IRATION GEARS UP FOR THE RELEASE OF ‘HOTTING UP’ NEW FULL-LENGTH ALBUM OUT DIGITALLY AUGUST 28 AND PHYSICALLY OCTOBER 9 VIA THREE PRONG RECORDS/CAROLINE

 

Cover art for HOTTING UP

HOTTING UP marks the band’s fourth full-length album and follow-up to 2013’s Automatic which helped propel their career to a new level. For the new music, IRATION put together a team of acclaimed collaborators including producer and co-writer David Manzoor (Lupe Fiasco, R. Kelly, Lloyd), Grammy Award-nominated mixer Mark Needham (Imagine Dragons, The Killers, Fleetwood Mac) and engineer Will Brierre (Imagine Dragons, Youngblood Hawk, Chris Isaak).

The first single “Reelin” premiered on San Diego’s 91X on April 27 and has since been spinning nationwide on various radio stations including Santa Barbara, CA’s KJEE, Honolulu, HI’s KUCD, and Wilmington, NC’s WRMR, among others. The track has also racked up over 500,000 spins on Soundcloud. “‘Reelin’ is the song we feel best encapsulates the direction of our sound on the new album,” lead singer/guitarist Micah Pueschel explains. “Big drums, hard-hitting bass and synth and rocking guitars. Turn it up in your stereo and let it work. Stoked for you to hear it!!”

A lyric video for “Reelin” was released earlier this week (8/19); check it out now here.

IRATION—Micah Pueschel (lead vocals/guitar), Adam Taylor (bass), Joseph Dickens (drums), Cayson Peterson (keyboard/synth), Micah Brown (guitar/vocals) and Joseph King (engineer)–has been burning up the festival scene this summer, with performances at SunFest, Big Guava, Reggae on the Block, Blaze N Glory, Hangout, Cali Roots, GoPro Mountain Games, Lake Tahoe Reggae Festival, The Beach at Mandalay Bay, OC Fair, Texas Showdown, Summer Meltdown and Outside Lands; still to come are  Riot Fest Denver and Summer Ends Festival. Of their recent Outside Lands performance, SFBay.ca wrote “Their upbeat, reggae-rock mixed with their confident, easygoing stage presence makes the band as whole feel like an old friend. Playing favorites like ‘Summer Nights,’ ‘Back Around’ and the single ‘Reelin’ from their upcoming album, these high-energy Hawaiian rockers know how to work a crowd.” (8/8)

IRATION is also preparing for their 26-date U.S. “Hotting Up Tour”–featuring support from The Green on the entire outing and Hours Eastly and The Movement on select dates–kicking off Thursday, October 8 in Nashville and then making its way throughout the southeast, stopping in Birmingham, New Orleans, Mobile, Tallahassee, Fort Lauderdale and two nights in St. Petersburg. The tour will then head up the eastern seaboard visiting Myrtle Beach, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, DC, Portland and Huntington, NY before venturing west, hitting Indianapolis, Detroit, Cincinnati, Des Moines, Tulsa and San Antonio. IRATION will then meet up with their friends SOJA for three co-headlining Texas shows in Dallas, Austin and Houston before reaching Albuquerque, and Los Angeles, where it’ll wrap at the Hollywood Palladium Saturday, November 14. See below for full list of tour dates and support acts and visit http://smarturl.it/HottingUpTour to purchase tickets and VIP Meet & Greet Packages.

Hotting Up Track Listing:

Catch IRATION on the road in the following cities:

Sat       8/22                 Cilo, MI                                    Auto City Speedway

Sat       8/29                 Denver, CO                            National Western Complex

Sun      9/20                 Pozo, CA                                 Pozo Saloon

Sat       9/26                 Tempe, AZ                              Tempe Beach Park

*Thu    10/8                 Nashville, TN                          Cannery Ballroom

*Fri      10/9                 Birmingham, AL                      Workplay Soundstage

*Sat     10/10               New Orleans, LA                    House of Blues

*Sun    10/11               Mobile, AL                               Soul Kitchen

~Tue    10/13               Tallahassee, FL                       The Moon

~Thu    10/15               Fort Lauderdale, FL                Revolution

~Fri      10/16               St. Petersburg, FL                   Jannus Live!

~Sat    10/17               St. Petersburg, FL                   Jannus Live!

~Sun   10/18               North Myrtle Beach, SC         House of Blues

~Wed  10/21               Norfolk, VA                             The Norva

~Thu    10/22               Philadelphia, PA                      The Fillmore

~Fri      10/23               Boston, MA                             House of Blues

~Sat    10/24               Silver Spring, MD                   The Fillmore

~Sun   10/25               Portland, ME                           State Theater

Tue      10/27               Huntington, NY                       The Paramount

*Thu    10/29               Indianapolis, IN                       Deluxe at Old National Centre

*Fri      10/30               Detroit, MI                               St. Andrews Hall

*Sat     10/31               Cincinnati, OH                         Bogarts

*Sun    11/1                 Des Moines, IA                       Wooly’s

Wed     11/4                 Tulsa, OK                                Cain’s Ballroom

Thu      11/5                 San Antonio, TX                      Aztec Theatre

^Fri      11/6                 Dallas, TX                               House of Blues

^Sat     11/7                 Austin, TX                               Stubb’s

^Sun    11/8                 Houston, TX                            House of Blues

*Wed   11/11               Albuquerque, NM                    Sunshine Theatre

*Thu    11/12               Tucson, AZ                             The Rialto Theatre

*Fri      11/13               Flagstaff, AZ                           Orpheum Theater

*Sat     11/14               Los Angeles, CA                     Hollywood Palladium

*also with Hours Eastly supporting

~also with The Movement and Hours Eastly supporting

^co-headlining with SOJA

Dec 15-19                   Puerto Moreles, Mexico         Now Sapphire Resort

 

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