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BELLY OF THE LION AVAILABLE ON VINYL!

Limited Edition vinyl with bonus track now available

Our good friends at Ruined Potential have pressed a limited edition of 250 and we already pawned off a good chunk of 'em in Spain, so if you want one you should snatch it up now! You can hopefully find it at your local record store, from us if you're in one of the towns we're hitting in July (current tour dates are listed below, we'll be announcing a couple more soon), or straight from the source ruinedpotential.com.

US TOUR DATES!!!

Details of US Tour announced

Back from their tour in Europe, Ola Podrida has been preparing for their US tour in support of Belly of the Lion. They'll travel from Texas to New York and back. Full date and venue info is available here. If you're a fan and live in one of the cities they'll be visiting, we hope you'll come out to the show.

NEW VIDEO PREMIERE

Pitchfork TV premieres the latest Ola Podrida video

Pitchfork TV recently premiered the new video for "The Closest We Will Ever Be" directed by Todd Rohal. Check it out here. You might be familiar with Todd's work from Ola Podrida's "Lost & Found" video or the independent feature film The Guatemalan Handshake which starred Will Oldham. The video is also available on youtube here.

SPAIN AND KVRX

April tour of Spain, Live performance on KVRX

On March 28th Ola Podrida will perform live on Austin's 91.7 KVRX. You can listen to the show on the KVRX website here. Next month the band will tour in Spain. Detailed date and venue info is available here.

FESTIVAL DATES AND MORE

SXSW showcase, NX35, WOXY, and The Wooden Birds

Ola Podrida recently recorded a session for WOXY's Lounge Acts series, you can listen to the show here. On February 28th the band will perform a special show with good friends The Wooden Birds at the Scoot Inn in Austin, TX, which will also serve as their first show with new drummer Dave Hobizal. Then in March the band will play at Denton's NX35 festival, followed by several performances at SXSW in Austin. Detailed date and venue info is available here.

FIRST SHOW WITH NEW BAND

Ola Podrida debut new line-up at the Mohawk on December 11th

After months of preparation, the live incarnation of Ola Podrida will play their debut show at The Mohawk in Austin, TX on December 11th with labelmates Balmorhea. The live band features Colin Swietek on guitar, David McComb on bass, and Matthew Frank on drums, and David Wingo on vocals and guitar.

THIS OLD WORLD VIDEO PREMIERE

Magnet Magazine premieres the first video from Belly of the Lion

Magnet Magazine recently premiered the first video from Belly of the Lion here. According to Austin Sound "There’s something a little creepy about hearing David Wingo’s croaking voice filtered through a little girl, but then leave it to the amazing Zellner Brothers (creators of the Octopus Project’s incredible videos) to make the charming unexpectedly weird. We will say that David and Nathan Zellner manage to perfectly capture the sense of restless and youthful malaise and frustration that drips from the songs of Ola Podrida, but man, this little girl is gonna need some help by the time she’s a teenager." You can read more here.

EARLY PRESS FOR BELLY OF THE LION

Pitchfork Media, The Austin Chronicle, Aquarium Drunkard, and KUT

Several publications have expressed early praise for Belly of the Lion! According to Pitchfork "...Wingo doesn't make the scenario especially momentous. Instead, he keeps the song life-size, but ironically, that only makes it sound that much larger and more poignant-- an ode to plans made but never executed." Read the full track review for "Your Father's Basement" here.

The Austin Chronicle recently published an early review of Belly of the Lion here and a feature/interview with David Wingo here.

Aquarium Drunkard recently premiered the track "Roomful of Sparrows." You can check it out here.

Austin's NPR station KUT recently featured Belly of the Lion's opening track "The Closest We Will Ever Be" as their Song of the Day here.

BELLY OF THE LION

New release available Nov 10th

The new Ola Podrida album Belly of the Lion will be available in November, on CD and mp3. Chockfull of unsentimental love songs, the album pulses with the burgeoning sexuality borne of feral adolescent summers spent in the sprawling suburbs of the South. It's hard not to be wooed, as the songs gingerly lay to rest the calamities that inevitably befall an adventurous heart.

GENTLEMEN BRONCOS

Film premiers in Austin at Fantastic Fest