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Stereolab - new album & 2008 Tour Dates (tix on sale)

Stereolab

Stereolab are playing three nights in a row at Irving Plaza in NYC in October. Tickets are already on sale. The shows are part of a tour that will be in support of their new album Chemical Chords – out until August 19 in the U.S. and August 18 worldwide…

Pitchfork: How did you decide it was time for another album? It’s been four years since the last full length, and two since the EP collection Fab Four Suture.

Tim Gane: The last bunch of records were just singles that became an album because the label wanted us to tour, and we thought we could compile those into an album. I was kind of bored of albums. But I did the singles anyway, just to mess about with things. Then I jumped into doing a soundtrack for a film [Marc Fittousi’s La Vie d’Artiste]. I wrote quite a lot.

Straight after that, I began to work on the album. I was fresh to do an album, and I felt like I had lots of ideas. I felt it in my throat. I had ideas to just do lots of tracks, put them together, hopefully get the whole thing all together. In fact, it was quite weird. The soundtrack overhung by a long time. I thought that I would have six weeks to two months to prepare stuff for the album, and in fact, I had one week. In the end, it turned out quite well.

All dates below….

Stereolab – 2008 Tour Dates
09-20 Costa Mesa, CA – Detroit Bar
09-21 Pomona, CA – Glass House
09-24 Austin, TX – La Zona Rosa
09-26 Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse
09-27 Athens, GA – 40 Watt Club
09-29 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
09-30 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
10-01 Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero
10-02 New York, NY – Irving Plaza
10-03 New York, NY – Irving Plaza
10-04 New York, NY – Irving Plaza
10-06 Boston, MA – Paradise *
10-07 Montreal, Quebec – Club Soda *
10-08 Toronto, Ontario – Phoenix Concert Theatre *
10-09 Detroit, MI – The Crofoot *
10-10 Chicago, IL – Vic Theatre *
10-12 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue *
10-14 Denver, CO – Gothic Theatre *
10-17 Seattle, WA – Showbox *
10-18 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom *
10-19 Vancouver, British Columbia – Commodore Ballroom *
10-21 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore *
10-22 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore *
10-23 Los Angeles, CA – Henry Fonda Theatre *
10-24 Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up Tavern *

* with Monade

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