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Henry Clay People Announce Summer Tour

With an enthralling live show that has won over countless fans and critics, Los Angeles quartet Henry Clay People are thrilled to hit the road this summer in support of their upcoming album Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives.

The five-week tour beginning June 14th will see the band share the stage with Motion City Soundtrack, These United States and Futurebirds, along with their own headlining dates.

Set for a June 26th release on TBD Records, Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives is a thrilling and sweaty thirty minutes of teenage restlessness. Evident in new songs “Hide” and “Friends Are Forgiving” – two of the twelve songs that make Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives the bands most urgent, bratty, and melancholic record to date.

Watch the band’s montage video for “Friends Are Forgiving” here: http://vimeo.com/42134552

Spin Magazine raves “The Henry Clay People specialize in raggedy power chords and desperately boyish vocals – what Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers would sound like if they’d taken temp work and listened obsessively to Crazy Horse.”

TOUR DATES (more to be announced):

June 14            Casbah                                                San Diego, CA   *

June 15            Troubadour                             Los Angeles, CA  *

June 16            Slim’s                                      San Francisco, CA  *

June 18            Club Sound                             Salt Lake City, UT    *

June 19            Bluebird Theater                     Denver, CO  *

June 21            The Firebird                            St. Louis, MO *

June 22            Lincoln Hall                            Chicago, IL   *

June 23            Cobra Lounge                          Chicago, IL     **

June 25            Grog Shop                               Cleveland, OH    *

June 26            Water Street Music Hall         Rochester, NY   *

June 27            Union Transfer                       Philadelphia, PA  *

June 29            The Gramercy Theatre           New York, NY    *

June 30            Middle East Downstairs         Boston, MA     *

July 01                        Ottobar                                   Baltimore, MD    *

July 02                        Brooklyn Bowl                       Brooklyn, NY

July 05                        Local 506                                Raleigh, NC   ***

July 06                        The Southern                          Charlottesville, VA   ***

July 07                        Black Cat                                Washington, DC ***

July 08            Brillobox                                 Pittsburgh, PA   ****

July 09            Ninth Ward                             Buffalo, NY    ****

July 10            Deluxe                                     Indianapolis, IN   ****

July 11            Magic Stick                             Detroit, MI  ****

July 12            Rock Island Brew Co              Rock Island, IL  ****

July 13            Burnbury Festival – Sawyer Point Park        Cincinnati, OH

July 14            High Watt (Mercy Lounge)    Nashville, TN

July 16                       Riot Room                              Kansas City, MO

July 17            The Conservatory                   Oklahoma City, OK

July 18            Launch Pad                             Albuquerque, NM

July 19            Crescent Ballroom                  Phoenix, AZ

July 20            Sound Waves                          Las Vegas, NV   *****

* With Motion City Soundtrack

** The Riot Fest & Consequence Of Sound Present

*** With These United States

**** With Futurebirds

***** With Airborne Toxic Event

Henry Clay People to Release New Album June 26th

HENRY CLAY PEOPLE SET TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM, ‘TWENTY-FIVE FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES,’ ON JUNE 26TH

Los Angeles quartet Henry Clay People are thrilled to announce the release of their new album Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives. Set for a June 26th release on TBD Records, Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives is a thrilling and sweaty thirty minutes of teenage restlessness, quarter-life malaise, and adult resignation. The new album sees not only the return of the band’s original line up, but songwriters and brothers Joey and Andy Siara rediscovering and redefining their punky roots, allowing them to craft their most urgent, bratty, and melancholic record to date.

“We wanted to finally make the record that our sixteen year old selves would have been excited about,” says Joey. “Unfortunately the only way to do so was to live for the last 13 years and get some adult suffering under our belt. Now we can direct our misguided teenage angst at our failed 20’s.”

With songs such as the rambunctious The Backseat Of A Cab, the 90’s guitar slack of Hide, the skater brat inspired The Fakers and the punk revival of EveryBandWeEverLoved, Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives is a record dealing with
compromised dreams and empty bank accounts, for and by the high school Descendents devotee turned college Malkmus-minion.

In support of their TBD Records debut Somewhere On the Golden Coast, the Henry Clay People spent most of 2010 and 2011 on the road with the Drive by Truckers, Silversun Pickups and Against Me!, along with successful performances at Coachella, Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits. With an enthralling live show, HCP have built a dedicated national following of both critics and kids.

Along with The LA Times, Aquarium Drunkard, MTV News, Paste Magazine, My Old Kentucky Blog, and more, Spin Magazine raves “The Henry Clay People specialize in raggedy power chords, barreling piano, and desperately boyish vocals – what Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers would sound like if they’d taken temp work and listened obsessively to Crazy Horse.” KEXP simply says HCP create a “remarkable set of classic- sounding indie-rock with clear echoes of Pavement, the Hold Steady, the Replacements and early Built to Spill, but they find their own voice with detailed songs that split the difference between sardonic and heartfelt when describing the music scene, living in debt and working part-time, transforming everyday subject matter into raging, celebratory anthems for slacker rock ‘n’ rollers and other folks just trying to make ends meet.”

The Henry Clay People will hit the road this summer. Stay tuned for tour dates!!