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ATLAS GENIUS PERFORMS ON “JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!”

LOS ANGELES, CA – August 18, 2015 – Atlas Genius will launch their new album,Inanimate
Objects, with a performance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on September 1 and a North American
tour to follow. The album, which is the follow-up to the band’s breakthrough debut,
When It Was Now, will be released on August 28th by Warner Bros. Records.

The Australian band kicks off its U.S. headline run on August 30 at The Independent
in San Francisco, CA.

Atlas Genius will also be joining Passion Pit on tour, beginning with a show at
House of Blues in Dallas on September 6 and including a performance at The Wiltern
in Los Angeles on October 28th.

The band, which features brothers Keith and Michael Jeffery,
produced Inanimate Objects with Frederik Thaae in Studio City, CA. Their 2013 full-length debut, When It Was Now, was hailed by Rolling Stone as a “spritely, melodic debut album” and featured the Gold-certified hit single
“Trojans.” After first being discovered by a slew of blogs, “Trojans” gained momentum
online and on the radio. The band was signed to Warner Bros. Records and began 18
months of non-stop touring, including two national headline tours, opening for Imagine
Dragons and Silversun Pickups and playing festivals like Lollapalooza, Outside Lands,
Sasquatch, Firefly and many others. They also performed on numerous television shows,
including The Tonight Show With Leno, The Late Show With David Letterman, Late Night
with Jimmy Fallon, Conan and Jimmy Kimmel Live!
ATLAS GENIUS – U.S. TOUR DATES
8/22 – Minneapolis, MN @ Loring Park – Cultivate Festival
*8/30 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
* 9/2 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
+9/6 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
+9/9 – New Orleans, LA @ Joy Theater
9/12 – Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion – WEND radio show
9/13 – Raleigh, NC @ Walnut Creek Amphitheatre – 95X radio show
*9/15 – Richmond, VA @ The National
*9/16 – Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa
*9/19 – Rochester, NY @ Rochester Music Hall
*9/20 – Buffalo, NY @ The Waiting Room
*9/23 – Toronto, ON @ Modclub
*9/28 – Portland, ME @ Port City Music Hall
*9/29 – New York, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
+10/19 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
+10/20 – Kansas City, MO @ Arvest Bank Theatre at Midland
10/24 – Mesa, AZ @ Mesa Amphitheater – Alt AZ radio show
+10/28 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
+10/29 – Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
* headline show
+ opening for Passion Pit