Courtney Barnett Shares New Video, Announces Tour Dates

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Melbourne singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett shared the video for “Dead Fox,” a track off her debut album Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit, released via Mom+Pop music earlier this year. The animated clip takes on “corporate greed and big business and the impact these corporations have on our lives in particular the way they influence what we eat and how we get our groceries into our fridges.” 

“We liked how politically loaded and conversational the lyrics are,” directors Rory Kerr and Paul Ruttledge explain in a press release. “We wanted the animation to have a stylistic and organic look, hence most of the drawings were done on paper rather than digitally. To further compliment the lyrics, we thought it would be funny to have the animals in the video look as cynical as possible, as if they’d had enough with how humans are treating them.”

Watch the video and check out tour dates below.

Tour dates:

05.14.15 – The Forum – Melbourne, Australia

05.15.15 – The Forum – Melbourne, Australia

05.16.15 – The Forum – Melbourne, Australia

05.18.15 – The Sinclair – Boston, MA (SOLD OUT) *

05.19.15 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY (SOLD OUT) *

05.20.15 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY (SOLD OUT) *

05.21.15 – Bowery Ballrom – New York, NY (SOLD OUT) *

05.25.15 – Sasquatch Festival – George, WA

05.27.15 – Red Rocks Amphitheater – Morrison, CO **

05.29.15 – Bottle Rock Napa Valley – Napa, CA

05.30.15 – The Roxy Theatre – Los Angeles, CA (SOLD OUT) *

05.31.15 – The Roxy Theatre – Los Angeles, CA (SOLD OUT) *

06.02.15 – Casbah – San Diego, CA (SOLD OUT) *

06.05.15 – The Mohawk – Austin, TX (SOLD OUT) *

06.06.15 – Club Dada – Dallas, TX (SOLD OUT) *

06.07.15 – One Eyed Jacks – New Orleans, LA *

06.09.15 – The Loft – Atlanta, GA *

06.10.15 – Koka Booth Amphitheater – Cary, NC #

06.11.15 – Bonnaroo Music Festival – Manchester, TN

06.13.15 – 9:30 Club – Washington, DC (SOLD OUT) *

06.14.15 – 9:30 Club – Washington, DC (SOLD OUT) *

06.15.15 – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA (SOLD OUT) *

06.18.15 – Uptown Theatre – Kansas City, KC ^

06.19.15 – Pabst Theatre – Milwaukee, WI ^

06.20.15 – Rock the Garden Festival – Minneapolis, MN

06.26.15 – Glastonbury Festival – Glastonbury, UK

07.16.15 – 07.19.15 – Pemberton Music Festival – Pemberton, BC

07.19.15 – Pitchfork Music Festival – Chicago, IL

07.22.15 – Terminal 5 – New York, NY %

07.24.15 – 07.25.15 – WayHome Music & Arts Festival – Oro-Medonte, ON

07.25.15 – Newport Folk Fest – Newport, RI

* w/ Chastity Belt & Darren Hanlon

** w/ Spoon + The Decemberists

# w/ The Alabama Shakes

^ w/ Belle & Sebastian

% w/ Speedy Ortiz & Torres