Los Angeles-based noise rock tag team Big Business are getting back to business. Three years removed from the release of their Battlefields Forever, the duo are now ready to deliver a record titled Command Your Weather.
Bassist Jared Warren and drummer Coady Willis' fifth full-length release as Big Business comes out July 8 via Joyful Noise Recordings and the group's very own Gold Metal Records. The nine-song set was recorded with producer Dave Curran (Unsane, Pigs), with whom Big Business had also worked with on Battlefields Forever.
The upcoming set is described as both "a haunting dream about the struggle for dominance of will over the power and unpredictability of nature" and "a really great rock record." You can decide if either of those tags are apt by giving the record's "Father's Day," a stoner-sludge rock-out, a stream down below.
A North American tour begins in the middle of June, with a lone Canadian stop booked at Toronto's Velvet Underground venue on July 4. You can see the full tour routing below as well.
While Willis and Warren have been working together as Big Business since forming in Seattle in 2003, they are also part of the Melvins' rotating cast of collaborators. Warren performs on one song from the Melvins' upcoming, multi-bass player employing Basses Loaded album, which sees release June 3 via Ipecac.
Command Your Weather:
1. Last Legs
2. Regulars
3. Father's Day
4. Blacker Holes
5. Popular Demand
6. Own Throats
7. Send Help
8. Diagnostic Front
9. Horses
Tour dates:
06/18 Joshua Tree - Yucca Man Shakedown
06/20 Las Vegas - Backstage Bar & Billiards
06/21 Salt Lake City - Urban Lounge
06/22 Boise - Neurolux
06/24 Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown
06/25 Portland, OR - B Side Anniversary
06/26 Seattle, WA - The Crocodile
06/28 Billings, MT- Pub Station
06/30 Fargo, ND - The Aquarium
07/01 Minneapolis, MN - The Triple Rock (D4th of 07/weekend)
07/02 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen
07/03 Ferndale, MI - The Loving Touch
07/04 Toronto, ON - Velvet Underground
07/05 Rochester, NY - The Bug Jar
07/06 Brooklyn, NY - St. Vitus
07/07 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
07/08 Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts
07/09 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop
07/10 Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe
07/12 Nashville, TN - The Basement East
07/13 Atlanta, GA - Aisle 5
07/14 Birmingham, AL - Saturn
07/15 Gainesville, FL - High Dive
07/16 Tallahassee, FL - Sidebar Theater
07/17 New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa
07/19 San Antonio, TX - Paper Tiger
07/20 Austin, TX - Barracuda
07/21 Dallas, TX - Gas Monkey
07/23 El Paso, TX - Lowbrow Palace
07/24 Phoenix, AZ - The Rebel Lounge
07/25 San Diego, CA - Casbah
07/28 Santa Barbara, CA - Velvet Jones
07/29 Los Angeles - Bootleg Theater - Bar Stage
07/30 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
Bassist Jared Warren and drummer Coady Willis' fifth full-length release as Big Business comes out July 8 via Joyful Noise Recordings and the group's very own Gold Metal Records. The nine-song set was recorded with producer Dave Curran (Unsane, Pigs), with whom Big Business had also worked with on Battlefields Forever.
The upcoming set is described as both "a haunting dream about the struggle for dominance of will over the power and unpredictability of nature" and "a really great rock record." You can decide if either of those tags are apt by giving the record's "Father's Day," a stoner-sludge rock-out, a stream down below.
A North American tour begins in the middle of June, with a lone Canadian stop booked at Toronto's Velvet Underground venue on July 4. You can see the full tour routing below as well.
While Willis and Warren have been working together as Big Business since forming in Seattle in 2003, they are also part of the Melvins' rotating cast of collaborators. Warren performs on one song from the Melvins' upcoming, multi-bass player employing Basses Loaded album, which sees release June 3 via Ipecac.
Command Your Weather:
1. Last Legs
2. Regulars
3. Father's Day
4. Blacker Holes
5. Popular Demand
6. Own Throats
7. Send Help
8. Diagnostic Front
9. Horses
Tour dates:
06/18 Joshua Tree - Yucca Man Shakedown
06/20 Las Vegas - Backstage Bar & Billiards
06/21 Salt Lake City - Urban Lounge
06/22 Boise - Neurolux
06/24 Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown
06/25 Portland, OR - B Side Anniversary
06/26 Seattle, WA - The Crocodile
06/28 Billings, MT- Pub Station
06/30 Fargo, ND - The Aquarium
07/01 Minneapolis, MN - The Triple Rock (D4th of 07/weekend)
07/02 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen
07/03 Ferndale, MI - The Loving Touch
07/04 Toronto, ON - Velvet Underground
07/05 Rochester, NY - The Bug Jar
07/06 Brooklyn, NY - St. Vitus
07/07 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
07/08 Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts
07/09 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop
07/10 Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe
07/12 Nashville, TN - The Basement East
07/13 Atlanta, GA - Aisle 5
07/14 Birmingham, AL - Saturn
07/15 Gainesville, FL - High Dive
07/16 Tallahassee, FL - Sidebar Theater
07/17 New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa
07/19 San Antonio, TX - Paper Tiger
07/20 Austin, TX - Barracuda
07/21 Dallas, TX - Gas Monkey
07/23 El Paso, TX - Lowbrow Palace
07/24 Phoenix, AZ - The Rebel Lounge
07/25 San Diego, CA - Casbah
07/28 Santa Barbara, CA - Velvet Jones
07/29 Los Angeles - Bootleg Theater - Bar Stage
07/30 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill