Jaguar Love Lose Drummer

Portland, Oregon’s Jaguar Love will continue their tour of Australia without drummer J, and will now be playing the shows as a duo (with a drum machine).

Vocalist Johnny Whitney posted the following announcement on the band’s MySpace blog:

"Hey Everyone

We’ll we are waiting in the Portland Airport right now about to leave for Australia to play the soundwave festival, do some club shows with minus the bear, and do two shows in Sydney and Melborne with Nine Inch Nails. We are extremely honored and very totally excited to be playing these shows. I wanted to take this opportunity to let you all know that we have changed up the sound and line up a bit for the upcoming shows. We are no longer plaing with J and are going to be touring as a two piece, just Cody and I playing to a drum machine. We will be playing only 3 songs from the record, (Highways of Gold, Bats over the Pacific, and Jaguar Pirates) but they sound a bit different now, it’s almost like we remixed them and are playing the remixes. The rest of the set will composed of new songs (Boom, Polariods and Red Wine, Evaline, I started a Fire, Ghost Party and Tricerisaurus-Hex) and a Minor Threat cover (Small Man, Big Mouth). The vibe of the new material is kind of Daft Punk meets New Order meets Black Flag and we are really really excited to be debuting it for all you aussies! We’ll try to film some of them and put them on our myspace so all you non-australians can check them out. Tally ho and see you all soon!

xo

johnny"

The band’s latest album, Take Me To The Sea, was released in August 2008 on Matador.