Dawes sophomore album, Nothing Is Wrong, is set for a June 7, 2011 release by ATO Records. Nothing Is Wrong is the follow-up to the band's 2009 debut, North Hills (featuring their breakout anthem, "When My Time Comes")
"We didn't change up our approach too much and yet we were able to create something that I feel has a new identity from our first record," Goldsmith says. "It's definitely taking a step in a direction and at the same time, it's maintaining what it needs to maintain."
In September 2010, Dawes reunited with producer Wilson at his new Echo Park studio. As with North Hills, Dawes opted to record Nothing Is Wrong live to 2" analog tape. Far from just an exercise in nostalgic authenticity, the band sees the more traditional technique as a way of focusing their energies and affirming their dedication to the creative process.
"If you're writing on a typewriter," Goldsmith says, "you have to commit to whatever you're writing. Typewriters don't make it easy for you to go back and rethink things. Same thing with recording analog. We don't do it because that's what the people we admire did. We do it because it demands something out of us. It doesn't allow us to show up lazy or not on our game. We cut every track knowing that this stuff isn't easy to edit."
The tracklisting for Nothing Is Wrong is below:
1. Time Spent in Los Angeles
2. If I Wanted Someone
3. My Way Back Home
4. Coming Back to a Man
5. So Well
6. How Far We've Come
7. Fire Away
8. Moon in the Water
9. Million Dollar Bill
10. The You Laugh
11. A Little Bit of Everything
Spring and summer tour dates are below:
Thu-May-05 Houston, TX Fitzgeralds
Fri-May-06 Austin, TX La Zona Rosa
Sat-May-07 Dallas, TX Granada Theatre
Mon-May-09 Orlando, FL Beacham Theater
Tue-May-10 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Culture Room
Wed-May-11 Tampa, FL State Theatre
Thu-May-12 St. Augustine, FL Caf� Eleven
Fri-May-13 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
Sat-May-14 Birmingham, AL Secret Stages Festival, 2pm*note 2 shows on 5/14
Sat-May-14 Nashville, TN Cannery Ballroom
Sun-May-15 Asheville, NC Orange Peel
Tue-May-17 Charlotte, NC Visulite Theatre
Wed-May-18 Carborro, NC Cat's Cradle
Thu-May-19 Athens, GA Melting Point
Fri-May-20 Chattanooga, TN Nightfall Series - free show
Mon-May-23 New Haven, CT Toad's
Tue-May-24 Portland, ME State Theatre
Wed-May-25 Northampton, MA The Iron Horse
Thu-May-26 Burlington, VT Higher Ground
Fri-May-27 Montreal, QC Le National
Sat-May-28 Toronto, ON Opera House
Sun-May-29 Detroit, MI St. Andrew's Hall
Wed-Jun-01 Louisville, KY Headliners
Thu-Jun-02 Indianapolis, IN The Vogue
Fri-Jun-03 Chicago, IL The Vic Theatre
Sun-Jun-05 Hunter Mountain, NY Mountain Jam (1:30PM)
Mon-Jun-06 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
Tue-Jun-07 Louisville, KY Iroquois Ampitheatre
Wed-Jun-08 Columbus, OH LC Ampitheatre
Thu-Jun-09 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE
Fri-Jun-10 Philadelphia, PA Mann Center
Sat-Jun-11 Vienna, VA Wolf Trap
Mon-Jun-13 Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre
Tue-Jun-14 Seattle, WA Moore Theatre
Wed-Jun-15 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
Thu-Jun-16 Bend, OR Athletic Club of Bend
Fri-Jun-17 Chico, CA El Rey Theatre
Sat-Jun-18 Los Angeles, CA Orpheum Theatre
Mon-Jun-20 San Diego, CA House of Blues
Tue-Jun-21 Tucson, AZ Rialto Theatre
Wed-Jun-22 Phoenix, AZ Marquee Theatre
Thu-Jun-23 Las Vegas, NV Silverton Casino
Fri-Jun-24 Reno, NV Knitting Factory
Sat-Jun-25 Oakland, CA Fox Theatre
Sat-Jul-02 Emeryville, CA High Sierra Music Festival
Thu-Jul-07 Winnipeg, MB Winnipeg Folk Festival
Fri-Jul-08 Winnipeg, MB Winnipeg Folk Festival
6/5 with My Morning Jacket, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros, Preservation Hall Jazz Band etc
6/6 - 6/9 supporting Bright Eyes
6/10 and 11 supporting Bright Eyes and M. Ward
5/5 - 5/15 except 5/12 and 5/14 daytime show in Birmingham, 5/23 - 6/3 and
6/13 - 6/25 supporting Brett Dennen except 5/25 in Northampton
Also, note Milow appears 5/27
7/2 with My Morning Jacket, Neko Case
7/7,8 with M. Ward, Blue Rodeo, Little Feat, Funky Meters, Blind Pilot, Jayhawks, Tegan and Sara
