If you’re in NYC this week, Hopewell are playing three awesome shows around the area—one of which is a special performance at All Tomorrow’s Parties in Monticello, NY. The Flaming Lips asked the band to perform on their curated Sunday date but asked them to do something a little different. Curious to see what they’ve put together but can’t make it upstate? Come out to the Cameo Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn this Thursday, Sept. 10th where they’ll be performing the piece dubbed the “The Desperation Suite,” complete with a female choir and avant-garde saxophonist Mark Marinoff. If psychedelic jams on the high seas is more your speed, come hang with us on the Rocks Off boat cruise this Wednesday, Sept. 9th, where Hopewell will play with Matador Records’ Dead Meadow.

Weds 9/9 – Rocks Off Boat Cruise – New York, NY w/ Dead Meadow
Thurs 9/10 – Cameo Gallery – Brooklyn, NY (performing “The Desperation Suite”)
Sun 9/13 – ATP Festival @ Kutcher’s Country Club – Monticello, NY
Fri 10/23 – CMJ Festival – Brooklyn, NY (Tee Pee Records showcase)

If you’re in NYC this week, Hopewell are playing three awesome shows around the area—one of which is a special performance at All Tomorrow’s Parties in Monticello, NY. The Flaming Lips asked the band to perform on their curated Sunday date but asked them to do som…

Weds 8/26 – Union Pool – Brooklyn, NY (w/ Spindrift)
Weds 9/9 – Rocks Off Boat Cruise – New York, NY (w/ Dead Meadow)
Thurs 9/10 – Cameo Gallery – Brooklyn, NY
Sun 9/13 – ATP Festival @ Kutcher’s Country Club – Monticello, NY
Fri 10/23 – Union Pool – Brooklyn, NY (Tee Pee Records CMJ showcase)

Weds 8/26 – Union Pool – Brooklyn, NY (w/ Spindrift)
Weds 9/9 – Rocks Off Boat Cruise – New York, NY (w/ Dead Meadow)
Thurs 9/10 – Cameo Gallery – Brooklyn, NY
Sun 9/13 – ATP Festival @ Kutcher’s Country Club – Monticello, NY
Fri 10/23 – Union Pool – Brooklyn, NY…

Staying true to their 90’s space rock roots, Hopewell releases the track “Stranger”, the second single off their newest album, Good Good Desperation (2009 Tee Pee Records). A swirling, aggressive, hazy waltz in the tradition of Loop, Flying Saucer Attack, Ride and early Mercury Rev, sound is treated more as sculpture, becoming a sonic canvas for whispered vocals, heavy phase and polyrhythms as layers of feedback and fuzz wash through the speakers.

The term space rock, originally describing bands in the late 60’s like The Pink Floyd or albums like Bowie’s Space Oddity, gave way to a 90’s version that was decidedly more shoegaze oriented. Hopewell, being part of that original Detroit Space Rock revival on Burnt Hair Records are now getting louder and hazier than ever, combining the best of both the 60’s and the 90’s movements.

Hopewell will perform a version of the single “Stranger”, along with several other tracks from Good Good Desperation at this year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival in Monticello, NY. Asked by The Flaming Lips to do something “out of the norm” for their set, Hopewell’s performance will include a medley of song variations both old and new, topped off with a Jane’s Addiction cover. Dubbing it “The Desperation Suite”, the 45 minute piece will also include the addition of a female choir as well as the the avant-garde sax player Mark Marinoff.

Staying true to their 90’s space rock roots, Hopewell releases the track “Stranger”, the second single off their newest album, Good Good Desperation (2009 Tee Pee Records). A swirling, aggressive, hazy waltz in the tradition of Loop, Flying Saucer Attack, Ride and ea…