Mike Keneally - You Must Be This Tall released

You Must Be This Tall out today!

NEW ALBUM: YOU MUST BE THIS TALL

Hello Keneallistians! Making this quick 'cause it's Sarah's birthday and we're about to go out for lunch, but we wanted to let you know that today is the official release date for You Must Be This Tall.

It's been pre-orderable for a couple of weeks as a CD + download, but as of today it's fully officially available - and for those of you who have enough three-dimensional objects in your life, it's now available as a download-only purchase if you wish.

If you buy the download directly from us you will also get the full album artwork as it appears in the CD package – even including the label art (we are obsessive about such things). Available in both mp3 and FLAC options for the same low, low, low, low, low price.

You can also check out a collage of song samples there. And some reviews are coming in here, here and here.

The response to the album has been really wonderful so far. Thanks to everyone who's had such nice things to say about it!

It's pretty out there. But in a good way, I think – I'm really thrilled with this album. I think all of the composition, arranging, production and playing is strong and it all just comes off right, to my ears.

There's a lot of guitar playing on it, a lot of crazy writing, and we focused hard on doing mixes which got the best out of the arrangements. A number of people who don't lie to me have said they think it might be my best album. I sure can't say, but I know I really enjoy hearing it.

I play a lot of the instruments myself, and also had some killer assistance on key tracks from Bryan Beller, Marco Minnemann, Joe Travers, Rick Musallam, Missy Andersen and Andy Partridge (Andy plays guitar on the song "Indicator," an additional composition from the songwriting sessions that resulted in Wing Beat Fantastic).

The title song was written for the Metropole Orkest in 2006 for a live performance with Peter Tiehuis; this recording is my original version of it, shined up all nicely for you.

There's a phenomenally strange song called "Kidzapunk" which has an insane Minnemann performance and various indefensible sounds. There are epic guitar hero moves on "Pitch Pipe" and "The Rider" (that one also has a beautiful vocal from Missy Andersen). Some moody electronics on "Bolarius" and "5th St." Some utter insanity on "Glop." A prog standard in the making in "Cavanaugh."

The Mike Keneally Band (me, Beller, Travers and Musallam) play on two tracks, "Cornbread Crumb" and "Popes." The stuff the guys play is out-of-this-world sweet and funky. The band's performance on "Cornbread Crumb" blows my mind, it's my favorite song on the album. But they lay it down beautifully on "Popes" also. The Bulgarian animator Dimitriya has done a sweet new video for the song "Popes," which you can see here.

It is a real pleasure to bring you You Must Be This Tall and I hope you dig the hell out of it.

HELP US GET THE WORD OUT?

We would love and appreciate your help in spreading the word about this album! We're working with Jamplify to reach fans who would like to share the pre-order link for You Must Be This Tall in various social platforms, message boards and the like. Basically just helping us spread the word around - a lot of you do this already just because you want to, and believe me, I am crazy grateful to you.

Everyone who signs up for our Jamplify fan-promotion campaign (using their Facebook or Twitter accounts) will get our cow-sized gratitude; they'll also get two unreleased tracks (alternate, radically different versions of two songs from YMBTT).

The top ten promoters - meaning the ten people who share the pre-order link online the largest number of times - will get to hang out with me at an online Google hangout thing (someone will explain to me how it works) later in the year.

All the details about the Jamplify campaign are in this damn video.

MIKE KENEALLY FREE EPs, Volumes 1 and 2

Here. We give this to you. We give you two new EPs, about a half-hour long each, presenting a total of ten tracks drawn from our vast live music archive, and yours for FREE. Music from the period 1998 to 2007, featuring many of your favorite Keneally Band members and special guest Dutch participants. And, it's freaking FREE. Go download your hour of FREE live music right chover here.

SATCH TOUR THANKS

Thank you to everyone who was a part of the Satriani European tour which ended a few weeks ago. Seriously freaking good times. The North American tour begins in San Diego this Thursday (the dates can be found immediately below). Looking forward to getting back on the road with Joe, Bryan and Marco again – the last tour was just fiendishly fun.

And, we are trying to work out ways to bring you some of the You Must Be This Tall music live on stage before the end of the year.

More soon! Thanks

Your buddy,
Mike

Keneally Concert Calendar:

Mike Keneally plays keyboards and guitar on
Joe Satriani's USA 2013 Tour
with Bryan Beller (bass) and Marco Minnemann (drums)!

(More info here)

August 29, 2013	Balboa Theatre	San Diego, CA
August 30, 2013	Pearl Concert Theatre at Palm Springs	Las Vegas, NV
August 31, 2013	Orpheum Theatre	Los Angeles, CA
September 1, 2013	Talking Stick Resort Ballroom	Scottsdale, AZ
September 2, 2013	Kiva Auditorium	Albuquerque, NM
September 4, 2013	Historic Paramount Theatre	Denver, CO
September 5, 2013	Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center	Midland, TX
September 6, 2013	Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie	Grand Prairie, TX
September 7, 2013	House of Blues	Houston, TX
September 8, 2013	Austin City Limits - Moody Theater	Austin, TX
September 10, 2013	House of Blues	New Orleans, LA
September 11, 2013	Ruth Eckerd Hall	Clearwater, FL
September 12, 2013	Parker Playhouse	Fort Lauderdale, FL
September 13, 2013	Hard Rock Live	Orlando, FL
September 14, 2013	Saenger Theatre	Pensacola, FL
September 15, 2013	Symphony Hall	Atlanta, GA
September 17, 2013	War Memorial Auditorium	Nashville, TN
September 18, 2013	Chicago Theatre	Chicago, IL
September 19, 2013	Lakewood Civic Auditorium	Lakewood, OH
September 20, 2013	Taft Theatre	Cincinatti, OH
September 21, 2013	Wings Stadium	Kalamazoo, MI
September 22, 2013	Macomb Music Theatre	Mt. Clemens, MI
September 24, 2013	The Carolina Theatre	Durham, NC
September 25, 2013	The Warner Theatre	Washington, DC
September 26, 2013	Beacon Theatre	New York, NY
September 27, 2013	Orpheum Theatre	Boston, MA
September 28, 2013	Tower Theatre	Upper Darby, PA
September 29, 2013	Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead	Munhall, PA
October 1, 2013	University of Buffalo Center for the Arts	Buffalo, NY
October 2, 2013	Palace Theatre	Albany, NY
October 3, 2013	State Theatre	Portland, ME
October 4, 2013	Centre at Casino New Brunswick	Moncton, NB CA
October 5, 2013	Rebecca Cohn Auditorium	Halifax, NS CA
October 7, 2013	Capitole Theatre	Quebec City, QC CA
October 8, 2013	National Arts Centre	Ottawa, ON CA
October 9, 2013	Theatre St. Denis	Montreal, QC CA
October 10, 2013	Centre in the Square	Kitchener, ON CA
October 11, 2013	Massey Hall	Toronto, ON CA
October 14, 2013	Burton Cummings Theatre	Winnipeg, MB CA
October 15, 2013	TCU Place	Saskatoon, SK CA
October 16, 2013	Northern Jubilee Auditorium	Edmonton, AB CA
October 17, 2013	Southern Jubilee Auditorium	Calgary, AB CA
October 19, 2013	Vogue Theatre	Vancouver, BC CA
October 21, 2013	Fox Theatre	Spokane, WA
October 22, 2013	Paramount Theatre	Seattle, WA
October 23, 2013	Elsinore Theatre	Salem, OR
October 25, 2013	Vina Robles Amphitheatre	Paso Robles, CA
October 26, 2013	Fox Theater	Oakland, CA

This new album and both EP's are excellent,some of Mike's best stuff in years.His previous release "Wings Beat Fantastic:Songs Written By Mike Keneally and Andy Partridge",is probably one of my favorite Keneally albums.