Anton Sword Announces Revised Tour Dates For September

For Immediate Release

Anton Sword Announces Revised Tour Dates For September

(New York, NY)—September 2, 2008

A few adjustments were made to unforeseeable snafus in his original tour itinerary but electro-pop raconteur Anton Sword along with his loyal band of music makers will still be making a short east coast run in early September with additional dates in Europe in October. The revised east coast dates are as follows:

9/7 – Tritone (Philadelphia)
9/8 – Felix Lounge (DC)
9/9 – Night Light (Chapel Hill)
9/10 – Hexagon (Formerly, Lo-Fi Club-Baltimore)
9/11 – Soapbox Laundrolounge (Wilmington, NC)
9/12 – The Camel (Richmond)
9/13 – Rehab (NYC)

Sword continues to support his debut album “A Sentimental Education” which became available at online stores such at iTunes and Rhapsody earlier this year. Shows will feature live drums via Kristin Mueller (Lucinda Black Bear), Jessica Hallman on cello and bass guitar and Julian Maile (Losers Lounge) on guitar along with Sword’s vocals and keyboards. Please visit www.myspace.com/antonsword and/or www.myspace.com/organicbooking for a complete listings and links to purchase advance tickets.

What if Thom Yorke did the music for "Shaft"? The Lovin' Spoonful scored "Forbidden Planet"? Stereolab wrote the "Peanuts" theme? My Bloody Valentine covered Miles Davis? Fatboy Slim wrote with Burt Bacharach? Johnny Mathis sang Nick Cave? Point being, that Anton Sword has never fit into or enjoyed genre labels. His debut album “A Sentimental Education” is a hybrid, an intersection of several tentacles reaching out from different styles, different decades, different markets, to shape something new in music. Please visit www.antonsword.com to learn more about the songs from “A Sentimental Education,” and Sword’s upcoming new record.

"Anton Sword is good at invoking time and place in his music. The time is the late 1980's, the place is a basement in the suburbs where vaguely displaced teens hang out and listen to Robert Smith & The Cure or some other mildly depressed but incredibly talented band. A Sentimental Education is dark and scintillating and full of texture imbued with an anachronistic melancholy. Anton Sword is a storyteller with an artist's ear for music, constructing vast musical landscapes against which his bard's tales are told. Many of the songs here segue one into the other almost like an epic tale made of smaller stories. The overall effect is very entertaining yet mellow."
--Wildy's World Music Blog

"Should you have forgotten what a beautiful ballad is or what a finely crafted good pop song sounds like, Anton Sword has A Sentimental Education ready for you: 11 wonderfully produced songs of melancholy, love and the fleetingness of human existence...dark but tender."
--Roman Elsener, in The Roman Games Diary Music Blog