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Emo-rockers Rainer Maria will be hitting the road this winter with the Mates of State for an undoubtedly adorable tour of whatever people call this country we live in. The co-headlining, co-ed romp kicks off on January 30th in New York City and comes to a full-circle close on March 15th back in Brooklyn. Rainer Maria will be supporting their forthcoming record, Long Knives Drawn, which is due on January 21st from Polyvinyl Records. Caithlin de Marrais will also be busy supporting her brand new foxy hairdo, while that one dude parades around like a zebra in that stripey shirt on their webpage. Tourdates:

01-30 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
01-31 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
02-01 Cambridge, MA - Middle East
02-02 Lancaster, PA - Chameleon
02-03 Pittsburgh, PA - Attic
02-04 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
02-05 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
02-06 Madison, WI - Luthers
02-07 Chicago, IL - Metro
02-08 Urbana, IL - Courtyard Café
02-09 Bloomington, IN - Rhinos
02-11 Grinnell, IA - Grinnell College
02-12 St. Louis, MO - Creepy Crawl
02-13 Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck
02-14 Omaha, NE - Sokel Underground
02-15 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theatre
02-16 Salt Lake City, UT - TBA
02-18 Seattle, WA - TBA
02-19 Portland, OR - Meow Meow
02-20 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
02-21 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
02-22 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour
02-23 Pomona, PA - Glass House
02-24 Tucson , AZ - Solar Culture
02-27 Austin, TX - Emo's
02-28 Fort Worth, TX - Ridglea Theatre
03-01 Houston, TX - Mary Janes
03-03 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon
03-04 Pensacola / Tallahasse - TBA
03-05 Tampa, FL - TBA
03-06 Orlando, FL - TBA
03-07 Miami, FL - TBA
03-08 Gainesville, FL - TBA
03-09 Atlanta, GA - Echo Lounge
03-10 SC - TBA
03-11 Chapel Hill, NC - Cat's Cradle
03-12 Richmond, VA - TBA
03-13 DC / Baltimore - TBA
03-14 Philadelphia - TBA
03-15 Brooklyn, NY - TBA

In other Rainer Maria news, Polyvinyl has already begun shipping online orders of Long Knives Drawn. So if you just can't contain yourself another week, order it up and see if the postal service can beat out your local record store. It just might happen if you wet yourself! As an added incentive, the first 500 orders will get an exclusive two-song CD repressing containing Rainer's first single, "New York 1955". Tracklist:

01 Mystery and Misery
02 Long Knives
03 Ears Ring
04 The Double Life
05 The Awful Truth of Loving
06 The Imperatives
07 Floors
08 CT Catholic
09 Situation: Relation

As for the Mates, everyone's favorite married duo who isn't the White Stripes just finished up a seven-inch split single with Katy Davidson of Dear Nora fame. Mates Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel cover an old Jackson Brown tune, "These Days", while Davidson tries her hand at Bob Dylan's "Girl from the North Country".

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