Photo: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Live @ St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival, Harts Mill, Port Adelaide, February 2, 2018.
Melbourne pop/rock quintet Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have just released a brand new single ‘Mainland’, a track that more than sticks to the bands winning formula. It combines Tom Russo’s observationally honest take on the tragic refugee situation in the Mediterranean with a robust and insistent rhythm memorably punctuated by a pointed hook that’s unashamedly accessible. The band that took out our Number One track of 2017 with ‘The French Press’ have done much across their two excellent EP’s to help bring health back to the world of the guitar driven band. As a result they have garnered much respect at home and internationally having scored a Laneway Festival slot and a 27 date Northern hemisphere tour that begins on the US west coast in April. Dates below. The band play those remaining Laneway dates this weekend in Brisbane and Perth with tickets still available. Mainland is out through Ivy League in Australia and Sub Pop everywhere else. Listen below and buy digitally here.
Mainland
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever (AUS)
From the single, ‘Mainland’, Ivy League/Sub Pop.
RBCF Official
Audio Stream
TOUR DATES – AUSTRALIA
Sat. Feb 10 – St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival, Brisbane, QLD @ Brisbane Showgrounds. (Tickets)
Sun. Feb 11 – St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival, Fremantle, WA @ Esplanade Reserve And West End (Tickets)
Fri. Apr. 6 – Sydney, OR @ Oxford Art Factory w/ Spike Vincent
Sat. Apr. 7 – Seattle, WA @ Howler w/ Mod Con & Closet Straights
TOUR DATES – NORTH AMERICA
Fri. Apr. 13 – Sun. Apr. 15 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
Fri. Apr. 20 – Sun. Apr. 22 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
Tue. Apr. 24 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
Wed. Apr. 25 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
Fri. Apr. 27 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
Sat. Apr. 28 – Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
Mon. Apr. 30 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
Wed. May 2 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern
Thu. May 3 – Nashville, TN @ The Basement
Fri. May 4 – Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees Festival
Sat. May 5 – Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
Sun. May 6 – Washington, DC @ DC9
Tue. May 8 – Toronto, ON @ The Garrison
Thu. May 10 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
Fri. May 11 – Allston, MA @ Great Scott
Sat. May 12 – Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade
TOUR DATES UK & EUROPE
Fri. May 18 – Nottingham, UK @ Rescue Rooms
Sun. May 20 – Glasgow, UK @ CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts
Mon. May 21 – Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
Tue. May 22 – London, UK @ Electric Ballroom
Thu. May 24 – Paris, FR @ Point Ephemere
Sat. May 26 – Amsterdam, NL @ London Calling
Mon. May 28 – Hamburg, DE @ Molotow
Tue. May 29 – Berlin, DE @ Lido
Thu. May. 31 – Brussels, BE @ AB Club