To support their January 25th release of Deerhoof vs. Evil, art-rockers Deerhoof will tour the States starting next year. Beginning on January 27th in Sacramento, the group will hoof (sorry, had to do it) through 26 dates that will see them heading to their home town of San Francisco, out to Brooklyn, and winding up in Portland, OR. Nervous Cop and Ben Butler and Mousepad will provide support for most of the dates. Tickets for the majority of the shows are on sale now.
Following those dates, Deerhoof will take part in Carnegie Hall’s JapanNYC Festival by playing a gig at the multimedia art cabaret Le Poisson Rouge on March 14th. The festival celebrates the culture of classical and modern Japanese art, so Deerhoof fits right in with their Japanese frontwoman, Satomi Matsuzaki. Tickets for that show are available here. Those of you on the other side of the pond might try to catch the band at December’s ATP’s Nightmare Before Christmas. If you can’t, though, they also have a special date next July opening for The Flaming Lips at London’s Alexandra Palace as part of ATP Concert’s Don’t Look Back Series. Deerhoof is set to play their sixth album, Milk Man, in its entirety, while the FLips will do The Soft Bulletin and Dinosaur Jr. will play their 1988 album Bug. Grab tickets for the July 1st show here.
Can’t wait till 2011 for all the Deerhoof splendor? Well lucky you, because ahead of all of this the band has promised to “leak” the entire new album song by song via various outlets. So far, two songs have been posted: first single “The Merry Barracks” and “Super Duper Rescue Heads!”, which you can also stream below. Polyvinyl will release the CD version and a 180-gram vinyl limited to 2,000 copies in the U.S., while Joyful Noise is putting out 500 hand-numbered green cassette tapes (maybe Sony was premature ahead of some nostalgia…) While you patiently (or impatiently) wait for the next song to hit on November 9th, check out the tour dates below.
Deerhoof 2010 & 2011 Tour Dates:
12/05 – Minehead, England @ ATP’S Nightmare Before Christmas
01/27 – Sacramento, CA @ Harlows *
01/28 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall *#
01/29 – Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex *#
02/01 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk *#
02/02 – Dallas, TX @ Palladium Showroom *#
02/03 – Memphis, TN @ The Hi Tone *#
02/04 – Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge *#
02/05 – Athens, GA @ 40 Watt *#
02/06 – Raleigh, NC @ King’s *#
02/07 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club *#
02/08 – Brooklyn, NY @ Ridgewood Masonic Temple *#
02/10 – Cambridge, MA @ Middle East *#
02/11- Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts *#
02/12 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Altar *#
02/14 – Pontiac, MI @ The Crofoot Ballroom *#
02/15 – Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge *#
02/16 – Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon *#
02/17 – Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club *#
02/18 – Iowa City, IA @ Blue Moose *#
02/19 – Omaha, NE @ Waiting Room *#
02/21 – Denver, CO @ The Marquis *#
02/25 – Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s #
02/26 – Portland, OR @ Holocene #
03/14 – New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge ^
07/11 – London, England @ Alexandra Palace %
* = w/ Nervous Cop
# = w/ Ben Butler and Mousepad
^ = w/ Ichi
% = performing Milk Man, w/ the Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr.