Volcano Choir’s First US Tour Dates

Posted: February 16th, 2011 by Lucy

When Volcano Choir released Unmap on Jagjaguwar in 2009, it wasn’t clear if the band would ever perform its songs on stage. Then, late last year, Volcano Choir and Collections of Colonies of Bees performed a short and extremely successful Japanese tour. Contrarede’s live footage of these performances blew our minds (watch the video for “Island, IS” above).

We are very happy to announce two Volcano Choir concerts this spring in the U.S.

03/25/11 Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center (tickets) All Ages

03/26/11 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall (tickets) All Ages

Concert Footage of Volcano Choir Performing “Island, IS” in Tokyo

Posted: November 9th, 2010 by Lucy

Pardon my French, but Good Lord! This is incredible. Contrarede filmed the band’s concert (specifically “Island, IS) at O-West.  Justin Vernon tweeted “dudes! were playing! it’s goin good!” at us yesterday, and like, yeah, dude, that is an understatement.

It looks like the boys are having a fun time in Japan. Justin has been posting photos from the tour on the blogtower.

Volcano Choir Comes To Life – Rehearses in Eau Claire for Japan Tour

Posted: November 5th, 2010 by Lucy

Volcano Choir – “Still” from Volcano Choir on Vimeo.

Some of the questions raised when we announced the existence of Volcano Choir were “When are they going to tour?” and “How will they re-create this live?” The answers to those are 1) They will tour only in Japan, of course, and 2) With lots of practice. We received two videos of Volcano Choir rehearsal, and I’ll be damned if I don’t have a passport. The evolution of “Still” is particularly great.

Volcano Choir – “And Gather” from Volcano Choir on Vimeo.

For those of you who aren’t in Japan, don’t cry! Just enjoy the videos we have, and try not to drown your sorrows in Four Lokos this weekend. If you DO live in Japan, go buy these men your finest Japanese beverages.

11/8 Mon Tokyo @ Shibuya O-west
11/9 Tues Tokyo @ Shibuya O-nest
11/10 Wed Nagoya @ Huckfin
11/11 Thurs Osaka @ Sunsui

Click here to purchase Unmap by Volcano Choir.

Volcano Choir to Tour Japan…and Nowhere Else

Posted: September 13th, 2010 by Lucy

If you are a fan of Collections of Colonies of Bees/Justin Vernon’s strange and wonderful Volcano Choir collaboration, you might want to dust off your passport! All members (including Justin) are going to play a few shows in Japan. No plans to tour anywhere else are in the works. Isn’t that something? Have fun, guys!

More info and tickets can be found at the Contrarede site here.

11-08 Tokyo, Japan – O-West
11-10 Nagoya, Japan – Huckfinn
11-11 Osaka, Japan – Sunsui

New Music From Volcano Choir Crew- Tiny Creatures Featuring Justin Vernon on “An Iris”

Posted: September 1st, 2010 by Stefania

What do Thomas Winceck and Kanye West have in common? They both recruited our man Justin Vernon on a recent track of theirs!

Wincek (Collections Of Colonies Of Bees, Volcano Choir) is leading the path for his new project, All Tiny Creatures.  You can catch the band’s first song, “An Iris”(Feat. Justin Vernon) over at Stereogum.  They also featured a mixtape with a handful of other tunes off their upcoming debut, Harbors.