Architecture in Helsinki Reveal Extensive Tour Plans

While In Case We Die (the group's follow-up to 2004's awesome/overlooked Fingers Crossed) has garnered the crit-praise, starting next week, Architecture will get to prove their worth all over again with an extensive tour of North America.

The group will wrap up a couple of loose-end shows in their native Melbourne before heading out to the West Coast and making their way East, along with Philadelphia indie pop outfit Dr. Dog and, wouldn't you know it, Chicago indie pop band Head of Femur. As for those dates, well, you know the drill:

05-10 Melbourne, Australia - Manchester Lane
05-12 Melbourne, Australia - JB Hi Fi
05-20 Los Angeles, CA - Amoeba Records
05-22 Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland
05-23 Pomona, CA - Glass House
05-24 San Francisco, CA - Hotel Utah
05-25 San Francisco, CA - Cafe Du Nord
05-26 Eugene, OR - Wow Hall
05-27 Portland, OR - Doug Fir
05-28 Olympia, WA - The Clipper
05-29 Anacortes, WA - Deptartment of Safety
05-30 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
05-31 Vancouver, British Columbia - TBA
06-03 St. Paul MN - TBA
06-04 Chicago, IL - Schuba's
06-05 Grand Rapids, MI - Institute for Contemporary Arts *
06-06 Detroit, MI - The Magic Stick *
06-07 Indianapolis, IN - The Patio *
06-08 Newport, KY - Southgate House *
06-09 Cleveland, OH - TBA
06-10 Buffalo, NY - TBA
06-11 Allston, MA - Great Scott *
06-12 New York, NY - Knitting Factory *
06-13 Brooklyn, NY - Northsix *
06-14 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church *
06-16 Washington, DC - DC9 *
06-22 Austin, TX - Emo's
06-24 Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture
06-25 Phoenix, AZ - Modified

* with Dr. Dog and Head of Femur

Fear not, more dates and venues will be announced soon.

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