Things just keep getting ‘Better’ for our favorite Russian-born, Bronx-bred ivory-tickling sweetheart Regina Spektor. The news today is that Sire Records is releasing a “re-cut” version of Begin to Hope single “Better” for 7′ color vinyl on August 28, and a slew of new tour dates have also been plotted beginning September 16 at Austin City Limits and wrapping up November 20th at Toad’s Place in Richmond, VA. Spektor is also scheduled to tape a performance while at Austin City Limits for broadcast on PBS in early 2008. After the jump, full press release on “Better,” latest RIAA certifications for Begin to Hope and 26-date tour itinerary!
REGINA SPEKTOR ANNOUNCES NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
CONFIRMED AUSTIN CITY LIMITS TAPING
SIRE RECORDS RELEASES “BETTER” ON COLOR 7′ VINYL
Regina Spektor is proud to announce a North American tour beginning
September 19th in Baltimore, MD. The 26-date tour will be in support of
her critically acclaimed album, BEGIN TO HOPE, which reached #20 on the
Billboard Top 100. With the enormous success of the Russian-born,
Bronx-bred musician’s first single, “Fidelity,” BEGIN TO HOPE is
quickly approaching RIAA Gold status in the U.S and has been certified
Gold in Australia and Silver in the UK. In addition to performing at
this year’s Austin City Limits Festival, PBS’s music television
program, Austin City Limits, will film an intimate performance with the
chanteuse, set to air in early 2008.
A VH1 “You Oughta Know” artist, Regina has spent the last 11 months
selling out 3,000+ capacity venues around the world and has made recent
noteworthy stops at Coachella, V Festival, the Bonnaroo Music and Arts
Festival, and Lollapalooza among others. The Chicago Sun-Times
described her appearance at Lollapalooza as “an unexpected, impressive
and inspiring performance.” The Associated Press, who caught her at
Bonnaroo, said of all the incredible artists at the festival, “the best
showing by far came from Regina Spektor.” The Associated Press
continued to rave Regina is “smart, genuinely funny, and bound to sing
a line that will cut your heart out.”
Sire Records will release a “re-cut” version of Regina’s second single,
“Better,” on 7′ color vinyl August 28th. Showing a slightly rockier
side to the classically-trained pianist, “Better” is a song in which
Regina whispers, croons and woos with her inimitable voice and offers
us her take on love, pain and everything between. In addition to being
used for an XM radio television commercial, “Better” made several Top
10 Year End lists including Rolling Stone, Spin and Blender to name a
few. The B-Side to the vinyl single will be a “piano and voice” version
of “Better.”
Tour Dates:
September 16th Austin, TX Austin City Limits Festival
September 19th Baltimore, MD Ram’s Head Live
September 25th Northampton, MA Calvin Theater
September 26th Storrs, CT Jorgensen Center
September 27th Upper Darby, PA Tower Theater
October 1st Cleveland, OH Agora Theatre
October 2nd Indianapolis, IN Egyptian Room
October 3rd Cincinnati, OH Bogart¹s
October 5th Omaha, NE Sokol Auditorium
October 6th St. Paul, MN The Myth
October 8th Milwaukee, WI Eagles Club
October 10th Detroit, MI State Theatre
October 11th Toronto, ON Kool Haus
October 14th Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre
October 16th New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom
October 30th Los Angeles, CA Wiltern Theatre
October 31st Anaheim, CA The Grove of Anaheim
November 2nd Salt Lake City, UT In the Venue
November 4th Phoenix, AZ Orpheum Theatre
November 6th Austin, TX Stubb¹s Bar-B-Q
November 7th Houston, TX Warehouse Live
November 8th Dallas, TX House of Blues
November 11th Kansas City, MO Uptown Theatre
November 12th St. Louis, MO The Pageant
November 14th Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
November 15th Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle
November 19th Norfolk, VA The NorVa
November 20th Richmond, VA Toad¹s Place
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