Jenny Lewis/Jonathan Rice fans are well aware by now that the girlfriend/boyfriend pair are about ready to release a collaborative debut album under their Jenny and Johnny moniker. There’s the album cover above, simultaneously cutesy and saucy, which seems to aptly sum up the entire project, or at least what we’ve heard of it so far.
There’s a rumored August 31 release date for I’m Having Fun Now, but in the meantime, some enticing items on the duo’s website.
The song “Scissor Runner” is available for download (below), and as long as you don’t live in Arizona, there are several tour dates to look forward to. Unfortunately if you live in The Copper State, you’ll have to hoof it to Utah or Los Angeles, as the duo is boycotting Arizona on account of the recently passed, totally bogus immigration law.
09/01 Santa Cruz, CA – Rio Theater
09/02 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
09/03 Oakland, CA – The New Parish
09/05 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
09/06 Seattle, WA – Bumbershoot Festival
09/08 Salt Lake City, UT – The State Room
09/11 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room
09/12 Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center
09/13 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
09/14 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
09/16 Washington, DC – Black Cat
09/18 Boston, MA – Agganis Arena
09/19 Brooklyn, NY – Williamsburg Waterfront
09/21 Hoboken, NJ – Maxwell’s
09/22 Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero Center
09/23 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
09/24 Athens, GA – 40 Watt Club
09/25 Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge
10/03 Los Angeles, CA – Palladium
It’s not a bogus law at all. It mirrors the federal law (which actually allows for racial profiling) which the government is complacently not following. That’s why Arizona passed that law. It wouldn’t be a problem if the government did their actual job instead of handing out money for the last decade and half. This is a matter of facts and figures and it’s be stifled by self congratulatory feel-good emotional rhetoric. It’s up to you if you want to follow national media’s dialogue on this, but they’re fucking wrong as shit on this and on most things.
I guess I will boycott your show in Cleveland. Even if I enjoy an artist’s music, I lose respect for them if they are adopt the sheep mentality political views. If you had investigated the law, you would know that it has protections against racial profiling and only give the police the power to check citizenship if their is a legitimate police action. The people of Arizona are being invaded by human traffickers and drug smugglers armed with AK47s. and you think you are doing something good by boycotting the people of that downtrodden state?
You would be smarter to boycott the whole USA because it is the FEDERAL government who has refused to do its job and repair this problem. The traffickers have “rape trees” where they rape women under and attach their undergarments to the tree as a memorial of their act. Boycotting the good people of Arizona will not help these women, the police that are outgunned or anyone else. If anything, it will just encourage the Federal government to continue to do Nothing about the problem. I hope that the next time any of us attache ourselves to a cause, that we all will investigate the issue and not just parrot the lame stream media. Having said that, boycotting your show will do nothing either, so we will see you in Cleveland.