ATO Records’ Brigitte Calls Me Baby Makes Late-Night TV Debut On Jimmy Kimmel Live

Band’s Debut Album The Future Is Our Way Out Releasing Next Friday, August 2nd   

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ATO Records’ “future rock royalty” (WXPN) Brigitte Calls Me Baby are owning the title following the band’s late-night TV debut last night, delivering an inspired performance of two tracks - “We Were Never Alive” and “Impressively Average” - from their forthcoming debut LP The Future Is Our Way Out, out next Friday, August 2nd.

Watch the performance:

https://youtu.be/12TBwSWJdeE?si=N1aYZvskHz-wBk9u

 

The appearance arrives just ahead of the band’s Lollapalooza festival debut in their hometown Chicago, the band’s largest show in the city to date following two sold-out nights at Lincoln Hall just last month, and a sold-out play at Schubas Tavern in March. Along the way they’ve been making fans of nearly every major Chicago publication including the Chicago TribuneChicago Magazine, and Chicago Sun-Times who writes that they have “...taken the local scene by storm in recent months, leading the pack of a new era of homegrown rock bands that are steadily gaining national attention." 

Despite having yet to release their debut LP the indie rock band has also earned national acclaim from the likes of NPR, FLOOD, WXPN, and NME, who said the “Chicago romantics deliver the thrills of a bygone era.” In lead singer Wes Leavins' words, "It's all about drama and power, both in the instrumentation and the vocal approach." And as NME writes, "It’s no coincidence that the band has opened for The Last Dinner Party, Muse, and other acts that share their flair for the dramatic."

Since the release of their debut EP, This House Is Made of Corners last year, which shines with its pounding rhythms and shimmering guitar tones, Brigitte has achieved major feats such as performing on national TV. The band made their national TV debut last year on CBS Saturday Morning. They also took the stage as part of NPR’s World Cafe (who hailed Leavins’ “swoon-worthy voice and on-stage swagger that suggests he was always destined for bright lights and throngs of screaming fans”). Revisit CBS here: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/saturday-sessions-brigitte-calls-me-baby-perform-impressively-average/

Soon, on September 7th, following two sold-out hometown dates at Chicago’s Lincoln Hall and their first-ever performances at Summerfest and Lollapalooza in August, the band will kick off a string of headlining tour dates with stops in Austin, TX, and Washington, D.C. before a series of shows with the Airborne Toxic Event continuing into the fall.

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