This week, ’90s alt-rock/power-pop stalwarts the Posies and acclaimed Raconteurs co-frontman Brendan Benson announced plans for a massive co-headlining fall tour of Europe and the United States. Both artists will be promoting new albums; Benson’s latest, My Old, Familiar Friend, was released last week, while the Posies will unveil Blood/Candy, the group’s first collection of new material in more than five years, on September 28.
Both artists also have strong ties to the Memphis area. Posies co-founders Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer performed off-and-on for the last 15+ years in the latter-day incarnation of Memphis’ now legendary Big Star along with Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens. Meanwhile, the Raconteurs’ Grammy-nominated 2006 debut album, Broken Boy Soldiers, was mixed at local hit factory Ardent Studios.
