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Willamette Live! previews The Peculiar Pretzelmen show in Salem

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Willamette Live! previews The Peculiar Prezelmen show in Salem:

“Salem’s favorite local band that’s not actually from Salem, The Peculiar Pretzelmen will descend on the Cherry City once again for a night of old-time-y debauchery and hoot n’ hollerin’. Now a two-man band, The Peculiar Pretzelmen have been touring the lower 48 for more than a half-decade with their dusty suitcases full of vaudeville-worthy instruments and a sound that’s not quite historically accurate enough to be considered delta blues, folk or Americana. Whatever they are, they’ve been able to sustain a following in Salem longer than any other, sending attendees home with a smile on their face and a wobble in their step. Don’t fix what ain’t broke.”

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The Fourth Estate features The Peculiar Pretzelmen

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University of Wisconsin – Green Bay newspaper The Fourth Estate features The Peculiar Pretzelmen:

“The Peculiar Pretzelmen has elements of Modest Mouse, Les Claypool and Primus…There is darkness to it. I love the choice of instruments in their songs and that some are home made. I don’t think there is anything that I dislike about the Peculiar Pretzelmen.”

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Kansas City Star weekly singles feature Jenny Dalton and Peculiar Pretzelmen

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The Kansas City Star singles this week include songs by Jenny Dalton and The Peculiar Pretzelmen:

“Listening to the Peculiar Pretzelmen is almost as much of a treat as seeing them live. The sounds they produce are brazen and raw — rootsy music with a punk rock attitude, including homemade percussion and guitars, and emotive screaming vocals a la Tom Waits.”

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“‘Awake’ is primarily driven by Minneapolis singer-songwriter Jenny Dalton’s mystical voice. With tribal drum beats and an atmospheric vocal sound, the song has a haunting element. Dalton’s ethereal sound channels Tori Amos and Florence Welch, and a touch of Ani DiFranco.”

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Tour Dates: Peculiar Pretzelmen

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The Peculiar Pretzelmen kick off the final leg of the Deeper Darker Weirder Tour:

10/05/2012: Tempe, AZ – Tempe Tavern
10/06/2012: Albuquerque, NM – Stranger Factory
10/07/2012: Amarillo, TX – The 806 Coffee + Lounge
10/08/2012: Tulsa, OK – Mercury Lounge
10/09/2012: Peoria, IL – Meadows Avenue Tap
10/10/2012: Chicago, IL – Reggie’s Music Joint
10/11/2012: Grand Rapids, MI – Founders Brewing Company
10/12/2012: South Bend, IN – Golden Gnome
10/13/2012: Green Bay, WI – The Crunchy Frog
10/14/2012: Milwaukee, WI – Frank’s Power Plant
10/19/2012: Kansas City, MO – Coda Bar & Grill
10/25/2012: Wichita, KS – Kirby’s Beer Store
10/28/2012: Colorado Springs, CO – Zodiac Venue & Bar
10/31/2012: Seattle, WA – Columbia City Theater
11/02/2012: Bellingham, WA – The Green Frog
11/03/2012: Seattle, WA – Rendezvous/The Jewel Box Theater
11/07/2012: Los Angeles, CA – Club Los Globos

Press: Peculiar Pretzelmen in Popa’s Tunes

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Popa’s Tunes featured The Peculiar Pretzelmen:

If Mark Twain and Edgar Allen Poe had collaborated on a story about traveling American musicians, they couldn’t have imagined ‘The Peculiar Pretzelmen.’ Deeper. Darker, Weirder is their mantra as they travel horse and cart across the country, bringing their blend of Jazz, Cemetery Blues and Avantmercanna Folk to the masses. They did three sessions for Couch by Couchwest this year from Stranger Factory in Albuquerque, NM. Check out their discography on bandcamp, wicked good.

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Press: Larryville Chronicles interviews Peculiar Pretzelmen

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The Peculiar Pretzelmen reveal insight into their lives as cryptomusicologists, their fascination with the fearsome grackle, and why their music video ended up not being “a couple of strippers in a Chuck E Cheese grinding in the ball pit” (but inexplicably turned out to be something much better) – Larryville Chronicles interviews the band in advance of their Kansas City show, which is also an album release for Hilary Watts Riot, whom the Prezelmen describe as “our fine friends from MONEY WOLF, a fledgling Kansas City record label. They’ve invited us out a few times and each party has been a madhouse…[Hilary Watts Riot] are a freaky fun sonic meltdown party band with one hand in the Devo pie and two feet in the Sonic Youth bath, and then some fingers in Blondie soup, with the balls right in Isaac Hayes milkshake.” Molly Picture Club opens.

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The aforementioned video:

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