Tours: River City Rebels ready release, tour

Contributed by avi. Posted by Justin on Friday, September 21, 2007 at 11:45 AM (EDT)

The River City Rebels have posted the cover art and track listing for their first new album in three years, Keepsake Of Luck, being released September 25th on Springman Records' side-label Silver Sprocket.

The album is available now for mail-order from the Springman Records website and comes with a free poster.

The band will be supporting the album with a national USA tour kicking off on the release date.

1. Bright Rays
2. Farmhouse Blues
3. All The Flowers
4. Nothing Makes You Hard
5. Im Here
6. Keepsake Of Luck
7. Call It Back
8. Few More Than You
9. Lost In
10. Sick Kids
11. Ive Seen
12. Hopeful Romantic
13. Icons And Rosaries
14. Letter In Transit
15. Bright Side
16. Little To Offer

Sep 25 2007	6:30	newbery comics	w.lebanon, New Hampshire
Sep 27 2007	8:00	Ralph's Chadwick Square Diner Rock Club	WORCESTER, Massachusetts
Sep 28 2007	8:00	bennington college	bennington, Vermont
Sep 29 2007	8:00	The Annex	New York
Sep 30 2007	3:00	1327 Sabattus St.	Lewiston, Maine
Oct 5 2007	9:00	Jimmy's seaside	stamford CT
Oct 6 2007	8:00	Cafe Metropolis	Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Oct 7 2007	7:00	Michalina's Bistro	Buffalo, New York
Oct 8 2007	8:00	Red Parrot Cafe	Lorain, Ohio
Oct 9 2007	8:00	High Five	Columbus
Oct 10 2007	8:00	Mac's Bar	Lansing, Michigan
Oct 11 2007	8:00	Frankie's	Toledo, Ohio
Oct 12 2007	8:00	Reggie's Live	Chicago, Illinois
Oct 13 2007	8:00	Creepy Crawl	St Louis, Missouri
Oct 14 2007	8:00	Black Sheep Cafe	Springfield, Illinois
Oct 15 2007	8:00	1123 Club	Evansville, Indiana
Oct 16 2007	8:00	Swayze's	Marietta, Georgia
Oct 17 2007	7:00	Thee Imperial	Jacksonville, Florida
Oct 18 2007	8:00	1982 Bar	Gainesville, Florida
Oct 19 2007	8:00	Ground Zero 3059 Howard st. Spartanburg SC 29302	Spartanburg, South Carolina
Oct 20 2007	8:00	Lucky's Pub	Wilmington, North Carolina
Oct 21 2007	8:00	The Milestone	Charlotte, North Carolina
Oct 22 2007	9:00	The Brewery	Raleigh, North Carolina
Oct 23 2007	7:00	Championship Records	Lemoyne, Pennsylvania
Oct 24 2007	7:00	Westmont Grove	johnstown, Pennsylvania
Oct 25 2007	7:00	metro art gallery	Baltimor, Maryland
Oct 26 2007	7:00	Hightstown American Legion (Festival of the Dead 10)	East Windsor, New Jersey
Oct 27 2007	7:00	welfare records	haverhill, Massachusetts
Oct 28 2007	8:00	Mainstage	Pompton Lakes, New Jersey
Nov 2 2007	7:00	Redmens Hall	Johnstown, New York
Nov 24 2007		webster Theater	hardford, Connecticut

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Silver Sprocket (13 comments)

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signaldistress (September 21, 2007)

i hate to be negative, usually, but this band is horrible. they've always lacked content. I remember when they were first starting out, They're whole gimmick was that they weren't racist. Wow, here's your gold star on your forehead, way to be progressive. All the lyrics to their first album were written by one of the band member's girlfriends and they were horrible, sounded like bad Dr. Suess rhymes. I'm not one to go out and bash bands, but this band is an exception. I've seen them pull some sketchy shit at shows too. Telling people at a show to not dance around and go crazy for a certain band because "they didn't want to get the show shut down", then when they go on they tell everyone to go apeshit and tear the roof off.....lame

Zaaaack (September 21, 2007)

You mention a lot of things from the past, but Hate to Be Loved is unique as all hell and I know you'll have a tough time comparing them to any band in the last 20 years. The album that comes out on the 25th is the most solid full-length I've heard in a long time. If you don't appreciate this new CD, you don't like music.

hobojew (September 21, 2007)

Or you just don't like the CD.

bigstar (September 21, 2007)

"...unique as all hell" you obviously don't listen to bands like hanoi rocks, jaccobites, johnny thunders/ny dolls, faces, etc... but this band is to "rock n roll" what fall out boy is to pop punk, useless and far from it. Put down your shitty lawrence arms records and you find there is good music and it does not come this band.

Zaaaack (September 21, 2007)

Like I said, douche, in the last 20 years. You obviously just one of those "punx as fuck" shiteaters that have it out for the Rebels. I'm sure you enjoy a good cock or two in the ass, am I right? So what CD would you call Album of the year then? I'd love to hear this.

noizeboyz (September 21, 2007)

Bopper's girlfriend only wrote the lyrics to one song, "Fuck You". This record really is brilliant, only one of the songs sounds remotely like anything off hate to be loved. You can tell they put everything they had into it, and made something completely unexpected.

DiscoFucker (September 21, 2007)

I've had this record for a while now. Fuckin incredible. Nothing like their old shit, I'm sure everyone will call them sell outs blah blah blah. Fact is, they change every record. And the stuff on Keepsake is no different. Just plain rock n roll, in the vein of the Faces, the Rolling Stones. Even tinges of folk and country. Check it out before you knock these guys (yet again.)

TenTalonsDeep (September 21, 2007)

fucking posers.
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hitlerbadzakgood (September 21, 2007)

i dont understand the negativity towards these guys so far. i love them. i think theyve lost a little bit of thier luster now that they have no horn section, but theyre always a fucking ball live. the album is awesome too.

FresnoSka (September 21, 2007)

Does the recording have horns?

crackpotdemagogue (September 21, 2007)

there's a song called 'hopeful romantic'? is that an opposite take on the 'souls version? i hope not!

Zaaaack (September 21, 2007)

You're an idiot.

jamiep (September 24, 2007)

I don't really know what to thinik of the Rebels... I mean, I'm happy for them now that they've gotten back on the horse after basically losing everything after Hate to be Loved came out. But to me, Hate to be Loved just sounded like a bunch of dudes play as of yet unreleased New York Dolls songs. It's one of the least original albums I've ever heard. The songs weren't so bad, just PAINFULLY unoriginal.

I mean, back in 2000/2001, they'd come play church and vfw halls in my town all the time, and then, like 2 years ago, I was seeing them opening for the Street Dogs and Big D and the Kids Table (who I didn't know was playing, if I had, I might not have gone...) at the Avalon in Boston. They sounded like a completely different band, and I didn't really know what to make of them. Now, they're going on tour again, once again a completely different band.

I guess it can be cool to change from album to album, but it makes it harder for me to believe anything they say. And while change can be good, I think there's such a thing as too much change, and I think the Rebels are a prefect example of a band that changes too much. It just seems cheap, like they don't have the balls to see something through to the end, and don't have any conviction to speak of. I feel like if you're gonna completely change the lineup AND sound of a band with every album, then you should just break up and start a new fucking band that sounds like you want it to sound. The River City Rebels are ABSOLUTELY not the same band that they were when they put out Racism, Religion and War or Playing to Live, Living to Play. Not even close. So I have no idea why they're still running around calling themselves the River City Rebels.

I have to be honest, I can't stand Icons and Rosaries, I think it's a terrible song. I mean, I plan on giving the album a chance, because I've been listening to the Rebels on and off for about seven years now. But I guess I'm just not expecting much...