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Following on from their inclusion in this year's Polaris Prize long list last week, Vancouver duo Japandroids have announced a full UK and European tour starting this August that will take them through September and includes Pitchfork's Music Festival in November. This comes on the heels of the rapturously received new album 'Celebration Rock' and their current North American tour, where they sold out shows in Seattle, Portland, SF, LA, San Diego, Denver, Chicago, Toronto, NYC, Brooklyn, Philly, DC and Vancouver.
Their long awaited follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2009 debut 'Post Nothing', 'Celebration Rock', came out on 4th June, debuting at #37 on the USA Billboard charts. The album was produced by Jesse Gander/Japandroids and has been called "one of the year's most thrilling rock records" by Rolling Stone, and with unanimous agreement all round from other critics it seems like Japandroids ascent into rock stardom is cemented.
Last week, the band performed two songs on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, 'Fire's Highway' for TV, and a special online performance of 'The House That Heaven Built' featuring The Roots' "Captain" Kirk Douglas on backing guitars and vocals.
To see the video for Fire's Highway click here.
Japandroids tour dates:
Their long awaited follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2009 debut 'Post Nothing', 'Celebration Rock', came out on 4th June, debuting at #37 on the USA Billboard charts. The album was produced by Jesse Gander/Japandroids and has been called "one of the year's most thrilling rock records" by Rolling Stone, and with unanimous agreement all round from other critics it seems like Japandroids ascent into rock stardom is cemented.
Last week, the band performed two songs on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, 'Fire's Highway' for TV, and a special online performance of 'The House That Heaven Built' featuring The Roots' "Captain" Kirk Douglas on backing guitars and vocals.
To see the video for Fire's Highway click here.
Japandroids tour dates:
- 6/22 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop
- 6/23 Toronto, ON Lee's Palace SOLD OUT
- 6/25 Montreal, QC La Sala Rossa
- 6/26 Boston MA Brighton Music Hall SOLD OUT
- 6/27 NYC, NY Bowery Ballroom § SOLD OUT
- 6/28 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg § SOLD OUT
- 6/29 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda's § SOLD OUT
- 6/30 Washington, DC Rock & Roll Hotel § SOLD OUT
- 7/3 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry §
- 7/7 Vancouver, BC Biltmore Cabaret SOLD OUT
- 7/13 Chicago, IL Union Park (Pitchfork Music Festival)
- 8/14 Ponte Do Lima, Portugal Paredes De Coura
- 8/16 Dublin, Ireland Workmans Club
- 8/17 Belfast, UK Mandela Hall
- 8/18 Skipton, UK Beacons Festival
- 8/19 Leicester, UK Summer Sundae Festival
- 8/22 Reykjavik, Iceland Gamli Gaukurinn
- 8/24 Hannover, Germany Bootboohook Festival
- 8/25 Dornstadt, Germany Obstwiesenfestival
- 8/27 Frankfurt, Germany Zoom 8/28 Dresden, Germany Beatpol
- 8/29 Berlin, Germany Magnet 8/31 Poznan, Poland Minoga
- 9/1 Warsaw, Poland Hydrozagadka
- 9/3 Budapest, Hungary Akvarium
- 9/4 Vienna, Austria Chelsea
- 9/6 Ljubljana, Slovenia Kino Siska
- 9/7 Graz, Austria Postgarage
- 9/8 Zagreb, Croatia NKC Park
- 9/10 Prague, Czech Republic Lucerna Music Bar
- 9/11 Munich, Germany Feierwerk
- 9/12 Luzern, Switzerland Treibhaus Luzern
- 9/14 Brussels, Belgium La Chocolaterie
- 9/15 Leffinge, Belgium Leffingeleleuren Festival
- 9/16 Tilburg, Netherlands Incubate Festival
- 9/18 Amsterdam, Netherlands Paradiso
- 9/19 Rotterdamn, Netherlands Rotown
- 9/21 Hamburg, Germany Reeperbahn Festival
- 9/22 Munster, Germany Gleiss 22
- 9/23 Cologne, Germany Luxor
- 9/25 Copenhagen, Denmark Pumpehuset
- 9/26 Aarhus, Denmark Voxhall
- 9/28 Gothenburg, Sweden Pustervik
- 9/29 Stockholm, Sweden Strand
- 9/30 Oslo, Norway John Dee
- 11/1-3 Paris, France Pitchfork Music with Cadence Weapon
