The Peculiar Pretzelmen - Everything Must Be Broken

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The wandering minstrels of musical mayhem The Peculiar Pretzelmen drop NEW EP Everything Must Be Broken. Pour a snort of fine bourbon, hoist up your suspenders, put on those dancing spats and do your hoodoo voodoo like they do.

!PREMIER! The Peculiar Pretzelmen's new song "John the Revelator"

 M. Incroyable & The Deacon 

The Peculiar Pretzelmen lurk in the shadows emitting eerie sounds and spectral lights luring the curious and adventurous down dark alleys and untrodden lanes to flashy Cabaret’s and conspiratle Pubs. Whispers from unseen corners rise to a claterous chant Deeper, Darker, Weirder. Deeper, Darker, Weirder.

Here at Popa's Tunes world headquaters we are fixated on things Deeper. Darker, Weirder, and The Deacon with his 'Felix the Cat' bag of magical intruments and the mysterious M. Incroyable of The Peculiar Pretzelmen have a voodoo spell on us and everything they do gets us dancing like banshees with rubber chickens around ceremonial fires and now we have a lot to dance about!

We are very excited to have been asked to PREMIER! this new track...
FIRST LISTEN> The Peculiar Pretzelmen's new track "John the Revelator"


The Peculiar Pretzelmen's version of this staple of blues men like Blind Willie Johnson and Son House takes shape amidst a stormy build, with the layered swell of theremin, electric mandola, and moody baritone sax punctuated with expectant gongs and torn open by the chillingly rabid call and sweetly echoing response that imbue the prophet’s declaration with terror and excitement.

The Peculiar Pretzelmen are set to release in a variety of forms throughout the remainder of the year - a pair of EPs entitled Gentlemen Scoundrels: Rule Book Volume I and II to be released at the end of the summer, a comic book and digital single called "Dead Hate the Living" out this fall, and their forthcoming third full-length LP Kill and Wake at the turn of 2014, featuring cover artwork and packaging design by Brandt Peters and Kathie Olivas of Circus Posterus. (Frequent readers and scoundrels will remember Circus Posterus/Stranger Factory from the Pretzelmen’s  2012 Couch By Couchwest submissions)

ICYMI “Howling Gale” is the first single off the The Peculiar Pretzelmen’s upcoming new material



Gentlemen Scoundrels Tour Dates:

Thu, 03 Oct Las Vegas, NV The Double Down Saloon

Fri, 04 Oct Provo, UT ABG's

Sun, 06 Oct Lawrence, KS Replay Lounge

Tue, 08 Oct Quincy, IL Club Tavern

Wed, 09 Oct Normal, IL Firehouse Pizza & Pub

Thu, 10 Oct Louisville, KY The Magnolia Bar

Tue, 15 Oct Kingston, NY The Anchor

Fri, 18 Oct Lansing, MI The Avenue Cafe (Formerly Gone Wired)

Sat, 19 Oct Mishawaka, IN Awesome Place

Fri, 25 Oct Sioux Falls, SD Lattitude 44

Sat. 26 Oct Spearfish, SD Killians Tavern

Sat. 02 Nov Seattle, WA Columbia City Theater

More TBA

The Peculiar Pretzelmen NEW Single “Howling Gale”:

The Deacon & M. Incroyable

“Howling Gale” is the first single off the The Peculiar Pretzelmen’s upcoming new material—they will be releasing two EPs entitled Gentlemen Scoundrels: Rule Book Volume I and II at the end of summer. They’ll also release a comic book and digital single this fall, and their third full-length album in 2014.

Upcoming Shows:

Thu, 03 Oct Las Vegas, NV The Double Down Saloon

Fri, 04 Oct Provo, UT ABG's

Sun, 06 Oct Lawrence, KS Replay Lounge

Tue, 08 Oct Quincy, IL Club Tavern

Wed, 09 Oct Normal, IL Firehouse Pizza & Pub

Thu, 10 Oct Louisville, KY The Magnolia Bar

Tue, 15 Oct Kingston, NY The Anchor

Fri, 18 Oct Lansing, MI The Avenue Cafe (Formerly Gone Wired)

Sat, 19 Oct Mishawaka, IN Awesome Place

Fri, 25 Oct Sioux Falls, SD Lattitude 44

The Peculiar Pretzelmen - Deeper, Darker, Weirder and Wicked Good

If Mark Twain and Edgar Allen Poe had collaborated on a story about traveling American musicians, they couldn't have imagined ‘The Peculiar Pretzelmen.’  Deeper. Darker, Weirder is their mantra as they travel horse and cart across the country, bringing their blend of Jazz, Cemetery Blues and Avantmercanna Folk to the masses.  They did three sessions for Couch by Couchwest this year from Stranger Factory in Albuquerque, NM. Check out their discography on bandcamp, wicked good.

Hammer Nails download Dead Head download

3/16/2012 #CXCW The Peculiar Pretzelmen –The Grackle
3/17/2012 #CXCW The Peculiar Pretzelmen Heart Attack and Gone to Jericho
3/17/2012 #CXCW The Peculiar Pretzelmen Gone to Jericho



Fuliginous Concretions EP released 29 February 2012 
The Peculiar Pretzelmen on this recording are:
M. Incroyable
Deacon
Riverboat Gambler
with assistance from the talented
Charming Charles
Lady J Dallas

“Imagine if you will, Tom Waits meets the ghost of Spike Jonze in some deep-south cemetery. In his 1930′s era step-side pickup truck he has a trash can with lid, some chains, buckets, skillets, a washboard, kid whistles, an accordion, a saw, banjo and an old guitar. They light some candles and maybe a couple kerosene lamps and evoke a nightmare circus dance of the dead to rattle the bones of the living.” – Paul Hupert (The Alchemist)

“[The Peculiar Pretzelmen] play a murky, hard-to-categorize blend of blues, folk, rag and rock — a little like the Dresden Dolls if you plucked them out of Weimar cabarets and deposited them in a dusty bankrupt carnival on the wrong side of Saturday night.” – Chris Parker (Colorado Springs Independent)

“one of the best albums Waits never made.” – Bizarre Magazine, UK

Check em out on Facebook, Twitter, Bandcamp
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