Black Mountain's 'In The Future' has been nominated for Best Alternative Album in this years Juno Awards in Canada.

Winners will be declared at the JUNO Gala Dinner & Awards on Saturday, March 28, and The 2009 JUNO Awards broadcast on CTV on Sunday, March 29 at General Motors Place in Vancouver, BC. Tickets to The 2009 JUNO Awards go on sale starting this Saturday, February 7 at 10:00 a.m. (PST), available at TicketMaster.ca.

We at Jagjaguwar, looking back at 2008, have pride-swollen hearts when it comes to the outstanding band BLACK MOUNTAIN. Last year the band released their critically-acclaimed album "In the Future", hailed by The Onion, Uncut, Q, The Wire, Exclaim! and Popmatters as one of the best of 2008. "In the Future" was shortlisted for the prestigious Polaris Prize - an award for the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit. BLACK MOUNTAIN performed "Stormy High" for the tall red-haired gentleman Conan O'Brien and his audience in February during their "Friendship Tour Two Thousand and Great" with Bon Iver.

2008 saw some significant travel: SXSW, Coachella, All Tomorrow's Parties, The Glastonbury Festival, Brazil, the Czech Republic, and many more festivals and countries. Much of it was chronicled in bassist Matt Camirand's excellent blog:
http://www.matthewmeridian-wishinonehand.blogspot.com/

BLACK MOUNTAINS's friends and brothers in Canuck-dom, The Sadies, will be joining the band on a West Coast tour in late March following BLACK MOUNTAIN's tour in Australia.

All dates will be performed with The Sadies:

03/20/09 San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Shop
03/21/09 Los Angeles, CA - The Echoplex
03/22/09 San Diego, CA - Casbah
03/23/09 Santa Cruz, CA - The Crepe Place
03/25/09 Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre
03/26/09 Bellingham, WA - The Wild Buffalo
03/27/09 Seattle, WA - Neumos

Billions Australia are pleased to announce that the wait is over!
BLACK MOUNTAIN are heading to Australia in February/March 2009 to take us on a ride of monster riffs, swirling Hammond and cosmic rock.
Black Mountain play summer festival dates at the Perth Festival and Golden Plains in Victoria but will headline their own club shows in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney.

For a full list of dates, head HERE.

A 178 member jury of extremely cool Canadians have shortlisted our very own BLACK MOUNTAIN for the prestigious Polaris Prize, the annual award for a full-length Canadian album judged solely on artistic merit with no regard for genre or sales. Congratulations to the Black Mountain army!

http://www.polarismusicprize.ca

Its awesome. Seriously.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19086361

NPR.org, February 19, 2008 - The psych-rock revivalists in Black Mountain and art-folk singer Bon Iver will perform live on NPR.org in a full concert from Washington, D.C., tonight, Feb. 19. The performance from the Rock and Roll Hotel will begin at approximately 9 p.m. ET.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver's Black Mountain make their national television debut on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on Thursday, February 21. The band will take a break from their tour to share a track from their new album in living rooms across the nation.

Black Mountain's eponymous debut, "a modern heavy psych masterpiece," according to Mojo magazine, came out almost three years ago. In the subsequent years the band has grown in scope and scale, refining their sound while blowing it out to massive heights. So it's no surprise that the advance word on the new album "In the Future" from the UK and US press has been glowing. The new album lands on January 22nd, and here's what folks are saying:

WORD magazine -- "…heady, heavy and brilliantly executed: stoner rock for the masses."

Mojo (lead review by Jon Savage, 4 stars) -- "…an ambitious state-of-the world address that delivers on an emotional and visceral level."

NYLON -- "Black Mountain make thundering anachronistic prog-rock. And there's nothing wrong with that."

Elle -- Black Mountain "fashion twisting riffs into a heart of guitar darkness that's all their own."

WIRE Magazine: In The Future "eclipses their previous output and hits a consistent note of righteous force."

The band will be rolling out their news songs during the Black Mountain tour, which kicks off January 31. This time around, tour-mates include HOWLIN' RAIN, BON IVER, LADYHAWK, BLOOD ON THE WALL and DEAD MEADOW. Full dates below.

And in the meantime, when you pre-order Black Mountain's CD, limited edition 2xCD, or the 2xLP version of "In the Future", you will receive MP3s of the full album before the release date (and before the physical records arrive). This can be done at participating brick-and-mortar record stores, or via mailorder at Insound or direct from Jagjaguwar (at http://www.scdistribution.com). The limited edition 2xCD version includes three additional songs, two of which were on the tour-only Bastards of Light 12".

Finally, for a limited time, anyone and everyone can listen to a full album stream of the full album on the band's myspace page, at http://www.myspace.com/blackmountain .


North American Tour Dates:

01/31/08 Seattle, WA - Neumo's w/ Yeasayer, MGMT, Howlin' Rain
02/02/08 Portland, OR - The Doug Fir w/ Howlin' Rain
02/04/08 San Francisco, CA - The Independent w/ Howlin' Rain
02/05/08 Los Angeles, CA - The Troubadour w/ Howlin' Rain
02/07/08 San Diego, CA - Casbah w/ Howlin' Rain
02/08/08 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress w/ Blood on the Wall
02/10/08 Austin, TX - Emo's w/ Blood on the Wall + Dead Meadow
02/11/08 Dallas, TX - Granada Theatre w/ Blood on the Wall + Dead Meadow
02/13/08 Birmingham, AL - Bottle Tree w/ Blood on the Wall
02/15/08 Atlanta, GA - The EARL w/ Blood on the Wall
02/16/08 Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle w/ Blood on the Wall
02/17/08 Chapel Hill, NC - The Local 506 w/ Blood on the Wall
02/19/08 Washington, DC - The Rock and Roll Hotel w/ Bon Iver
02/20/08 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's w/ Bon Iver
02/22/08 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom w/ Bon Iver
02/24/08 Boston, MA - Middle East Upstairs w/ Bon Iver
02/25/08 Portland, ME - The Space Gallery w/ Bon Iver
02/26/08 Muncton, NB - The Manhattan w/ Bon Iver
02/27/08 Halifax, NS - The Marquee Club w/ Bon Iver
02/29/08 Montreal, QC - La Sala Rosa w/ Bon Iver
03/05/08 Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace w/ Bon Iver
03/06/08 Cleveland, OH - The Grog Shop w/ Bon Iver
03/07/08 Louisville, KY - Headliners w/ Bon Iver
03/09/08 Knoxville, TN - The Pilot Light w/ Bon Iver
03/10/08 Nashville, TN - Exit/In w/ Bon Iver
03/20/08 Kansas City, MO - Record Bar
03/22/08 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
03/23/08 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon
03/24/08 Minneapolis, MN - 7th St. Entry
03/25/08 Fargo, ND - Aquarium
03/27/08 Winnipeg, MB - Pyramid Cabaret w/ Ladyhawk
03/28/08 Regina, SK - The Distrikt w/ Ladyhawk
03/29/08 Saskatoon, SK - Amigo's w/ Ladyhawk
03/31/08 Edmonton, AB - Starlite Room w/ Ladyhawk
04/01/08 Calgary, AB - The Warehouse w/ Ladyhawk
04/05/08 Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom w/ Ladyhawk

read below for our label's press release for our upcoming European tour.

BLACK MOUNTAIN return to the UK and Europe, perform at ATP, perform songs from their upcoming IN THE FUTURE full-length

It's been nearly three years since Canadian quintet Black Mountain's eponymous debut - "a modern heavy psych masterpiece", according to Mojo magazine. Fans included The Flaming Lips, J Mascis and Mudhoney, the latter inviting British Columbia's finest to join them at All Tomorrow's Parties in April 2006; Black Mountain will return to the festival in December 2007 at the invitation of Nightmare Before Christmas curators Portishead.

Immediately preceding their 2007 ATP appearance, Black Mountain will be performing throughout Europe and the UK (see tour dates below). They will be performing many songs from their upcoming second full-length called "In The Future", which comes out on CD, LP, and as a limited edition double CD on Jagjaguwar on January 21, 2008. If, as Plan B magazine noted of the first LP, "Every song could be an album to itself, by a band with lesser ideas and the ability to express them", then "In The Future" sees those distinctive individual strands woven into a seamless studio tapestry that's a quantum leap, both sonically and compositionally, from its predecessor.

Stay tuned for additional Black Mountain announcements regarding extensive touring throughout 2008, as plans are in the works to hit up every nook and cranny of this wondrous globe. For those who can't wait to experience some live Black Mountain, check out their live performance at Pop Montreal that happened in October, courtesy of CBC Radio:
http://radio3.cbc.ca/concerts/Black-Mountain-2007-10-06/

BLACK MOUNTAIN tour-dates (http://www.jagjaguwar.com/shows.php):

11/16/07 Barcelona, Spain - Sala Apollo
11/17/07 Mallorca, Spain - Sa Pobla
11/19/07 Cesena, Italy - Officina49
11/20/07 Zurich, Switzerland - Rote Fabrik
11/21/07 Vienna, Austria - Flex
11/22/07 Prague, Czech Republic - Klub 007, Strahov
11/23/07 Dresden, Germany - Star Club
11/24/07 Berlin, Germany - Festsaal Kreuzberg
11/25/07 Hamburg, Germany - Uebel & Gefahrlich
11/26/07 Aarhus, Denmark - Voxhall
11/27/07 Oslo, Norway - Garage
11/28/07 Stockholm, Sweden - Kagelbanan
11/29/07 Malmo, Sweden - Debaser
11/30/07 Groningen, Netherlands - Vera
12/01/07 Utrecht, Netherlands - Tivoli
12/02/07 Antwerp, Belgium - Trix
12/03/07 Paris, France - La Maroquinerie
12/05/07 London, UK - Cargo
12/06/07 Nottingham, UK - Rescue Rooms
12/07/07 Minehead, UK - All Tomorrow's Parties

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Other links:

Black Mountain MP3s and videos: http://www.blackmountainarmy.com/downloads.php
"In The Future" information: http://www.jagjaguwar.com/onesheet.php?cat=JAG090
Black Mountain's webpage: http://blackmountainarmy.com
Black Mountain on Jagjaguwar's website: http://jagjaguwar.com/artist.php?name=blackmountain

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