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Here We Go Magic -2009 tour (MHOW, dates w/ Grizzly Bear)

by Andrew Frisicano

DOWNLOAD: Here We Go Magic – Fangela (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Here We Go Magic – Only Pieces (excerpt) (MP3)

Here We Go Magic @ Bowery Ballroom (more by Jonny Leather)
Here We Go Magic

Rarely have a band name and a song title both been so appropriately chosen: In “Tunnelvision,” Luke Temple’s new project Here We Go Magic quickly establishes that nothing is as it seems. Anyone coming in cold, not knowing about Temple’s involvement, would assume that the voice repeating the words “Tunnelvision / Strange decision” is a woman, for one thing.

At the same time, it’s hard not to get lost in Here We Go Magic’s guitars, which provide a steady pulse at the same time they drench the song in reverb and delay. By roughly the three-minute mark — around the time Temple sings, “Anything is possible” — “Tunnelvision” has become engrossing to the point of hypnosis. Which, given the band’s name, makes a lot of sense. -[Here We Go Magic on NPR’s Song of the Day]

Get the full story on Here We Go Magic and Luke Temple here. As you can see from the pic above, the band played a Bowery Ballroom show with Department of Eagles in January – they’ll share a bill with Daniel Rossen again as the band tours with Grizzly Bear this May/June – opening two NYC shows at Town Hall (tix for both May 28 & May 29 won’t be on sale for much longer).

Here We Go Magic, whose s/t debut is out now on iTunes and soon on Western Vinyl, is playing a SXSW show at Club 115 on Thursday, March 19, with other Austin appearances listed below.

Before meeting up with Grizzly Bear, Here We Go Magic will headline their own Brooklyn show at Music Hall of Williamsburg on Saturday, April 7th. Tickets are on sale now. All tour dates and the video for “Tunnelvision” below…

Here We Go Magic – “Tunnelvision”

Here We Go Magic – 2009 Tour Dates
03/07 Washington, DC The Red and The Black*
03/09 Pittsburgh, PA garfield artworks*
03/11 Bloomington, IN Cinemat*
03/12 St. Louis, MO Off Broadway*
03/13 Chicago, IL Beat Kitchen*
03/14 Rock Island, IL Daytrotter Session
03/14 Rock Island, IL Daytrotter Presents @ Huckleberry’s Pizza Parlor*
03/17 Dallas, TX Mountain House*
03/17 Dallas, TX 6 PM INSTORE AT GOOD RECORDS
03/18 Austin, TX Austinist/Gothamist SXSW party @ Mohawk— 3 PM
03/18 Austin, TX NY Noise SXSW Party @ TODD P’s FREE OUTDOOR PATIO PARTIES @ Ms. Beas– 8:30 PM
03/19 Austin, TX Gorilla vs. Bear day party @ The Peacock– 1:45 PM slot
03/19 Austin, TX Western Vinyl Official Showcase @ Club 115– 1AM slot
03/20 Austin, TX Other Music show @ French Legation Museum– 1 PM slot
03/20 Austin, TX Park The Van Records / Partisan Records / indie outlaw / The Knitting Factory Day Party @ Side Bar– 3:00 PM slot
03/22 New Orleans, LA Marigny Theatre*
03/23 Atlanta, GA 529 Club**
03/24 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506**
03/25 Baltimore, MD Ottobar**
04/07 New York, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg #
05/28 New York, NY Town Hall***
05/29 New York, NY Town Hall***
06/01 Washington, DC 9:30 Club***
06/02 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero Theatre***
06/03 Boston, MA Berklee Performance Center***
06/04 Montreal, QC Le National***
06/05 Toronto, ON Phoenix***
06/07 Minneapolis, MN Cedar Cultural Center***
06/08 Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theatre***
06/09 Bloomington, IN Buskirk – Chumley Theater***
06/11 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle***
06/15 Dallas, TX Granada Theater***
06/16 Austin, TX The Parish***
06/19 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern***
06/21 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore***
* w/ Callers
** w/ Titus Andronicus
# w/ The Antlers
*** w/ Grizzly Bear