Iron & Wine will have their new album, Around The Well, out on Sub Pop on May 19th. They will embark on tour in May as well. If you live in the five US cities that matter and like sleepy beard-y folk, you’re stoked.

Iron and Wine Spring 2009 US Tour Dates
Monday, May 4, 2009                         Seattle, Vera Project (w/Yogoman Burning Band)
Tuesday, May 5, 2009                        Seattle, Triple Door (w/Alela Diane)
Wednesday, May 6, 2009                  San Francisco, Swedish American Hall (w/Yogoman Burning Band)
Thursday, May 7, 2009                      San Francisco, Swedish American Hall (w/Magic Leaves)
Friday, May 8, 2009                            Los Angeles, Masonic Hall at Hollywood Forever Cemetery (w/ Alela Diane and DJ Small Town Talk)
Saturday, May 9, 2009                       Los Angeles, Troubadour (w/Yogoman Burning Band)
Tuesday, May 12, 2009                     Chicago, Lakeshore Theatre (w/Katie Stelmanis)
Wednesday, May 13, 2009                               Chicago, Schuba’s
Sunday, May 17, 2009                       New York, Abrons Arts Center (w/Lia Ices)
Monday, May 18, 2009                       New York, Abrons Arts Center (w/partyface)

Full press release after the jump.

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It turns out the rest of my incompetent coworkers aren’t as stoked on this as I am, but hey, they’re a bunch of mouth-breathing swine entitled to their opinions. Death Cab announced a slew of dates spanning across the U.S. with Ra Ra Riot as direct support. Cold War Kids will be taking over the opening act through April, then Matt Costa will be picking up for them come May. Admittedly, I’m bummed because I’ve been on a Matt Costa kick for quite a while, but I’ve heard nothing but great things about Cold War Kids’ live show. Tickets, merch, beer and drugs will be overpriced, but fuck it, It’s worth it.

Death Cab for Cutie
On Tour 2009
4/7-29 w/Cold War Kids and Ra Ra Riot
5/1-6 w/ Matt Costa and Ra Ra Riot
MARCH
7 Miami, FL Langerado Festival
APRIL
7 Upper Darby, PA Tower Theatre
8 Washington, DC DAR Constitution Hall
9 Davidson, NC John Belk Arena/Davidson College
10 Louisville, KY Louisville Palace
11 Memphis, TN Orpheum Theatre
12 Tulsa, OK The Brady Theater
13 Omaha, NE Holland Theatre
15 St. Paul, MN Roy Wilkings Auditorium
17 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom
18 East Lansing, MI Breslin Events Center/Michigan State University
19 Waukesha, WI Van Male Fieldhouse/Carroll College
24 Spokane, WA McCarthey Athletic Center/Gonzaga University
25 Boise, ID The Morrison Center
27 Sacramento, CA Memorial Auditorium
29 San Diego, CA RIMAC Arena/UC San Diego
MAY
1 Austin, TX Austin Music Hall
2 New Orleans, LA Contemporary Arts Center
4 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
5 Birmingham, AL BJCC Concert Hall
6 Atlanta, GA Fox Theatre

In a move of simple deductive logic, I figured this means that we won’t be seeing Death Cab, Ra Ra Riot or Cold War Kids at Coachella.

The brainchild of former Sherwood guitarist turned wandering minstrel of the West Coast, Chris Armstrong, O Vesicae and the Found Mountain also includes production genius Chris Keene of Surrogate, who is busy not making the new Surrogate record and instead recording other people and making them sound like badasses. Anyways, there are five songs up for perusal on Myspace. Check it out. Or don’t. The band currently has no tour dates, but they do have tour beards, which is half the battle.

Former Get Up Kids frontman Matt Pryor and Saves the Day frontman Chris Conley (pictured) are stepping out for a couple weeks worth of solo touring. If this tour isn’t called the “Party Like It’s 1999 Tour” someone at Vagrant is BLOWING IT! Here’s the press release:

Matt Pryor (ex. The Get Up Kids, The New Amsterdams) is pleased to announce solo co-headlining tour with Chris Conley of Saves The Day!

A limited number of tickets have been held for Matt Pryor fans and will be available through an exclusive Ducat King presale that begins this Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 1:00PM local time!

Click here to buy tickets:

Tour Dates:

Aug 6 – Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock
Aug 7 – Omaha, NE @ Waiting Room
Aug 8 – Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
Aug 9 – Salt Lake City @ Burt’s Tiki Lounge
Aug 11 – Vancouver, BC @ Media Club
Aug 12 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
Aug 13 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
Aug 14 – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom Of The Hill
Aug 15 – Reno, NV @ Satellite Lounge
Aug 16 – West Hollywood, CA @ Troubadour
Aug 17 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues – San Diego
Aug 19 – Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
Aug 20 – Phoenix, AZ @ Modified

Katt Williams It’s Pimpin’ Pimpin’ Exclusive Preview Tour 2008:

6/11 Omaha, NE
6/12 Wichita, KS
6/13 Kansas City, MO
6/18 Little Rock, AR
6/19 Dallas, TX
6/20 Beaumont, TX
6/21 Houston, TX
6/22 San Antonio, TX
6/26 Los Angeles, CA
6/27 Los Angeles, CA
7/4 Los Vegas, NV

More dates announced soon on www.kattwilliams.com

This man is freakin’ hilarious and a pimp. Go rent American Hustle: The Movie and laugh your ass off.
More information about the comedy film here: www.americanhustle-themovie.com

On the heels of the rerelease of their quintessential Bleed American CD (which was retitled Jimmy Eat World shortly after 2001’s terrorist attacks for some idiotic reason) Jimmy Eat World have annouced a string of North American tour dates, which will doubtlessly feature thousands of screaming post-teens trying to relive their high school years shouting for the band to play “The Middle.” BE THERE!!!11 Maybe I can go too, and get kicked out of the photo pit and screamed at by the band’s tour manager again for “shooting flash” even though it was the dipshit college newspaper photog behind me, get manhandled by said middle-aged douchebag TM, then get in a gigantic pissing match with the band’s publicist who will take his word over mine and we can all CC as many people on our e-mails as possible and then I can wait until she quits and gets a job somewhere else to start trying to set up shit with the band again. That might be fun!

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