White Mystery Announces Tour Dates, Begin 8/5

White Mystery adds dates to their US tour supporting their most recent self-titled full length.

White Mystery is the two-piece brother/sister duo of Alex and Francis White. Alex is best known as the front woman of Miss Alex and the Red Orchestra (In The Red), but with her latest venture with brother Francis, she strips it down to a guitar and heavy-handed drum garage rock sound.

 

White Mystery Tour Dates:

Aug 5 - The Hemlock - San Francisco, CA
Aug 6 - Ghost Town - Oakland, CA
Aug 7 - El Rio - San Francisco, CA
Aug 8 - Redwoods - LA, CA
Aug 9 - The Soda Bar - San Diego, CA
Aug 10 - Cheap Tricks - El Centro, CA
Aug 12 - Beerland - Austin, TX
Aug 13 - Saturn Bar - New Orleans, LA
Aug 14 - Glenn Danzig's House - Nashville, TN
Aug 16 - The Earl - Atlanta, GA
Aug 19 - Don Pedro's - Brooklyn, NY
Aug 20 - Sailor Jerry Storefront - Philadelphia, PA
Aug 27 - Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL

Live videos and interviews are available on the White Mystery website here.

"The real attraction is White Mystery, the new duo forged by Miss Alex White, best known as the guitar-wielding blowtorch in her long-running gig with Miss Alex White and the Red Orchestra. With drummer Francis White, she reduces her love of soul-fired garage rock to its butt-kicking essence."

Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune

"It's great fun to see the redheaded siblings headbanging like matching "Fraggle Rock" puppets in their ecstatic live show, but White Mystery holds up as more than a concert flyer. The guitar goes from dirty-sounding to dirtier-sounding, the hooks are straightforward and stupidly catchy, and the singing is a belly-deep shout at the top of Alex White's range on almost every track...But even more than bratty lyrics, posessed vocals, or perpetual swagger, these songs beam with a sincere, almost perverse feeling of pride."

Pitchfork - 7.2

"Guitar-bass garage rock duos are a dime a dozen, but White Mystery from Chicago stand out and not just because siblings Alex and Francis are flaming redheads. Alex, formerly of Red Orchestra, has a soulful wail that she lets belt out at top register...And you just know - you just know - they're gonna be good live."

Brooklyn Vegan

"The average White Mystery song has a whole lot going on...There's a distorted series of power chords and a jangly set of higher guitar licks played over that; a soulful female voice bursts through, only to be joined by a caveman-like male voice for a crude harmony as drums crash to keep up with the guitar's sheer volume...The genetic connection makes something happen in their shows that verges on magic for Alex. "Sometimes when we play together live," she says, "there will be these moments of synchronicity that are so powerful that I feel like I'm levitating."

Paste - Best of What's Next

"Every time I listen to a record that features Alex in the lead singer spot, I think to myself something ridiculous like: "that girl has a voice like a tornado kicking the s out of a 4-alarm fire." She wails on her guitar and shouts like a woman possessed. What she's involved with now is quite possibly my favorite of all her projects: the two piece band with her brother Francis, White Mystery."

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Photo Credit: White Mystery Myspace page

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