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Billy Howerdel will launch his debut solo album, “What Regular Was”, on June 10 through Alchemy Recordings/Rise Information/BMG. The A PERFECT CIRCLE co-founder/guitar participant has concurrently launched a video for “Poison Flowers”, with the Rizz-directed clip providing each an aural and visible preview of what is to come back on the 10-song, self-produced assortment.
“That is me stepping again into my early teen self and making the document I might’ve made if I had the means and the data after I first picked up a guitar — simply in 2022,” Howerdel explains. “It is that second as a child while you hear a document, shut your eyes, and go some other place. That was the time I discovered my lane, so to talk.”
“What Regular Was” observe itemizing:
01. Egocentric Coronary heart
02. Free And Weightless
03. Ani
04. Stunning Mistake
05. The Similar Once more
06. Poison Flowers
07. Follower
08. Convey Honor Again House
09. EXP
10. Stars
The album information is accompanied by the announcement of a summer time tour, kicking off on June 11 in Ventura, California. The six-week trek consists of an look at Milwaukee’s Summerfest and two reveals the place Howerdel finds himself on the identical invoice as his A PERFECT CIRCLE bandmate Maynard James Keenan, who might be performing with PUSCIFER: June 12 on the Greek Theatre (Los Angeles) and July 1 at Meadow Brook Amphitheatre (Rochester Hills, Michigan). Tickets for all headlining dates are on sale this Friday, April 29 at 10 a.m. native time.
Tour dates:
June 11 – Ventura, CA @ Ventura Music Corridor
June 12 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre *
June 14 – -Solana Seashore, CA @ Stomach Up
June 15 – San Francisco, CA @ The Impartial
June 16 – Roseville, CA @ Goldfield Buying and selling Publish
June 18 – Portland, OR @ Surprise Ballroom
June 19 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos
June 21 – Salt Lake Metropolis, UT @ Metro Music Corridor
June 22 – Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
June 24 – Minneapolis, MN @ Nice Line Music Café
June 25 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest
June 26 – St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Corridor
June 28 – Chicago, IL @ Cabaret Metro
June 29 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Corridor
July 01 – Rochester Hills, MI @ Meadow Brook Amphitheatre *
July 02 – Toronto, ON @ Axis Membership
July 03 – Montreal, QC @ Café Campus
July 05 – Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Corridor
July 06 – New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre
July 08 – -Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of the Dwelling Arts
July 09 – Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage
July 10 – Charlotte, NC @ The Underground
July 12 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
July 14 – New Orleans, LA @ Home of Blues
July 15 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Corridor – Inside Downstairs
July 16 – Dallas, TX @ The Echo Lounge & Music Corridor
July 17 – Austin, TX @ Emos
July 20 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
* With PUSCIFER
Howerdel has quietly asserted himself instead music auteur whose knack for large hooks believes a eager emotional understanding and sonic acuity. Devoting his life to music after witnessing PINK FLOYD reside, he acted as one thing of a behind-the-scenes journeyman, working as an in-demand touring and studio tech for the likes of David Bowie, GUNS N’ ROSES and NINE INCH NAILS. Placing up a friendship with Maynard James Keenan when TOOL opened for FISHBONE (for whom Billy served as a tech),he occupied a room in a North Hollywood cottage with Maynard. Billy based A PERFECT CIRCLE with Maynard in 1999. The group’s seminal full-length debut, “Mer De Noms”, went platinum and made historical past because the “highest Billboard 200 bow for a rock band’s debut.” They adopted it with the platinum “Thirteenth Step” (2003) and gold “Emotive” (2004). The group made its return with 2018’s “Eat The Elephant”, marking its fourth consecutive High 5 debut on the High 200. In between, Billy‘s music has additionally appeared in video video games and on the massive display screen. Throughout 2008, he made his first solo assertion beneath the moniker ASHES DIVIDE with “Preserve Telling Myself It is Alright”. Within the subsequent decade, the album quietly pervaded as a cult favourite with hundreds of thousands of streams and the odd sold-out “reunion” present. On his 2022 correct full-length solo debut, “What Regular Was”, he inhabits an area that is reverent of his previous, current, and future . In spite of everything of those years, songs, and reveals, Billy is able to introduce himself.
Picture credit score: Erica Weitz
