On June 15, Scissor Sisters will launch a North American tour at the Las Vegas House of Blues in support of their forthcoming album, Magic Hour. The outing will include a show at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles (6/16) and conclude with a two-night stand at Terminal 5 in the band’s hometown of New York City on July 6 & 7. A ticket pre-sale will begin tomorrow, April 26, at 10 AM ET at http://www.scissorsisters.com/events. Tickets will go on sale to the general public this Friday, April 27, at 10 AM ET. See below for itinerary.
Set for May 29 U.S. release
on Casablanca Records, Magic
Hour is the follow-up to 2010’s Night Work, which debuted at No. 1
on
Billboard’s Top Independent Albums
Chart and
was hailed as “dirty fun” by The New York Times.
Ranging
from the first single, “Only The Horses,” a full-on
hands-in-the-air rave-pop banger, to “Shady Love,” an exuberant
rap-pop number featuring guest vocals by Harlem-based rapper/singer Azealia
Banks, Magic Hour is
supremely diverse. Recorded in New York and London, the album also finds
Scissor Sisters teaming up with Calvin Harris, Stuart Price,
Pharrell Williams, Diplo and Alex Rihda, the German electronic music producer
and DJ behind BoysNoize. (See below for tracklisting.)
“It
was a pretty collaborative effort,” says frontman Jake Shears. “It’s really
different from Night Work. That was
almost a concept album. This one is a bit more of a grab-bag of music – it’s
closest to our first record in terms of variety, and that board-game aspect
where you’re not quite sure where you’re going to land
next.”
