AIR WAVES ANNOUNCE SPRING TOUR AND SXSW DATES

"Air Waves performs unassuming folk-pop songs that partake of a bittersweet nostalgia. Schneit's high, watery voice isn't conventionally pretty, but it's a powerfully intimate instrument." - Time Out New York

Just days after returning from their debut European tour, Air Waves are hitting the road for their Spring U.S. Tour including dates with Seattle's Past Lives (featuring ex-members of The Blood Brothers), and performances at Austin, TX's SXSW Festival and an appearance at Monterrey, Mexico's MtyMx Festival.

Air Waves Spring Tour + SXSW Dates

Mar 14 Memphis, TN @ Hi Tone w/ Washed Out, Small Black, Picture Plane
Mar 16 Austin, TX @ Day Before The Mess Fest w/ Beach Fossils, Beets, Harlem
Mar 17 Austin, TX @ No Words / Day Bow Bow Party @ Ghost Room w/Awesome Color, Light Pollution, Vivian Girls
Mar 18 Austin, TX @ Weekly Tape Deck Show w/ Eternal Summers, Coasting +++
Mar 19 Austin, TX @ Broken Neck - Modern Country Records / Acid Marshmallow / Pop Jew SXSW Party
Mar 19 Austin, TX @ The Long Branch - Gorilla Vs Bear / Up
Mar 22 Monterrey, Nuevo Len, Mexico @ MtyMx
Mar 24 St. Louis, MI @ Firebird w/ Past Lives
Mar 25 Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge w/ Past Lives
Mar 26 Milwaukee, WI @ Bayview Legion Hall w/Past Lives
Mar 27 Grand Rapids, MI @ Daac w/ Past Lives
Mar 28 Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick w/ Past Lives
Mar 29 Cleveland, OH @ Now That's Class w/ Past Lives, City Center
Mar 30 Rochester, NY @ The Bug Jar w/ Past Lives






BIO
When Pitchfork's Guest List asked Dan Deacon what his favorite new band is, his reply may sum up Nicole Schneit's of Air Waves music best, "The music she writes is like a favorite blanket wrapped around you".

The Brooklyn based songwriter first found solace in her guitar, composing escapist songs with fantastical stories and catchy choruses. Not wanting to be tagged as strictly a singer-songwriter and desiring a full-band sound, in 2007 Schneit teamed up with fellow Brooklynites taking on the name Air Waves. A few band member changes later, Air Waves is hitting the road with Dan Bryer and Jordan Bernstein. A medley of folk, rock, pop, and country, Air Waves serves up fantastic imagery with unforgettable melodies with named influences such as Neil Young, The Clean, and the Velvet Underground. Passive towards trends, image, genre and all things on the periphery of being in a rock band, there is a genuineness in Nicole's voice that echoes throughout every aspect of Air Waves, cutting straight to the essentials of communicating something larger than words.

Critics have labeled Air Waves as everything from sparse pop to folky punk, a sign that Air Waves does what every great band in their time has managed to do - find a way to be both comfortable and compelling in being themselves while creating a body of work beyond genre classification. Already in a short time span Air Waves have not only made a name for themselves in Brooklyn, but elsewhere by touring extensively down both the East and West coast sharing the stage with such notable acts like Cat Power, Songs: Ohio, Beach House, Dan Deacon and The Rapture to name a few.

Recorded by Baltimore producer Chester Gwazda (Ecstatic Sunshine) in a Long Island basement, their debut self-titled EP (Catbird Records) features five songs, without a single misstep or wasted moment. Schneit has a voice that creeps up on you, the sort of subtle but infectious haziness and rasp that turns an understated melody into something that echoes with depth and nostalgia.

PRESS
"Nicole Schneit's Air Waves write the kind of songs that embed themselves in your subconscious' soundtrack and emerge regularly in the guise of melodies you whistle and hum without knowing exactly where you first heard them." - Impose Magazine

"Folk gets mentioned a lot in conjunction with Air Waves, but elements of country and rock have also been assimilated into their sound. There's a wonderful quiver to Schneit's fragile vocals, which adds a deeply sad undertow to her songs. Air Waves make perfect Sunday afternoon music." - Prefix Magazine

"Air Waves, traffics in folk music of an appealing, elemental sort..." - The A.V. Club

"I haven't met Nicole, but I think the punk in her might hate the word 'enchanting'. But that's kind of what she is..." - John Norris, L Magazine

"One of the many impressive things about this group is their lack of pretension. There are no wild fashion statements or rambling declarations to the audience, just music, and good music at that." - Austin Statesman



Air Waves
Air Waves EP
[Catbird Records]

Track Listing
1. Gems
2. Lightning
3. Kingdom
4. Shine On
5. Keys

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