US / THEM: Jail Weddings release new clip from video series via Consequence of Sound, announce new tour dates

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"One of the year's most exhilarating and infectious records, and an assured statement of purpose by one of L.A.'s most compelling groups." -- NBC San Diego

"Hart's obsessively Orbison-esque vocal pleas can send shivers down the spine and draw a tiny tear to the eye in songs that reek of moody doo-wop and do not skimp on the steamy, heaving punk rock & roll." -- LA Weekly

Los Angeles' garage-punk revision of 60s chamber pop, Jail Weddings has released a new clip from their video endeavor as ambitious as the 10-piece band's size. Starting with previous releases of videos for "I Thought You Were Someone I Knew" and "What Did You Do With My Gun?", Jail Weddings is releasing new videos for each of the 13 songs on their recent album, Love Is Lawless.

Watch their latest, "Tough Love" a pugilist's take on the battle games of romance featuring lead vocals by backup singer Jada Wagensomer as she beats the pulp out of frontman/songwriter Gabriel Hart. Consequence of Sound has the premiere HERE.

Jail Weddings will also play a several west coast dates in coming months, including stints supporting Andre Williams, as well as being the R&B legend's backing band. Please see complete dates below.

A new single 7" single, "It Was Nice To Be Loved" b/w "Digan Lo Que Digan" will be available on Record Store Day, April 16th.

Love Is Lawless takes the pleading, wide-eyed romance of 60's pop-vocal idealist tantrums to subterranean levels never previously seen from this genre. A shadow has been cast over the fleeting Utopia of modern love, where we still wear such out of date traditions as marriage and monogamy like shackles on a chain gang. Who better to have cast this shadow then Jail Weddings - a soul-stricken modern day Wall Of Sound rock and roll behemoth, comprised of ten (yes, 10) grown men and women who at least have the guts to admit they have still have the emotional stability of an eternally wounded teenager.

Fronted by Gabriel Hart (explosive frontman and mastermind behind the now defunct LA noir punks The Starvations), Jail Weddings is often described as "Nick Cave fronting The Shangri-Las." The band has carefully crafted these 13 songs over a three year period (since their actual inception in the summer of 2007), released October 2010 on the still skidding heels of two sold out singles and 2009's critically acclaimed EP Inconvenient Dreams (White Noise/Tru-Vow).

Sure, they may siphon from the 60's pool, but do not confuse Jail Weddings as any kind of mere throwback act. The sphere of influence is vast, from the grandiose Scott Walker-esque soundscape of the album's existential opener "How Am I Alive?" to the E-Street Band gone to Hell epic "I Thought You Were Someone I Knew", to the Sparks meets Meatloaf bombastic melodrama of "What Did You Do With My Gun?", the band proves its sound is unique as it is limitless.

JAIL WEDDINGS LIVE:
04/19 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour (w/ Dengue Fever, Holloys)
04/27 Fullerton, CA @ UC Fullerton
04/29 Oakland, CA @ The Uptown
04/30 San Francisco, CA @ The Knockout
05/21 Los Angeles, CA @ Silverlake Jubilee (Origami stage)
06/23 San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar **
06/24 Los Angeles, CA @ The Satellite **
06/25 San Francisco, CA @ The Hemlock **

** w/ Andre Williams - support and backing band