Personally, Spoon has never really done it for me. But any band with a former member of the Get Up Kids (in Spoon’s case, bassist Rob Pope ) is a band I will support. And besides, Spoon stacks cred like Visa. Here’s the release:

Following on a standing-room-only U.S. tour that culminated in the Don’t You Evah EP entering Billboard’s singles sales chart at #1, Britt Daniel, Jim Eno, Eric Harvey and Rob Pope-collectively known as Spoon-have confirmed their final live engagements of 2008.
This last run of Spoon shows will be preceded by a May 3 Britt Daniel solo performance at the Belly Up in Solana Beach CA. From there, the full band will be headlining the KNRK Pet Aid Benefit in Troutdale OR, playing their biggest ever New York show July 15 at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, appearing at the Mile High and Pitchfork festivals, making their debut at the Hollywood Bowl September 20 supporting Beck, and concluding with a three-night residency at the Fillmore Theater in San Francisco-the last dates of the tour and first Spoon SF headline engagement since the July 2007 release of Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. Tickets for the Fillmore shows go on sale to the general public May 11. These dates will mark the close of more than a year’s worth of touring in support of Spoon’s sixth full-length studio album, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, which was Spoon’s first Top 10 album and most acclaimed release of their career.

Tour dates after the fold BAATCH

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The 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival lineup is looking pretty damn good:

SATURDAY, JULY 19
Animal Collective
Jarvis Cocker
The Hold Steady
!!!
Vampire Weekend
No Age
Atlas Sound
Dizzee Rascal
Extra Golden
Fleet Foxes
Elf Power
Caribou
Ruby Suns
Fuck Buttons
Jay Reatard
Icy Demons
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Boban Markovic Orkestar
Titus Andronicus

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Super rad independent label Merge Records, home to such stellar outfits as Spoon, Portastatic and M. Ward, will be celebrating Record Store Day (Saturday, April 19th) by doling out free 7-inch vinyl records at participating independent establishments. The album will consist of unreleased tracks from Destroyer and Wye Oak.

If there are any independent record stores left in your city, do yourself a solid and support them.

Not sure if the United States needed yet another outdoor music festival to satiate its undying quench for ROCK, but Denver, CO, shall be the site of this year’s inaugural Mile High Music Festival at the outer fields of Dick’s Sporting Good’s Park, July 19th and 20th.

The lineup thus far is a healthy mix of Dinosaur rock, Roots rock, dirt-twirlin’ hippie shenanigans, jam bands and the newly crowned “Best Festival Band of All Time Because They Play Literally Every Single Festival”: Spoon.

Other confirmed acts include:

Saturday 7/19
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
O.A.R.
Michael Franti and Spearhead
Steve Winwood
Spoon
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Citizen Cope
Andrew Bird
Josh Ritter
State Radio
JJ Grey & Mofro
Bob Schneider
Brett Dennen
Newton Faulkner
Meese
Born In The Flood
Railbenders

Sunday 7/20
Dave Matthews Band
John Mayer
The Black Crowes
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Flogging Molly
Colbie Caillat
OneRepublic
The Roots
Leftover Salmon
Martin Sexton
Flobots
Ingrid Michaelson
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Tea Leaf Green
Rose Hill Drive
The New Mastersounds
Serena Ryder
The Photo Atlas

Sounds like a fun time. Unless you’re a smoker. Then you’re pretty much fucked in that Mile High elevation.

Help Darfur without really doing anything that monumental. If buying a CD is all it takes to help some starving/dying folks out, that’s not too much to ask, is it? Besides, it will make a good Xmas/Hanukkah present.

Death Cab for Cutie, The Shins, The Cure, Animal Collective, Spoon, Bright Eyes, more!
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The Great Lawn, Treasure Island, CA
Saturday, Sept. 16th
Photos by Ryan Prado

Check out a full review of the show at Synthesis.net. Photos of Two Gallants, Spoon, Built to Spill and others after the jump. (more…)