Happy 2024! We’ll be playing a couple of shows soon, sooner than I expected but it was hard to say no to these!
Free show in Toronto with the excellent Hieronymus Harry and Avalon T on January 28 at Baby G!
Then Ridgewood in February with the amazing Laura Loriga and PG Six who has a new album out on Drag City right now! Check it out. Excited to see Sugarlife as well.
Msg me if you want the 7″ or the cassette of “I’ve never met a stranger”, I finally have copies in stock in Canada.
xoxo Liz.
Thanks so much to everyone who came to the shows and bought stuff! Nice to meet so many new people.
Here is a photo from the beautiful show at Le Boule Noire in Paris on December 4. Very grateful and humbled to be able to perform with Tony almost every night. Thanks so much to the rest of the Great Lake Swimmers also!
The 7″ we released on Stoned to Death Records for the tour is still available, please check it out on Bandcamp here: https://picastro.bandcamp.com/album/earthseed-tacitus. I will post some copies on Discogs also.
Looking to tour more in 2024 with some accompaniment, please get in touch if you want to book a show! xoxo Liz.
Picastro will be joining the legendary Damon & Naomi (ex Galaxie 500) on Monday October 16 at Bar Orwell in Toronto, tickets are available here: https://dice.fm/event/bowxg-damon-naomi-galaxie-500-16th-oct-bar-orwell-toronto-tickets
We will also be releasing a 7″ on Stoned to Death Records for our upcoming Euro and UK dates with @GreatLakeSwimmers. Please look at their site for ticket info: https://greatlakeswimmers.com/shows/
We will have more info as the dates approach.
xoxo
After a very long time, Picastro will return to Montreal Saturday September 16!
Very excited to be opening for Great Lake Swimmers before our tour with them in the fall, tickets and info are available here:
https://blueskiesturnblack.com/show/2939
We will have news about an upcoming 7″ that will be ready in time for our Europe dates.
xoxo Liz
EARLY Toronto show coming up! July 20 at the Dakota. I’ll have an Eventbrite link posted shortly. With the excellent Funeral Lakes and Justin Small aka “Someone is Flying” of the magical Do Make Say Think.
Kingston! July 21! Also early! Also with Funeral Lakes and Princess Towers!
Lastly our long post-poned tour with Great Lake Swimmers is finally happening! Check the poster for dates, I’ll have some new music too! xoxo Liz.
Hola friends! First time ever, playing in CDMX with Estrella del Sol @ 316 Centro. Joining me will be cellist Ariadna Ortega who also makes beautiful music! New tunes coming by way of Stoned to Death Records, with some more shows to follow. xoxo Liz.
Hi friends!
We have two shows coming up, very excited for them both.
Sunday December 11, London, ON. Opening for Great Lakes Swimmers at the beautiful Aeolian Hall! We’ll be playing songs from the 7″ we recorded in 2020. Cover photo by the super talented Kristan Klimzczak. We haven’t played in London since 2011, really looking forward to it.
Friday December 16, Toronto, ON. Opening for Gillian Stone for her release show! I have really been enjoying connecting with all these great local musicians lately and so excited that Funeral Lakes from Kingston will be joining us too!
Come say hi. Also if you are overseas, @stonedtodeath records in the Czech Republic has cassette copies of “I’ve never met a stranger”. If you’re in North America and want a copy, I can figure out shipping for you too.
A couple of weeks ago, I had a great talk with Absent Sounds on @cjamfam about various things, most specifically on the album “You” which I had a hard time remembering, ha ha. It was super fun, I tried not to talk about Octavia Butler too much but if anyone wants to start a book club where we only talk about her novels and short stories, email me!!!! Plus we are birthday buds. https://www.mixcloud.com/soundsabsent/picastro-interview/
Also, the Picastro IG is at @thebandpicastro. Seems like many people still think its the hacked page.
Picastro will be playing in Toronto on August 28 at Baby G with our friends Aidan Baker (of the band Nadja) and Soren of Man Meets Bear and the wonderful label UR Audio Visual! Nadja just released a new album, you can find it here:
https://uraudiovisual.bandcamp.com/
The EP “I’ve never met a stranger” will be re-released on the fantastic label Stoned to Death, so fans in Europe won’t have to pay customs or heavy shipping fees!
https://stoned-to-death.bandcamp.com
Lastly, the Picastro Instagram page was hacked (therealpicastro) so please follow at @thebandpicastro instead. If you continue to follow the hacked account, it will not contain any new info or updates. Thank you!
In 2019 I went on this really amazing tour of Spain and Portugal and has this incredible conversation with someone in Zaragoza. We talked about Townes Van Zandt and Leadbelly and all the things that go into Picastro that I thought were maybe unnoticed. Flash forward to another excellent conversation captured in this Spanish magazine. I am learning Spanish incidentally so I can converse about orange juice and t-shirts (thanks Duolingo!) Also Elvis is on the cover and to this day is the one famous person I have been compared to looks-wise multiple times. Is this good? I have no idea but I feel like it’s a nice touch. Thanks so much to @tanyatiziana for her photo stylings, Alanna Chelmick and Bill @ Panoply on Dupont in Toronto.
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