The Secret Handshake on tour

The Secret Handshake:
TSH is Luis Dubuc, a one man show from Dallas, TX.. TSH's new album, My Name Up In Lights is out now. The elemets that make this new record up aren’t complicated or out of the ordinary. Instead Dallas musician Luis Dubuc has built a collection of songs that embraces an unabashed pop sensibility, drawing on the ‘90s to inspire the disc’s feel-good energy and playful mood. The record follows the success of The Secret Handshake’s previous album—2007’s One Full Year—with more streamlined intent and clarity of vision.

“My first record was 14 songs and it was all over the place,” Dubuc says. “It was like looking in my brain. It was full of ideas and all the songs sounded different. This record is really narrowed down. It’s really influenced by Family Matters and Step By Step and the Ninja Turtles and Len and Spacehog and awesome ‘90s radio music. I just narrowed all those influences down and put them into a record.”

6/18/09 Tucson, AZ Club Congress
6/19/09 West Hollywood, CA The Roxy
6/20/09 Anaheim, CA Chain Reaction
6/21/09 San Francisco, CA Café Du Nord
6/23/09 Seattle, WA Chop Suey
6/24/09 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre
6/25/09 Boise, ID The Venue
6/26/09 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court
6/27/09 Denver, CO Marquis Theater
6/28/09 Omaha, NE Sokol Underground
6/30/09 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock
7/2/09 Chicago, IL Subteranean
7/5/09 Columbus, OH The Basement
7/7/09 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop
7/8/09 Grand Rapids, MI Intersection
7/9/09 Pontiac, MI Clutch Cargo
7/10/09 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls
7/11/09 Buffalo, Ny Mohawk Place
7/12/09 Albany, NY Valentines
7/14/09 New York, NY Knitting Factory
7/15/09 Wilmington, DE Harmony Grange
7/16/09 Virginia Beach, VA Peppermint Beach Club
7/17/09 Greensboro, NC Greene Street Club
7/18/09 Columbia, SC New Brooklyn Tavern
7/20/09 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
7/21/09 Montgomery, AL Off The Wagon
7/22/09 Shreveport, LA 516 Soundstage
7/23/09 San Antonion, TX White Rabbit
7/24/09 Austin, TX Emo's