Nick Waterhouse’s latest album Holly is due March 4 on Innovative Leisure. The new record, which follows Waterhouse’s 2012 debut Time’s All Gone, has received early critical acclaim. Rolling Stone explains Nick Waterhouse is a soul man, through and through, while Paste Magazine praises the music as a cohesive selection of work that, presented together, tells a story. To celebrate the release, Waterhouse will embark on a nationwide tour. See below for details.
Listen to This Is A Game wich is featured in Chevrolet’s latest TV ad. Don't miss Nick Waterhouse in concert at Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto on February 22nd, at Club Soda, as part of Montreal en Lumière, on February 23th, and at Biltmore in Vancouver on March 10th. See all tour dates below.
Holly was produced by Waterhouse and Kevin Augunas (Cold War Kids, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros) and includes song writing collaborations with friend Ty Segall, as well as covers of tracks by Young Holt Trio and Mose Allison among others. Of the new music, Waterhouse notes, Thematically this record feels more like a novella, or poem with sections, or even a film, than a collection of songs. It is a work of fiction, with a protagonist, but also a floating omniscient narrator, and fragments of conversation from other characters. I was heavily influenced by my surroundings in young Los Angeles, as well as the concept of fate.
Waterhouse grew up in Huntington Beach, CA. He established his musical sensibilities in the middle of the burgeoning Southern California psych-garage scene, while retaining his unique perspective on the spirit of American rhythm & blues and rock & roll. Waterhouse started performing as a teenager. I found it had the same feeling I got racing motorcycles as a kid, which is a fight-or-flight feeling of things happening in ‘real time’…I felt like that was the most focusing thing about playing music versus other forms of art. You have to live with what you do in an immediate moment, he explains.
TOUR DATES
19/02 Pittsburgh, PA // Club Cafe
20/02 Detroit, MI // Lager House
21/02 Chicago, IL // Lincoln Hall
22/02 Toronto, ON // Horseshoe Tavern
23/02 Montréal, QC // Montréal en Lumière @ Club Soda
25/02 Boston, MA // Brighton Music Hall
27/02 New York, NY // Bowery Ballroom
28/02 Washington, DC // Bulldog Alley @ Georgetown University
01/03 Philadelphia, PA // First Unitarian Church
07/03 Los Angeles, CA // Hollywood Legion
08/03 San Francisco, CA // Great American Music Hall
10/03 Vancouver, BC // Biltmore
11/03 Seattle, WA // Neumos
12/03 Portland, OR // Doug Fir
13/03 Reno, NV // Knitting Factory
14/03 San Luis Obispo, CA // Downtown Brew
15/03 Pioneertown, CA // Pappy & Harriets