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Richard Buckner plays The Line of Best Fit

February 6, 2012 – 4:19 pm

Richard Buckner played a set for The Line of Best Fit when he was last in Europe, and has just announced another trip for May. Don’t miss Richard on the road, either here or abroad, in 2012. Our Blood is available in stores and online now!

Richard Buckner on tour:
Feb 22 New Haven, CT BAR
Feb 24 Lexington, KY Cosmic Charlie’s
Feb 25 Atlanta, GA Highland Inn Ballroom
Feb 27 Easton, MD The NightCat
Mar 02 Bayport, NY The Grey Horse Tavern
Mar 10 North Adams, MA MASS MoCA
May 01 Winchester, UK The Railway
May 02 York, UK Dutchess of York
May 03 Bury, UK The Met
May 04 Kilkenny, IE Kilkenny Festival
May 05 Kilkenny, IE Kilkenny Festival
May 06 Belfast, IE Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival
May 07 London, UK Cecil Sharp House
May 08 Newcastle, UK The Cluny 2

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Richard Buckner visits Relix Magazine & Daytrotter in support of “Our Blood”

November 1, 2011 – 4:31 am

Richard Buckner visited Relix Magazine and played “Traitor” from his new album Our Blood.

Watch the performance now at Relix.com.

Richard also stopped by the Daytrotter studios on his travels to play a few tracks. Listen online now.

Our Blood is available on CD, LP and digital download now in the Merge store.

Richard Buckner on tour:
Nov 06 Winchester, UK – The Railway
Nov 07 London, UK – Pancras Old Church
Nov 08 Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
Nov 09 Cardiff, UK – The Buffalo Bar
Nov 10 Glasgow, UK – The Captain’s Rest
Nov 12 Liverpool, UK – Americana UK Festival
Nov 13 Brighton, UK – The Basement
Nov 14 London, UK – The Social
Nov 18 Trondheim, NO – Credo
Nov 19 Oslo, NO – Mono
Nov 21 Stockholm, SE – Debaser
Nov 22 Gothenburg, SE – Jazzhuset
Nov 23 Malmo, SE – KB
Nov 24 Norderstedt, DE – The Music Star
Nov 25 Utrecht, NL – Le Guess Who Festival
Nov 26 Den Haag, NL – Paard
Nov 27 Ottersum, NL – Roepaen
Nov 29 Ravenna, IT – Bronson Club

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Richard Buckner visits KDHX St. Louis

September 28, 2011 – 3:50 pm

Richard Buckner stopped by the KDHX studios in St. Louis before playing the Billiken Club and played a 4-song set for the radio waves. The session is now archived at KDHX.org, and you can listen below!

A European tour for Richard has just been announced! Be sure to catch him on the road in October and November, and check back for a few more dates.

Our Blood is available in stores and online now.

Richard Buckner on tour:
Sep 28 Little Rock, AR Sticky Fingerz Rock ‘N’ Roll Chicken Shack
Sep 29 Memphis, TN HiTone Cafe
Oct 01 Ft. Worth, TX Ft. Worth Music Fest after show at Lola’s
Oct 02 Austin, TX Cactus Café
Oct 04 Mobile, AL Satori Coffee House
Oct 07 Columbia, SC Tapp’s Art Center
Oct 08 Asheville, NC The Grey Eagle
Nov 06 Winchester, UK The Railway
Nov 07 London, UK Pancras Old Church
Nov 08 Leeds, UK Brudenell Social Club w/ Mark Eitzel
Nov 09 Cardiff, UK The Buffalo Bar w/ Mark Eitzel
Nov 10 Glasgow, UK The Captain’s Rest
Nov 12 Liverpool, UK Americana UK Festival w/ Mark Eitzel
Nov 13 Brighton, UK The Basement
Nov 18 Trondheim, NO Credo
Nov 19 Oslo, NO Mono
Nov 21 Stockholm, SE Debaser
Nov 22 Gothenburg, SE Jazzhuset
Nov 23 Malmo, SE KB
Nov 24 Norderstedt, DE The Music Star
Nov 25 Utrecht, NL Le Guess Who Festival
Nov 26 Den Haag, NL Paard
Nov 27 Ottersum, NL Roepaen
Nov 29 Ravenna, IT Bronson Club

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Listen to Richard Buckner & David Kilgour’s archived KEXP sessions now!

August 23, 2011 – 11:18 am

Richard Buckner & David Kilgour are currently on the road together in support of their new releases, Our Blood and Left by Soft! Don’t miss this opportunity to see two legendary songwriters and guitar “gods” share the stage!

David Malitz of the Washington Post writes, “The new Left by Soft is his seventh album and solidifies his status as an unlikely guitar god.” Read the interview with David Kilgour interview here.

Both Richard & David stopped by KEXP Seattle last week. You can now listen to the sessions online! David Kilgour’s set is archived here, and Richard Buckner’s set is here.

Richard Buckner & David Kilgour on tour:
Aug 23 Atlanta, GA – Smith’s Olde Bar
Aug 24 Chapel Hill, NC – The ArtsCenter
Aug 25 Arlington, VA – IOTA Club & Café
Aug 27 Brooklyn, NY – The Bell House
Aug 28 Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
Aug 31 Los Angeles, CA – Old Style Guitar Shop * David Kilgour only

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Richard Buckner plays “Thief” for BreakThru Radio

August 2, 2011 – 5:06 pm

Our Blood is in stores today!

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Richard Buckner’s “Our Blood” in stores now!

July 25, 2011 – 10:22 am

Richard Buckner fans rejoice! His highly anticipated new album Our Blood is available today on CD, LP, and digital download from your favorite local record stores and digital providers, as well as in the Merge store!

“Our Blood, Buckner’s third for Merge, is worth the wait. Urgent but elaborate, it’s a record that finds Buckner’s baritone as fluid and forceful as it’s ever been, backed by arrangements that strike the perfect balance between Spartan and swollen.” —IFC

“The nine songs here provide an excellent crash course in Buckner’s unlikely combination of gifts, most notably his ability to sound bone-tired and weather-beaten at the same time his songs shimmer agreeably. Even when it slows to a crawl, Our Blood is full of stealthy, subtle earworms—appropriate, given the stubborn resiliency of the immensely gifted artist who crafted them.” —NPR

Magnet Magazine has a series of posts written by Richard this week, as he acts as editor of the site. The link will be updated through out the week with some of Buckner’s favorite things!

Richard Buckner will be teaming up with David Kilgour for a co-headlining tour beginning August 16 in Los Angeles! It will be Kilgour’s first stateside visit since the release of his latest album Left by Soft. Don’t miss this opportunity to see two legendary songwriters and guitar “gods” share the stage!

Richard Buckner on tour:
# with David Kilgour
Aug 16 Los Angeles, CA – Bootleg Theater #
Aug 17 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall #
Aug 18 Arcata, CA – The Logger Bar #
Aug 19 Portland, OR – Bunk Bar #
Aug 20 Seattle, WA – The Triple Door #
Aug 23 Atlanta, GA – Smith’s Olde Bar #
Aug 24 Carrboro, NC – The ArtsCenter #
Aug 25 Arlington, VA – IOTA Club & Cafe #
Aug 27 Brooklyn, NY – The Bell House #
Aug 28 Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall #
Sep 09–11 Big Indian, NY – Truck Festival

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David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights perform “Left by Soft” live in New Zealand

June 29, 2011 – 3:04 pm

David shares some details about the video and his one-of-a-kind guitar:

“We were playing at the Empire in Dunedin, an old bar that only holds abut 140 people and was made famous by the old Dunedin Sound-ers. The guitar I’m playing is a hybrid—the neck is off an oldish Epiphone acoustic, and the body was made by a guitar dude called Rob Scott. One weird thing about it is that the pickups sit on rails, so I can move them to whatever position/sound I want. It has the sound of mountains collapsing, especially at volume.”

Left by Soft is available on CD and digital download in the Merge store.

David Kilgour & Richard Buckner on tour:

Aug 16 Los Angeles, CA – Bootleg Theater

Aug 17 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall

Aug 19 Portland, OR – Bunk Bar

Aug 20 Seattle, WA – The Triple Door

Aug 23 Atlanta, GA – Smith’s Olde Bar

Aug 24 Chapel Hill, NC – The ArtsCenter

Aug 25 Arlington, VA – IOTA Club & Café

Aug 27 Brooklyn, NY – The Bell House

Aug 28 Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall

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Richard Buckner & David Kilgour embark on co-headlining tour

June 29, 2011 – 2:29 pm

Richard Buckner & David Kilgour will team up for a co-headlining tour beginning August 16 in Los Angeles! Don’t miss this opportunity to see two legendary songwriters and guitar “gods” share the stage!

Also, David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights have just released a live video for the title track off their latest release, Left by Soft. David shares some details about the video and his one-of-a-kind guitar:

“We were playing at the Empire in Dunedin, an old bar that only holds abut 140 people and was made famous by the old Dunedin Sound-ers. The guitar I’m playing is a hybrid—the neck is off an oldish Epiphone acoustic, and the body was made by a guitar dude called Rob Scott. One weird thing about it is that the pickups sit on rails, so I can move them to whatever position/sound I want. It has the sound of mountains collapsing, especially at volume.”

Watch David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights perform “Left by Soft” live in New Zealand

Richard Buckner’s new album Our Blood is available for pre-order on CD and LP now in the Merge store. While supplies last, Our Blood pre-orders come with a limited-edition “Don’t Blame Me I Voted for Richard Buckner” bumper sticker! Also, David Kilgour’s new album Left by Soft is available on CD and digital download now in the Merge store.

Richard Buckner & David Kilgour on tour:

* = Richard Buckner only

July 29 Chicago, IL – Schubas*

July 30 Milwaukee, WI – 3rd Annual Radio Summer Camp Music Festival*

July 31 Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock Social Club*

Aug 16 Los Angeles, CA – Bootleg Theater

Aug 17 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall

Aug 19 Portland, OR – Bunk Bar

Aug 20 Seattle, WA – The Triple Door

Aug 23 Atlanta, GA – Smith’s Olde Bar

Aug 24 Chapel Hill, NC – The ArtsCenter

Aug 25 Arlington, VA – IOTA Club & Café

Aug 27 Brooklyn, NY – The Bell House

Aug 28 Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall

Sept 09 Big Indian, NY – Truck Festival*

Sept 10 Big Indian, NY – Truck Festival*

Sept 11 Big Indian, NY – Truck Festival*

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Pre-order Richard Buckner’s ‘Our Blood’ & receive a bumper sticker!

June 22, 2011 – 12:53 pm

Richard Buckner‘s long-awaited new album Our Blood will be in stores on August 2. Pre-order Our Blood now on CD or LP in the Merge store to receive a limited-edition “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted For Richard Buckner” bumper sticker!

Be the envy of your friends and all who drive behind you with this pledge of support to our favorite road warrior, Richard Buckner.

Richard Buckner premiered “Escape” from Our Blood and talked about the making of the new record on IFC.com. Listen and read here.

Richard Buckner on tour:
July 29 Chicago, IL Schuba’s
July 30 Milwaukee, WI WMSE 3rd Annual Radio Summer Camp
July 31 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock Social Club

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An interview with Richard Buckner & a new MP3 from “Our Blood” now at IFC.com

June 16, 2011 – 4:49 pm

Richard Buckner’s highly anticipated new album Our Blood will be in stores on August 2, but you can download a free MP3 of “Escape” and read an interview with Richard now exclusively at IFC.com!

IFC.com’s Grayson Currin writes:

Our Blood, Buckner’s third for Merge, is worth the wait. Urgent but elaborate, it’s a record that finds Buckner’s baritone as fluid and forceful as it’s ever been, backed by arrangements that strike the perfect balance between Spartan and swollen. In fact, as a Buckner devotee, I’m willing to claim it’s his best since the 1997 landmark Devotion + Doubt. What’s more, the second track, “Escape,” might just be the best three minutes of music he’s written since that album’s “Ed’s Song.” Informed by recent years of working tough jobs in upstate New York and by his generally peripatetic nature, it’s a resilient tune for temporary escape.

Download “Escape” right here, for the first time anywhere

Our Blood is available for pre-order on CD and LP now in the Merge store. Orders will include an album poster and a special Richard Buckner bumper sticker while supplies last.

Richard Buckner on tour:
July 29 Chicago, IL Schuba’s
July 30 Milwaukee, WI WMSE 3rd Annual Radio Summer Camp
July 31 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock Social Club

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Richard Buckner announces “Our Blood” for August

May 3, 2011 – 12:18 pm

Since 2006’s Meadow, fans of Richard Buckner have been clamoring for new material and wondering what was keeping their hero from releasing the new songs he would perform on the road. Well, it’s a long story!

First, there was the score to a film that never happened. Then there was a brief brush with the law over a headless corpse in a burned-out car that had all eyes in Buckner’s small hometown in upstate New York turned toward him and his long-suffering truck. Shortly after a move to a safer, less popular corpse dumping ground, the death of his tape machine led to yet another reboot. After Richard called in pedal steel and percussion players and put new mixes on his laptop, his new “safer” place was burglarized. Goodbye, laptop.

Buckner says: “Eventually, the recording machine was resuscitated and some of the material was recovered. Cracks were patched. Parts were redundantly re-invented. Commas were moved. Insinuations were re-insinuated until the last percussive breaths of those final OCD utterances were expelled like the final heaves of bile, wept-out long after the climactic drama had faded to a somber, blurry moment of truth and voilà!, the record was done, or, let us be clear, abandoned like the charred shell of a car with a nice stereo.”

And so finally, we present Our Blood, in stores August 2, 2011!

Download a free MP3 of “Traitor” now

Pre-order Our Blood on CD and LP now in the Merge store. Our Blood is the first Richard Buckner album to be released on vinyl!

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Richard Buckner tours with Sebadoh

February 9, 2011 – 2:31 pm

Richard Buckner will be opening for Sebadoh on their tour beginning March 23 in Milford, CT and ending with two nights at the Bowery Ballroom in New York on April 10 and 11.

Richard is working on the follow-up to 2006′s Meadow, but in the meantime, you can visit the Merge store for digital reissues of Bloomed, The Hill, and Impasse. You can also find the two Merge releases – Meadow and Dents and Shells – on CD and digital download.

Richard Buckner on tour with Sebadoh:
Mar 23 Milford, CT – Daniel Street
Mar 24 Boston, MA – Paradise
Mar 25 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
Mar 26 Washington, DC – Black Cat
Mar 27 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
Mar 28 Atlanta, GA – The Earl
Mar 29 Orlando, FL – The Social
Mar 31 Birmingham, AL – The Bottletree
Apr 01 Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge
Apr 02 St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway
Apr 03 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
Apr 04 Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
Apr 08 Northampton, MA – Pearl Street
Apr 09 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
Apr 10 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom

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17	Mexico City	Foro Sol
18	Mexico City	Foro Sol

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14	Indio, CA	Coachella
21	Indio, CA	Coachella

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23	Berlin	Babylon
24	Berlin	Babylon
25	Dresden	Beatpol
26	Leipzig	Werk II
27	Vienna	Konzerthaus
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07	Philadelphia, PA	Union Transfer
10	Minehead	All Tomorrow's Parties curated by Jeff Mangum
18	Vancouver	The Vogue
19	Seattle, WA	Neptune Theatre
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February
08	Milwaukee, WI	Pabst Theater
10	Athens, GA	40 Watt
11	Athens, GA	40 Watt
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09	Minehead	ATP curated by Jeff Mangum
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Richard Buckner plays The Line of Best Fit

Richard Buckner visits Relix Magazine & Daytrotter in support of “Our Blood”

Richard Buckner visits KDHX St. Louis

Listen to Richard Buckner & David Kilgour’s archived KEXP sessions now!

Richard Buckner plays “Thief” for BreakThru Radio

Richard Buckner’s “Our Blood” in stores now!

David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights perform “Left by Soft” live in New Zealand

Richard Buckner & David Kilgour embark on co-headlining tour

Pre-order Richard Buckner’s ‘Our Blood’ & receive a bumper sticker!

An interview with Richard Buckner & a new MP3 from “Our Blood” now at IFC.com

Richard Buckner announces “Our Blood” for August

Richard Buckner tours with Sebadoh

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25	San Francisco, CA	Great American Music Hall
26	Los Angeles, CA	Troubadour
April
26	New York, NY	Bowery Ballroom
27	Cambridge, MA	Middle East - Downstairs
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February
22	New Haven, CT	BAR
24	Lexington, KY	Cosmic Charlie's
25	Atlanta, GA	Highland Inn Ballroom
27	Easton, MD	The NightCat
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02	Bayport, NY	The Grey Horse Tavern
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24	San Francisco, CA	Cafe Du Nord
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09	Charlotte, NC	Visulite Theatre
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12	Baton Rouge, LA	Red Star Bar
20	Birmingham, AL	The Bottletree
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09	Denton, TX	35 Denton
13	New York, NY	Carnegie Hall
24	New York, NY	Merkin Hall

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11	Chapel Hill, NC	The Cave
18	Durham, NC	Duke Coffeehouse
23	San Francisco, CA	Swedish American Hall

March
20	London	Leicester Square Theatre
21	Paris	Le Zenith
22	Lyon	Transbordeur
23	Lille	Theatre Sebastopol
25	London	Royal Albert Hall
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08	Berlin	Lido
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07	Perth	The Bakery
09	Melbourne	Corner Hotel
10	Victoria	Golden Plains Festival
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