STREET SWEEPER SOCIAL CLUB TAKE NYC BY STORM

STREET SWEEPER SOCIAL CLUB TAKE NYC BY STORM
* FIRST SINGLE “100 LITTLE CURSES” ADDED AT KROQ
 
DEBUT ALBUM OUT JUNE 16th
 
TOUR WITH NINE INCH NAILS & JANE’S ADDICTION STARTS TONIGHT
* NATIONAL TV DEBUT JUNE 17TH ON LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON
 
Street Sweeper Social Club, the new band unifying Tom Morello and Boots Riley, took NYC by storm this week playing two surprise, impromptu shows at small clubs. Tuesday night, SSSC took the stage before a packed house at The Roots sold out jam session at Highline Ballroom and Wednesday SSSC rocked Kenny’s Castaways in the West Village. Regarding the Highline Ballroom performance, Rolling Stone.com stated that SSSC are “…its own foot-stomping, teeth gnashing beast.”  Their debut self-titled album of self-described “revolutionary party jams” is out June 16th through Warner Music Group’s Independent Label Group. The 11-song set was produced by Tom Morello and features Boots Riley on vocals, Morello on guitar and bass, and Stanton Moore (Galactic) on
drums. SSSC’s debut tour with Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction kicks
off tonight in West Palm Beach, FL.
 
SSSC is set to make their national TV debut Weds, June 17th on Late
Night w/Jimmy Fallon. The band’s first single, “100 Little Curses” just
landed at radio with a huge buzz. KROQ/LA, 91X/San Diego, KFMA/Tucson
and KJEE/Santa Barbera are all in early, with the official add day
coming next week. Tom & Boots will be hosting MTV2’s “Rock The Deuce”
Saturday, June 20th. The video for “100 Little Curses” will debut on
that show as well. Also look for SSSC to be featured on MTV’s “The Drop”
week of release. 
  
Tom Morello is a founding member and guitarist of the rock bands Rage
Against the Machine and Audioslave.  The two bands are responsible for
multiple Grammy Awards and a combined 30 million albums sold worldwide.
Morello has also received critical acclaim as a solo artist known as The
Nightwatchman.  Widely celebrated for his unique voice as a master
electric guitarist, he is recognized by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of
the “100 Greatest Guitar Players of All-Time (#26).” He is also one of
only two guitarists featured as a playable animated character in the
overwhelmingly popular Activision video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of
Rock. Tom Morello graduated from Harvard University with honors as a
Political Science major and has been a widely recognized political
activist throughout his career. With System of a Down’s Serj Tankian,
Morello formed Axis of Justice, an organization whose purpose is to
bring together musicians, music fans, and grassroots political
organizations to fight for social justice. 
 
Boots Riley is best known as the leader of The Coup, the seminal Hip-Hop
group from Oakland, CA.  As a producer and lyricist, Riley has crafted
critically acclaimed albums for The Coup that have graced the year-end
Top 10 lists of Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Los Angeles
Times, and more.  They have also received “Album of the Year” honors
from The Washington Post, Time Out New York, while Billboard Magazine
declared the group “the best hip-hop act of the past decade.”  Born in
Chicago and raised in East Oakland’s Funktown neighborhood, Boots became
a teenage community organizer.  From his history of student organizing
in Oakland’s public schools, serving on the central committee for the
Progressive Labor Party, being the President of Youth InCar (Youth
International Committee Against Racism), organizing to build
California’s Anti-Racist Farm Workers’ Union, to developing “guerrilla
hip hop concerts” (mobile concerts on flatbed trucks), Boots Riley has
been an integral part of the progressive struggle for radical change
through culture.   
 
Street Sweeper Social Club with Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction
May 8 – West Palm Beach, FL  Cruzan Amphitheatre 
May 9 – Tampa, FL   Ford Amphitheatre 
May 10 – Atlanta, GA  Lakewood Amphitheatre
May 12 – Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center
May 14 – Albuquerque, NM  Journal Pavilion 
May 15 – Phoenix, AZ  Cricket Wireless Pavilion 
May 16 – Chula Vista, CA  Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre   
May 20 – Irvine, CA  Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
May 21 – Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl
May 22 -Mountain View, CA  Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View 
May 24 – The Gorge, WA Sasquatch Festival
May 26 – Englewood, CO  Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre 
May 27 – Kansas City, MO  Starlight Theatre 
May 29 – Chicago, IL  Charter One Pavilion at Northern Island (NIN/SSSC
ONLY)
May 30 – Noblesville, IN  Verizon Wireless Music Center  Indianapolis
May 31 – Clarkston, MI  DTE Energy Music Theatre 
June 02 – Toronto, ON  Molson Amphitheatre 
June 03 – Mansfield, MA Comcast Center
June 05 – Camden, NJ  Susquehanna Bank Center 
June 06 – Holmdel, NJ   PNC Bank Arts Center 
June 07 – Wantagh, NY  Nikon at Jones Beach Theater 
June 09 – Columbia, MD  Merriweather Post Pavilion
June 10 – Burgettstown, PA  Post-Gazette Pavilion 
June 12 – Charlotte, NC  Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte   
 
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