La Dispute to tour

Grand Rapids band La Dispute have announced tour dates for their upcoming Spring tour. The tour begins on March 24 in Minneapolis, MI, heading to the West Coast for shows in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland, before heading back east to the East Coast including shows in Philadelphia and Bowery Ballroom in New York. The tour will feature support by Balance & Compusure, All Get Out, and Sainthood Reps. For full list of tour dates, please see below.



La Dispute is touring to support their sophomore album, Wildlife, released on No Sleep Records last October, which debuted at 135 on the Billboard Top 200. The follow-up to their 2008 LP Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair, Wildlife is a nearly 60-minute musical examination of the twenty-something search for purpose; an exploration of the struggles that confront, damage, and redefine us inevitably in life through 14 tracks of new material. Set up as a collection of "short stories" complete with the author's own notes and sectioned thematically by four monologues, Wildlife discusses the difficulties inherent in growing up by interweaving the author's own ambiguous loss and struggle for meaning alongside the stories it compelled him to document. Recorded at both Drasik Studios in Chicago and StadiumRed in New York with Andrew Everding (from the band Thursday) and Joe Pedulla using no artificial reverb, La Dispute's sophomore full length organically captures the sound of five friends committed to pushing their own creative boundaries while still retaining a desire to create honest and emotional music.



NPR streamed one of the songs from the record, "Harder Harmonies," praising the band, saying: "La Dispute has all the hooks of a pop-punk band raised on At the Drive-In, as well as a surprising sense of restrained propulsion for a hardcore band. But La Dispute's most distinctive weapon is vocalist Jordan Dreyer, who alternates an almost conversational, raspy scream with spoken word." Listen to the song now at the link below:



http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2011/08/23/139855535/la-dispute-half-spoken-explosions





La Dispute is five close friends from the Upper Midwest with a firm passion for the concept of music and art as a medium for making new friends. As a result, La Dispute strives to make music that is artistically, technically, and emotionally engaging in hopes of establishing legitimate connections with any and all interested people, while encouraging dialogue between those people and themselves about things in life that truly matter and that truly last. La Dispute also carries a firm passion for the relevance of a live show, both for the bands involved and for the people in attendance, and will go to the grave believing that the environment created when strangers come together despite their differences to celebrate one important thing is invaluable and should not under any circumstances be taken for granted.







La Dispute Spring Tour

Sat March 24 Varsity Theater, Minneapolis MN - Tickets
Sun March 25 The Waiting Room, Omaha NE - Tickets
Mon March 26 Gabe's Oasis, Iowa City IA - Tickets
Tue March 27 Jackpot Music Hall, Lawrence KS - Tickets
Wed March 28 Marquis Theater, Denver CO - Tickets
Thu March 29 The Basement, Ogden UT - Tickets
Fri March 30 The Venue, Boise ID - Tickets
Sat March 31 Vera Project, Seattle WA - Tickets
Sun April 1 Branx, Portland OR - Tickets
Tue April 3 Operhouse, Oakland CA - Tickets
Wed April 4 Sub-Mission, San Francisco CA - Tickets
Thu April 5 Chain Reaction, Anaheim CA - Tickets
Fri April 6 Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Los Angeles CA - Tickets
Sat April 7 Rock City, Camarillo CA - Tickets
Sun April 8 Che Cafe, San Diego CA - Tickets
Mon April 9 The Underground, Phoenix AZ - Tickets
Wed April 11 Pine Box, Midland TX - Tickets
Thu April 12 Red 7, Austin TX - Tickets
Fri April 13 Warehouse Live, Houston TX - Tickets
Sat April 14 Rubbergloves, Dallas TX - Tickets
Sun April 15 Conseratory, Oklahoma City OK - Tickets
Mon April 16 Firebird, St Louis MO - Tickets
Tue April 17 The End, Nashville TN - Tickets
Wed April 18 Masquerade, Atlanta GA - Tickets
Thu April 19 Orpheum, Tampa FL - Tickets
Fri April 20 Talent Farm, Pembroke Pines FL - Tickets
Sat April 21 The Pit, Jacksonville FL - Tickets
Sun April 22 New Brookland, Columbia SC - Tickets
Tue April 24 Southland Ballroom, Raleigh NC - Tickets
Wed April 25 Kingdom, Richmond VA - Tickets
Thu April 26 Otto Bar, Baltimore MD - Tickets
Fri April 27 Lost Horizon, Syracuse NY - Tickets
Sat April 28 Union Transfer, Philadelphia PA - Tickets
Sun April 29 Bowery Ballroom, New York NY - Tickets
Mon April 30 Middle East, Cambridge MA - Tickets
Wed May 2 La Sala Rosa, Montreal QC - Tickets
Thu May 3 Mod Club, Toronto ON - Tickets
Fri May 4 Mohawk Place, Buffalo NY - Tickets
Sat May 5 Magic Stick, Detroit MI - Tickets
Sun May 6 Metro, Chicago IL - Tickets
Mon May 7 Pyramid Scheme, Grand Rapids MI* - Tickets



For more information, visit:

www.ladisputemusic.com

La Dispute on Bandcamp