Blake Schwarzenbach (forgetters, ex-Jawbreaker) announces double album, solo European tour

Blake Schwarzenbach, best known as the singer and guitarist of influential groups Jawbreaker, Jets To Brazil, The Thorns Of Life, and, presently, forgetters, has announced an upcoming double album and a solo tour of Europe.

The album will feature 22-tracks over two discs, and will be titled Christopher Remembers, a reference to the pseudonym Christopher Lager, which Schwarzenbach has interchangeably used over the past several years. No release date or method have yet been revealed.

The tour will take place alongside alt rock singer JAN, and is set to kick off next week, with 22 dates across Europe, a whopping half of which are in Germany. Check out the full routing:

Aug 16 – Kupferschmiede – Giessen, Germany #
Aug 17  – Slow Club – Freiburg, Germany #
Aug 19 – PMK – Innsbruck, Austria #
Aug 20 – Magnolia – Milano, Italy #
Aug 21 –  Off Bar – Florence, Italy #
Aug 22 – Ferrara – the Secret Garden °
Aug 23 – Beat Café – San Salvo, Italy #
Aug 24 – Lottarox Summer Fest – Molfetta, Italy #
Aug 25 – tba – Reggio Emilia, Italy #
Aug 26 – CRO Zagreb – Mochvara °
Aug 27 – Gozsdu Manó Klub (GMK) – Budapest, Hungary #
Aug 28 – Rhiz – Vienna, Austria #
Aug 29 – Kavarna Potrva – Praha, Czech Republic
Aug 30 – K4 – Nürnberg, Germany #
Aug 31 – Schlachhof – Wiesbaden, Germany
Sept 1 – Nexus – Braunschweig, Germany #
Sept 2 – Zoro – Leipzig, Germany #
Sept 3 – bei Ruth (x bei Roy) – Berlin, Germany #
Sept 4 – Korn – Hannover, Germany #
Sept 5 – Hafenklang – Hamburg, Germany #
Sept 6 – Kult 41 – Bonn, Germany #
Sept 7 – Gleis22 – Münster, Germany

# with JAN

Forgetters, Schwarzenbach's current band, have toured intermittently in North America and abroad over the past several years, and have released one full-length and one EP. Blake himself completed a short solo run of U.S. dates back in June.