First Summer Festivals Announced!

Spring is in the air as we wrap up the final 2 weeks of Winter Tour roaming around our home turf of the Northeast and following some huge homecoming shows in New York City, Philadelphia and Ithaca (to name a few) we are looking forward to the biggest summer yet! We are honored to announce that we’ll be rocking it out at Summer Camp Festival, Strange Creek Festival, Mountain Jam, Impulse Festival, Nomadic Roots Festival and Great Blue Heron!

Make sure to check out all these KILLER lineups and get your tickets way in advance as you don’t want to be missing any of these great times with us this summer!

March 16th, 2012 / No Comments »

Umphrey’s McGee Denver/Salt Lake City Support!

We are thrilled, humbled and honored to announce that we will be supporting legendary rockers Umphrey’s McGee for 2 stops on their Death By Stereo Tour! Friday March 9th we’ll be starting off the night in Denver, Colorado at Fillmore Auditorium and Saturday March 10th we will be opening it up in Salt Lake City, Utah at The Depot. Doors at 7 PM both nights so make sure to get there early and warmed up with us!

Umphrey's McGee

WOO HOO!! We can hardly wait for this!!

February 26th, 2012 / 1 Comment »

Remaining Winter Tour Dates Added! CO, Mid-West, East Coast!

Remaining Winter Tour dates have been released and they are taking us out to Colorado and back!! See them all below and click on the poster to head over to our Tour Page for tickets and all show info!

We’re proud to report that we are 30% of the way to reaching our $12,500 goal needed to release our new record come September. But we still have 70% to go!! Watch the video and then donate here today to help us release what is guaranteed to be the most amazing electro-rock record ever created!

February 15th, 2012 / 1 Comment »

NEW ALBUM INDIEGOGO FUNDRAISER / WINTER TOUR DATES!

We’re spending the month of January recording the follow up to Ghosts & Killers with Jocko Randall at MoreSound315 studios but we need YOUR help! In order to put out our best record yet this September we need to raise $12,500 by April 1st so we’ve created a fundraising campaign over on IndieGoGo.com with lot’s of great prizes in exchange for your financial support. Head on over and donate here! And we also created this silly little video:

We’re also stoked to announce the first half of dates on our National Winter Tour 2012! Starting February 1st we’ll be travelling all over the country so check out the tour poster art below by Tommy Bradel and then head over here to see all the dates.

January 16th, 2012 / No Comments »

NEW YEAR’S EVE RUN!

We’ve turned our New Year’s Eve show into a three night party! We’ll kick it off Thursday 12/29 in Philly at Kung Fu Necktie and then head down for some crab by the bay on Friday 12/30 in Baltimore at The 8×10 with our brothers Damn Right!

Advance tickets are on sale now – get all the information you need over on our Tour page!

December 6th, 2011 / No Comments »

NEW YEAR’S EVE!

We are STOKED to announce that after such an amazing experience last year we’ll be throwing it down again this New Year’s Eve with 2 huge sets at The Haunt in Ithaca, New York! In addition to New Year’s Eve we’ll be warming up with 2 nights prior to in major East Coast cities that we will be announcing within the coming weeks! Not from Ithaca and want to experience the city and the evening? No worries – we will be doing hotel deals again for all you out of towners!

We will announce advance ticket sales and hotel deals within the next couple of weeks so for now jot it down on your calendars, refresh your memories from last year with this video and get ready for what promises to be a sold out epic, beautiful and extra special evening of pure Jimkata bliss with all of your friends, family and of course JIMKATA!!

Jimkata – Feed from Jimkata on Vimeo.

November 2nd, 2011 / No Comments »

New Tour Blog, Fall Tour Dates and Live Recordings

One week into the “Start From Scratch” Fall Tour supporting Passafire and we are having the time of our lives! And now YOU can keep up with all of our crazy travels over on our new tumblr tour blog – Jimkata Backstage!! We’re just getting started on there so keep checking in for more blogs, pics and video from Fall Tour!

Last Thursday in Charleston at The Pour House was amazing as always and now YOU can DOWNLOAD THE SET FOR FREE over here on archive.org!

We’ve also just released a new FREE LIVE SAMPLER – “Live from Lansing” – that you can download here!

We’re also stoked to announce a ton of new tour dates for Fall Tour with still a couple of surprises still to come! Richmond, Virginia Beach, Blacksburg, Boston, Hartford, Brooklyn and Boogie in the Bungalow 3! Check our Tour Page for more information!!

September 28th, 2011 / No Comments »

NATIONAL FALL TOUR WITH PASSAFIRE

With a great summer fading away we are pumped to be kicking off our Fall Tour supporting national reggae-rockers Passafire on their Start From Scratch CD Release National Fall Tour! Starting Tuesday September 20 just outside of Asheville, North Carolina we’ll head down to Florida, up to Boston, over to Chicago and everywhere in between in just 3 weeks! We will be direct support each night so make sure to get there early for our set. See all of the stops over on our tour dates page and RSVP to all of the Facebook events here!

Following that we’ll wrap up October with some shows around the Northeast culminating with a huge Halloween run hitting Rochester, Cortland, Utica, Oneonta, Ithaca and Albany before returning to Lansing and Kalamazoo, Michigan and breaking into Erie, PA.

We have a bunch of dates we are still working on so make sure to check out all of them over on our tour page and RSVP to the Facebook events to help spread the word!

August 28th, 2011 / No Comments »

New Video and Summer Tour

After an amazing winter and spring tour that has taken us through 20 states and covered almost 20,000 miles all we have to say is THANK YOU!! We were blown away by the kindness, hospitality and genuine love we experienced from Tampa, Florida to Kalamazoo, Michigan to Floyd, Virginia to Breckenridge, Colorado and everywhere in between. We can’t WAIT to do it all over again this fall!!

While on the road we threw our good friend Jesse Borrell with NoCoast.TV into the van then had Joe Zohar and the great crew at Moving Box Studios edit together some live footage from our sold out show at The Haunt on New Year’s Eve to make one epic video for you all! So take a look and make sure to pass it along!

We’ve now kicked off our Summer Tour festival season with some great shows and are looking forward to being a part of Camp Bisco, Rootwire Festival, The Big Up, The Weekend Off 3, Jam at the Grove, Catskill Chill Festival, Grassroots Festival, Great Blue Heron Festival, Sparks on the Ridge, Last Daze of Summer and so many more. Make sure to check out all of our upcoming Summer Tour dates over on our tour page! We can’t WAIT to see YOU at a music festival this summer!!

June 3rd, 2011 / 1 Comment »

SPRING TOUR!!

After an amazing journey out to Colorado and back we are very busy gearing up for our East Coast / Mid-West Spring Tour!!! Kicking off Tuesday March 29 in Cleveland we are taking our ground-breaking hard-hitting electro-rock show through Michigan, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida before ending in Boston on Saturday April 30. Get ready for the shows by downloading Ghosts & Killers for free at jimkata.com and help us spread the word about these shows by clicking on the links and inviting your friends to the facebook events! Or get in to the shows for free by emailing jimkata@gmail.com and joining the Jimkata Street Team! See you all soon and get ready to warm up with us spring style!!

JIMKATA SPRING TOUR DATES

- Click on the tour date to go to the Facebook Event -

Tuesday March 29 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
Wednesday March 30 – Pittsburgh, PA – Club Diesel: Furthur After-Party
Thursday March 31 – Lansing, MI – Mac’s Bar
Friday April 1 – Kalamazoo, MI – Papa Pete’s
Saturday April 2 – Ann Arbor, MI – Hash Bash @ Monroe Street Fair
Tuesday April 5 – Northampton, MA – Bishop’s Lounge
Wednesday April 6 – Worcester, MA – Tammany Hall
Thursday April 7 – Philadelphia, PA – Triumph Brewery
Friday April 8 – Hartford, CT – Sully’s Pub
Saturday April 9 – Ithaca, NY – Castaways
Tuesday April 12 – Blacksburg, VA – Awful Arthur’s
Wednesday April 13 – Richmond, VA – The Camel
Thursday April 14 – Virginia Beach, VA – Doc Taylor’s Seaside Lounge
Friday April 15 – Wilmington, NC – The Soapbox
Saturday April 16 – Asheville, NC – TBA
Tuesday April 19 – Charleston, SC – The Pour House
Wednesday April 20 – Savannah, GA – TBA
Thursday April 21 – Jacksonville, FL – Jack Rabbit’s
Friday April 22 – Tampa, FL – New World Brewery
Saturday April 23 – Gainesville, FL – The Vault
Sunday April 24 – Atlanta, GA – The 5 Spot
Thursday April 28 – Albany, NY – Red Square
Friday April 29 – Oneonta, NY – The Oneonta Theatre
Saturday April 30 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall

March 22nd, 2011 / 3 Comments »