Umphrey's McGee Announce Album, Single, and Tour

Chicago's Umphrey's McGee enters its second decade together with their hardest, darkest, and most artistically cohesive album to date. The new album hits streets on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009, when Mantis casts another Windy City family into the limelight. Over 2 years in the making, Mantis pushes the envelope in composition, arrangement and group interplay. In an Umphrey's McGee first, the album offers 100% new material - a drastic change of pace for a band whose typical modus operandi is to work out the material live on-stage before recording studio versions.

Listen: Umphrey's McGee-Made to Measure mp3

2009 Tour dates supporting the release of Mantis:

Jan 22 / Ft. Collins, CO / Aggie Theatre

Jan 23 / Boulder, CO / Boulder Theater

Jan 24 / Denver, CO / The Fillmore Auditorium

Jan 30-Feb 01 / Minneapolis, MN / First Avenue

Feb 12-15 / Madison, WI / Barrymore Theatre

Feb 19-20 / Atlanta, GA / Variety Playhouse

Feb 21 / Asheville, NC / Orange Peel

Feb 22 / Charlotte, NC / Neighborhood Theatre

Mar 04-05 / Birmingham, AL / Workplay Soundstage

Mar 07 / Miami Beach, FL / Langerado Music Festival

Mar 12 / Detroit, MI / Royal Oak Music Theatre

Mar 13-14 / Indianapolis, IN / Murat Egyptian Room

Mar 25 / Tulsa, OK / Cain's Ballroom

Mar 26 / Lawrence, KS / Liberty Hall

Mar 27 / St. Louis, MO / The Pageant

Mar 28 / Memphis, TN / Minglewood Hall

Apr 01 / Buffalo, NY / Town Ballroom

Apr 02 / Wilmington, DE / Grand Opera House

Apr 03 / Jim Thorpe, PA / Penn's Peak

Apr 04 / Baltimore, MD / Ram's Head Live!

Apr 05 / New Haven, CT / Toad's Place (acoustic)

Apr 07 / Providence, RI / Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel

Apr 08 / Northampton, MA / Calvin Theatre

Apr 09 / Boston, MA / House of Blues

Apr 10-11 / New York, NY / Nokia Theatre

Apr 30-May 01 / New Orleans, LA / House of Blues