Already announced to play Falls & Southbound Festivals, this January Californian singer-songwriter Hanni El Khatib returns with his brand of fiery garage soul to Sydney and Melbourne clubs. Joining him are very special guests, eclectic Austin TX 4-piece White Denim, who’ll be playing their first ever Australian shows celebrating the release of their new album, Corsicana Lemonade.
While on tour after his acclaimed debut record Will The Guns Come Out, El Khatib met Dan Auerbach (Black Keys) in a bar in Paris and after some whiskey got involved, they decided to partner up in Auerbach’s studio in Nashville. The idea was to erase everything he’d become comfortable with and to make an album out of only raw instinct and inspiration. The result is Head In The Dirt, produced by Auerbach, in which HEK takes eleven tracks and reflects an entire history of rebel music, from the cut-to-the-bone rhythm ‘n’ blues ‘Save Me’ and overcranked Stooges-style stomper ‘Family’ to ‘Penny’ his stuck-in-your-head pop hit.
White Denim’s mix of crunchy punk energy, scorched psychedelia, Southern rock and knotty funk, are all evident on Corsicana Lemonade, the groupʼs fifth studio album. It naturally covers so many bases that it plays like the greatest lost mixtape you could find on your dashboard during a hot summer afternoon.
Currently touring the USA with home grown favorites Tame Impala, White Denim have fully arrived with a record to claim their own spot in America’s great rock lineage.
Opening the night at the Corner Hotel will be Melbourne’s rock savants, Money For Rope and at Factory Floor, local blues-rockers Greta Mob, who FBI 94.5 recently named ‘Unsigned Artist Of The Month’.
Catch Hanni El Khatib and White Denim sweat it up in Sydney and Melbourne clubs this January, in what’s set to be a seriously great night of real rock ‘n’ roll.
Hanni El Khatib ‘Head In The Dirt’ out now on Pod/Inertia hannielkhatib.com
White Denim ‘Corsicana Lemonade’ out now on Downtown / [PIAS] Australiawhitedenimmusic.com
HANNI EL KHATIB (USA) w/ WHITE DENIM (USA)
Sun 5 Jan – Corner Hotel, Melbourne – VIC
w/ Money For Rope
Tix here
Tue 7 Jan – Factory Floor, Sydney – NSW
w/ Greta Mob
Tix here
more info at lovepolice.com.au/tours
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