Baroness Add Tour Dates; Share Candid Behind-The-Scenes Video

May 13, 2013, Philadelphia – Baroness have added an additional leg to their previously announced Yellow & Green North American tour, with a number of Midwest and West Coast dates including a stop at Bumbershoot.

The band has also released a candid interview clip (http://youtu.be/0fbK53mQ3Wk) where they share their thoughts on the Summer 2012 tour bus accident and reveal the first rehearsal footage with Nick Jost (bass) and Sebastian Thomson (drums).  Baroness has a full summer ahead of them with their headlining dates kicking off on May 24 at Union Transfer in Philadelphia and upcoming stops at Chaos in Tejas, The Orion Festival, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and Heavy Mtl.

Baroness announced their eagerly awaited return to the road in early April with guitar player Pete Adams saying: “It’s hard to find the words to express how excited we are to announce this tour. Seven months ago, who knew when it would be or even if we could get back on the road.  But here we are, picking right back up where we left off.  A heartfelt thanks to everyone’s unconditional love and support for us through, let’s hope, the hardest time this band will ever see.  We told you we’d be back so let’s do this thing!”

New Yellow & Green tour dates:

August 5     Columbus, OH     A&R Music Bar

August 7     Rochester, NY     Club @ Walter Street

August 9     Toronto, ON     Mod Club

August 11     Boston, MA     Royale

August 13     Providence, RI     Met Café

August 14     New York, NY     Irving Plaza

August 17     Champaign, IL     The Highdive

August 18     Columbia, MO     Mojo’s

August 20     Colorado Springs, CO     Black Sheep

August 21     Denver, CO      Bluebird Theater

August 23     Phoenix, AZ     Club Red

August 25     San Diego, CA     The Casbah

August 27     Tucson, AZ      The Rock

August 28     Las Vegas NV     Backstage Bar

August 30     Salt Lake City, UT     Urban Lounge

September 2     Seattle, WA     Bumbershoot

September 4     Vancouver, BC     Venue

Previously announced dates:

May 24     Philadelphia, PA     Union Transfer

May 25     Baltimore, MD     Ram’s Head Live

May 26     Norfolk, VA     Jewish Mother

May 28     Charleston, SC     The Music Farm

May 29     Atlanta, GA     Center Stage

May 31     Dallas, TX     Trees

June 1     Austin, TX     Chaos in Tejas (Mohawk)

June 2     Houston, TX     Free Press Summer Festival

June 4     Lawrence, KS     Granada Theatre

June 5     St. Louis, MO     The Firebird

June 7     Detroit, MI     St. Andrew’s Hall (Official Orion After Party)

June 8     Grand Rapids, MI     The Pyramid Scheme

June 9     Madison, WI     The Majestic Theatre

June 11     Indianapolis, IN     Deluxe @ Old National Centre

June 12     Cincinnati, OH     Taft Ballroom

June 14     Pittsburgh, PA     Mr. Small’s

June 15     Huntington, WV     V Club

June 16     Manchester, TN     Bonnaroo

August 4     Chicago, IL     Lollapalooza

August 10     Montreal, QC   Heavy MTL

Inter Arma opens May 25 & 26; True Widow opens May 28 – 31; Coliseum opens June 4 to 15; Royal Thunder opens on headlining dates from Aug. 1 to Sept. 4

Tickets for the additional dates are on-sale this Friday at 10 am local time except Denver, which is on-sale Saturday at 10 am.

Baroness was sidelined when their tour bus plunged off a viaduct in the Bath area of England on Aug. 15, leaving the band and crew members with a variety of serious injuries.   Yellow & Green had been released less than a month when the accident happened, and with just four shows remaining in the six-week trek before the band could return home to enjoy the praise that was being heaped upon the double-album.  Singer/guitar player Baizley suffered extensive injuries, which, at one point, clouded the future of both the band and his return to music.

In October, after an unprecedented outpouring from fans, peers and friends, Baizley posted an open letter in which he painfully recounted the horrific crash (http://baronessmusic.com/update-from-baroness/), ending the ten-paragraph note with a fierce determination to return to music and touring.  By December, a clip of Baizley and Adams performing an acoustic rendition of “Stretchmarker” was posted on the Baroness website (http://baronessmusic.com/a-message-from-john-stretchmark-video/) with a brief note that started with “Simply put: it’s time to get back to it.”  With that, Baroness’s return to touring was not a matter of if but when.  Adams and Baizley made their first public appearance with a performance in late January at Decibel Magazine’s 100th issue celebration in Philadelphia.  Earlier this month, Baizley ventured to SXSW for a solo performance at Invisible Oranges/Brooklyn Vegan’s showcase as well as pair of art exhibits (Baizley’s art can be viewed at www.aperfectmonster.com).

Yellow & Green has garnered enormous praise and landed on various best of and year-end lists worldwide including reigning over Spin’s “20 Best Metal Albums of 2012,” iTunes awarding “Take My Bones Away” the distinction of the best metal song of the year, Metal Hammer Germany placing the release at #2 on their year-end list and BBC Music describing the album as a “nearly flawless collection” while givingYellow & Green the #13 spot in their Top 25 albums of 2012.  The 18-track record also landed on year-end lists from Amazon (#46), Close Up Sweden (#4), Decibel (#2), Guitar World (#15), Loudwire (#4), Magnet (#12), Metal Hammer Norway (#4), Metal Hammer UK (#14), Paste (#47), Pitchfork (#27), PopMatters (#4), Revolver (#4), Stereogum (#18), Terrorizer (#2), Treble (#2), Village Voice (#6) and Visions Germany (#4).

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