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Up and coming multicultural blues rockers BLUES PILLS have released their magical self-titled debut album today! Produced by renowned Don Alsterberg (GRAVEYARD, HORISONT), »Blues Pills« can now be streamed in its entirety at http://smarturl.it/BLUES-PILLS-Stream Furthermore the band also released the official music video for the first single off the album, 'High Class Woman' - surf to http://smarturl.it/BLUES-PILLS-Woman Recently the band announced their upcoming European headlining tour. The quartet will be widely supported by icelandic label mates THE VINTAGE CARAVAN. A three day leg through France has just been added to the tour - see below. The album is already being praised by pretty much every rock magazine out there and described as "the debut album of the year" (Boris Kaiser/ROCK HARD) and hit the cover of various high class magazines: bluespills-magazines.jpg?x=520 TOURDATES BLUES PILLS THE VINTAGE CARAVAN presented by METAL HAMMER, ECLIPSED, ROCKS, VISIONS, METALNEWS.DE, BLAST!, NOIZELETTER, MUSIX & ROCK IT! 02.10.2014 DE – Leipzig, Moritzbastei 03.10.2014 CH – Pratteln, Up In Smoke Festival 04.10.2014 DE – Nürnberg, Rockfabrik 06.10.2014 AT – Vienna, Arena 07.10.2014 AT – Innsbruck, Weekender 08.10.2014 DE – Ludwigsburg, Rockfabrik 10.10.2014 BE – Antwerp, Desertfest 11.10.2014 DE – Kaiserslautern, Kammgarn International Blues Festival 13.10.2014 NL – Nijmegen, Doornroosje 14.10.2014 DE – Essen, Turock 15.10.2014 DE – Hamburg, Headcrash 17.10.2014 DE – München, Keep it Low Festival 18.10.2014 DE – Berlin, Bi Nuu 19.10.2014 DE – Frankfurt, das Bett FRANCE TOUR BLUES PILLS presented by MyRock 06.11.2014 F – Strasbourg, La Laiterie 07.11.2014 F – La Roche sur Yon, Le Fuzz Yon 08.11.2014 F – Paris, Le Point FMR In an exclusive track by track video which also features short excerpts of every song, singer Elin Larsson talks about the tracks of the album. Check it out at: http://youtu.be/J-0JxpOo1dA The band also released a workshop video feat. their gifted guitarist, Dorian Sorriaux, showing how to play parts of the first single, 'High Class Woman', off the band's upcoming self-titled debut album. Surf to http://smarturl.it/BPGuitarLesson The song itself can be streamed at http://smarturl.it/HighClassWoman The first limited edition of »Blues Pills« also includes a special bonus DVD which features the band's entire gig at 2013's installment of renowned German "Hammer Of Doom" festival as well as a video interview with Streetclip.TV - see tracklist below. A teaser video for the DVD can be viewed at this location: http://youtu.be/sTnVPajBWHo DVD (Live @ Hammer Of Doom 2013): 01. Bliss 02. Dig In 03. Devil Man 04. Little Sun 05. Mind Exit 06. Astralplane 07. Black Smoke + Video interview with Streetclip.TV The ten tracks of »Blues Pills« will also feature a cover version of the CHUBBY CHECKER classic 'Gypsy'. “It's a song everyone in the band liked and we used to play it on our soundcheck. Slowly it worked itself into our set list, and now it's going to be on our debut album as well. Back in the days lots of bands covered each other to honor the other artist, and they did it with their own touch on it. Some examples are, JIMI HENDRIX 'All Along the Watchtower', JANIS JOPLIN 'Tell Mama', 'Summertime' and 'Ball and Chain', or JOE COCKER 'With a Little Help From My Friends', everyone was doing it with the right reason. For us, we want to honor CHUBBY CHECKER and also bring it back to life by doing the cover version the BLUES PILLS way. Hopefully people like both versions and, yeah, it's just a killer tune.“ - BLUES PILLS »Blues Pills« can be ordered in various formats at this location: http://media.nuclearblast.de/shoplanding/2014/Blues-Pills/blues-pills.html »Blues Pills« Tracklist: 01. High Class Woman 02. Ain't No Change 03. Jupiter 04. Black Smoke 05. River 06. No Hope Left For Me 07. Devil Man 08. Astralplane 09. Gypsy (CHUBBY CHECKER cover) 10. Little Sun The cover art was created by legendary artist Marijke Koger-Dunham (THE BEATLES, CREAM) – find the artful piece below/attached. Read more... then come back and comment below.

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