MURDER BY DEATH CHANGE OF DATES TOUR DELAYED UNTIL MAY

NEW TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 17th FEB FURTHER TICKETING DETAILS COMING SOON...

Due to scheduling and time constraints Jung Hearts will be moving the intial Murder By Death tour dates to May. Jung Hearts believe that these new date changes and some venue changes will contribute to a greater overall experience for punters planning on attending shows for this tour. Several new dates have also been added to the tour, allowing the band to visit more locations in Australia.

Murder By Death and Jung Hearts are excited to deliver this inaugural first ever tour to Australia in its new and improved format.

Please find new dates and venues below. Those who have already purchased tickets can retain their tickets as being valid for these new dates, with the exception of Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne where venues have changed. Those tickets purchased at venues that are no longer being used for the tour can get a refund at point of purchase and then re-purchase their tickets for the new shows.

Jung Hearts apologies for any inconvenience caused as a result of these changes. New ticketing information will be posted in the next few days, going on sale on Friday the 17th of Feb. Stay tuned.

Perth band ELEVENTH HE REACHES LONDON regretfully cannot perform on these new dates as main tour support, however all tour supports will be announced in the coming weeks with some great local talent scheduled to appear on stage with Murder By Death. We're very excited about the support band selection for these shows.

In the past two years, Murder By Death have released the critically lauded "Good Morning, Magpie" on the venerable Vagrant Records, added Scott Brackett from Okkervil River to their lineup and had a song featured in a trailer for Quentin Tarantino's 'Inglorious Basterds' and on the successful US drama television series 'Sons of Anarchy'.

Straddling the delicate border of Punk and Country without indulging in the cliches of either genre, their live reputation pegs them as both rabble-rousing and note-perfect, atmospheric as much as forceful and truly unmissable.

Murder By Death will begin their first tour to Australia this coming May.

'If you've never witnessed a show from MBD, this is one not to miss; the band paints a lush dark picture of the whiskey-soaked underbelly of American back roads. If Johnny Cash had spent some time collaborating with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the result may have been something like this.' - about.com

Thursday 17th May | The Evelyn, Melbourne

Friday 18th May | The National Hotel, Geelong

Saturday 19th May | The Wall, Sydney

Sunday 20th May | Chinos, Newcastle

Thursday 24th May | Surfers Paradise Beer Garden, Gold Coast

Friday 25th May | The Spotted Cow, Toowoomba

Saturday 26th May | The Jubilee Hotel, Brisbane

tix are on sale this Friday. See event page link for further information:

http://www.facebook.com/events/210028212413220/

OUR VERY FIRST TOUR OF AUSTRALIA!!!! Feb 22nd @ The National in Geelong, Australia - tix available at www.oztix.com.au Feb 23rd @ The Hifi, in Melbourne, Australia - Tix available at www.thehifi.com.au Feb 24th @ Hermanns Bar, in Sydney, Australia - Tix available at www.oztix.com.au Feb 25th @ Woodland Bar in Brisbane, Australia - Tix available at www.oztix.com.au Feb 26th @ The Spotted Cow in Toowoomba, Australia - tix available at the spotted cow www.spottedcow.com.au

We recently acquired the rights to our first two albums "Like the Exorcist" and "Who Will Survive". Get both albums on CD for just $12 OR go to bandcamp.com and get em for just $5 each for Digital DL

LAST MINUTE HALIFAX VENUE CHANGE: Tonight's Halifax show has been moved to North St Church @ 5657 North Street. We go on at midnight. Border wouldn't let us play otherwise. Just made it into Canada after they charged us lots of money and had to move the show. Arg.

MBD Fall Tours- Ticket Links below! TOUR DATES and ticket links!

Want to help promote our shows? This is a link to a printable poster you can put up around town! Just write in the date and club name- and thanks!

POSTER DOWNLOAD

Fri, Nov-11 Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater for Up to Eleven Festival Lawrence, KS tickets

Sat, Nov-12 Springfield, MO @ Outland Ballroom Springfield, MO tickets

Fri, Dec-2 Bloomington, IN @ the bishop bloomington, IN ticket link

Thu, Dec-29 St Louis, MO @ Off Broadway Dec 29 St Louis tickets

Fri, Dec-30 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean Day Before New Year's Eve Show tickets!

Sat, Dec-31 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean New Year's Eve tickets

Murder By Death and The Builders and The Butchers are happy to announce an art contest for the Seven Series split 7" coming out this summer on MBD's label Tent Show Records. For this release, MBD has covered The Builders and The Butchers song "In The Branches" and TBATB have covered MBD's "Until Morale Improves The Beatings Will Continue". Also, Ray from TBATB has a one-man band called "Mission Operation" where he makes music on Nintendo Gameboys, and he has done Gameboy covers of "Ball and Chain" by MBD "Down in this Hole" by Builders and The Butchers. AWESOME. All Four tracks will be on the 7". If you're an artist and would like to participate in this contest, please submit a 7" by 7" 300 DPI PSD of your art and email it to mbdband@gmail.com . Your submission can have as little or as much information as you want. Deadline for submissions is May 25th. MBD will pick one design and TBATB will pick a second one for the B-Side.

Tha Prize

The two winning artists will each receive all 5 MBD albums on vinyl, all 3 TBATB albums on vinyl, and 5 copies of the split 7" with their lovely art on it, with a letter of praise from MBD that will surely get them into all the finest salons in Paris and Berlin, due to our extreme prominence in the 1920s art world.

Other 7"s and new merch can be bought HERE.

Current Tour Dates: 3-30 Laramie, WY @ University of Wyoming 4-1 Bay City, MI @ The Vault [Tickets] 4-2 Notre Dame, IN @ Notre Dame (students only) 4-3 Mishawaka, IN @ The Phoenix Bar and Grill 4-8 New York, NY @ Terminal 5 (Opening for the Hold Steady) 5-19 Akron, OH @ Musica 5-20 ROCKS OFF Concert Cruise Series New York, NY [Tickets] 5-21 Somerset, NJ @ Steampunk World's Fair @ Crown Plaza 6-18 Westword Music Showcase Denver, CO [Tickets]

THERE ARE NEW PRESSINGS OF MURDER BY DEATH VINYL AS WELL AS FOUR NEW HANDSCREENED POSTERS AVAILABLE AT webstore Also, we scrounged up a few more Wood Box sets! Get em before they're gone!

Gadies and Lentelman! Just so you know, some of these shows are selling pretty fast and are getting close to selling out. Fair warning that you may want to buy tickets in advance. We would hate to miss ya! Thanks! Get em at murderbydeath.com

NPR's World Cafe, a program which presents new and significant music, will have Murder By Death on the show tomorrow, November 2, 2010! Click HERE to find what station World Cafe is on in your city and to check the broadcast times!

Tons of new shirts and posters in the MBD webstore. Check em out at Murderbydeath.com. We also have MBD onesies for babies!