UPCOMING: Margot and the Nuclear So So's - Blind Pig Ann Arbor - 4/4

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Margot and The Nuclear So and So's premiered the second track, "Shannon", off their upcoming fourth LP Rot Gut, Domestic as a free MP3 download on Wednesday via RCRD LBL. The song's bleary-eyed and grimy, fuzzy bass stomp can also now be downloaded here: http://soundcloud.com/margotcloud/shannon. In January, the band released first track and single "Prozac Rock" and they premiered the accompanying animated video directed by Dom Bloink, on PasteMagazine.com last month. The Prozac Rock single, featuring B-side "Fingertips", is currently available digitally via iTunes and Amazon, and Rot Gut, Domestic will be released on March 20th, 2012 on Margot's own Mariel Recording Company.

Margot has also now announced additional tour dates that launch on May 10th at the High Noon Saloon in Madison, WI, and wrap up June 2nd at Lincoln Hall in Chicago, IL. This new run takes the band westward and includes a May 23rd show at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles, CA. Margot had previously announced an east coast tour that begins on March 31st at the CD101 Day Side A festival in Columbus, OH, and wraps up on April 21st at the Masquerade (downstairs) in Atlanta, GA, including an April 11th show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY. A full itinerary is below.

Rot Gut, Domestic is Margot's rawest take on their evocative, soaring brand of guitar-centric pop, following in the footsteps of the more brazen, rocking songs that comprised 2010's Buzzard (called "masterpieces of controlled tension" by SPIN). Singer/songwriter Richard Edwards wrote the album over 26 days in Pismo Beach, CA last spring. Plagued by chronic stomach pain, he'd headed to Pismo Beach - which had become a respite of calm and healing to the band over the years - following the last days of touring around Buzzard. Rot Gut, Domestic was conceived as the second installment of the band's 'panic pop' trilogy, Edwards composing a new set of songs about Midwestern fringe characters set to his skewed version of the pop music on which he was raised. Upon returning to his current hometown of Chicago, IL, Edwards and the rest of the band headed into Electrical Audio studio with producer/engineer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Bill Callahan, The Walkmen). Margot churned out these 12 resounding tracks over 10 days in July before Congleton returned to his Dallas, TX studio to mix the album.

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