Alberta Cross and Dead Confederate Team Up For Tour

The trek kicks off September 6 in Portland, OR and the month-long tour will take the bands across the country to cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and more.

The tour follows a busy summer for Alberta Cross, who will head to Australia and Japan later this month. Widely praised for their live shows, Alberta Cross has headlined sold out shows across the nation, and have shared the stage in the U.S. and Europe with Them Crooked Vultures, Oasis, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Mumford & Sons, among others.

Their much-anticipated ATO Records debut Broken Side of Time is being widely praised by critics, with Esquire declaring "as electrically dark as it is electrifyingly determined," and Billboard calling it "a step forward in cementing their place in American blues-rock," that "leaves an unmistakable mark." Likewise, they were featured as a Breaking Artist in Rolling Stone, which praises them for "combining wind tunnels of bent guitar riffs and distorted power chords with the haunting melodies of rural American music. It's all topped by Ericson Stakee's sweet, high-lonesome voice, which recalls both Jim James and Neil Young."

Alberta Cross took shape when Sweden-born guitarist/vocalist Petter Ericson Stakee and bassist Terry Wolfers, a Brit himself, began jamming together in London's east end. Their acclaimed EP The Thief & the Heartbreaker earned the band widespread critical praise with NPR finding "It's a long way from London to Laurel Canyon, but they seem to have found the portal." Following a series of U.K. touring slots with Oasis, The Shins and Bat for Lashes, Alberta Cross relocated to New York City in pursuit of renewed creative energy and new challenges.

Broken Side of Time is born of the struggles and setbacks the band faced along the way. The album serves as Alberta Cross' official introduction to the U.S. As Stakee explains, "It's kind of a desperation album, a darker album; it's definitely angrier. We've been in a crazy place during the whole album and you can hear that."

Led by Stakee and Wolfers, Alberta Cross is rounded out by guitarist Sam Kearney, drummer Austin Beede and keyboardist Alec Higgins. Broken Side of Time was recorded in Austin, TX and produced by Mike McCarthy (Spoon, Dead Confederate, Heartless Bastards). John O'Mahony (Depeche Mode, Coldplay, Kasabian) mixed the album at Electric Lady in New York City.

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