ROGER CLYNE & THE PEACEMAKERS, June 6

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 6, 2009
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ROGER CLYNE & THE PEACEMAKERS
“Can’t-Miss” Nationwide Spring ’09 Tour Rolls Into
[VENUE] in [CITY]
* [DAY], [MONTH] [DAY], 2009 *

Non-conformist Rock and Rollers release web-only live album, Glow In The Dark, over 14 weeks at www.azpeacemakers.com
"…the only pigeonhole Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers fit comfortably within is the one marked 'great music.'" – Cincinnati City Beat

Legendary rock and roll revolutionaries Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers (RCPM) are coming to your city when its lauded nationwide tour stops in [CITY, STATE] at [VENUE] on [DAY], [MONTH] [DAY], 2009 at [TiME]. TICKET INFO HERE.

RCPM’s 2009 Tour includes stops at the acclaimed Tempe Music Festival April 3, The Pima County Fair in Tucson April 26 and the annual band-hosted celebration of life and music, Circus Mexicus in Rocky Point, Mexico, June 6. With an intriguing array of unrivaled songs (laced with flavorful melodies, etched-in-your-brain hooks and inventive lyrics), RCPM injects a signature brand of high-energy showmanship into each of its live performances. Fans of the band know there’s nothing quite like a live Peacemakers show.

Glow In The Dark, RCPM’s new live web-only release, captures the spirit and vigor of RCPM live. The band once again loaded their guitars, drum sticks and amps onto the tour bus and traveled thousands of miles across North America in ‘08, delivering the kind of high energy rock show night after night that has become a Peacemakers' trademark. Music fans can experience the energy and excitement from one of the standout shows of the year with Glow In The Dark, which was recorded at Mexicali Blues in Teaneck, New Jersey. To commemorate this memorable performance, RCPM is raising one more round with fans to celebrate with the unconventional release of the new live album.

Beginning Monday, February 2, and continuing for 14 consecutive weeks, fans have a unique opportunity to not only hear the show, but watch the band perform a different song, both from the RCPM and Refreshments catalogs, each week. Producer extraordinaire Clif Norrell, the man behind The Refreshments' classic Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big and Buzzy as well as RCPM's No More Beautiful World and Turbo Ocho, was also there with trumpet in hand to work his magic on and off the stage.

Similar to 2008’s Turbo Ocho VivaCast, a page has been set up on www.azpeacemakers.com where fans will find one new song from the show as well as the accompanying concert footage, each week through May 2009. Each song and video will be streaming from the site to enjoy free of charge. As soon as a new song is posted on the site, it will also be available for purchase in RCPM’s digital download store. Fans can either buy a new song each week, or at the end of the 14 weeks, purchase the entire Glow In The Dark album at once. Glow In The Dark will not be released in standard CD form – only as a digital download available only through the RCPM website.

In March 2008, RCPM released the ambitious CD/DVD Turbo Ocho. Featuring rock and roll in its purest form – edgy, careless and celebratory – the release was a result of the first-ever RCPM “VivaCast” (a term the band self-coined), which included a web cast that brought daily audio and video updates to thousands of homes during the recording process, culminating with a sold out concert in Cholla Bay, Mexico. With Turbo Ocho and now, again with Glow In The Dark, RCPM continues to break through old definitions of what is expected of a rock band to forge its own path directly to what matters most – the fans.

It’s no wonder RCPM’s out-of-the-box approach to recordings and releases garners a lot of attention, but at the end of the day, creating great music and making the live music experience an unforgettable one is the band’s primary focus. Clyne’s songwriting is often compared to the greats of Rock and Americana music, including Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, John Mellencamp and Steve Earle. As frontman for mid-90s The Refreshments, Clyne scored hits with the singles “Banditos” and “Down Together” and also secured a place in TV history when he penned and performed the theme for the hit animated FOX-TV show, King of the Hill.

RCPM Spring 2009 Tour Dates:

Feb. 19 Denver, CO The Soiled Dove Underground
Feb. 20-21 Ft. Collins, CO Road 24 Bike Bar
Feb. 28 Austin, TX Antone's
March 1 Houston, TX Continental Club
March 2 New Orleans, LA The Parish @ House of Blues
March 3 Birmingham, AL The Nick
March 5 Tampa, FL Orpheum
March 6 Orlando, FL The Social
March 7 Jacksonville, FL Jack Rabbits
March 10 Atlanta, GA Smith's Olde Bar
March 11 Nashville, TN Exit / In
March 12 St. Louis, MO Blueberry Hill
March 13 Oklahoma City, OK Wormy Dog Saloon
March 14 Tulsa, OK The Flytrap Music Hall
April 3 Tempe, AZ Tempe Music Festival - Tempe Beach Park
April 5 Scottsdale, AZ The Venue of Scottsdale
April 9 West Hollywood, CA Key Club
April 11 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
April 14 Reno, NV The Undergound
April 15 Salt Lake city, UT Bar Deluxe
April 16 Boise, ID Knitting Factory Concert Hous
April 17 Portland, OR Berbati's Pan
April 18 Seattle, WA Nectar
April 19 Spokane, WA Knitting Factory Concert
April 21 Billings, MT The Railyard
April 22 Colorado, CO The Black Sheep
April 25 Tucson, AZ Downtown Prescott Courthouse
(in front of the Chamber of Commerce)
April 26 Tucson, AZ Pima County Fair
June 6 Rocky Point, Mexico Circus Mexicus

Recent Critical Acclaim for RCPM:
“The result of the band’s eight-day work haul is chronicled in its April 29 release, ‘Turbo Ocho,’…eight punchy rock tunes warmed with Southwestern charm…the ‘Ocho’ sessions carry the sonic kin to the likes of the Black Crowes spitfire and the gritty spirit of Bruce Springsteen.”
– Albuquerque Journal

“…Turbo Ocho brings thick guitar riffs and soaring, shouted vocals with straight-forward lyrics out to play. Clyne and his crew are here to have fun and they are not done until they are done.”
– PlugInMusic.com

“The result (of Turbo Ocho) is a mixture of appealing Latin-flavored tracks and some of the most hard-edged rock that Clyne has recorded in some time.”
- Arizona Republic 3.9.08

“What has remained unchanged is Clyne's appealing mix of roots music and arena rock.”
– Dallas Observer 3.20.08

“The band not only reached its goal of recording eight songs, but it came up with eight stellar tunes that are destined to be RCPM concert standards. And Clyne, who is as much a philosopher as he is a musician, ended up writing some of the strongest lyrics of his career.”
– Deseret News [Salt Lake City, UT] 4.11.08