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The sha-la-la shamble-punks in the Vivian Girls have already been though all the fifty bazillion successive waves of hype and backlash that every Brooklyn band has to go through these days, and now they are officially bubbling. In April, they'll take their small-stakes bubble-core to one of the big stages at the Coachella Festival.

That leaves them some time before the big show, and so they're doing exactly what any budget-minded indie band would do in their shoes: Playing a bunch of shows. They'll open a few dates in February for diametrically opposed sooth-crooner M. Ward, including one weird one at Harlem's Apollo Theater. And then, come April, they'll tour westward to Coachella with the schizo-pop art-project Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti.

Here's the itinerary:

02-06 Diksmuide, Belgium - 4AD Muziekclub !
02-07 Rotterdam, Netherlands - RoTown
02-08 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
02-09 Antwerp, Belgium - Trix
02-10 Metz, France - Triniaires
02-11 Strasbourg, France - La Laiterie
02-12 Limoges, France - Woodstock Boogie Bar
02-13 Paris, France - Point Ephemere
02-14 London, England - Proud Galleries
02-15 London, England - Carling Academy Islington $
02-19 New York, NY - Apollo Theater *
02-20 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero *
02-21 Washington, DC - Sixth & I Historic Synagogue *
03-18-21 Austin, TX - SXSW
04-02 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg ^
04-03 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's ^
04-04 Baltimore, MD - Ottobar ^
04-05 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 ^
04-06 Knoxville, TN - Pilot Light ^
04-07 Atlanta, GA - The Earl ^
04-08 New Orleans, LA - The Parish ^
04-09 Houston, TX - Walter's on Washington ^
04-10 Austin, TX - The Mohawk ^
04-11 Dallas, TX - Hailey's ^
04-13 Phoenix, AZ  - Modified ^
04-14 Tucson, AZ - Plush ^
04-15 San Diego, CA - Casbah ^
04-19 Indio, CA - Coachella Festival ^
05-15 Brighton, England - Great Escape Festival

! with Crystal Antlers
$ with Black Lips
* with M. Ward
^ with Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti