Just announced shows and such... TWIN SHADOW

Just announced: Twin Shadow is making their (or, his - aka George Lewis Jr.'s) way back to the Triangle by way of the Cat's Cradle on Sunday, June 16. Tickets go on sale to the public 02/12/13, but there is a pre-sale via Topspin when you buy the digital album (I cannot confirm this, because i did not - anyone?) and you can buy tickets as of today.

He is splitting the bill with Elliphant - who i don't know so well, but what I'm hearing so far, i'm digging.

The tour is still in support of the last album, confess, but according to Pitchfork it has a theme: "Like his previous tours surrounding the record, this trip will have a theme: 'True Story.' On each date, either Lewis himself or his father will tell the audience a story. 'A gem from the depths of my father's life and a stone from the recent corners of mine,' Lewis wrote in a statement, 'tales retold from lovers and friends.'"

Friends of Hopscotch may recall seeing Twin Shadow in Hopscotch 2011 when he blew it up at Lincoln Theater on Friday night... I got a moment after the raging dance-party-crowd-surf extravaganza and before The Foreign Exchange took the stage to actually get a pic and setlist signed from Mr. Lewis. Opinion: Very cool guy, very excellent show. I'm looking forward to this one and hope Chapel Hill can live up to my expectations!

Here is a clip from the Hopscotch show at Lincoln, 2011:

Here is a picture of me with the man after the show:

stop looking so thrilled, twin shadow.

at this point, many friends who were not so into the hip-hop disappeared so I was running solo the rest of this night and got down and dirty w/ foreign exchange & about 200 people I did not know until it was afterparty time... this was one of my favorite Hopscotch nights ever, btw.


And here is my final recommendation: come have a dance party with me & twin shadow. holler.