Pitchfork

Three-guitar DeSoto act Juno will be spreading their brand of aural espresso across the American landscape like a foreign invader in a Frank Capra propaganda film this summer. The tour will take them across the country beginning on the west coast in San Francisco and, after a number of dates in the Mountain, Central, and Eastern time zones, ending with a show at a small club in Baltimore's Fell's Point with the Dismemberment Plan, hon. You may recall that the two bands released a split EP earlier this year.

Juno will be touring in support of A Future Lived in Past Tense, released earlier this year. The band combines a virtuosic rhythm section-- featuring guest performances by bassists Nick Harmer of Death Cab for Cutie and Nate Mendel of the Foo Fighters and Sunny Day Real Estate on their most recent effort-- along with a dense triple-axe wall of sound and emotive, Bob Mould-esque vocals. RIYL the trickle of raindrops off of the petals of a chrysanthemum, the soft moans of an Abyssinian harlot, or Jawbox. Show dates are as follows, most with Ted Leo and the Pharmacists:

08-15 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
08-16 Chico, CA - Blue Room
08-17 Portland, Oregon - Meow Meow
08-18 Seattle, WA - Graceland
08-19 Missoula, MT - Jay's Upstairs
08-21 Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club
08-22 Minneapolis, MN - First Ave & 7th St.
08-23 Champaign, IL - Courtyard Cafe
08-24 St. Louis, MO - Rocket Bar
08-26 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
08-27 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop
08-28 Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place
08-30 Cambridge, MA - The Middle East
08-31 New Haven, CT - Rudy's
09-01 New York, NY - Brownies
09-02 Philadelphia, PA - Rotunda
09-06 Washington, D.C. - TBA
09-08 Baltimore, MD - Fletcher's w/the Dismemberment Plan