James Chance for President! Vote The Flesh Is Weak!

 

Available this Friday, you can pre-order now: radi.al/TheFleshIsWeakJChance. 

 Tour dates: 

11/10 New York, NY @ Bowery Electric (album release show; tickets here) 

11/12 Austin, TX @ Beerland (info here, only $5.00!) 

12/10 Toronto, Canada @ The Rivoli (tickets here)

The Flesh Is Weak: New Album From James Chance & The Contortions Now Available For Pre-Order!

On November 11th, True Groove Global Soul is honored to bring you a new album of cutting edge punk funk from no wave legend James Chance & The Contortions entitled 'The Flesh Is Weak' (produced by Tomás Doncker & James Dellatacoma). Get ready to contort yourself as you have never contorted yourself before, and if you are new to James Chance, well, get ready for a true New York original...Pre-order on iTunes now: http://radi.al/TheFleshIsWeakJChance.

Gettin' into something funky for the weekend: Melt Yourself Down

Tour dates:

11/10 New York, NY @ Bowery Electric (album release show; tickets here)

11/12 Austin, TX @ Beerland (info here, only $5.00!)

12/10 Toronto, Canada @ The Rivoli (tickets here)

Melt Yourself Down: New James Chance & The Contortions Track Now Streaming at Stereogum!

Wrap your ears around "Melt Yourself Down," the brand new single from James Chance & The Contortions, over at Stereogum. Its the first taste of James' next album, The Flesh Is Weak, which he has been working on recently with Contortions member/producer Tomas Doncker and the folks at True Groove Records. The album will be available in November with some tour dates to accompany it. Melt Yourself Down here.

Tour dates:
11/10 New York, NY @ Bowery Electric (album release show; tickets here)
11/12 Austin, TX @ Beerland (info here, only $5.00!)
12/10 Toronto, Canada @ The Rivoli (tickets here)

James Chance & the Contortions to play Beerland in Austin, Nov 12, for Austin Jukebox #5

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Melt Yourself Down: Images from a new video shoot for first single from new album

Here's a couple of images from a recent video shoot for a NEW James Chance album! James is rocking a jacket actually owned & worn by Liberace. 

Thanks to Dylan Mars Greenberg. More info to come soon.

James Chance & the Contortions to headline East Village Eye Party at the Delancey, NYC, on Sept 16

The Contortions will be headlining this event being thrown by the Howl Happening Gallery & East Village Eye on Sept. 16. For more info visit the Facebook event page.

TORONTO SHOWS UPDATE / DATE CHANGE: Now two shows on December 10 at Rivoli

The previously announced Toronto shows of September 7 & 8 have been rescheduled to two shows in one evening. The shows will now be at Rivoli on December 10. Tickets are $30 for each show, or a special price of $50 for both, and are available via the following links:

Saturday, December 10th

8:00PM show

11:30PM show

Both shows

James Chance & The Contortions ready first new studio LP since the ’80s, playing Bowery Electric (BV presale)

No Wave legends James Chance & the Contortions are set to release their first proper album since the ’80s. Produced by longtime Contortions guitarist Tomás Doncker, it’s titled The Flesh is Weak and will be out via True Groove Records this fall, featuring brand new material and favorites from their live set.

The band, which also includes Eric Klaastad (bass/vocals), Richard Dworkin (drums/vocals), Mac Gollehon (trumpet), and Robert Aaron (saxophone/keyboards), will play a record release show at NYC’s Bowery Electric on November 10 with BUENO and Logan X. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 26 at 10 AM with a BrooklynVegan presale beginning Tuesday, August 23 at 10 AM. Check Brooklyn Vegan Tuesday morning for the password.

James Chance & Les Contortions Live in Milan at Lofi, May 22, 2016

Happy Saturday night everyone. Thanks to Luca, the sound man at Lo Fi Milano, for this recording of the May 22, 2016, gig by James & Les Contortions!

Setlist (Compositions by James Chance except where noted): 

01. Designed To Kill 

02. Home Is Where the Hatred Is (Gil Scot Heron) 

03. Do the Splurge 

04. Street With No Name 

05. Jaded 

06. Melt Yourself Down 

07. Disposable You 

08. Put Me Back In My Cage 

09. No Pity In the Naked City (Jackie Wilson/Alonzo Tucker) 

10. Contort Yourself 

11. I Can't Stand Myself (James Brown)

 

Vienna, May 17, 2016

Thanks to Steff Galvan in Vienna for the great pix he sent to us recently. They were shot for webzine, Pavlov's Dogs, when James was there back on May 17 with Les Contortions.

James Chance & Les Contortions on tour: Europe May 2016

Blue Note Tokyo, Jan 23, 2016 by Toshiya Arai

James Chance & Les Contortions

Europe May 2016

May 14 Brest (fr) - La Carène

May 17 Wien (aus) - Chelsea

May 18 Budapest (hr) - A38

May 19 Ljubljana (slo) - Kino Siska

May 20 Bologna (ita) - Freakout

May 21 Ancona (ita) - La Cupa

May 22 Milan (ita) - Lofi

James Chance To Play Blue Note Tokyo Jan 22-24 Following Australian Dates

James, along with his NYC band (Mac Gollehon, Robert Aaron, Tomas Doncker, Eric Klaastad, and Richard Dworkin), will be appearing at Tokyo, Japan's Blue Note in January following shows in Australia. For three nights they'll be working hard with two sets a night - January 22, 23 and 24! For more information please visit bluenote.co.jp/jp/artists/james-chance. 

James Chance Australian Tour Dates, January 2016