Pitchfork

Talk to anyone who's ever caught the Thermals in Chicago and they'll tell a sad tale of lukewarm receptions and mismatched bills. So when Hutch Harris, Kathy Foster and company took the stage at a rowdy, sold-out Subterranean last night, it was just like starting over. Zipping through 22 cuts from all over their three LPs in under an hour, the Thermals were pure energy, leaving the huddled masses breathless and screaming.

Selections from their kid-tested, Pitchfork-approved The Body, the Blood, the Machine (Sub Pop) were crowd pleasers one and all, and even Hutch was moved; after a particularly effusive barrel through "St. Rosa and the Swallows", he implored the crowd, "I got all emo on that one. Did you feel it? Did you really feel it?" Indeed we did.

The Thermals tear through the U.S. all this month. Dates and more photo action ahead.















Thermals:

03-01 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom *
03-02 Washington, DC - Black Cat *
03-03 Cambridge, MA - T.T. the Bear's *
03-04 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *
03-06 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church *
03-08 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 *
03-09 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn *
03-10 Orlando, FL - The Social *#
03-11 St. Augustine, FL - Cafe Eleven *
03-12 Tallahassee, FL - Club Downunder #
03-13 Birmingham, AL - BottleTree #
03-14 Memphis, TN - Hi-Tone #
03-15 St. Louis, MO - Off Broadway #
03-16 Indianapolis, IN - Music Mill #
03-17 Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall #
03-19 Iowa City, IA - Picador
03-20 Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck
03-22 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive
03-23 Rapid City, SD - T.R.E.A.
03-24 Billings, MT - The Yellowstone Perk
04-03 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
04-05 San Diego, CA - Casbah
04-06 Los Angeles, CA - Echo
04-07 Visalia, CA - Howie and Son's Pizza

* with the Big Sleep
# with the Hold Steady