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According to Billboard.com, Issaquah's finest, Modest Mouse, are preparing to release a new eight-song EP later this month. Last year, Up Records had announced plans to release at least two, and possibly three, 12-inches' worth of material from the band's Moon & Antarctica sessions, but only managed to get out "Night on the Sun," which culled four previously unreleased tracks from the Brian Deck-produced outing.

The new EP, mystifyingly titled Everywhere and His Nasty Parlor Tricks, presumably draws its material from those sessions as well. Among the eight tracks are "Here It Comes," "So Much Beauty in Dirt," "Three Inch Horses, Two Faced Monsters," and a song titled "The Air," a megamix of sorts which blends several older songs into a brand new entity. The disc will also include all of the tracks from the "Night on the Sun" 12-inch, including that record's title track, "I Came as a Rat (Long Walk Off a Short Dock)," "You're the Good Things" and "Willful Suspension of Disbelief." The EP is due out September 25th through Epic.

Frontman Issac Brock is also working sporadically on his solo project, Ugly Casanova, with Brian Deck, as he has been for the past hundred years or so. The fine publicity department of Sub Pop has said that the disc should be out in the first quarter of 2002. We are pessimistic.

As previously reported by Pitchfork, Modest Mouse will embark on a major U.S. tour this Friday at Portland, Oregon's Crystal Ballroom. Bands sharing the bills along the way will include ex-Bar-None/ex-Capricorn recording artists the Glands, crazy-ass art-punks Les Savy Fav, pop maestros the Shins, Portland psychedelicists Yume Bitsu, orch-pop kings the Flaming Lips, ax-men Built to Spill, and Neutral Milk audio-manglers the Music Tapes. The dates are as follows:

09-07 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
09-08 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
09-10 San Francisco, CA - Warfield
09-11 Los Angeles, CA - House of Blues
09-12 Los Angeles, CA - House of Blues
09-13 Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues
09-14 Anaheim, CA - House of Blues
09-15 Mission Beach, CA - Cane's Ballroom
09-17 Tempe, AZ - Nita's Hideaway
09-20 Austin, TX - Stubb's BBQ
09-21 Fort Worth, TX - Ridglea Theater
09-22 Fayetteville, AK - Clunk Music Hall
09-24 Oxford, MS - Proud Larry's
09-25 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
09-26 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
09-27 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
09-28 Washington, DC - Black Cat
09-30 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero
10-01 New York, NY - Irving Plaza
10-02 New York, NY - Irving Plaza
10-05 Newport, KY - Southgate House
10-06 Newport, KY - Southgate House
10-07 Chicago, IL - House of Blues
10-08 Kansas City, MO - Madrid Theater
10-10 Denver, CO - Fillmore
10-12 Salt Lake City, UT - Bricks