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Cute Is What We Aim For hits the trail hard
Up-and-coming power-pop outfit Cute Is What We Aim For is starting the new year with non-stop gigs that have the band in the UK, headlining US shows and appearing on Alternative Press Magazine's "Band's You Need To Know" tour through April.
The Buffalo, NY-based foursome will launch its first-ever US headlining tour Feb. 14, appropriately, at Valentine's in Albany, NY. The month-long stint will take the bandmates, who are barely out of high school, through the East Coast and Midwest, ending in Tulsa, OK, March 14. Fueled By Ramen labelmates This Providence and All Time Low will support.
On March 16, Cute Is What We Aim For begins a six-week co-headlining slot, traversing the nation with prog-punks Circa Survive for the Alternative Press outing, which kicks off in Houston. The tour coincides with the magazine's "100 Bands You Need to Know" issue. Opening acts are indie upstarts As Tall As Lions and post-hardcore newcomers Envy on the Coast.
Cute is currently preparing to head across the Pond for a 10-city UK trek that starts Jan. 23 in Nottingham. Those shows are listed at the band's website; domestic dates are listed below.
The band's debut album, "The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch," was released in July and has since landed Cute on a host of "new artists to watch" lists. The group has also seen its online presence swell with music streams now approaching 10 million, according to a press release. Tracks from the album are streaming at Cute's MySpace page.
Cute Is What We Aim For's latest single, "The Curse of Curves," is scheduled to hit radio in February and a video is currently in post-production, the press release said.
