Duncan Sheik Kicks Off 'Sunset Session Tour' Today, 11/9

Grammy and Tony award winning songwriter and composer Duncan Sheik will headline Michele Clark's Sunset Session Tour 2012 kicking off at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas tonight, November 9. Sheik will be performing songs from his new album Covers 80s Remixed out on his own imprint Sneaky Records/MRI. See full list of dates below.

For this new offering, Sheik created a remixed edition of his 2011 album Covers 80s in which he reinterpreted the stand-alone pop songs from his teen years along with the synth-pop era's classic and obscure songs. The album includes tracks by Dépêche Mode, Thompson Twins, New Order, The Cure, Love and Rockets, The Smiths, Tears for Fears and more. For Covers 80s Remixed, Sheik enlisted Samantha Ronson, El-P, Gabriel & Dresden, Chico Mann, Terry Urban among others to decode these songs again. The album contains guest appearances from Holly Brook aka Skylar Grey and Rachael Yamagata. Sheik will begin a 20 date headline tour across the U.S. starting in November as part of this first annual "Sunset Sessions Tour."

Launching his musical career in 1996 with his self-titled debut, Sheik quickly earned a Grammy nomination for "Best Male Vocal" for his hit "Barely Breathing," which spent 55 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. He subsequently garnered critical accolades for his unique brand of folk-pop music with 2006's White Limousine and his 2-CD collection of songs titled Brighter/Later: A Duncan Sheik Anthology. Sheik then composed the original score and collaborated with lyricist Steven Sater for 2007's Spring Awakening, which went on to win eight Tony awards. Sheik alone earned two awards for "Best Orchestration" and "Best Original Score" as well as a Grammy award for "Best Musical Show Album." He followed with musical theater production Whisper House, which was directed by Peter Askin (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and written by Kyle Jarrow. Sheik is currently working on stage productions of Brett Easton Ellis' American Psycho and Hans Christian Andersen's The Nightingale.

Track Listing for Covers 80s Remixed
"Shout"-Original Recording by Tears for Fears; Remixed by Chi Duly ft. RachaelYamagata
"What Is Love"-Original Recording Howard Jones; Remixed by Gabriel & Dresden
"William It Was Really Nothing"-Original Recording by The Smiths; Remixed by Max Tannone
"Gentleman Take Polaroids"-Original Recording by Japan; Remixed by Ben Casey
"Kyoto Song"-Original Recording by The Cure; Remixed by Samantha Ronson
"Stay"-Original Recording by The Blue Nile; Remixed by Duncan Sheik
"Love Vigilantes"-Original Recording by New Order; Remixed by EL-P
"Life's What You Make It"-Original Recording by Talk Talk; Remixed by Bookworm
"Stripped"-Original Recording by Dépêche Mode; Remixed by Terry Urban
"So Alive"-Original Recording by Love & Rockets; Remixed by Duncan Sheik
"The Ghost in You"-Original Recording by Psychedelic Furs; Remixed by Chico Mann ft. Holly Brook
"Hold Me Now"-Original Recording by Thompson Twins; Remixed by 16 Bit Lolita

Duncan Sheik TOUR DATES
November 9 Cosmopolitan Hotel Las Vegas, NV
November 13 The Soiled Dove Denver, CO
November 15 Legion Arts Cedar Rapids, IA
November 17 SPACE Evanston, IL
November 18 The Basement Columbus, OH
November 20 World Café Live Philadelphia, PA
November 21 The Sinclair Cambridge, MA
November 23 The Gramercy Theater New York, NY
November 24 New Hope Winery New Hope, PA
November 25 Birchmere Alexandria, VA
November 27 The Soapbox Laundrolounge Wilmington, NC
November 28 3rd and Lindsley Nashville, TN
November 29 Smith's Olde Bar Atlanta, GA
November 30 5 Points Pub Columbia, SC
December 2 Workplay Theater Birmingham, AL
December 4 Paramount Theatre Austin, TX
December 5 Kessler Theater Dallas, TX

Photo Credit: Monica Simoes

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