Bigbang have been dubbed Norway’s Greatest Live Band, and have been a major force in the Norwegian music scene for over a decade. They will be touring the US through March 24th.
During the past two years, the band has spent time focusing on the American market. Based in California, they have toured the country, playing intimate gigs and promoting their American debut From Acid to Zen, a compilation of songs from previously released albums.
The album was very well received and resulted in great reviews among others from Rolling Stone Magazine’s Editor David Fricke: "It’s a shotgun buffet, like those early U.S. LPs by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones that combined album tracks and singles from unrelated sessions, and it succeeds the same way: like an instant greatest-hits record. Singer-guitarist-songwriter Øystein Greni has the right history in his genes — his dad sang in a Norwegian band that opened for Led Zeppelin in 1968 — and he grounds songs like “Early December,” “Hurricane Boy” and the brilliantly titled “From Acid to Zen” in the eternal power-chord charge and fish-hook riffs of the Stones and the Who. But Greni also has a knack for wringing fresh excitement from the familiar: the country-angel harmonies and ice-Byrds guitar in the new version of “Wild Bird,” the improbable dream of Badfinger and Hüsker Dü in “The One.” www.myspace.com/smallbang
Tour Schedule:
March 1 San Diego at Casbah with The Hounds Below
March 6 In-Store, Origami, Echo Park
March 8 Troubadour, West Hollywod
March 10 Fullerton at The Slide Bar with Year Long Disaster
March 13 Denton at Andy´s Bar
March 17 Austin, SXSW at Marias Tacos
March 18 Austin, SXSW at Carousel Lounge
March 20 Austin, SXSW at Cedar Door
March 21 Austin at Leeanns Barn
March 23 Memphis at Hi-Tone
March 24 New York at Pianos
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