From The Friction Brothers :

FRICTION BROTHERS 2010 USA TOUR!
Friction Brothers Scrape Across America…
Michael Colligan – dry ice w/ implements
Fred Lonberg-Holm – cello w/ implements
Michael Zerang – percussion w/ implements

*June 20, 2010 – LAKESIDE, MI.
~~~Lakeside Inn Ballroom – 15251 Lakeshore Rd. 4:00PM
~~~~ http://www.portoluz.org/

*June 21, 2010 – BUFFALO, NY.
~~~Hallwalls – 341 Delaware Ave. 8:00PM
~~~~ http://www.hallwalls.org/music/4842.html

*June 22, 2010 – BOSTON, MA.
~~~Loft Show @ 381 Congress st. Fort Point. 8:00PM
~~~~ http://www.nonevent.org/upcoming/the_friction_brothers_loft_sho/

*June 23, 2010 – BALTIMORE, MD.
~~~Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse – 2640 St. Paul St.
~~~~ http://redemmas.org/event/2059/

*June 24, 2010 – PHILADELPHIA, PA
~~~TBA

*June 25, 2010 – PITTSBURGH, PA.
~~~Garfield Artworks – 4931 Penn Avenue. 8:00PM
~~~~ http://garfieldartworks.com/

*June 26, 2010 – CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.
~~~The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative – 209 Monticello Rd. 8:00PM
~~~~ http://www.thebridgepai.com/

*June 27, 2010 – COLUMBIA, SC.
~~~701 CCA – Center For Contemporary Arts – 701 Whaley St. 8:00PM
~~~~ http://701cca.org/

*June 28, 2010 – ASHVILLE, NC.
~~~The Lab – 39 N. Lexington Ave. 10:00PM
~~~~ http://www.lexavebrew.com/events.php

*June 29, 2010 – LEXINGTON, KY.
~~~Gumbo Ya Ya – 367 E. Main St. 8:00PM
~~~~ http://www.gumboyayaky.com/joomla/

*June 30, 2010 – CHICAGO, IL.
~~~Hideout – 1354 W Wabansia Ave. 10:00PM
~~~~ http://hideoutchicago.com/

Friction Brothers (Michael Colligan, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Michael Zerang) are perhaps the only dry-ice/cello/percussion trio in the visible world. Begun in 2005 to perform improvised works that explore their love of scraping, rubbing, hitting and freezing various objects to the point of vibration, they have appeared at a number of questionable venues in Chicago.

While often sounding like electronic music, they make all their sounds mechanically. To produce these sounds each member has developed an expansive vocabulary of extended techniques. Zerang has raised the back scratcher to an essential component of the modern drummers stick collection. Colligan, warms up metal objects and the super cools them on a block of dry ice making them vibrate in the audible range. Lonberg-Holm’s grind tone remains an un-explainable phenomena by acousticians.

Although the trio is a relatively new group, the members have worked together extensively for over 15 years in a wide variety of settings from the seminal lower case 4tet Pillow to the internationally known free improvised jazz powerhouse Peter Broetzmann’s Chicago 10tet.

Their first CD was released by the Sort Of Records imprint Abstract On Black. http://sortofrecords.com/the-friction-brothers/
A second release will appear in June 2010, on the Flying Aspidistra label, to coincide with their first North American tour.
http://www.lonberg-holm.info/flyingaspidistra