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All Them Witches Release Live on the Internet CD & LP

Posted in Whathaveyou on March 22nd, 2022 by JJ Koczan

Dec. 19, 2020. I actually didn’t watch All Them Witches‘ ‘Live on the Internet’ stream when the Nashville then-trio premiered it. Not for any disdain toward the band or the idea of streaming. I kind of knew it would be good and decided that would make me sad and that was that. Looking at the setlist now, I’ll do penance ordering the CD. Hardly flagellation, as punishments go.

They’re on the road most of this year, which is awesome and I hope it all happens and all that stuff. Recall that they’re back to the original four-piece incarnation of the band now, and that’s great too, but this was also for sure a stage of the band worth preserving. This isn’t their first and hopefully it won’t be their last live record. The more the merrier, on my shelf.

From the PR wire the other day:

All Them Witches Live on the Internet

All Them Witches have released LIVE ON THE INTERNET via New West Records

Order link: http://newwst.com/lotiEM

All Them Witches are known for their loud and lengthy live shows. 2020 found the band releasing their critically acclaimed album, Nothing As The Ideal. An album release from this band would traditionally be followed by a lengthy 18-month tour across the globe. Due to an international pandemic, the band’s touring plans were brought to a halt. This did not stop All Them Witches from assembling in a studio to broadcast a live set for their fans. The set was roundly received as an amazing performance and fans immediately inquired as to whether or not this show would be available outside of the broadcast. New West Records is proud to present All Them Witches – LIVE ON THE INTERNET.

After being on lock down during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the band reconvened at S.I.R. Studios in Nashville, TN to perform a live-streamed event for their fans. Their single performance of the year featured the band playing songs from their critically acclaimed new album Nothing as the Ideal live for the very first time.

“Excited to announce that ‘Live On The Internet,’ with audio from the 2020 livestream of the same name, is available on streaming services NOW for you to enjoy.”

Check it out: allthemwitches.lnk.to/LOTI

Order the 3-LP / 2-CD set, and watch the video for “Enemy of My Enemy” below.

1. Blood And Sand / Milk And Endless Waters 09:43
2. Dirt Preachers 04:04
3. Saturnine & Iron Jaw 05:00
4. 41 05:32
5. When God Comes Back 03:41
6. Alabaster 07:33
7. Diamond 06:21
8. 1X1 04:48
9. 3-5-7 03:42
10. The Marriage Of Coyote Woman 05:46
11. Charles William 05:48
12. Rats in Ruin 09:14
13. Open Passageways 03:33
14. Enemy of My Enemy 03:32
15. Everest 02:37
16. Bulls 05:20

Tour on sale now: https://www.allthemwitches.org/tour

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All Them Witches, “Enemy of My Enemy” from ‘Live on the Internet’

All Them Witches, Live on the Internet (2022)

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All Them Witches Announce West Coast Tour Dates with Blackwater Holylight

Posted in Whathaveyou on May 5th, 2021 by JJ Koczan

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Sneaky devils that they are, I wouldn’t be surprised if All Them Witches had a new record out or at least on the way by the time they hit the road with Blackwater Holylight next January. You never know with these cats. The Nashvillian outfit recently announced they’d issue the triple-vinyl Live on the Internet — 3LP is the new 2LP — for Record Store Day, and they recently announced that they’ve been rejoined by Rhodes pianist/violinist Allan Van Cleave, much to the evident joy of social media’s hivemind.

Their announcement of the tour below is good news because, well, it’s a tour. Further, it re-pairs All Them Witches with Blackwater Holylight, and I don’t know about you, but I’m still stinging from not getting to see the two bands together in the lost-to-trauma Spring of last year. If their doing the West Coast in January/February means they’ll hit the East Coast after, well, that’s a lovely thought and speculation I’m willing to indulge, at least for myself. Don’t quote me on it. Or that bit about the album. Don’t quote me on anything.

Among the curiosities present about how All Them Witches are moving forward into the next year-plus, I’m interested to see how/if/how much they interpret material from 2020’s Nothing as the Ideal (review here) to the stage as a four-piece — it was their first and will apparently be their only album as a trio — for these shows. So much to see, so much to hear. Such wonders.

Dates follow:

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NEW TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED!!!
w/ Blackwater Holylight
1/21/22-Dallas TX-Trees Dallas
1/22/22-Austin TX-Mohawk Austin
1/23/22-San Antonio TX-Paper Tiger
1/25/22-Phoenix AZ-Crescent Ballroom
1/27/22-Solana Beach CA-Belly Up
1/28/22-Los Angeles CA-The Regent
1/29/22-San Francisco CA-The Fillmore
1/31/22-Portland OR-Wonder Ballroom
2/1/22-Vancouver BC-Commodore Ballroom
2/2/22-Seattle WA-Showbox Presents
2/5/22-Denver CO-Gothic Theatre
2/6/22-Fort Collins CO-Aggie Theatre

All Them Witches is:
Charles Michael Parks, Jr – bass, vocals
Ben McLeod – guitar, vocals
Robby Staebler – drums, vocals
Allan Van Cleave – Rhodes piano, keys, violin

http://allthemwitches.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/allthemwitches
https://www.instagram.com/allthemwitchesband/
http://www.allthemwitches.org/

All Them Witches, Nothing as the Ideal (2020)

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All Them Witches Rejoined by Allan Van Cleave; Live Album Due in July

Posted in Whathaveyou on April 11th, 2021 by JJ Koczan

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Former and once again All Them Witches Rhodes pianist/multi-instrumentalist Allan Van Cleave wouldn’t be the first — nor, I very much suspect, the last — to have made some manner of reconsideration of his creative existence throughout the course of 2020, though whether or not the pandemic ultimately played a passive or active role in his rejoining the group, I don’t know. In any case, the original four-piece lineup of the band quickly announced their return on social media in a characteristically short post, noting Van Cleave‘s “return from orbit.” Too bad he missed out on recording at Abbey Road. I bet they have some bitching vintage keys.

2020’s Nothing as the Ideal (review here) was released as a three-piece after the band’s brief stint with Jonathan Draper in a replacement role on 2018’s ATW (review here). Van Cleave‘s last album with the band was the particularly lush Sleeping Through the War (review here) in 2017, and at the time, it was said to be touring life weighing on him. All Them Witches continued to move forward, first with Draper, then as a three-piece, examining new avenues of ambience and experimentalism in Nothing as the Ideal in a way they never had before while remaining true to the jammier side of their core style.

Touring? Well that’s not really a concern at this point, is it? All Them Witches have a couple dates booked, including a Nashville show on Halloween that carries the “return to normal” vibe that much more in the context of Van Cleave coming back. In addition to this, the upcoming limited live 3LP Live on the Internet, capturing audio from their livestreams a few months ago, has been unveiled and will be issued in July for one or the other of the Record Store Day events. I guess that might just serve as the definitive document of the trio incarnation of the band, though I doubt it was embarked on as a project with that intention.

All Them Witches have made a career out of existing in flux on one level or another, beating back stagnation with consistent forward progress in a way few bands do, heavy or otherwise. More than a decade and six albums on from their start, I still won’t dare to predict what they’ll do next, beyond the immediate announcements, anyhow.

Speaking of:

all them witches live on the internet

ATW is pleased to announce Allan Van Cleave has returned from orbit and safely landed behind the keys!! Come see for yourself…

Tickets for our Oct. 31 show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville are ON SALE NOW!

TIX HERE: https://ryman.com/event/all-them-witches/

We are STOKED to be part of this year’s @Recordstoreday DROPS, with our new RSD exclusive release; LIVE ON THE INTERNET. A 16-song set (chosen from our only 2 live performances of 2020) pressed on 6 variations of color vinyl across a 3 LP set!

Available on July 17 ONLY at your favorite independent record store.

LIMITED TO 6,000 COPIES WORLDWIDE
LIMITED TO 2,500 COPIES IN NORTH AMERICA

All Them Witches is:
Charles Michael Parks, Jr – bass, vocals
Ben McLeod – guitar, vocals
Robby Staebler – drums, vocals
Allan Van Cleave – Rhodes piano, keys, violin

http://allthemwitches.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/allthemwitches
https://www.instagram.com/allthemwitchesband/
http://www.allthemwitches.org/

All Them Witches, Nothing as the Ideal (2020)

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All Them Witches Announce ‘Live on the Internet’ Streams for Dec. 19

Posted in Whathaveyou on November 30th, 2020 by JJ Koczan

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Hey, I’d watch two All Them Witches sets in a day. Different setlists? Yeah, that’s cool too, but honestly even if it was the same songs it wouldn’t be the same set, so I’ll take it as it comes. The clever name the Nashville three-piece have given the performances, ‘Live on the Internet,’ is of course a play on “Guess I’ll Go Live on the Internet” from 2017’s Sleeping Through the War (review here). The band also recently posted a video for “Rats in Ruin,” the consuming, subdued-until-it-isn’t closer of their latest LP, Nothing as the Ideal (review here) — which, judging by the results I’m seeing thus far from the year-end poll, you’ve already heard but is streaming at the bottom of this post anyway, along with said video.

The band previously announced a slew of Fall 2021 European tour dates as well, and they were just confirmed as part of the first batch of adds to SonicBlast Fest in Portugal in mid-August. Whether that means more dates are to be added, I don’t know, but if their tack is to sign on to as much as humanly possible now and see how it shakes out next year, one could hardly blame them. These live streams will be, as they note, their only shows of 2020. Among other things this wretched fucking year has stolen from humanity, it stole my chance to see them together with BlackWater HolyLight this past Spring, and for that, I will never forgive it.

Stream info from the PR wire:

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ALL THEM WITCHES – ONLY SHOWS OF 2020!

Catch All Them Witches LIVE ON THE INTERNET Dec 19
TWO SETS: 2PM EST and 9PM EST

TICKETS HERE: https://allthemwitches.veeps.com/

Join us on Dec 19 at 2PM EST and/or 9PM EST for our only shows of 2020! We will be LIVE ON THE INTERNET performing 2 shows with 2 different set lists at Veeps.

The performance will remain available to view for 3 days following the livestream.

ALL THEM WITCHES 2021 EUROPEAN TOUR
SEPTEMBER
27th UK – BRIGHTON, Chalk Venue Brighton
28th UK – NOTTINGHAM, The Bodega
29th UK – GLASGOW, Saint Luke’s & The Winged Ox
30th UK – LEEDS, Brudenell Social Club
OCTOBER
1st UK – LONDON, Electric Ballroom
2nd Netherlands – AMSTERDAM, Paradiso Amsterdam
3rd Belgium – ANTWERP, Trix
6th Spain – MADRID, COOL Conciertos
7th Spain – BARCELONA, Sala Razzmatazz 2
9th Switzerland – LANGENTHAL, OldCapitol
10th Italy – MILAN, Santeria Toscana 31
11th Switzerland – ZURICH, Mascotte Club Zürich
12th Germany – MUNICH, Backstage Werk
13th Czech – PRAGUE, MeetFactory
14th Poland – WARSAW, Progresja
15th Germany – BERLIN, Huxleys Neue Welt
17th Germany, COLOGNE, Die Kantine
19th Germany, HAMBURG, Uebel und Gefährlich
20th Denmark, COPENHAGEN, Pumpehuset
22nd Norway, OSLO, Vulkan Arena
24th Finland, HELSINKI, TAVASTIA-klubi

All Them Witches is:
Charles Michael Parks, Jr – bass, vocals
Ben McLeod – guitar, vocals
Robby Staebler – drums, vocals

http://allthemwitches.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/allthemwitches
https://www.instagram.com/allthemwitchesband/
http://www.allthemwitches.org/
https://store.newwestrecords.com/

All Them Witches, “Rats in Ruin” official video

All Them Witches, Nothing as the Ideal (2020)

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