As a Christmas gift to you, and to celebrate their upcoming Dec. tour dates, Woods has released a cover of the Vince Guaraldi classic “Christmas Time Is Here” as a free download. The tour launches next week on Dec. 7 in Burlington, VT.
On June 14th of this year, WOODS released their 6th full-length album, Sun & Shade, on their own Woodsist record label. Recorded Winter to Winter, 2010-2011, Sun & Shade features a helping hand from west coast brother, Glenn Donaldson (Skygreen Leopards, Art Museums) and is the first full album recorded at the new Woodsist Headquarters in the small upstate town of Warwick, NY.
“Woods is a two-headed dog asleep on the porch & a butterfly on the windowsill… a Janus, a Gemini & a screen door. The sun won’t fade & the earworms will not leave, but the jams go on TOO long for the girl in the back who wonders if her friends are at another bar. Still, the ballads always make her cry. Woods is up there relaying the Woods-feel: Folk-rock, fuzz, tambourines, tapes & raw lunch pulled straight from the yard. Pop songs & other things: Sun & Shade.” -Glenn Donaldson
Tour Dates
12/07 Burlington, VT Monkey House *
12/08 Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern @
12/09 Gambier, OH Kenyon College / Horn Gallery @
12/10 Chicago, IL Subterranean @
12/11 Lexington, KY Cosmic Charlie’s #$
12/12 Nashville, TN The End #
12/13 Birmingham, AL Bottletree #
12/14 Athens, GA 40 Watt #
12/15 Raleigh, NC Kings Barcade ^
12/16 Richmond, VA Strange Matter ^
12/17 Washington, DC Rock & Roll Hotel ^ !
12/18 Baltimore, MD Ottobar ^
12/19 Brooklyn, NY Glasslands Gallery %
* = w/ MV & EE
@ = w/ Wet Hair
# = w/ Jovontaes
$ = w/ Wooden Wand
^ = w/ MMOSS
! = w/ Purling Hiss
%= w/ Steve Gunn, Alex Bleeker & The Freaks
Woods
Find Them Empty
(Sacred Bones / Woodsist)
Street Date: July 19, 2011
Formats: 7″ (Sacred Bones) & Digital (Woodsist)
1. Find Them Empty
2. Be There
Woods
Sun and Shade
(Woodsist)
Street Date: June 14, 2011
1. Pushing Onlys
2. Any Other Day
3. Be All Be Easy
4. Out Of the Eye
5. Hand It Out
6. To Have In The Home
7. Sol Y Sombra
8. Wouldn’t Waste
9. Who Do I Think I Am?
10. What Faces the Sheet
11. White Out
12. Say Goodbye