Rainer Maria Tour With Ambulette (ex-Denali)

Break out your horn-rimmed glasses and carefully style your comb-over, because Rainer Maria are hitting the road. The Rilke-loving rockers are supporting their newest album, Catastrophe Keeps Us Together, which was released April 4 on Grunion. The New York Times tells us it's really good.

04-21 Richmond, VA - Plan 9 Records (in store)
04-21 Williamsburg, VA - College of William and Mary
04-22 Carrboro, NC - Wetlands
04-23 Atlanta, GA - Eyedrum
04-25 Orlando, FL - The Social
04-26 Gainesville, FL - Common Grounds
04-27 Baton Rouge, LA - Red Star Bar
04-28 Houston, TX - Walters on Washington
04-29 Denton, TX - Dan Silverleaf
04-30 Austin, TX - Emo's *#
05-02 Phoenix, AZ - Modified *
05-03 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour *
05-04 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill *
05-05 Portland, OR - Doug Fir *
05-06 Seattle, WA - Paradox *$
05-07 Vancouver, British Columbia - Media Club *
05-10 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock *
05-11 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen *
05-12 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen *
05-13 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop *
05-14 Ann Arbor, MI - Blind Pig *
05-15 Toronto, Ontario - Horseshoe Tavern *
05-16 Montreal, Quebec - El Salon *
05-20 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *
05-21 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church *

* with Ambulette
# with Old Time Relijun
$ with Aloha

Tourmates Ambulette, led by former Denali frontwoman Maura Davis and featuring ex-members of Joan of Arc, Euphone and Pinebender, have a few dates of their own before meeting up with the Rainers. They're supporting their own The Lottery EP, which was recently released on Astralwerks. Afterwards, they will be heading back into the studio to record their Capitol Records debut.

Ambulate Wildly:

04-20 Wilkes-Barre, PA - Café Metropolis
04-21 New York, NY - Avalon #
04-22 Boston, MA - Avalon Ballroom #
04-23 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts #
04-24 Richmond, VA - Nanci Raygun
04-25 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club #
04-26 Norfolk, VA - Norva Theatre #
04-27 Charlotte, NC - Tremont Music Hall #
04-28 Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade #

# with Dredg and Ours

Refused Reborn on DVD, T(I)NC Tour

Well, fellow Marxists, get ready to fan those flames of discontent: On Tuesday, April 25, Burning Heart/Epitaph will release the long-awaited documentary DVD Refused Are Fucking Dead into American hands (fingernails painted black, of course).

"The Chinese Democracy of Punkrock" (so says Refused's MySpace page), the film chronicles the group's tumultuous final tour, which ended in a rebellious standoff with the cops during their final show in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Guitarist Kristofer Steen acts as guide though Fucking Dead, which also includes exlusive live material and music videos .

Emancipate the Proletariat! Capitalism is organized crime!:

Live material:

01 Worms of the Senses/Faculties of the Skull
02 Liberation Frequency
03 The Deadly Rhythm
04 Summer Holidays vs. Punkroutine
05 New Noise
06 The Refused Party Program
07 Refused Are Fucking Dead
08 The Shape of Punk to Come
09 Tannhäuser/Derivé

Videos:

Rather Be Dead
New Noise

Meanwhile, the (International) Noise Conspiracy are headed out on a North American tour this summer. Throw tomatoes at them for signing to a major label here:

05-19 Seattle, WA - El Corazon *
05-20 Vancouver, British Columbia - The Plaza Club *
05-22 Calgary, Alberta - The Warehouse *
05-23 Edmonton, Alberta - Starlite Room *
05-24 Regina, Saskatchewan - The Distrikt *
05-25 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Pyramid Cabaret *
05-26 Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theatre *
05-27 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen *
05-29 London, Ontario - Call the Office *
05-30 Toronto, Ontario - Reverb *
05-31 Ottawa, Ontario - Babylon *
06-01 Quebec City, Quebec - L'Anti *
06-02 Montreal, Quebec - Cabaret du Musee *
06-03 Boston, MA - Axis *
06-04 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church *
06-05 New York, NY - CBGB

* with the Fever

Roskilde Festival Lineup Revealed

First of all, they've got Guns N' Roses and Bob Dylan. And Roger Waters performing Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety, "flanked by screens and a quadrophonical sound system." Quadrophonical, people! It will literally remove your ears from the sides of your head and blast them into space.

They've also got Kanye West, Franz Ferdinand, Tool, Morrissey, the Strokes, the Raconteurs, Death Cab for Cutie, Arctic Monkeys, the Streets, Sigur Rós, and Kaiser Chiefs.

Here's a small sampling of the rest of the Roskilde roster:

Editors, H.I.M., Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley, Placebo, Rufus Wainwright, Coheed and Cambria, Wolfmother, Deftones, Trivium, Opeth, Infadels, Immortal Technique, Lady Sovereign, Floetry, George Clinton and Paliament/Funkadelic, Animal Collective, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Coldcut, Diplo vs. A-Trak, Dälek, the Ex, Figurines, Front 242, Happy Mondays, Goldfrapp, Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid, Jenny Lewis, Matisyahu, Ms. John Soda, Phoenix, Radio Soulwax / 2 Many DJ's, Josh Rouse, Serena Maneesh, Shout Out Louds, Silver Jews, the Thing, Tied & Tickled Trio, Tiga, Two Gallants, Ricardo Villalobos, Why?, Deus

I hope it doesn't rain.

Roskilde: http://www.roskilde-festival.dk/

Smashing Pumpkins Reunion Is a Go

Well, there you have it-- the latest update on the Smashing Pumpkins reunion, taken straight from the band's official website. That's all. Nothing else to report, sorry!

No, we don't know who exactly is in the band now, although we assume it's some combination involving Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlain, since Billboard.com reported earlier this year that the pair signed a management deal under the Smashing Pumpkins name.

In related news, last night I was watching Fuse and the "Tonight Tonight" video came on. That video rules.

Billy Corgan: http://www.billycorgan.com/
Billy Corgan: http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/

Deerhoof Keep Busy With Festivals, Side Projects

On April 27 at the Castro Theater in San Francisco, the quartet will perform their original score for folk music historian and filmmaker Harry Smith's Heaven and Earth Magic as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival. On the same program, Deerhoof will showcase their improv chops with free-form accompaniment to films one through five of Smith's Early Abstractions series.

Two days later, the band hits Coachella, making the first of four summer festival appearances. From there, the runners four briskly walk to the Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend, Oregon on May 28, to share the stage with The Flaming Lips and Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks; a heated stroll then takes them to the Primavera Festival in Barcelona, Spain on June 3, where they'll appear alongside the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Boredoms, and Motörhead, among others; a half-hearted jog brings them back to the U.S. and Seattle for Bumbershoot on September 2, with such performers as Vashti Bunyan, Mates of State, and Kanye West, who is apparently digging the whole "summer festival" thing in between M:I:3 remix gigs.

Dates:

04-27 San Francisco, CA - Castro Theater (San Francisco International Film Festival)
04-29 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field (Coachella) *
05-28 Bend, OR - Les Schwab Ampitheater @
06-03 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Festival $
09-02 Seattle, WA - Bumbershoot %

* with Depeche Mode, Franz Ferdinand, Madonna, Sigur Ros, Cat Power, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Eagles of Death Metal, more
@ with Flaming Lips, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
$ with Stereolab, 2 Many DJs, Lou Reed, Mogwai, Sleater-Kinney, Drive-by Truckers, more
% with Kanye West, A Tribe Called Quest, Feist, Mates of State, Atmosphere, Vashti Bunyan, Jamie Lidell, Blood Brothers, Of Montreal, more

When not logging hours on the road this past fall and winter, Deerhoof found (or maybe manipulated) time to record and appear on a variety of albums. As previously reported, the band guests on five tracks on the Danielson album Ships, which drops anchor on May 9 through Secretly Canadian.

Bassist/guitarist Chris Cohen spent two weeks during the winter holidays recording songs for the next album from his side gig the Curtains, which features vocal assistance from Nedelle and trombone parts by John Ringhofer of Half-Handed Cloud/Danielson/Sufjan Stevens's Illinoisemakers collective; the album is currently without a label, but that hasn't stop Cohen from planning a Fall 2006 release.

Guitarist John Dieterich performed production duties on Ache Hornes, the latest album from Berkeley's 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, a band which includes former 'Hoofers Rob Fisk and Kelly Goode.

And, as previously reported, drummer extraordinaire Greg Saunier produced the forthcoming Xiu Xiu album The Air Force, due out September 12 on 5RC.

My, what tired little does and deer they must all be!

Deerhoof: http://deerhoof.killrockstars.com/
Kill Rock Stars: http://www.killrockstars.com
5RC: http://www.5rc.com

Dungen Tour World, Issue New Single

Kemado Records must have sensed that potential crossover appeal was solid money in the bank because the label has officially snapped up Dungen, adding them to their roster after spearheading the U.S. release of the band's breakthrough Ta Det Lugnt album in 2005.

The band is hard on work on the follow-up to Ta Det Lugnt and hopes to have it ready by the fall. (According to a press release, the new stuff sounds like "San Francisco meets Istanbul", whatever that means.) Those new songs, not to mention our great nation's purple mountain majesty, must have gotten Gustav Ejstes and crew excited about touring, as the band has now beefed up their schedule with a slew of additional North American dates.

This summer, Dungen will play a whole bunch of festivals, including Coachella, All Tomorrow's Parties, and Bonnaroo. They'll celebrate by releasing the single for the appropriately titled "Festival" on May 22 on Memphis Industries. It's backed by the B-side "Sjutton".

Dungen masters:

04-23 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards
04-24 Seattle, WA - Neumos
04-25 Portland, OR - Doug Fir
04-27 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall *
04-30 Indio, CA - (Empire Polo Field) Coachella *!^
05-01 San Diego, CA - Casbah
05-06 Copenhagen, Denmark - Loppen
05-07 Eindhoven, The Netherlands - Efenaar
05-09 Haarlem, The Netherlands - Patronaat
05-10 Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Upstairs at Paradiso
05-12 Nottingham, England - Rock City
05-14 Manchester, England - Academy 3
05-15 Bristol, England - Fleece
05-17 London UK - Koko =
05-18 London UK - Koko =
05-20 Camber Sands, England - All Tomorrow´s Parties !@
05-21 Camber Sands, England - All Tomorrow´s Parties =&
05-23 Cologne, Germany - Underground
05-24 Munich, Germany - Atomic Café <br> 05-26 Berlin, Germany - Mudd Club
05-27 Hamburg, Germany - Molotow
06-02 Chicago, IL - Logan Square Auditorium
06-03 Columbus, OH - Little Brothers
06-05 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
06-06 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Place
06-07 Montreal, Quebec - La Salla Rossa
06-08 Boston, MA - Middle East
06-09 Northampton, MA - Iron Horse
06-10 New York, NY - Irving Plaza
06-11 New Haven, CT - BAR
06-12 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
06-14 Washington, DC - Black Cat
06-15 Charlottesville, VA - Satellite Ballroom
06-16 Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle
06-17 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo #
06-18 Atlanta, GA - The Earl
06-30 Reykjavik, Iceland - Reykjavik Rocks
07-13 Adelaide, Australia - The Barton Theatre +
07-15 Melbourne, Australia - Festival Hall +
07-16 Perth, Australia - Challenge Stadium +
07-20 Sydney, Australia - Hordern Pavillion +
07-22 Brisbane, Australia - The River Stage +

* with the Go! Team
! with Sleater-Kinney
^ with Tool, Massive Attack, Madonna, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bloc Party, Mogwai, etc.
= with the Shins
@ with David Cross, the Gossip, Spoon, Lightning Bolt, Joanna Newsom, Boredoms, Radar Bros., 1990's, Edith Frost, the Fiery Furnaces, Black Heart Procession
& with the New Pornographers, the Decemberists, Clinic, Big Business, Destroyer, Triangle, the Black Keys, Elf Power, Electrelane
# with Radiohead, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Beck, Sonic Youth, Bright Eyes, Death Cab for Cutie, Common, more random people
+ with Wolfmother

Dungen: http://www.dungen-music.com
Kemado: http://www.kemado.com/

Secret Machines Tour, Podcast With Bowie

After a lengthy tour supporting their successful 2004 debut Now Here Is Nowhere, the band says they felt disconnected from their families, friends, and loved ones, and this isolation informed the new, road-tested songs. Another development was an effort to add more dimension and form to their songs. Speaking about the new material on the band's official website, keyboardist/bassist/vocalist Brandon Curtis says, "This time we tried to preserve some of the depth, and let other things, like melodies, float to the surface."

The boys launch their tour tonight in Pittsburgh, playing throughout the U.S. and Canada in April/May before flying over to Europe in June. Watch for them on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" on April 25 and on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" on May 3, but keep in mind you'll have to supply your own lava lamp and strobe light for these performances.

Now here is everywhere:

04-21 Pittsburgh, PA - Carnegie Mellon University (students only)
04-22 Nashville, TN - Vanderbilt University *
04-24 Ft. Wayne, IN - Memorial Coliseum &
04-26 New York, NY - Hiro Ballroom
04-27 New York, NY - Virgin Megastore Union Square (in-store)
05-02 Los Angeles, CA - Amoeba Records (in-store)
05-04 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
05-06 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
05-07 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
05-08 Seattle, WA - Neumos
05-09 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richards on Richards
05-12 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
05-13 Chicago, IL - Metro
05-14 Detroit, MI - Magic Bag
05-15 Toronto, ON - Mod Club
05-28 Philadelphia, PA - Penn's Landing (Jam on the River Festival)@
06-02 Nurburgring, Germany - Rock Am Ring !
06-03 Nurnberg, Germany - Rock-Im-Park !
06-05 Hamburg, Germany - Knust
06-06 Berlin, Germany - Postbahnhof
06-07 Cologne, Germany - Gebaude 9
06-08 Amsterdam, Holland - Melkweg
06-09 The Hague, Holland - Music In My Head Festival %
06-10 Donington, England - Donington Park (Download Festival) #
08-03 Cleveland, OH - Blossom Music Center (Kuyahoga Festival) $
08-04 Chicago, IL - Grant Park (Lollapalooza) $^
08-05 Lawrence, KS - Bleeding Kansas Festival
08-12 Osaka, Japan - Summer Sonic Festival
08-13 Tokyo, Japan - Summer Sonic Festival

* with Ben Folds, Gov't Mule, Matt Pond PA
& with Dashboard Confessional
@ with Ween
% with Editors, Ron Sexsmith, Maximo Park
! with Art Brut
# with Metallica, Deftones, The Prodigy, et al
$ with The Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth, Death Cab For Cutie, The Go! Team, Wolfmother, the Hold Steady
^ with Wilco, Kanye West, The Shins, The Raconteurs, Common, New Pornographers, Gnarls Barkley, et al

One Secret Machines fan who knows something about space-rock is Ziggy Stardust himself, David Bowie. The mutual admiration between Bowie and the Secret Machines led to an interview with the band by the Thin White Duke, which is available as a podcast on Bowie's website. The Man Who Fell to Earth's lead-off question to the band: "Is there life on Mars?"

The Secret Machines: http://www.thesecretmachines.com
David Bowie podcast: http://www.davidbowie.com/exclusives/podcast/

Rose Melberg Shares Second Solo LP, Tiny Tour

Come April 25, Double Agent Records will release Cast Away the Clouds, and a thousand twee kids the world over will turn pink with glee. The twelve-track affair features Rose Melberg's most mature and accomplished songwriting to date. For serious, these cuts run deep:

01 Take Some Time
02 The Orchard
03 Cold Sea
04 Cast Away the Clouds
05 Irene
06 Spin
07 Little Bird
08 Something Else
09 Four Walls
10 Constant and True
11 Your Tears
12 Each New Day

Rose has fashioned a wee 'lil bi-coastal tour itinerary surrounding the release of Cast Away the Clouds. She'll be joined onstage by Andrea Vaughn, formerly of new-wavers My Favorite, for both New York shows. Melberg has also hand-sewn special bags to sell at her shows, and Pacific Northwest indie barometer Three Imaginary Girls will share punch and cookies with Seattle show-goers, all of which is both adorable and twee as fuck.

Go Soft Tiger:

04-23 Seattle, WA - Velouria (afternoon show) *
04-25 New York, NY - Cake Shop %
04-26 Brooklyn, NY - Magnetic Field #
05-11 Portland, OR - Doug Fir ^
05-12 Sacramento, CA - The Fools Foundation
05-14 Oakland, CA - Rock Paper Scissors Collective
05-16 San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop
05-18 Olympia, WA - Midnight Sun $

* with Calvin Johnson
% with Jennifer O'Connor, Kelly Slusher
# with Graham Smith
^ with Tiger Saw, Casey Dienel, Nire
$ with Jenny Jenkins

* Double Agent: <a

Danielson North American Tour Takes Shape

05-12 Philadelphia, PA - Kensington South Forum ^
05-13 Brooklyn, NY - North Six (Record Release Party) *
05-24 Louisville, KY - Uncle Pleasant's
05-25 Chicago, IL - Lakeshore Theater
05-26 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock
05-27 Fargo, ND - The Aquarium #
05-30 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
05-31 Portland, OR - K Street Theater
06-02 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill %
06-03 Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland
06-04 San Diego, CA - Casbah
06-05 Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture
06-06 Phoenix, AZ - Modified
06-08 Salt Lake City, UT - Kayo
06-09 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive
06-10 Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck
06-11 Indianapolis, IN - TBA
06-17 Washington, DC - TBA
07-03 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
07-04 Athens, GA - TBA
07-05 Baton Rouge, LA - TBA
07-06 Houston, TX - Walter's on Washington
07-07 Austin, TX - Emo's
07-08 Dallas, TX - Rubber Gloves
07-09 Oklahoma City, OK - Conservatory
07-10 Springfield, MO - Randy Bacon Gallery
07-11 Memphis, TN - Hi Tone
07-12 Nashville, TN - The End
07-13 Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle
07-14 Charlottesville, VA - Satellite Ballroom
07-19 Cambridge, MA - Middle East
07-20 Portland, ME - Space Gallery
07-21 Burlington, VT - TBA
07-22 Providence, RI - AS220
07-23 Lancaster, PA - TBA
07-24 Washington, DC - TBA
07-25 Baltimore, MD - TBA
07-26 New York, NY - Knitting Factory
07-27 Cleveland, OH - TBA
07-28 Newport, KY - TBA
07-29 Bloomington, IN - The Hospital
08-04 Kitchener, Ontario - Nidus Festival $

^ with Windsor for the Derby
* with Saturday Looks Good to Me
# with June Panic
% with Young People
$ with Starflyer 59, lotsa Christian people

Secretly Canadian: http://www.secretlycanadian.com/
Danielson: http://www.danielson.info/

Oakley Hall Ready Gypsum Strings

Coming off of the January release of their sophomore effort, Second Guessing, Oakley Hall are showing you even more love and attempting to rival the ridiculously prolific output (in quantity at least) of fellow country/roots rocker Ryan Adams with the release of their second new album this year, entitled Gypsum Strings. Strings revisits the blueprint laid out by Second Guessing but adds a little bit more of that panacea called "the rock."

Tracklist:

01 Confidence Man
02 Having Fun Again
03 Lazy Susan
04 Living in Sin in the USA
05 House Carpenter
06 Bury Your Burden
07 If I Was in El Dorado
08 Nite Lights, Dark Days
09 Spanish Fandango

The album comes out on the Oneida-run Brah Records on June 6, and the band (founded by former Oneida member Pat Sullivan) will be touring the U.S. to support it. After briefly familiarizing themselves with that crazy Canadian culture (milk in bags?!) on a stop in Vancouver, the band will be ready to join up with the Constantines for the last leg of their tour. And if Oakley Hall are anywhere near as glorious live as their tour partners, those dates should be quite a treat.

Hall and Oaks:

04-20 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge *
04-28 Brooklyn, NY - North Six &
05-18 Baltimore, MD - Talking Head ^
05-19 Raleigh, NC - King's Barcade
05-20 Charlotte, NC - Milestone
05-21 Winston-Salem, NC - Werehouse %
05-23 Knoxville, TN - The Pilot Light
05-26 Lansing, MI - Mac's Bar
05-28 Omaha, NE - O'Leaver's
05-30 Denver, CO - Hi Dive $
06-01 Missoula, MT - The Raven Café
06-02 Vancouver, British Columbia - Pat's @
06-06 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Café +
06-07 Portland, OR - Doug Fir #
06-09 San Francisco, CA - Café du Nord #
06-10 Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland #
06-11 San Diego, CA - The Casbah #
06-12 Tucson, AZ - Plush #
06-15 Austin, TX - Emo's #
06-20 St. Louis, MO - Blueberry Hill #
06-22 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick #
06-23 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern #
06-24 Lansing, MI - Mac's #

* with Kinski, the Bible
& with Elf Power, the Instruments, Frank Bango
^ with Long Live Death, Lexie Mountain Boys
% with the Finks
$ with Rogers Sisters, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
@ with Two Gallants
+ with Court and Spark
# with the Constantines

Sparklehorse Nab Waits, Danger Mouse for New LP

Following their formula of providing Pitchfork with the same news story every two years *, Sparklehorse have announced details of the follow-up to 2001's It's a Wonderful Life. This time, however, the record is finished and scheduled for a tentative September release (hello, 2008!).

The band's website reports that most of the currently untitled album was made "in the style of VivaDixie/Good Morning Spider by Mark [Linkous, songwriter and Sparklehorse leader] alone in Static King Studio." The rest of it was "mixed at Smart Studio in Madison, Wisconsin with Danger Mouse and engineered by Alan Weatherhead and Beau Sorenson." With all those details, how could it possibly be postponed?

And like a kindergarten report card that includes the comment "plays well with others," the album features collaborations with Danger Mouse, Christian Fennesz, Sophie Michalitsianos, Johnny Hott, Scott Minor, Stephen Drozd of the Flaming Lips, and super-producer/past collaborator Dave Fridmann as well as an unreleased song from It's a Wonderful Life with Tom Waits on piano. Whoa!

Yes, it's just like kindergarten, a kindergarten full of music icons.

* see HERE and HERE.

Mission of Burma Doc Premieres, Wiki Launched

Not a Photograph: The Mission of Burma Story will premiere this Saturday, April 22, at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square, as part of the 2006 Independent Film Festival of Boston.

Those who can't make it to Massachusetts this weekend can still join in the Obliterati anticipation fun, as the band has launched www.obliterati.net, where songs from the album are being unveiled one by one. The site is also a wiki, so fans can help write Mission of Burma's history while grooving to the new tunes. Remember when they opened for Prince on the Purple Rain tour? No? Well, we'd better go add that right now!

Mission of Burma have a few live dates scheduled for this summer, including a performance at the Dinosaur Jr.-curated date of All Tomorrow's Parties and, of course, the Pitchfork Music Festival, which will totally obliterate every other festival in the history of the world with its awesomeness.

Dates:

05-19 Camber Sands, England - Camber Sands Holiday Centre (All Tomorrow's Parties) *
05-22 London, England - KOKO *$
06-01 North Adams, MA - MASS MoCA
07-29 Chicago, IL - Union Park (Pitchfork Music Festival) #

* with Broken Social Scene
$ with Dinosaur Jr., Dead Meadow, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Lilys, Bevis Frond, Eater, Magik Markers, Teenage Fanclub, Herman Düne, Mt. Eerie
# with Silver Jews, the Futureheads, Ted Leo / Pharmacists, Art Brut, Destroyer, Mountain Goats, Band of Horses, Man Man, Hot Machines, Matmos, Dominik Eulberg, Ada, Ghislain Poirer, 8 Bold Souls, more

Mission of Burma: http://www.missionofburma.com/
Mission of Burma Wiki: http://www.obliterati.net/
Not a Photograph: http://www.notaphotograph.com/
Matador: http://www.matadorrecords.com/

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