The seminal cello-driven trio Rasputina is celebrating the release of their seventh album, Sister Kinderhookwith a Summer tour. The tour starts July 8 in Somerville, MA and ends August 22 in Denver, CO. This album finds Melora expressing a thematic fantasy of Colonial Federalism. Subject-wise, she also touches on  feral children (Snow-Hen of Austerlitz), the Anti-rent Wars of 1844 (Calico Indians), and Early American portraiture (The 2 Miss Leavens), not to mention the theory that giants were indeed real, but killed each other off in a self-genocidal holocaust (A Holocaust of Giants).

RASPUTINA TOUR DATES (support on all July dates by Larkin Grimm)

7/8 - Arts At the Armory, Somerville, MA

7/10 - Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY

7/11 - Black Cat, Washington, DC

7/13 - Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC

7/14 - The Grey Eagle, Asheville, NC

7/17 - Old Rock House, St. Louis, MO

7/19 - Varsity Theater, Minneapolis, MN

7/20 - Shank Hall, Milwaukee, WI

7/22 - The Abbey, Chicago, IL

7/23 - Land of NOD Experimental Festival, Jackson, MI

7/24 - Frankie’s, Toledo, OH

7/25 - Mr. Smalls Theatre, Millvale, PA (Pittsburgh)

8/4 - One Eyed Jacks, New Orleans, LA

8/6 - The Parish, Austin, TX

8/7 - The Door, Dallas, TX

8/9 - Santa Fe Brewing Co., Santa Fe, MN

8/11 - Club Congress, Tucson, AZ

8/14 - The Troubadour, West Hollywood, CA

8/15 - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA

8/17 - Hawthorne Theater, Portland, OR

8/18 - Neumo’s, Seattle, WA

8/20 - Knitting Factory Concert House, Boise, ID

8/21 - Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City UT

8/22 - Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO