In celebration of their fifteen-year anniversary, The Used has announced Live and Acoustic at The Palace, a live CD/DVD, set to release April 1st, 2016. This album was recorded at the band’s intimate unplugged storyteller performance, which took place at The Palace Theater in Los Angeles last month. Fans who were unable to attend the once in a lifetime performance will have a chance to watch the band perform in a way they have never performed before – with a 4-piece string quartet and harpist (arranged by Hiro Goto), a piano player, percussion and a 3-piece gospel choir. Fans can pre-order Live and Acoustic at The Palace now here: www.TheUsed.net.
In addition to the upcoming live CD/DVD set, The Used will be hitting the road for a North American tour in spring of 2016! The band will be playing two shows per city, performing Self-Titled and In Love and Death in their entirety, plus more each evening. With each online ticket purchase, fans will get a digital copy of The Used: Live & Acoustic at The Palace. Tickets will be available this Friday, November 20th at www.TheUsed.net.
About Live and Acoustic at The Palace, lead singer Bert McCracken shared, “I think we really captured the night perfectly and listening back to the mixes it reminded me how music can allow us to be children once again and once you open yourself up to that emotion it’s like a virus, it’s contagious.” He continued, “Nearly every eye in the venue was weepy the night we played with the orchestra because these songs are so emotional and this recording is a truly special thing that I can’t wait for everyone to hear. It still gives me goose bumps.“
In order to fully recontextualize these songs, the group worked with Hiro Goto on the strings and harp. Together, they arranged the various musical elements and helped the band bring out dimensions in these songs that they didn’t even know existed. “The whole time we were making this I couldn’t believe it was happening,” McCracken explains, adding that 3 gospel singers and instruments like the harp helped these songs take on an entirely different emotional resonance than the post-hardcore, guitar-driven dynamics that initially propelled them. “I’m so proud of this band for working hard to pull this off and at same time I feel like this is what we deserve because we worked so hard to get here that it felt like a victory lap in a lot of ways.“