Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death Hit the Road to Open for Their Folkier Friends, the Cave Singers

This weekend at the Rendezvous, TOLSATD celebrated the release of their latest, Some of Us Are in This Together, a characteristically aggressive and caustic full-length that includes the sludgy/awesome lead single, "The Dirty Street." Today, their old friends in the Cave Singers are also playing a release show--a free, all-ages in-store performance at Easy Street Records in Queen Anne--to mark their third record, No Witch, which is out today. (SW's Eric Grandy says No Witch is the band's "strongest album yet": read his full review of it on Pitchfork).

Soon the two bands will celebrate their most recent works together--Triumph of Lethargy is set to hit the road with the Cave Singers next month, opening for their folkier friends all up and down California.

It might seem like a strange musical pairing--folk + sludgecore?--but then again Grandy does say that No Witch is dronier, bleaker, and darker than the Cave Singers' previous two records, and on the other side, maybe some Cave Singers fiddling and finger-picking will pick up the audience after a blasted Triumph set.

Either way, tour dates are below:
03.10.11 - San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
03.11.11 - Big Sur, CA @ Fernwood w
03.12.11 - Visalia, CA @ Cellar Door
03.14.11 - San Diego, CA @ Casbah

No Seattle date's been announced, but the Cave Singers are headlining the Showbox at the Market on April 23, so let's hope we'll get to see the two bands together then.

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