Coming off their national headlining “Hotting Up Tour,” which wrapped in November to a packed house at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, reggae-influenced alternative rock band IRATION is on the road in 2016 with fellow Hawaiian rockers Pepper for a co-headlining West Coast tour set to stop in Bozeman on Sunday, February 28th at The Emerson Center beginning at 8pm. Tickets for the “Hawaiian Punch Winter Tour 2016,” also featuring support from New Kingston, are on sale now at hawaiianpunchtour.com/. Tickets to this all-ages show are $30.
IRATION continues to support their latest album, ‘Hotting Up,” sinced being released last fall via Three Prong Records/Caroline. ‘Up’ marks the band’s fourth full-length album and follow-up to 2013’s ‘Automatic,’ which helped propel their career to a new level.
For the new music, IRATION put together a team of acclaimed collaborators including Grammy Award-nominated producer and co-writer David Manzoor (Lupe Fiasco, R. Kelly, Lloyd), Grammy Award-nominated mixer Mark Needham (Imagine Dragons, The Killers, Fleetwood Mac) and engineer Will Brierre (Imagine Dragons, Youngblood Hawk, Chris Isaak). The nine-track album features the singles “Reelin” and “Hotting Up.” Several tracks are being played at radio, among them “Reelin,” “Stay Awake,” and “867,” which appeared on both the Mediabase and Nielsen BDS Alternative airplay charts. The Hawaiian-bred, Santa Barbara-based group made up of Micah Pueschel (lead vocals/guitar), Adam Taylor (bass), Joseph Dickens (drums), Cayson Peterson (keyboard/synth), Micah Brown (guitar/vocals) and Joseph King (engineer), recently wrapped their 28-date “Hotting Up Tour,” which followed an impressive summer burning up the festival scene performing at Outside Lands, Hangout, Riot Fest Denver, SunFest, Big Guava, Blaze N Glory, Cali Roots and many more. Of their Outside Lands performance,
SFBay.ca wrote: “Their upbeat, reggae-rock mixed with their confident, easygoing stage presence makes the band as a whole feel like an old friend. Playing favorites like ‘Summer Nights,’ ‘Back Around’ and the single ‘Reelin’ from their upcoming album, these high-energy Hawaiian rockers know how to work a crowd.”
Be sure not to miss out on this show! Visit hawaiianpunchtour.com/ for information. •