Caravan Palace Swing(Dancing) Through First Avenue April 3rd
Parisian Electro-Swing trio (which expands to a boisterous 6-piece when playing live) Caravan Palace are heading out on a North American tour spanning multiple countries and 24 dates, and they’ll be hitting First Avenue in Minneapolis on April 3rd!
The band dropped their fifth album Gangbusters Melody Club in spring early last year, a kaleidoscope of influences and dance-bangers that beautifully interwove their core identity with some fresh new sounds. In preparation for the upcoming tour, Caravan Palace recorded a brand new music video for “City Cook” (which you can watch before), also giving it a shorter edit and bestowing a single release upon the song.
About the “City Cook” music video, the band adds: “Once every seven days, a ritual takes place—a ceremony as old as the civilization itself, whether it be ancient or alien. They are bound to a single sense: sight. Their deity, by contrast, perceives all. And so, in fear of what they cannot match, they seal its eyes, stripping it of the only power they themselves possess. From the bowels of the earth, they extract their offering—flesh of beast, flesh of root—feeding a cycle neither questioned nor broken. And with each offering comes a spectacle to behold, a feast for sight alone—pleasure twisted into ritual, excess into sustenance. What is this but the order of men, subjugating the feminine, binding its body to hunger, to control, to torment without end? Or is it humankind itself, ransacking the world for instant reward, for pleasure stripped of meaning, for wealth that devours all? The deity endures, plundered yet inexhaustible. The cycle turns once more. Meaning shifts in the eye of the beholder. The question remains.”
Catch Caravan Palace on any of the dates below - you can still grab tickets for Minneapolis here!
Caravan Palace on tour:
Wed 3.19 - Dallas, TX @ The Echo
Fri 3. 21 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
Sat 3.22 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
Mon 3.24 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Novo
Tue 3.25 - Oakland, CA @ The Fox Theatre
Thu 3.27 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
Fri 3.28 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox SODO (LAST TICKETS)
Sat 3.29 - Vancouver, BC @ Vogue (LAST TICKETS)
Mon 3.31 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
Tue 4.1 - Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
Thu 4.3 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
Mon 4.7 - Toronto, ONT @ The Concert Hall
Tue 4.8 - Montreal, QUE @ L'Olympia
Fri 4.11 - New York, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
Sat 4.12 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
Tue 4.15 - Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theater
Wed 4.16 - Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
Thu 4.17 - Miami, FL @ Revolution Live