Suicide Squeeze label-mates Human Highway (Nick Thorburn of Islands and Jim Guthrie) and Cotton Jones are going out on tour with The Magic. Tickets are on sale for their only NYC show together. It's at Le Poisson Rouge on March 25th which is one day before Cotton Jones plays a 2nd NYC show at Union Hall.

This is Human Highway's first tour, but not their first NYC show. All dates, including a stop at SXSW for all bands involved, below...

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Human Highway @ Cake Shop - Sept 15, 2008 (Jonny Leather)

How were the shows? How was Becky?

Becky Stark & Amanda Palmer as Citizens Band members (Dese'Rae L. Stage)

Lavendar Diamond's Becky Stark opens both Human Highway shows. Those are Monday/tonight @ Cake Shop & Tuesday @ Joe's Pub.

The NY Mag Highbrow BBQ starts at 1:00 PM on Saturday. It's also over by 5:00. Islands will be playing a "full set performance".

Tickets are on sale for Human Highway's Joe's Pub show.

We are very proud to announce the debut release from Toronto's Human Highway, a duo featuring Islands' frontman Nick Thorburn, alongside seminal Canadian songwriter, Jim Guthrie, entitled "Moody Motorcycle."

To celebrate the album's release, courtesy of the good folks at Suicide Squeeze Records, the band has announced their first ever live performances for the lucky few in the New York Metropolitan area. Appearing as co-headliners w/ Harper Simon, Thorburn and Guthrie will bring Human Highway, for the first time ever, to New York's Cake-Shop on Monday, September 15th, and the lovely Joe's Pub on Tuesday, September 16th.

Stream the entire Human Highway album on their MySpace. The tracklist is below.

"Human Highway" is also "a 1982 comedy film starring and co-directed by Neil Young under his pseudonym Bernard Shakey." Neil Young also just announced some shows.

Nick Thorburn's other band Islands is playing a NYC show on August 23rd.

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Human Highway are streaming two songs at their MySpace. The tracks are from their debut Album, "Moody Motorcycle," out August 19th on Suicide Squeeze.

P.S. tickets are still available for Nick's other band Islands' shows in NYC on May 24th and elsewhere.