Kevin Devine is adding the finishing touches to his next solo effort, Between The Concrete And Clouds, due this fall, but you don't have to wait until them to get new music. Devine's two new 7'' singles "Luxembourg" and "Part of the Whole" are due May 17 via Academy Fight Song Records. Recorded, produced, and mixed in Los Angeles over just two days in January by Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith, Guided by Voices), all instrumentation on the singles was played by Devine (except for drums, performed by Ben Homola of Bad Books).
Devine will test-drive his new material on the west coast at residencies in two cities: Los Angeles and Portland. Titled "An Evening With Kevin Devine and Friends," the shows will take place at Hotel Café (May 11, 18, 25) in L.A. and at Crystal Hotel and Ballroom in Portland (free shows May 29-June 4), and feature a rotating cast of guests and musicians, along with some surprises.
