Alabama Rockers Beitthemeans Embarking On International Tour

BIRMINGHAM, AL - Birmingham's music scene is no longer a well-kept secret, as national media outlets have been profiling the scene for years now. With new venues, new festivals and a budding independent label community all cultivating the local music scene, Birmingham musicians are seeing some national exposure, including veterans Beitthemeans.

National music publication New Noise released a video Friday for "The Black," a new song off the band's upcoming EP, Alabama Calling, which is scheduled for release August 31 by local label Cornelius Chapel Records.

The band told New Noise that the song "The Black" is a look at the effects of drug addiction. "There are a lot of people in our society walking around with these specific demons and addictions like zombies and we’ve become too comfortable dismissing them," the band said in a statement to New Noise. "We have to look at addiction and mental illness as what it really is, a world wide healthcare epidemic and not a problem for our courts systems. When we met with Video Rahim we explained what the song meant to us and then we left him to produce his beautiful art how he saw fit."

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Beitthemeans, who have been playing and recording for 15 years now, recorded the Alabama Calling EP at Sonic Lounge Studios with Joe Viers (Marshall Tucker Band, Lydia Loveless). The band will support the album with a 30-date tour that begins September 6 in Allston, Massachusetts, and continues though Montreal, Toronto and Ottowa before heading back into the U.S. to play dates in Cleveland and Chicago. The tour wraps up in New York City October 6.

Photo courtesy of Cornelius Chapel Records

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