Brooklyn's Tiny Masters of Today are hitting the road for a string of US dates, including The Sunset Junction Street Fair Festival in Los Angeles and Detroit's F*cking Awesome Festival where they play just before Thunderbirds Are Now. The Chicago performance will be particularly special as Tiny Masters Of Today serve as both opening band and backing band for Daniel Johnston's headline show. In Philly Tiny Masters of Today are set to open for DFA 's Free Energy. The band - who recently rocked out on the main stage at the Coney Island Siren Festival - are brother and sister Ivan and Ada (ages 15 and 13 respectively). Performing with them on stage will be drummer Jackson Pollis.

It has certainly been an action packed journey for Tiny Masters Of Today. Almost overnight, the band went from a few homemade recordings on a MySpace page to collaborating with Karen O and Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kimya Dawson, Fred Schneider (B-52s) and Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers), being remixed by CSS and Liars, and touring the world. David Bowie even lauded their first homemade single as "Genius." Not bad for a band that double as full-time students in the NY Public School System.

With "Skeletons," the Tiny Masters went it totally alone, producing and writing the entire album themselves. The tracks were largely recorded at their home in Brooklyn, using the computer program Garageband. They brought the songs to Seaside Lounge studio with engineer Patrick McCarthy for additional recording and the final product was mixed by Matt Stein at U.W.M.S.C. in New York.

So what does this new album sound like? Fans of the familiar shouting and sloganeering and general anti-establishment nose thumbing won't be disappointed but the sonic palette has broadened somewhat. While their rag-tag sound is clearly informed by classic-era punk rock, they think nothing of incorporating hip-hop, electronica, dub, and even disco into a messy and uproarious concoction. The end result is frantic and funny, equally poignant and pugnacious. Politically charged and strikingly original, a curious pastiche of styles and subjects all channeled through their own, very unique, filter.

"I love this kind of Noise" said CSS's Luiza Sa of "Skeletons" in her VICE guest review column (June 2009). The Brooklyn teen punk sensations are also featured in Nylon and Paper Magazine's 2009 summer music issues. Most recently the band were featured as one of the finalists for mtvU's "The Freshman" and have been featured by Yahoo as a "New Now" selection.