Meat Beat Manifesto releases new effort and tours

Always ever-evolving and four-steps ahead of everyone else, electronic pioneers MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO (MBM) celebrates its 20th anniversary with the release of Autoimmune on April 8th on Metropolis Records. Heralded by All Music Guide as "an exhilarating aural exploration of the past, present, and future, rampaging across genres along the way," its 10th album is a fascinating foray into the creative force of its mastermind Jack Dangers. At once embracing his past and thrusting himself into the future, he explores new sonic territory in an album that's both familiar yet expansive... or as IGLOO Magazine explains, "it could be said that Autoimmune, while not a drastic departure from the Meat Beat Manifesto sound, is an album worth owning for that very reason."

Those familiar with MBM and its futuristic explorations into the technology of rhythm and melody know that its sensory-overloaded live show is a multimedia extravaganza that's as much a communal celebration as it is a cerebral mindf*ck. As Wired.com describes, "Meat Beat's live show has generated a solid rep for being a surround-sound sensorium, and thumping Autoimmune tracks like 'I Hold the Mic,' 'Spanish Vocoder' and 'Solid Waste' are just part of the equation: Throw in Lynn Farmer's incendiary live drumming and smartass viz from [Ben] Stokes and Consolidated vet Mark Pistel, and you've got a politically explosive multimedia program that's nowhere near as boring as An Inconvenient Truth."

Both a political commentary on our present New World Order and a musical excursion into dubstep, MBM's live shows are definitely an event to be experienced. With the release of Autoimmune this week, Jack Dangers and crew will be kicking off a national tour on April 9th at Neumos in Seattle, WA and will be circling the US with stops in LA (the El Rey on April 12th), Chicago (The Abbey on April 19th), New York City (The Highline Ballroom on April 26th) and Dallas (Grenada Theater on May 4th) with numerous stops in between and after.

Tour dates are as follows:
April 9
Neumos
Seattle, WA

April 10
Barbati's Pan
Portland, OR

April 11
Slim's
San Francisco, CA

April 12
El Rey Theatre
Los Angeles, CA

April 13
Canes Bar & Grill
San Diego, CA

April 16
Bluebird Theatre
Denver, CO

April 19
The Abbey
Chicago, IL

April 21
Grog Shop
Cleveland Heights, OH

April 22
Showplace Theatre
Buffalo, NY

April 23
Lee's Palace
Toronto, ONT

April 24
Middle East - Downstairs
Cambridge, MA

April 26
Highline Ballroom
New York NY

April 27
The Rock & Roll Hotel
Washington, DC

April 28
Cat's Cradle
Carrboro, NC

April 29
Smith's Old Bar
Atlanta, GA

April 30
The Social
Orlando, FL

May 2
Warehouse Live
Houston, TX

May 3
Club Deville
Austin, TX

May 4
Granada Theater
Dallas, TX