TOUR DATES FOR U.S. AND ABROAD ANNOUNCED
 
PERFORMANCES ON LETTERMAN, KIMMEL, FALLON & CARSON DALY CONFIRMED
 

Coming off an incredible showing at this year’s SXSW including a headlining performance at Stubb’s, an over-capacity crowd at DirecTV’s “SXSW Live,” and a legendary taping of Austin City Limits, BEN HARPER AND RELENTELSS7 proudly announce the release of their debut record, White Lies For Dark Times on May 5 on Virgin Records.  The album will be available as CD, deluxe CD with bonus DVD, digital download and 180-gram 2xLP.  Rolling Stone calls the new album “an 11-song set soaked with hard rock and Delta Blues.”
 
Ben Harper and Relentless7’s energetic live performance is the heart of the band.  In December 2008, the band embarked on a highly successful short club tour with a handful of dates in California and New York. “The band’s combined force was almost too big for the room,” RollingStone.com said of the band’s intimate performance at Spaceland in Los Angeles.
 
The sweaty, gritty and energetic vibe of the clubs proved to be an incredible match for the band’s new hard-hitting sound, and they are pleased to announce their return to the road on a larger club tour of the U.S. as well as dates abroad.  “We thought, this is a new band, a new opportunity, a new energy.  Let’s earn it the way that new bands do…let’s play clubs, let’s play small places,” said drummer Jordan Richardson.   Current confirmed tour dates are listed below.
 
BHR7 will make an early late night television debut on Last Call with Carson Daly on March 27, and will follow with week-of-release performances on The Late Show with David Letterman (5/6), Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (5/7) and Jimmy Kimmel Live (5/21).
 
 
BEN HARPER AND RELENTLESS7 TOUR DATES:

US TOUR DATES:
April 30          New Orleans, LA                        New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
May 1              Memphis, TN                                    Beale Street Music Festival
May 2              Atlanta, GA                                    Variety Playhouse
May 4              Washington, DC                        9:30 Club
May 5              New York, NY                        Webster Hall
May 8              Brooklyn, NY                                    Music Hall of Williamsburg
May 9              Philadelphia, PA                        Theatre of Living Arts
May 10            Boston, MA                                    Paradise Rock Club
May 12            Montreal, CANADA                        Metropolis
May 13            Toronto, CANADA                        Phoenix Concert Theatre
May 15            Detroit, MI                                    St. Andrews Hall
May 16            Chicago, IL                                    Vic Theatre
May 25            George, WA                                    The Gorge Amp. / Sasquatch Festival
May 27            San Francisco, CA                        The Fillmore
May 28            Los Angeles, CA                        The Wiltern
June 13          Manchester, TN                        Bonnaroo Music Festival
 
INTERNATIONAL TOUR DATES:
April 9               Sydney, Australia                        Metro Theatre
April 11            Byron Bay, Australia                        Byron Bay Bluesfest
April 13            Byron Bay, Australia                        Byron Bay Bluesfest
April 19            London, England                        The Forum
April 20            Paris, France                                     La Cigale
April 21            Bourges, France                         Le Printemps du Bourges
April 22            Rome, Italy                                    Piazza del Popolo
June 19            Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany             Southside Festival
June 20            Scheessel, Germany                        Hurricane Festival
June 22            Berlin, Germany                        Columbiahalle
June 23            Munich, Germany                        TonHalle
June 25            Amsterdam, Netherlands            Paradiso
June 27            London, England                        Hard Rock Calling Festival
 
 
BHR7 History:
Harper met guitarist Jason Mozersky in the late nineties, when the lead singer of Mozersky’s then band, WAN SANTO CONDO was working as a van driver shuttling bands back and forth to the venue for a Texas promoter. He asked the then captive Ben Harper, “Can I play you my demo?”  Harper obliged, and in his own words “was blown away,” and helped the band secure a record deal and release an album on Everloving Records.  The band broke up after one record, but what survived was a lasting friendship between Harper and Mozersky.  In 2005, Harper invited now long time friend Mozersky to lay down guitar work on a track during the recording sessions that would become a double record entitled Both Sides of the Gun.  Mozersky brought along bass player Jesse Ingalls and drummer Jordan Richardson and the session would spawn not only the song “Serve Your Soul” but the framework for Relentless7.
 
To reignite the chemistry discovered during the Both Sides of the Gun session, they reunited in the summer of 2008 just to jam and write songs together, and emerged with a new sound and enough tracks for an album. White Lies For Dark Times is a timeless rock record, with a cohesive collection of music that is as raw, unrelenting and thunderous, as it is arrestingly haunting and emotional. 
 
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