German Tour Dates Scheduled for This Month
Progressive stoner rock trio APE SHIFTER has dropped a groove-heavy new single, “Village Strut,” available today via all digital music providers via Heavy Progressive Records.
“Joe Walsh and Rick Derringer were getting a lot of spins on my turntable,” says guitarist Jeff Aug. “APE SHIFTER had been playing around with this groove for a while now, but it wasn´t ‘clicking.’ Then one night, I pulled up a drum beat in my Studio One program and just went with it. Out came this arrangement. We sent it to our drummer Tony and he knew exactly where we were going with it.”
Fusing a classic heavy rock sound that arcs in the stoner rock direction with technical musical prowess, APE SHIFTER is dissimilar from any other progressive instrumental band.
Born in D.C. and raised in Laurel, Maryland, Aug has toured with Allan Holdsworth, Soft Machine, Stu Hamm, Greg Howe, Alex Skolnick, Carl Verheyen, Johnny A., Albert Lee, and has performed shows with Jawbox, Shudder To Think, and Ice-T and Body Count as a member of Sorry About Your Daughter. He has worked with John Stabb from punk legends Government Issue, has been touring and recording with Anne Clark for the last 18 years and has been touring and releasing albums as a solo guitarist for the more than 30 years. Aug can also be heard on the Atari Teenage Riot album Is This Hyperreal?. Not surprisingly, Aug set the world record for the “most concerts performed in different countries in 24 hours,” not once but twice in 2009 and 2012). He´s been featured on NPR´s show Morning Edition and has had a #1 selling album on iTunes Acoustic Music Charts in the U.S.
APE SHIFTER tour dates:
8/20 – Reichenbach in Vogtland, Germany @ ArtRock Festival
8/21 – Nordhausen, Germany @ Open Air
8/22 – Fürstenwalde, Germany @ Park Club Open Air
9/3 – Bremen, Germany @ Lila Eule (TBC)
9/4 – Fehmarn, Germany @ Open Air
APE SHIFTER online:
Photo: Chris Lakriz
