Margaret Cho's CHO DEPENDENT Tour in Boston, MA

Tickets: http://www.livenation.com/edp/eventId/423242 Official Afterparty: GLAMLIFE THURSDAY'S -ESTATE NIGHTCLUB This fall, outrageous comedian Margaret Cho will be hitting the road with a brand new national stand-up tour, Cho Dependent. Margarets new tour will feature new stand-up and a few live performances of songs on her forthcoming album of comedy songs. Margaret is gearing up to release her album of comedy music entitled Cho Dependent on August 24, 2010. I want to create a new genre of music that is hilarious but also seriously good, so I turned to some of my music heroes to help me out, says Cho. I have wanted to make an album like this forever. I love comedy music! The lyrics on Cho Dependent, which tackle issues of sex, drugs, rock & roll (and lice), may be laugh-inducing, but Cho has made no compromises when it comes to the quality of the songwriting and production. After My Puss, a hilarious rap parody Cho recorded impromptu-style with friends, became a surprise YouTube hit, Cho began to integrate more comedy music into her live stand-up shows. With Cho Dependent, Cho got a chance to hone her craft with some of the top names in the business. Over the years of being an intense music geek, I got to meet a lot of my heroes and I tricked them all into writing songs with me, explains Cho. Most comics want to be rock stars, and most rock stars want to be comics, so it was an easy exchange. There are so many amazing people I got to work with on this album, Cho continues, Jon Brion, Fiona Apple, Tegan and Sara, Andrew Bird, Ani DiFranco, Garrison Starr, Meghan Toohey, Brendan Benson, Rachael Yamagata, Carl Newman, Grant Lee Phillips, Patty Griffin, Ben Lee, Kevin Barnes -- I still have to pinch myself! Ultimately Cho hopes to raise the bar for the genre as a whole and get a little recognition for her contribution to the cause. Her motivations for this latter goal however are naturally as subversive as her humor. I want to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and on Elvis Costello's Spectacle so I can talk all serious about my songwriting process -- which is basically trying to figure out what rhymes with dick.