The Dodos - 2009 tour dates w/ Ruby Suns + album cover art

The Dodos @ Studio B (more by Ryan Muir)

Club Planet: At what point did you realize The Dodos were taking off (har har) ?

Meric Long: I’d say around the time Visiter came out, in March, and we’d just done South By Southwest. We were driving through Austin when we started getting a ton of calls from different people who were like, “You’re invited to come play Siren,” or “You’re invited to come play the Pitchfork Festival.” I remember just driving the car around, answering all these phone calls. Our manager kept calling our phone, and every time I saw her name light up I wondered, “What next?” It was a really exciting time, and there was a profound moment where I realized that we were not going to be home much for the rest of the year.

The Dodos have announced their fall tour. All dates are with The Ruby Suns, and that includes shows at both Music Hall of Williamsburg (10/13) and Bowery Ballroom (10/14). Tickets for both go on AmEx presale at noon, and general sale on Friday. All dates, and the cover art for their previously mentioned new album, below…

Tracklist For The Dodos’ Time To Die:

01 Small Deaths
02 Longform
03 Fables
04 The Strums
05 This Is A Business
06 Two Medicines
07 Troll Nacht
08 Acorn Factory
09 Time To Die

The Dodos & Ruby Suns – 2009 Tour Dates
08/8 Los Angeles, CA – The Getty Museum *
08/14 Seattle, WA – KEXP Mural Amphitheater Summer Series *
08/28 San Francisco, CA – Outside Lands Music Festival
09/26 Big Sur, CA – Henry Miller Library
09/27 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre
09/28 San Diego, CA – Casbah
09/29 Tucson, AZ – Club Congress
09/30 Phoenix, AZ – Modified
10/2 Dallas, TX – House of Blues-Pontiac Garage
10/3 Houston, TX – The Orange Show
10/4 Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Festival
10/6 Tallahassee, FL – Club Downunder
10/7 Atlanta, GA – The Earl
10/8 Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle
10/9 Washington DC – Rock and Roll Hotel
10/10 Baltimore, MD – Talking Head
10/12 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church
10/13 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
10/14 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
10/15 Cambridge, MA – Middle East Downstairs
10/16 Montreal, QC – La Sala Rossa
10/17 Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace
10/19 Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge
10/20 St. Paul, MN – Turf Club
10/22 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
10/24 Boise, ID – Neurolux
10/25 Portland, OR – Aladdin Theatre
10/26 Vancouver, BC – The Biltmore Cabaret
* No Ruby Suns