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THE CULT TO PLAY CONGRESS THEATER IN CHICAGO JUNE 1st

CHICAGO SHOW FRIDAY, JUNE 1st at CONGRESS THEATER

Against Me! and The Icarus Line To Support

Venerable rock band The Cult will hit the pavement hard this summer with the first leg of its 2012 North American tour.  They will make a stop in Chicago June 1st to rock the Congress Theater with support from Against Me! and The Icarus Line. “This is going to be a very intense, high-energy tour,” said The Cult’s vocalist, Ian Astbury. “We are really looking forward to the time we spend on stage connected to our music and our audience. That’s our purpose.”

Tickets at $22.00, on sale now and the show is all ages. http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/111147?utm_medium=bks

The Cult - Astbury, Billy Duffy, called one of the post-punk era’s greatest guitarists, Chris Wyse on bass, drummer John Tempesta, and touring member Mike Dimkich on rhythm guitar - is touring in support of Choice of Weapon, the band’s first new studio album in five years, due out May 22 (Cooking Vinyl).

Featuring The Cult’s signature sounds of Astbury’s vocals and Duffy’s guitar, the album was produced by Chris Goss (Queens of the Stone Age, U.N.K.L.E. Masters of Reality) and Bob Rock (Metallica, Bush, The Cult’s Sonic Temple), recorded in New York City, Los Angeles, the California high desert and the band’s Witch Mountain studio between July and December 2011, and written by Astbury and Duffy.

Early praise for the record came from the Toronto Star’s Ben Rayner who wrote that Choice of Weapon “feels like the work of the cosmically inclined outfit responsible for such durable records as 1985’s Love, 1987’s Electric and 1989’s smash hit Sonic Temple than anything the band has done in years.”

Choice of Weapon reflects the survival in today’s volatile world where the sense of entitlement is growing, where we are constantly bombarded by “ones and zeros,” and where the “have-nots” increase on a daily basis. The album poses the questions, “how do we survive and still keep our integrity and humanity?  What weapons do we choose to insure a sane future for ourselves and our children, and not de-evolve into a ‘Hunger Games’ scenario?”

On these North American dates, The Cult will play many of their classics as well as introduce fans to some of their new songs, including “Lucifer” - not a song about the devil, but a reference to the morning star, the idea of a journey through darkness and decadence to find the road to wisdom - “Honey From a Knife” - based on the Buddhist teaching about the seductiveness of addiction - and “For The Animals,” the first official single from Choice of Weapon.  “For The Animals” asserts the rising tensions, the rage and hostility of the growing group of disenfranchised youth in our society.

THE CULT PLAY CONGRESS THEATER WITH AGAINST ME

AND THE ICARUS LINE FRIDAY JUNE 1st

Doors 6:30/Show 6:30 Tickets $22.00

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