Bad Veins’ first radio track, “Gold and Warm,” was singled out in Spin magazine as one of September’s “Songs You Must Hear Now!,” praising the boys for flipping, “Pavement’s slacker racket into mainstream magic.”
The band’s non-traditional live set-up of telephones, megaphones and a vintage reel-to-reel player named “Irene,” have garnered them much attention, but it’s their undeniable songwriting chops that have made them truly stand out. Or as MTV succinctly put it: “The band’s secret is Davis’ knack for writing yearning, fuzzed out pop songs that straddle the murky divide between glum rockers the National and the nervous energy of the Strokes.”
BAD VEINS ON TOUR WITH THE SUBJECTS
October 12 – Salt Lake City, Utah @ Kilby Court
October 13 – Boise, Idaho @ Reef Boise
October 14 – Seattle, Wash. @ High Dive
October 15 – Portland, Ore. @ Rotture
October 16 – Eugene, Ore. @ Sam Bond’s Garage
October 19 – San Diego, Calif. @ Soda Bar
October 20 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ The Echo
October 21 – Phoenix, Ariz. @ Modified
October 23 – Austin, Texas @ Emo’s Jr.
October 25 – St. Louis, Mo. @ Cicero’s
October 26 – Indianapolis, Ind. @ Vollrath Tavern
October 27 – Cleveland, Ohio @ Cambridge Room at HOB
October 28 – Washington, D.C. @ DC9
October 29 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ Kung Fu Necktie
* Without Division Day
** Without The Subjects