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Grandaddy revs up for globe-trotting tour behind 'Sumday'
With its fourth album now safely in stores, Modesto, CA-bred rock quartet Grandaddy is ready to back the release with a lengthy series of North American club dates and European festival appearances.
The outing launches in Minneapolis on July 31, and remains in North America through early August. From there, the group heads overseas to appear at the U.K.'s Leeds and Reading festivals and at Belgium's Pukkelpop Festival, among other engagements. On Sept. 18, the band returns for another month of North American dates.
"Sumday," the follow-up to Grandaddy's critically lauded 2000 album "Sophtware Slump," debuted at No. 84 on The Billboard 200 album chart in June.
"I feel like we've kind of arrived, that everything I've ever done has led up to this," frontman Jason Lytle said in a statement. "The album is a reflection of everything we've been working towards. In my mind, this is it."
The album was pieced together over more than two years in a house Lytle bought to fulfill "a creepy dream to get a normal house in a suburban neighborhood, that's completely sound-proofed inside and everything is dedicated to studio equipment."
Indie-rock stalwart Earlimart --a California-based group that released "The Avenues E.P." in January--is scheduled to open through Aug. 11.
Super Furry Animals join the Grandaddy bill from Sept. 18 through Oct. 4. The U.K. group is supporting its just-released sixth album, "Phantom Power."
