{"id":22792,"date":"2016-07-25T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=22792"},"modified":"2016-07-23T15:07:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T19:07:02","slug":"raccoon-fighter-announce-new-ep-hover-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=22792","title":{"rendered":"Raccoon Fighter announce new EP &#8216;Hover Craft&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Raccoon Fighter\u00a0has announced a new EP, &#8216;Hover Craft,&#8217; set to arrive August 26 via\u00a0PaperCup Music. To coincide with the announcement, they also premiered the first single <em>LVLR<\/em>, which you can listen to now\u00a0via\u00a0Soundcloud\u00a0below.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F273505045&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&color=999592\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Friends since grade school,\u00a0Sean Gavigan\u00a0(vox\/guitar) and\u00a0Zac Ciancaglini\u00a0(drums) have been playing in bands together for over a decade. Originally from the small farm town of Vineland, NJ, the duo came up in Philadelphia and relocated to New York in 2008 to work in recording studios and start a new band. They played their first show in the summer of 2009 where they met\u00a0Gabe Wilhelm (vox\/bass) &#8211; also a Vineland native &#8211; who had relocated to do much the same in 2005. Wilhelm (who was previously in Ryan Adams band The Cardinals during the making of\u00a0<i>Easy Tiger<\/i>) joined on bass and instantly became a permanent fixture and collaborative songwriter. Collectively combined, they&#8217;ve had the pleasure of working in the studio with Blonde Redhead, Real Estate, Willie Nelson, Minnie Driver and Warren Haynes to name a few. Their experience and versatility is apparent on &#8216;Hover Craft&#8217;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Raccoon Fighter has built up a loyal following of brazen hooligans in New York, Philadelphia and along the East Coast, up to Montreal. \u00a0They&#8217;ve shared the stage with X Ambassadors, Joywave, Das Racist, Sunflower\u00a0Bean, Jukebox The Ghost, Ex Cops, have had two tracks featured on the Showtime series &#8216;Shameless&#8217;.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Their last EP,\u00a0<i>Spiral Flag<\/i>, produced and recorded by the band on 4-track cassette, on the CMJ chart at #18, and was<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0called, &#8220;a brawl between The Beatles&#8217; &#8216;White Album&#8217; and T. Rex&#8217;s\u00a0<i>The Slider<\/i>,&#8221; by the\u00a0Weekly Alibi.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Lauded as &#8220;Masters of the short-form album&#8221; by\u00a0Popmatters, &#8216;Hover Craft&#8217;\u00a0continues on this path and raises the bar for what&#8217;s to come. Recorded at Strangeweather by comrade Rich Crescenti and mixed at Russell Street Recording by longtime confidant Alex Lipsen (Nada Surf, Phosphorescent, Okkervil River),\u00a0<i>Hover Craft<\/i>\u00a0is a perfect blend of polished punk, psychedelia and lo-fi, fuzzy, garage bliss.<\/span><\/div>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b>Tour dates:<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">08\/11 &#8211; New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">08\/28 &#8211; Brooklyn, NY @ Vulcan Room<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">10\/14 &#8211; Montreal, PQ @ Bar L&#8217;Esco<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">For more\u00a0information on Raccoon Fighter,\u00a0visit <a href=\"http:\/\/raccoonfighter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\">raccoonfighter.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Raccoon Fighter\u00a0has announced a new EP, &#8216;Hover Craft,&#8217; set to arrive August 26 via\u00a0PaperCup Music. 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