Cosmonauts share video and announce European tour
COSMONAUTS
SHARE VIDEO FOR ‘MEDIO LITRO’
ANNOUNCE UK AND EUROPE TOUR
FIFTH LP, STAR 69, OUT NOW ON FUZZ CLUB (EU) & BURGER RECORDS (US)
Having just wrapped up a run of US dates with Night Beats and The Dandy Warhols, Los Angeles’ finest Cosmonauts have now announced that they’ll be bringing their shoegaze-y garage-punk to Europe this summer. Alongside the 20-date tour announcement, the band are sharing a new video for ‘Medio Litro’ – taken from their fifth album, Star 69, out now via Fuzz Club in Europe and Burger Records in the US.
You can find the tour dates below and watch the video here: [INSERT LINK]
As part of the European run, Cosmonauts will do two shows at this year’s Fuzz Club Eindhoven – both the main event at the Effenaar (Aug 23-24) and warm-up show at Stroomhuis (Aug 22) – joining the likes of Iceage, Kikagaku Moyo, Night Beats, The KVB, Tess Parks, Froth and more.
‘Medio Litro’ is a jangly reverb-soaked ode to the drunken, rambling conversations we’ve all had out on smoking patios at varying stages of that night’s bad decision-making. Lines like “We’ll go to the party / If we can find parking / We’ll go to the show / But we don’t have any money”’ and “Get another manager / and another publicist / Call me when you get this / Make it on the guest list” is a woozy lament to life in LA delivered with the sardonic wit and perfect detachment of a band that is well-acquainted with the game.
Over the course of a decade, Cosmonauts have become an integral mainstay of the LA scene that blossomed around Burger, their long-term label. If you mention Cosmonauts – longstanding project of core members Alexander Ahmadi and Derek Cowart – in most LA or Orange County circles, nods of recognition will ensue, followed by a proud reference to someone’s friend doing a stint in the band, and several enthusiastic adolescent memories of shows gone by. It’s an idea that’s toyed with throughout Star 69, the band’s fifth studio album and follow-up to 2016’s A-OK!.
COSMONAUTS TOUR-DATES
22/8 – Eindhoven, NL – Stroomhuis
23/8 – Eindhoven, NL – Fuzz Club Eindhoven 2019
31/8 – Ghent, BE – Psych over 9000
04/9 – Manchester, UK – Night People
05/9 – Glasgow, UK – The Flying Duck
06/9 – Nottingham, UK – The Chameleon
07/9 – Leeds, UK – Hyde Park Book Club
09/9 – London, UK – The Shacklewell Arms
13/9 – Madrid, ES – GetMad Festival
14/9 – Sopelana, ES – La Triangu
15/9 – San Sebastian, ES – Dabadaba
16/9 – Toulouse, FR – Le Ravelin
17/9 – Bordeaux, FR – Void
18/9 – Lyon, FR – LE Farmer
19/9 – Paris, FR – Espace B
20/9 – Le Havre, FR – McDaid’s
21/9 – Lille, FR – Le Bulle Caf
25/9 – Cologne, DE – Hafenklang
25/9 – Hamburg, DE – Hafenklang
27/9 – Jena, DE – MAGNIFICENT MUSIC
28/9 – Berlin, DE – MAGNIFICENT MUSIC