Los Angeles-based quartet Princeton (named after the street in Santa Monica where twins Jesse and Matt Kivel grew up, not the school) has one EP to its name—the Bloomsbury EP—and, now freshly signed to Kanine Records, has its first full-length Cocoon of Love set for release on September 29th.
If you haven't heard the Bloomsbury EP, each of the album's four songs are lyrical portraits of members of London's Bloomsbury collective, which included intellectuals Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey and John Maynard Keynes. Listen to "The Waves," an intricately woven portrait of Virginia Woolf.
Tour dates (CORRECTED!):
07/07 San Diego, CA The Casbah
07/09 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge *
07/10 Seattle, WA Azteca *
07/12 Olympia, WA House Party +
07/25 Los Angeles, CA E2 Building / Night Lights Benefit
08/29 Los Angeles, CA Pehrspace
08/31 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court
09/01 Denver, CO Hi Dive
09/02 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room #
09/03 Iowa City, IA Picador
09/04 Dekalb, IL The House Cafe #
09/05 Toledo, OH Frankie’s #
09/06 Pittsburgh, PA Garfield Artworks #
09/08 Baltimore, MD Sonar / Talking Head Club Stage
09/09 Brooklyn, NY Union Hall %
09/10 Ithaca, NY Castaways $&
09/11 Toronto, ONT Lee’s Palace $&
09/12 Buffalo, NY Mohawk Place &
09/13 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop $&
09/14 Columbus, OH The Basement $&
09/17 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater $&
09/19 Urbana, IL Krannert Center / Pygmalion Fest $
09/20 St. Louis, MO The Firebird $&
09/21 Lawrence, KS The Bottleneck $&
09/23 Dallas, TX Granada Theater $&
09/24 Austin, TX Emo’s $&
09/25 Houston, TX Warehouse Live $&
09/26 Baton Rouge, LA Spanish Moon $&
09/27 Birmingham, AL Bottle Tree $&
09/29 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade $&
09/30 Carborro, NC Cat’s Cradle $&
10/01 Washington, DC 9:30 Club $&
10/02 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero $&
* = w/ Miniature Tigers
+ = w/ LAKE
# = w/ Ice Palace
% = w/ Phil and the Osophers
$ = w/ Ra Ra Riot
& = w/ Maps and Atlases