If you haven’t seen Office live, you should. Now you’ll have your chance. The Chicago-based group will bring their boy-girl harmonies and pop-y good times on the road for their first national tour. Joining them will be The Ship Collective members Earlimart (dates after the jump). But first Office will play a hometown date and two shows in Los Angeles.

August 25: Chicago, IL: Double Door
August 28: Los Angeles, CA: Cinespace
August 30: Los Angeles, CA: Filter’s Revenge of the Sunset Strip at the Roxy

Office’s debut for New Line/Scratchie Records, A Night at the Ritz, is due out Sept. 25th.

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Rocky Votalato will be heading out with Portugal The Man and Great Depression in September and October. Find your best cowboy shirt and dust off your aching heart.

Dates after the jump
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Love Andrew Bird. Great songwriter, lyricist and arranger, and the only name whistler in modern rock. He’s going on tour and utilizing (some) biodiesel to get him and his crew around. Using Biodiesel is great and all, but what’s this about “select dates?”

C’mon hippie, get with t.

Continuing his eco-friendly efforts, Chicago native Andrew Bird will hit the road aboard a bio-diesel tour bus for select dates in the US
and Canada this fall, including appearances at the Austin City Limits Festival and Bumbershoot.

Earlier in May, a concert at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC was webcast by NPR and is available for download here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10213407

On August 16th, the music video for “Imitosis” will debut on Andrew’s Myspace page for one week. Filmed in Seattle by noted short film director Britta Johnson, this video features Andrew and his band, Martin Dosh and Jeremy Ylvisaker, performing in a part science-film, part dream-world drawing from the palettes and photographic style of science books from the late 1960s.

Be sure to watch tomorrow!
http://www.myspace.com/andrewbird

tour dates after the jump. (more…)

If you shout “Summer of ‘69!!!” at the show you’re going to, I will find you.

Sept 13 - Charlottesville VA - Charlottesville Pavilion
Sept 16 - Northampton MA - Calvin Theater
Sept 17 - Portland ME - Merrill Auditorium
Sept 19 - Montreal QC - St. Denis Theatre
Sept 21 - Toronto ONT - Massey Hall
Sept 22 - Ann Arbor MI - Michigan Theater
Sept 24 - Kalamazoo MI - Kalamazoo State Theatre
Sept 25 - Milwaukee WI - Milwaukee Riverside Theater
Sept 27 - Minneapolis MN - State Theater
Sept 28 - Madison WI - Barrymore Theatre
Sept 29 - Chicago IL - Chicago Theatre
Oct 1 - Iowa City IA - Iowa Memorial Union, main lounge
Oct 2 - Kansas City MO - Uptown Theatre
Oct 4 - Urbana IL - Foelinger Auditorium
Oct 5 - St. Louis MO - The Pageant
Oct 13 - North Charleston, SC - N. Charleston Performing Arts Center
Oct 15 - Birmingham AL - Alabama Theatre
Oct 18 - Houston TX - Verizon Wireless Theatre
Oct 19 - Dallas TX - McFarlin Memorial Auditorium
Oct 27 - Lakewood OH - Lakewood Civic Auditorium
Oct 29 - Pittsburgh PA - Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland
Oct 30 - Washington DC - D.A.R. Constitution Hall
Oct 31 - New York NY - Hammerstein Ballroom

The Cardinals are:

Neal Casal - guitar
Brad Pemberton - drums
Chris Feinstein - bass
Jon Graboff - pedal steel
Jamie Candiloro - piano

you’re welcome, Prado