(photo by John Hanson, Lansing)

frontier ruckus; this Thursday, February 2—The Ark; Ann Arbor, MI.

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An eternity of dimming
You turn to me, I’m slimming
The graininess is winning every night
Clarity’s a rarity that once was young and brimming
Now hellish unembellished foreign blurs
In the corners of my eyesight

live from train station in Bristol, VA via Live & Breathing.

Out in the night the world freezes
It teases me outside to go
Silent and sterile the peace is
And deadly it steadily blows

“The Black-Ice World” live on 107.1 FM Ann Arbor’s Tree Town Sound.

Dear friends,
If by any chance you’ve been thinking to yourself: “Boy, it sure has been a little quiet from the Frontier Ruckus camp this winter…wonder what those boys are up to now?”—fear not. It’s for excellent reason and tremendous result that we’ve been a little remiss in communication. We’ve been holed up for the past two months or so recording what is by far our most prodigious and expansive project to date.

Eternity of Dimming is the new world of our creation. It is very large and extremely comprehensive. Coming in 2012.

The time has not yet arrived to say too much further regarding this upcoming era. We are putting everything we have into it. It is rich and diverse to the max—the culmination and catharsis of years of work and heavy experience. We can’t wait for you to enter our densest world yet, and are very confident that you’ll be wonderfully surprised with all that you find.
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In the meantime, we will be playing some shows here in early 2012, with some new tour dates now on the books.

The first is a home-state show in Ann Arbor (the town where we’ve been making our new record). That’ll be at The Ark on February 2: RSVP, TICKETS.

In March we will be hitting the road on a co-headlining tour with our good friends from Philly, Hoots and Hellmouth. This tour will creeping all over the eastern US so keep an eye on our dates as they roll in.
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Check out our updated store for new t-shirts, corduroy hats, and the Deadmalls & Nightfalls/Way Upstate & the Crippled Summer, pt. 2 double-vinyl (also available straight from Lower Peninsula Records).

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Latest release:

Way Upstate and the Crippled Summer, pt. 2:
Mona and Emmy
Winter and the Preacher’s Daughter
Weeds and Life Among Them
Ogallala
Epiphanies and Revelations

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Thank you for your continued support and please stay tuned for the release of all that we’ve been working on—
Love,
Frontier Ruckus

courtesy of L-Town Studios, circa winter 2010-11.

Frontier Ruckus will be performing in Ann Arbor this winter for a very special performance at the Ark on February 2. This will be a sort of celebration for the completion of the band’s third full-length record, currently being recorded on the very outskirts of Ann Arbor. Many new songs will be featured. Please join us.

7:30 doors, show at 8.

Buy tickets now while still available, $15:

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(photo by Steven Michael, Mostly Midwest)

Happy New Year friends!
We are so assiduously at work on our new record—14 of about 22 songs now well on their way—that all this gloomy chronology and linear estrangement, displacement, is fortunately escaping us. But not all of it. Who cannot help but succumb to time’s weighty sorrow especial to this time of year. Hell, the sad vestigial physical presence of the past dwelling in foreign modernity is about which this album is chiefly concerned. Truly concerned. Such an impossible urge to convey to outer world the enormity & existential scope of this record. So impatient to share. But more on that to come.

Mostly Midwest captured three up-close-and-personal videos from our performance at Mittenfest. Check out “Silverfishes” and “The Latter Days” as well at their site.

Merry Christmas! on behalf of Frontier Ruckus, from Colonel Carmelo P. Milia; Troy, Michigan.

we’re in the middle of something enormous. little time to say much else or even find bearing in the blur. all the best of our love to you & yours until we resurface.

[adult swim] used “Dark Autumn Hour” by Frontier Ruckus for this bump. we’re coming at you. through your bigscreen TV.

we are now deep into the thick of recording our third album. we will be momentarily suspending our intense focus on that task to play this show, one of the few concerts we will be doing this winter. we love Cleveland and hope to see you there.

tickets here:

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says Cleveland Scene:

“Now that Mumford & Sons and the Avett Brothers have had their Grammy moments, what’s the next old-timey band in line for the spotlight? We nominate Frontier Ruckus, whose rustic, somewhat unruly music suits their name. The Michigan band delivers spirited, acoustic-based roots music driven by David W. Jones’ banjo and fleshed out with saws, horns, and other left-field touches. Frontman Matthew Milia’s vocals convey a dreamy, twangy quality, like someone who’s wandering aimlessly through the woods at night. He recalls Michael Stipe in his vivid wordplay and oblique imagery — especially on songs like “Silverfishes,” from the group’s latest album, last year’s Deadmalls & Nightfalls. R.E.M.-sized levels of success may seem out of Frontier Ruckus’ realm, but with their heady mix of rustic melodies and beguiling lyricism, they’re at least on the right path toward escaping the confining Americana wilderness for bigger things.” — Michael Berrick

With Dolfish and Shivering Timbers. 8:30 p.m. Saturday, December 10. Beachland Ballroom. Tickets: $10; call 216-383-1124 or visit www.beachlandballroom.com.