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Chicago band The Smith Westerns headlined the final date on their tour with Porcelain Raft and Bleached on Saturday 2/4 in Milwaukee, four days after the band hit Webster Hall on 1/31. Pictures from the NYC date are in this post.
Porcelain Raft blogged their way through the US tour and will head to Europe for a string of dates, presumably blogging on the way. Check out a recent video for "Unless You Speak From Your Heart" by the band below.
If you missed Bleached, make sure and check them out at Knitting Factory on Saturday (2/11) with their tour-mates Black Belles. Tickets are still available for the show which also features the recently-renamed Bleeding Rainbow and Habibi.
All tour dates, that video and more more pictures from Webster Hall are below...
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Porcelain Raft - Unless You Speak From Your Heart


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Porcelain Raft













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PORCELAIN RAFT - 2012 TOUR DATES
Feb 12 - HMV Next Big Thing at The Garage, London (with Elephant)
Feb 13 - Rough Trade East instore, London 7pm
Feb 16 - Shepherds Bush Empire, London * SOLD OUT
Feb 22 - U&G. Hamburg DE *
Feb 23 - Vega, Copenhagen DK *
Feb 24 - Rockefeller, Oslo NO *
Feb 25 - Berns, Stockholm SE *
Feb 27 - Tavastia, Helsinki FI *
Feb 29 - KB, Malmo SE *
Mar 02 - Introducing Festival, Berlin DE *
Mar 03 - Introducing Festival, Cologne DE *
Mar 04 - Lucerna, Prague CZ *
Mar 05 - Hansa 39, Munich DE *
Mar 06 - Magazini Generali, Milan IT *
Mar 08 - Rockstore, Montpelier FR *
Mar 09 - Razzamatazz, Barcelona ES *
Mar 10 - Riviera, Madrid ES *
Mar 11 - Hard Club, Porto PT *
Mar 12 - Lux, Lisbon PT *
Mar 14 - I.Boat, Bordeaux FR * SOLD OUT
Mar 15 - La Cigale, Paris FR * SOLD OUT
Mar 16 - Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing FR *
Mar 17 - La Laiterie, Strasbourg FR *
Mar 18 - Les Docks, Lausanne CH *
Apr 02 - Radio Radio, Indianapolis IN^
Apr 03 - Off Broadway, St Louis MO^
Apr 11 - Porter's Pub, San Diego CA^
Apr 12 - Troubadour, Los Angeles CA^
Apr 13 - The Independent, San Francisco CA^
*With M83
^With Youth Lagoon
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Bleached -- 2012 Tour Dates
02-06 Lexington, KY - Cosmic Charlie's $
02-08 Atlanta, GA - Earl $
02-09 Durham, NC - The Pinhook $
02-10 Harrisonburg, VA - James Madison University $
02-11 Brooklyn, NY - Knitting Factory $
02-13 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom $
02-15 Chicago, IL- Empty bottle $
02-17 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry +
02-20 Vancouver, BC - The Media Club +
02-21 Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern +
02-22 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge +
02-24 San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop +
02-25 Los Angeles, CA - Bootleg Theatre +
02-27 San Diego, CA - Casbah +
03-08 Denton, TX - Denton 35
$ with Black Belles
+ with Veronica Falls
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that was such an awful show
Posted by Anonymous | February 8, 2012 3:29 PM
Bleached is rad. Can't wait to see them at the Knit. They recently got moved to headliner (instead of Black Belles). I wonder how that went down.
Smith Westerns is a snooze-fest. Chicago's been cranking out some lousy bands lately.
Posted by Anonymous | February 8, 2012 3:32 PM
Bleached rules.
Smith Westerns can fuck off.
Posted by Anonymous | February 8, 2012 3:37 PM
how filled was it?
Posted by Anonymous | February 8, 2012 3:46 PM
friendliest band in the biz
Posted by Anonymous | February 8, 2012 3:55 PM
Almost fell asleep on my feet watching Smith Westerns open for Arctic Monkeys at the Music Hall last year. Guys are dorks...
Posted by Anonymous | February 8, 2012 3:55 PM
it was a great show. all of the hate is very amusing in that if you truly hated them you wouldn't even take the time comment.
Posted by Anonymous | February 8, 2012 4:10 PM
I do truly hate them (SW); I just wanted to voice my support for Bleached who are awesome and rock, and are in no way boring and terrible, like Smith Westerns.
Posted by Anonymous | February 8, 2012 4:15 PM
all our prays that this band dissapears
Posted by Anonymous | February 8, 2012 9:10 PM
smith westerns can eat a fat dick. what a bunch of shitty little cocksuckers. p raft, on the other hand, is a beast.
Posted by Anonymous | February 9, 2012 10:46 AM
lol 3:55!!!
Posted by Anonymous | February 9, 2012 9:48 PM