Bay area underground satire/folk-rock heroes (and Fest alumni) Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits just embarked on a nation-wide seven-week tour, including dates with Emily's Army, Shang-A-Lang, Lemuria, Kevin Seconds, Screaming Females, and plenty more of my favorite bands across the USA.

These shows are the first place you can get the re-issue of "Carmelita Sings! Visions Of a Rock Apocalypse," their 32-track full length from 2000, now packaged with a 40-page art book and re-printings of the band's first sticker and button designs featuring Osama Bin Laden and kittens from way before "Al Qaeda" entered the public consciousness. The disc also includes a download-code for an unreleased MacNuggit radio performance from Canadian station CITR, recorded October 19th, 1999. The album and free MP3s can be found on the Silver Sprocket website:

http://www.silversprocket.net/blog/we-m ... acnuggits/

The band's recent video for "Poly," dealing with polyamorous relationships, has been banned from YouTube for sexual content despite being the "clean version." Here it is again on Vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/22545891


And here’s the tour dates:

May 23rd – Reno, NV @ Holland Project HQ w/ Dividers and Encounters with Mark Van Norris
May 24th – Salt Lake City, UT @ Raunch Records w/ TBA
May 25th – Fort Collins, CO @ TBA w/ The MurderARRRs
May 26th – Denver, CO @ Illegal Pete's (1530 16th st.) w/ Yuzo Nieto and Laura Gibson (from Pink Hawks)
May 27th – Santa Fe, NM @ TBA
May 28th - Las Cruces, NM @ Trainyard w/ God Equals Genocide and Shang-A-Lang
May 29th – San Antonio, TX @ The Tipper House w/ No Call No Show, Kon Madre and more!
May 30th – Austin, TX @ Hole In The Wall w/ Leo Rondeau, The Inheritance
May 31st – Little Rock, AR @ White Water Tavern w/ R.I.O.T.S. and King Emeritus
June 1st – Memphis, TN @ The Buccaneer w/ Christian Walker (PEZZ), Micheala Caitlin and Joey Cadre
June 2nd – Chattanooga, TN @ Do Ya Hear Ye! Fest (Venue - JJ'S BOHEMIA)
June 5th – Asheville, NC @ The Get Down w/ Morgan Stickrod and more
June 6th – New Brunswick, NJ @ The Alamo w/ Lemuria & more TBA
June 7th – Brooklyn, NY @ Lulu's w/ Cheesequake and The Dog That Bites Everyone
June 8th – Allston, MA @ O'Brien's Pub w/ Civil Warblers, The Hatefuckers and Girl Bullets
June 9th – Gettysburg, PA @ The Ragged Edge (Edge Fest) w/ TBA
June 10th – Cleveland, OH @ Menstrual Mansion w/ TBA
June 11th – Chicago, IL @ Grand Manor (3721 W Grand Ave.) w/ Hard Feelings and more
June 12th – Milwaukee, WI @ Ground Zero w/ Night Birds and more
June 13th – Minneapolis, MN @ The Pearadox w/ The Gift (Wash. D.C.), Hard Feelings and Serrenghetto
June 14th – Duluth, MN @ The Loveshack w/ Hard Feelings, Low Forms and The Moon Is Down
June 16th – Missoula, MN @ Spruce St. Haus w/ Playin' With God, Gaeb Nyll, and Pony Cannon
June 17th – Seattle, WA @ High Dive w/ Sean Neil (Dynamite Boy) and more
June 18th – Kelso, WA @ Hard Tails w/ Emily's Army, Dead Giveaways and Minty Rosa
June 19th – Olympia, WA @ Hall of the Woods w/ Emily's Army, Adam Croce (Rainbow Bridge/Los Rabbis) & more TBA
June 20th – Portland, OR @ Alberta St. Pub w/ Emily's Army, more TBA
June 21st – Portland, OR @ Sea Shanty w/ Emily's Army, Delaney & Paris
June 22nd – Bend, OR @ Mad Happy Lounge w/ Emily's Army
June 23rd – Cottage Grove, OR @ Ax & Fiddle (Early Show)
June 24th –Salem, OR @ Wasteland w/ Emily's Army, more TBA
June 25th – Ashland, OR @ TBA Emily's Army & more TBA
June 26th - Davis, CA @ w/ Emily's Army and more TBA
June 27th - Sacramento, CA @ Casa De Chaos w/ Emily's Army and Secretions!
June 28th - Modesto, CA @ Melody Ballroom w/ Emily's Army, The Secretions, Nothing But Losers, Los Punks, Light Up The Eyes and The Awful!
June 29th - Stockton, CA @ Plea For Peace w/ Emily's Army, Hear the Sirens, Stickup Kid and Ska Skank Redemption
June 30th – San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside w/ Emily’s Army, Dead Westerns, The Reaction, Freedom Club and MC Mary Van Note
July 1st – Monterey, CA @ Carbone's w/ TBA
July 2nd – Los Angeles, CA @ TBA
July 2nd – Los Angeles, CA @ TBA
July 6th – San Jose, CA @ Acheiver Con/SLG Presents 'Big Lebowski' Event
July 9th - Chico, CA @ TBA (Chico Pyrate Punx event)
July 29th – Oakland, CA @ The Uptown w/ Kevin Seconds, The Everlovin', Bryan McPherson and Sean McArdle
July 31st - El Sobrante, CA @ Cafe Soleil w/ TBA

xoxo