Family Reunion: Brooklyn Metal Act Returns from Short Hiatus with Fall Tour Dates

Brooklyn outfit Family have been wowing us with their innovative blend of prog metal and classic rock since 2012’s Portrait, an album that placed on multiple staffers’ year-end lists. The band spent the next year and half touring their tushies off, then took a well-deserved break to focus on album #2, which we hope is coming very soon. A pre-pro track from that new album called “Precedent” can be heard on the completely free compilation NYC Sucks: Volume 4 compilation, streamable and downloadable here. Also be sure to track 2012’s Portrait album here.

While you wait for your next dose of Family delight (if only our actual family gatherings were this metal, amirite?), peep these just-announced eastern U.S. tour dates for November. The band is going it on their own, but they’re teaming up with some incredible acts along the way: Meek is Murder, Weedeater, Lazer/Wulf, Tiger Flowers, and a string of dates with Beak and Order of the Owl. If you live anywhere near where this tour is stopping, go! You won’t be sorry.

Dates: 

Wed 11/5 – Long Island, NY – Amityville Music Hall w/Meek is Murder, Bangladeafy, Moon Tooth
Thurs 11/6 – Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie w/Sunburster, Bardus, The Cloth
Fri 11/7 – Brooklyn, NY – Saint Vitus Bar w/Weedeater, Full of Hell, Lazur/Wulf, Tiger Flowers
Sat 11/8 – Cambridge – TT the Bear’s w/Tiger Flowers, Lunglust, Jack Burton vs. David Lo Pan
Wed 11/12 – Pittsburgh, PA – Gooski’s w/Slaves BC, Edhochuli
Thurs 11/13 – Columbus, OH – Ruby Tuesday w/Denounce Your Martyr, All My Friends Are Dead, Silence the Ocean, Asylum Effect
Fri 11/14 – Chicago, IL – Township w/Beak, TBD
Sat 11/15 – St. Louis, MO – Fubar w/Beak, Quaere Verum, Ashes and Iron, Fumer
Sun 11/16 – Memphis, TN – Hi-Tone Cafe w/Beak, Hosoi Bros, Hombres
Mon 11/17 – Nashville, TN – Springwater w/Beak, Sheep Shifter, Laser Flames on the Great Big News
Wed 11/19 – Atlanta, GA – 529 w/Beak, Order of the Owl, Dead Register
Thurs 11/20 – Charlotte, NC – The Milestone w/Beak, Order of the Owl, Viajando
Fri 11/21 – Wilmington, NC – Reggie’s w/Beak, Order of the Owl, Mountain Thrower
Sat 11/22 –Raleigh, NC – The Maywood w/Beak, Order of the Owl, Horseskull