Wolf Parade Begin Euro Tour, Schedule More U.S. Dates

So yes, the adored and adorable lycanthropic Canucks known as Wolf Parade launch an extensive Eastern-front tour-offensive this evening in smelly Cologne, Germany. Joining the pack at various intervals are pastoral psych-rockers Black Mountain and Dead Meadow, buzz-binners We Are Wolv-- err, We Are Scientists-- and fellow Mountie and Sub Popper Chad VanGaalen.

You, avid Pitchfork reader, may recall how Wolf Parade were scheduled to spend a few of these nights opening for Sleater-Kinney, but the latter band was forced to cancel its entire European tour due to Carrie Brownstein's bout with allergies. After a bit of schedule reshuffling, Wolf Parade have got themselves a nice little headlining trek.

The Wolf Parade tour will no doubt achieve climax with an epic, life-altering, and much-blogged-about performance on December 31 at Pitchfork's 10.0 tenth anniversary New Year's bonanza. (It's sold out already-- you snooze you lose!) Which makes those recently announced early 2006 Cali shows so dénouement.

Canis rockus:

11-15 Cologne, Germany - Gebaude 9
11-16 Hamburg, Germany - Molotov
11-17 Berlin, Germany - Maschinehaus
11-19 Oslo, Norway - Garage
11-20 Stockholm, Sweden - Kagalbanen
11-22 Helsinki, Finland - Tavastia
11-23 London, England - Scala *
11-24 Nottingham, England - Rescue Rooms *
11-25 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC2 *
11-26 Manchester, England - Roadhouse *
11-27 Dublin, Ireland - Whelans
11-29 Bristol, England - Louisiana
11-30 Birmingham, England - Jug of Ale
12-01 London, England - Barfly
12-02 Barcelona, Spain - Sala Apolo #
12-03 Milan, Italy - Rainbow #
12-04 Rome, Italy - Circolo #
12-31 Chicago, IL - Viaduct Theater (Pitchfork Presents 10.0: 10th Anniversary Bash) %
01-02 San Diego, CA - The Casbah ^
01-03 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey ^
01-04 San Francisco, CA - The Independent ^
01-05 San Francisco, CA - The Independent ^

* with Black Mountain, Dead Meadow
# with We Are Scientists
% with Blood on the Wall, Jason Forrest
^ with Chad VanGaalen

Wolf Parade on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/wolfparade/
Sub Pop: http://www.subpop.com/
Pitchfork Presents 10.0: 10th Anniversary Bash: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/p4knye05