HOOVERIII CONFIRM FALL U.S. TOUR SUPPORTING MUDHONEY
Hooveriii Tour Dates
3/21 - Sacramento, CA - The Starlet Room
3/22 - Arcata, CA - Miniplex
3/23 - Portland, OR - Lollipop Shoppe
3/24 - Boise, ID - Treefort Music Festival
3/25 - Boise, ID - Treefort Music Festival
3/26 - Seattle, WA - Substation
3/28 - Bend, OR - Silver Moon Brewing
3/29 - Redding, CA - The Drip
3/30 - Oakland, CA - Stork Club
4/01 - Pioneer Town, CA - Pappy & Harriet's
Touring with Mudhoney
10/13/23 - Spokane, WA - Lucky You Lounge
10/14/23 - Missoula, MT - Zootown Arts Community Center
10/15/23 - Billings, MT - The Pub Station Tap Room
10/18/23 - Saint Paul, MN - Turf Club
10/19/23 - Milwaukee, WI - X-Ray Arcade
10/20/23 - Chicago, IL - Avondale Music Hall
10/21/23 - Grand Rapids, MI - The Pyramid Scheme
10/22/23 - Detroit, MI - Magic Bag
10/24/23 - Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop
10/25/23 - Rochester, NY - Photo City Music Hall
10/26/23 - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
10/27/23 - Hamden, CT - Space Ballroom
10/28/23 - New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge
10/29/23 - Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts
10/31/23 - Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle Tavern & Music Hall
11/1/23 - Atlanta, GA - EARL
11/2/23 - Nashville, TN - The Basement East
11/3/23 - Memphis, TN - Hi Tone
11/4/23 - Dallas, TX - Sundown at Granada
11/5/23 - Austin, TX - Antone's Nightclub
11/9/23 - Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad
11/10/23 - Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom
11/11/23 - Tucson, AZ - Club Congress
11/12/23 - San Diego, CA - Casbah
11/14/23 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom
11/15/23 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
11/17/23 - Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater
11/18/23 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile Showroom (21+)
11/19/23 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile Showroom (All Ages)
Psych-rock band Hooveriii has been confirmed as the direct support for Mudhoney on their forthcoming tour of the U.S. The dates kick off October 13 in Spokane, WA, and conclude with a 2-night stand in Seattle, WA, on November 18 and 19. The tour hits Chicago, New York City, and Dallas, TX, along the way. Hooveriii previously opened for Mudhoney on their 2022 European tour. On March 21, the band kicks off a West Coast headline run in Sacramento, CA, that concludes on April 1 with a show at Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneer Town, CA. Hooveriii is also confirmed to play this year’s Treefort Music Festival in Boise, ID, on March 24 and 25. Tickets are on sale now, and all dates are listed below.
Hooveriii (pronounced "Hoover Three") released A Round of Applause in the summer of 2022 and featured the singles “Twisted & Vile, “The Pearl” and the album’s opener, “See.”
Though created in large part by founder Bert Hoover, Hooveriii has grown to include Gabe Flores (lead guitar and vocals), Kaz Mirblouk (bass and synths), James Novick (synths), and Owen Barrett (drums).
Time after time, we all talk about … well, time — often in aphorisms and cliches. X is “a waste of time,” while Y is “time well spent.” We are all apt to lose track of time, but perhaps in equal measure, we have plenty of time on our hands. We think we have all the time in the world -- until we remember that time flies, after which our time runs out, and we’re dead (for a long time).
Since 2020, internal clocks have had to be readjusted with the pace of life ebbing and flowing. For Los Angeles psych-rock sextet Hooveriii (pronounced "Hoover Three") that adjustment seeped its way into their songwriting and ultimately their forthcoming album, A Round of Applause.
Though created in large part by founder Bert Hoover, Hooveriii has grown to include
Gabe Flores (lead guitar and vocals), Kaz Mirblouk (bass and synths), James Novick (synths), Casey Sullivan (vocals and synths) and Owen Barrett (drums). Together they looked at this newly found time as a gift. As a result, A Round of Applause isn’t just another “COVID record” that dithers on subjects like isolation and community. Instead, Hoover broadened the scope of the band’s new record by reflecting on time as a concept and allowing the band to flourish creatively.
“There's a struggle with your relationship to time,” said the chill, amiable and down-to-earth Hoover. “It's a back and forth. On the one hand, it's like, ‘Fuck it, time doesn't matter.’ But then there's also, ‘Oh shit, I’m running out of time, and I'm scared.’ ” (“Out of My Time,” the second song on the record, is its thematic cornerstone).
Before delving into A Round of Applause — Hoveriii’s second album through The Reverberation Appreciation Society —this band of space voyagers stuck to a routine of issuing about two releases a year (including singles, live albums, etc.). The routine worked well, so why tamper with it? Yet after the rise of a specific five-letter word that starts with a C, they realized that time shouldn’t be taken for granted, cliché be damned. Finding additional inspiration from Nick Cave, who once said that dabbling with new ideas continues to fuel his near-50-year career, the band decidedly took a different approach with their new album and gave themselves the freedom to explore in the studio.
The result is A Round of Applause, an expansive and even, at times, experimental record. Across the 11 tracks, Hoover stresses the importance of sequencing so the record feels inviting instead of jarring - it segues almost seamlessly not only from song to song but within the songs themselves.
Whereas 2021’s Water for the Frogs was akin to a jam-band record — most of its seven songs are about five minutes long, including a closing track that lasts nearly 10 — A Round of Applause has broader appeal. Hooveriii considers the new record, which occasionally pays homage to the Canterbury scene, to be a palette cleanser of sorts.
“I am not a playlist guy or a singles guy,” Hoover admits. “I’m really into the album experience. … So yeah, we made a pop record. But also, to me, this record is very progressive as well, and I thought that that provides a nice balance.”
Hoover previously referred to Water for the Frogs as his band’s equivalent of Iggy Pop’s The Idiot. Playing with that idea, he says A Round of Applause is the kindred spirit of Lust For Life.
The record cherrypicks from an array of genres — pop, girl-group ditties, synth-ish keyboards, and funk —but the result is a cohesive long-player with songs that revolve around the Spanish Inquisition (“Stone Man”); or follow “the legendary Peruvians who run long distances in the Andes Mountains (“The Runner”). “I let my imagination run wild,” Hoover said. Elsewhere on A Round of Applause, the Hooveriii frontman finally recorded a song, “The Pearl,” that he wrote in 2017. “It sounds like a Harry Nilsson jingle to me, a fantasy song,” he continued. “It's more like a nursery rhyme than a song with an important message. You know, it's just like keeping things fun. … Nilsson didn’t take everything so fucking seriously. We want to avoid that self-seriousness. We're a bunch of goofy musicians.”
The songs above deal with external cultures and circumstances to a large extent. But on “See,” the opening track, Hoover turns inward. “I got a lot of people in my life, including myself, that I feel take things for granted,” he said. “ ‘See,’ to me, is a song about not doing that.”
Finally, Hoover pointed out that “Twisted and Vile” is one of the heavier songs on A Round of Applause. Written around the same time as “The Pearl,” he disclosed that David Bowie’s work inspired the Hooveriii song’s classic rock sound. “It’s a song about trying to figure out your place in life,” he said.
Hooveriii derived the album title from the late-‘80s Roky Erickson song “Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play.” “That’s too much of a mouthful,” Hoover qualified. “My title, A Round of Applause, just came one day, and we were like, ‘Yo, that sounds like a Gentle Giant record.’”
Reflecting the most lighthearted and uplifting record, A Round of Applause closes cheekily — but not sarcastically — with people clapping. Hoover adds graciously: “We've been lucky so far. I don't think we have a, you know, ‘bad song.’ ”