Pitchfork

-- In these tough times, dance-informed indie shoegazers need to stick together. So School of Seven Bells, the New York dream-pop trio made up of splintered pieces of On!Air!Library! and the Secret Machines, are heading out on a quick U.S. tour this February with breezy fake-Japanese motorik revivalists Fujiya & Miyagi. School of Seven Bells will also tour the UK this February and drop the "Iamundernodisguise" single on both sides of the Atlantic; it'll be out on Ghostly International in North America on February 17 and on February 16 on Full Time Hobby in Europe. Fujiya & Miyagi, meanwhile, will continue on through America after parting ways with School of Seven Bells, before heading out on their own Euro trek in March.

-- Portland skronk-funk duo Panther, who confusingly enough have nothing to do with either the Panthers or Japanther, will tour Europe this spring, even playing a few dates in Russia. (Russians need to dance artily, too!) To celebrate, the German label Altin Village will release a new Panther 12" called The Birds EP, which will feature six new songs. Altin Village has also put out stuff by Japanther. Aaaah!

-- Australian producer Mark Pritchard, who has recorded a ton of electronic music under a gang of different names (Jedi Knights, Troubleman, Harmonic 33) over the years, has another album ready to go. On March 3, Warp will release When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence, the first album from Pritchard's Detroit-inspired Harmonic 313 alias. He'll hit the road Down Under and in Europe over the coming months.

-- The Watson Twins used to be Jenny Lewis's shimmery backup singers, but now they're doing shimmery up-front singing on their own. They'll release their Live at Fingerprints EP on Vanguard on February 17, featuring acoustic songs recorded at an in-store at the Long Beach, California record store Fingerprints. Around the same time, they'll head out on a North American tour, headlining some shows and then opening a few more for Ben Kweller.