Vanessa Carlton Kicks Off Tour Supporting Matt Nathanson

VANESSA CARLTON KICKS OFF TOUR SUPPORTING MATT NATHANSON

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New Album Rabbits On The Run Out Now To Rave Reviews

This week Vanessa Carlton kicked off a North American tour supporting Matt Nathanson. The tour commenced last night in New Orleans, LA and runs through mid-October. Vanessa tours in support of her critically acclaimed new album, Rabbits on the Run, out now on Razor & Tie. Released this summer, the album has received raved reviews and Carlton performed her song "Carousel" on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Today Show and "I Don't Want to Be a Bride" on Conan. Watch both songs as well as an interview and an exclusive cover of one of her favorite artists/songs as she performs a live session at Rolling Stone Magazine's offices - Watch Brian Jonestown Massacre's "David Bowie I Love You Since I Was Six" HERE.

Rabbits on the Run is the most honest and uncompromised album Vanessa Carlton has recorded to date, revealing a striking departure and an exciting snapshot in the evolution of this exquisite storyteller and inventive musician. The album was recorded in the UK at Peter Gabriel's world-renowned Real World Studios with producer Steve Osborne (U2, B-52's, KT Tunstall, Doves). The album finds Vanessa returning to music-making its most organic form to create ten intimate, evocative songs, recorded directly to tape with her close-knit team of collaborators including Steve Osborne, Patrick Hallahan of My Morning Jacket, and Ari Ingber of The Upwelling (all playing on the album). Partly inspired by two books, Richard Adams' Watership Down and Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, Rabbits on the Run is 10-song set of gorgeous, haunting melodies and finely-crafted stories, including the lush first single "Carousel," the ambient and eerie "Hear the Bells" and the propulsive "London."

Vanessa Carlton Fall 2011 Tour Dates w. Matt Nathanson:
9/25/2011 New Orleans, LA @ HOB
9/27/2011 Washington DC @ 9:30 Club
9/28/2011 Washington DC @ 9:30 Club
9/30/2011 New York, NY @ Terminal Five
10/1/2011 Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
10/2/2011 Pittsburgh, PA @ Diesel
10/4/2011 Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom
10/6/2011 Toronto, ON @ Opera House
10/8/2011 Boston, MA @ HOB
10/10/2011 Indiana, PA @ Indiana University
10/11/2011 Columbus, OH @ Newport
10/12/2011 Detroit, MI @ Clutch Cargo's
10/14/2011 Madison, WI @ Capitol Theatre
10/15/2011 Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre

Praise for Rabbits on the Run:
"A lovely sort of melancholy magic." Entertainment Weekly
"Rabbits on the Run is Vanessa Carlton's career high water mark thus far, especially on the stunning "Hear the Bells" and "Dear California", a disarming love letter to the Golden State."-KCRW's Chris Douridas
"Vanessa Carlton again demonstrates her knack for pensive, piano-driven pop on 'Carousel' from Rabbits on the Run." People
"Singer and pianist Ms. Carlton has long aspired to a different brand of pop stardom: less navel-baring...and more melodramatic, heavily arranged pop symphonies." The New York Times
"Wistful, piano-led balladry, but there's a touch of darkness and complexity on display here that wasn't as apparent on her earlier hits... she's certainly not just another sensitive girl with a piano..." RollingStone.com

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