10/07Limited run of The Aristocrats’ debut album on translucent magenta vinyl – PRE-ORDER NOW!
When Guthrie Govan, Bryan Beller and Marco Minnemann formed a band on a whim after a 2011 NAMM jam, and four months later cut their debut album in just nine days, they had no idea they’d be creating a classic. But that’s exactly what happened.
Raw and bursting with energy, the eponymous “The Aristocrats” is now available in a limited run of translucent magenta-colored 180-gram double vinyl. This very special edition drops on ‘Black Friday’ 29 November. Pre-order your copy now by clicking on the webstore links above; once they’re gone, they’re gone!
10/04The DUCK Tour comes to Japan!
We are very excited to announce that we will be bringing the DUCK Tour to Japan for 3 shows in March 2025! Fans in Osaka, Nagoya and Kawasaki can expect another explosive live show with a jam-packed set, and plenty of music from our most recent album DUCK.
Tickets will go on sale November 9th and you can find all the details about each show HERE.
9/09The Aristocrats announce DUCK Australia tour dates for 2025!
The Aristocrats are very excited to bring the DUCK tour to Australia in February/March next year!
The band says, “It’s been eight long years since we last toured Australia, and we had a wonderful time then making our way from one coast to the other with five great shows. Clearly it’s been far too long since then, so we can’t wait to come back for another five nights of musical mayhem – and this time we’re bringing our DUCK with us!”
Tickets for the Brisbane show go on sale on Thursday Sept 12th, but all the others are on sale NOW! Click HERE to buy.
7/11The DUCK USA/Canada tour starts tonight!
We had an incredible time in Mexico this past week, playing 3 shows in Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mexico City. Thank you so much to everyone who came to see us and made each gig very memorable for us!
Now we are back in the US of A ready to begin the next stage of the tour. We start in Ramona/San Diego tonight, before heading all across the states and Canada. All the dates and ticket links can be found HERE. Hope to see you at a show soon!
7/10Read the story of DUCK!
What happens when an Antarctic island Duck gets in trouble at home and flees a penguin policeman all the way to New York City? CLICK HERE to read the story of DUCK. We’ll be publishing this one chapter at a time over the next few months, and chapter 3 is now online! ;-)
6/11BANG BANG BANG!
What happens when Guthrie Govan sits down to write a pretty fusion tune and suddenly construction workers noisily invade his block of flats? Guthrie explains, as only he can, exactly why “Here Come The Builders” didn’t turn out as he’d originally expected…
And here’s yet another reminder that The Aristocrats DUCK Tour hits North America this summer! We added three new dates the other day in case you missed it. Get the latest info and ticket links HERE.
5/20AND THEN, REVISITED
Instead of our standard video featurette for the song “And Then There Were Just Us/Duck’s End”, Marco (who wrote it) did something completely different. Let him tell you about it in his own words:
“Whilst composing and recording new material, I found myself browsing through my computer files and reorganizing folders, when the following item caught my attention: the raw demo footage and recordings for ‘And Then There Were Just Us/Duck’s End’, a piece consisting of two parts which ended up being one of my offerings from the most recent Aristocrats albums, titled ‘Duck’.
Being tempted to accumulate and tailor a ‘making of’ video of said piece, I curiously opened and investigated the folder. Immediately I felt inspired to revisit the music in regards to the thought of a scenario of ‘what would this track have sounded like had it been released on one of my solo albums?’
Well, I replayed and rearranged/recomposed a bit and am actually quite pleased to hereby offer this humble solo and still ’demoish’ version of ATTWJU/Duck’s End. Hope it brings some of you joy and I think overall it really gives everyone a bit of an insight of how in my case an Aristocrats demo sounds like.”
Check out the track on Bandcamp HERE.
