Brooklyn-Based Genre-Hopper To Canvas Northeast With Sound Collage Songs
Singer and sample-heavy renegade Tim Fite will hit the road next month for an East Coast tour in continued support of his recent Anti- release Gone Ain't Gone. The Brooklyn-based artist – who crafted his wry, copyright-defying sound collage of a debut from dollar bin CDs – will launch the trek in Buffalo on July 27th and canvas the Northeast, wrapping up close to home at New York City's Tonic on August 6th.
Of his cut-and-paste amalgam of hip-hop and country music, Fite says, "Everybody steals. The important question is how you steal, who you steal from, and whether or not there is an adverse effect as a result of your thievery."
The upshot of Gone Ain't Gone – released in the fall of 2005 – has been critical acclaim from likely and unlikely sources. Esquire called it "a beautifully bizarre album," adding "Fite's imagination as a songwriter is substantial and staggering." Meanwhile Billboard wrote, "on this genre-hopping debut, he skips from folk to hip-hp to honky-tonkin' rock'n'roll like an academic Beck." And Amplifier said, "Fite gleefully scupts shinola from shit. Gone Ain't Gone is a strange yet smooth concoction of city and country smarts."
Perhaps NY Rock put it best in a review of Fite's latest Webster Hall gig, stating, "If Tim doesn't bring a smile to your face, you are a sad, sad bastard." Replete with his laptop-load of sonic art, Fite can be witnessed getting his freak on at the following watering holes:
July 27, Buffalo NY ICON
July 28, Cleveland OH Grog
July 29, Detroit MI Lager House
July 30, Chicago IL Empty Bottle
July 31, Columbus OH Little Brothers
August 1, Toledo OH The Thunderbird
August 3, Morgantown WV 123 Pleasant St.
August 4, Philadelphia PA First Unitarian Church
August 5, Hoboken NJ Maxwell's
August 6, New York NY Tonic
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