings are the best/worst!

5/20 - Stubb's BBQ / Austin, TX (Presale begins 4/17 UN: butch PW: walker)

5/21 - Pontiac Garage / Dallas, TX (Presale begins 4/17 UN: butch PW: walker)

5/24 - Bluebird Theater / Denver, CO (Presale begins 4/17 UN: butch PW: walker)

Me and the boys are pumped to come see you all. We sound better than I could imagine, and I imagine quite a bit sometimes. Like, imagine if my band name was called "Barack ObaMastoDon JohnSon Volt".

I'm out like a trout.

Twitter me or something?