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New York, NY Mercury Lounge Wed Jun 26 / 13 Find Tickets
Brooklyn, NY The Glasslands Gallery Fri Jun 28 / 13 Find Tickets
Boston, MA Church Thu Sep 05 / 13 Find Tickets
Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda's Mon Sep 09 / 13 Find Tickets
Toronto The Garrison Wed Sep 11 / 13 Find Tickets
Chicago, IL Empty Bottle Thu Sep 12 / 13 Find Tickets
Saint Louis, MO The Firebird Fri Sep 13 / 13 Find Tickets
Phoenix, AZ Rhythm Room Thu Sep 19 / 13 Find Tickets
Los Angeles, CA Echo Fri Sep 20 / 13 Find Tickets
Vancouver Biltmore Cabaret Thu Sep 26 / 13 Find Tickets
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Dirty Beaches Biography

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Alex Zhang Hungtai (born September 4, 1980, Taipei), known by his stage name Dirty Beaches, is a Taiwanese-born Canadian musician based in Montreal, Quebec. Dirty Beaches released a number of EPs and instrumental-focused albums on cassette-only labels, before releasing the full-length ''Badlands'' in March 2011. ''Badlands'' was subsequently nominated as a long listed nominee for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize. Dirty Beaches has also released singles including "True Blue"/"Sweet 17," "Lord Knows Best" and "Lone Runner," as well as videos, many of them directed by Zhang himself. Zhang has also recorded several original film soundtracks, such as for the documentary ''Water Park'', by Evan Prosofsky. Dirty Beaches began as a one-man band, sometimes employing sampling, inspired by Zhang's longtime love of hip hop. In addition to his own years moving between countries and on the road touring, films are one of Zhang's influences, particularly those by Wong Kar-wai. Zhang said Wong's movies are "usually about the passage of time, and how in relation it distorts your relationship with everything else in life. The central Dirty Beaches character is a product of those experiences. Of someone traveling long distances in search of something, in exile, misplaced, with no home to return to." Zhang has lived in Taipei, Queens, Etobicoke, Honolulu, San Francisco, Shanghai, Vancouver, Montreal and Berlin, among other cities. Dirty Beaches has released work on record labels throughout the world since his first album ''Old Blood'' came out on Montreal's Fixture Records in 2007. Dirty Beaches has recorded and toured with musicians such as Dum Dum Girls, U.S. Girls, Ela Orleans and Xiu Xiu. In 2011, Zhang was able to leave a kitchen job to play music full time. First touring solo, he then put together a live band with sax player Francesco De Gallo and drummer Jesse Locke. On tour, Dirty Beaches moved away from the sample-based rock n roll of ''Badlands'' to embrace a more improvised sound. In 2012, guitarist Shub Roy and electronic musician Bernardino Femminielli joined Dirty Beaches live and in the studio, and they remain members of the band as of 2013. After the release of ''Badlands'' and a number of EPs and collaborations, Dirty Beaches recorded 75 minutes of new material in late 2012 and early 2013. One set of songs, ''Drifters'', was begun at La Brique recording space in Montreal and features Zhang's vocals and songwriting, along with instrumental contributions by Roy and Femminielli and former bandmates De Gallo and Locke. Making use of live instruments- guitar, bass, keyboard, drum machines and saxophones- arranged into original loops, none of the eight songs include any samples of previously existent recordings, a change from Zhang's previous working methods. During the course of recording ''Drifters'', Zhang's relationship of several years ended in Canada and he relocated to the studio of friend Anton Newcombe in Berlin, where he finished the record and also recorded ''Love is the Devil'', an instrumental set of eight songs, in late hours when the studio was not in use. ''Drifters/Love Is The Devil'' was released as a double LP, as well as on a single CD and in digital formats, by the Zoo Music label in May 2013. Dirty Beaches will tour Europe and other regions in spring and summer of 2013. Earlier in the year Dirty Beaches toured the Asia Pacific region for the first time.

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Dirty Beaches Albums

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Lone Runner Single 2011-10-04 itunes amazon
Double Feature Album 2011-06-21 itunes amazon
Badlands Album 2011-03-29 itunes amazon
Chess Music EP EP 2010-12-30 itunes amazon
Golden Desert Sun Single 2010-06-14 itunes amazon
Night City Album 2010 itunes amazon
Solid State Gold Album 2010 itunes amazon
Dirty Beaches EP 2009 itunes amazon
Seaside EP EP 2008 itunes amazon
Horror Album 2008 itunes amazon
Bird EP EP 2008 itunes amazon
Old Blood Album 2008 itunes amazon
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