If you are in a rock band in 2012, it often feels like the best possible goal you could have for yourself is figuring out how to translate all your energy and emotion into every song you release in a sort of whatever-minute cathartic release of angst and anger and/or happiness or whatever else. Naomi Punk are great at this. "Burned Body" stomps and howls and trips over itself in the best way, like this was actually just a rough version of a song and when they got done recording it, they realized it worked just fine as is. The video made by Robin Stein, Margaret Jones & Jesse Brown, is mostly stark black and white stop motion, isn't going to change your world, but it'll make you want to feel something—whatever that something is will probably be just fine.
August:
17 Seattle WA @ Cairo*
21 Missoula MT @ VFW Post #209
22 Fargo ND @ Slanty House
23 Minneapolis MN @ Hexagon
24 Madison WI @ Project Lodge
25 Chicago IL @ The Whip
27 Kingston ON @ The Artel
28 Montreal QC @ Brassierie Beaubien
29 Brooklyn NY @ Death By Audio^
30 Cambridge MA @ TT The Bears Place
31 Red Hook NY @ Creep Colony (at Bard College)
September:
01 Philadelphia PA @ Little Berlin Gallery
02 Washington DC @ Comet Ping Pong
05 Memphis TN @ Lamplighter
06 Oxford MS @ TBA
07 Baton Rouge LA @ Red Star
08 Austin TX @ Cheer Up Charlies
09 Marfa TX @ TBA
11 Flagstaff AZ @ Big House
12 Phoenix AZ @ Meat Market Garment Factory
13 Murrietta CA @ The Dial
14 Los Angeles CA @ TBA
15 Davis CA @ TBA
16 San Francisco CA @ TBA
17 Portland OR @ Recess Gallery
21 Vancouver BC @ 360 Glen
22 Olympia WA @ Old School
27 Seattle WA @ Black Lodge*^
* with m women
^ with nude beach