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Nikhil Swaminathan & Kevin Keenan report:
Pinback is scheduled to double their discography this year, and to top it off, they're even touring. As mentioned in a Pitchfork story last October, the lo-fi dreamweavers are set to release an EP each on Ace Fu and Absolutely Kosher, along with a full-length on Touch & Go. The Absolutely Kosher EP release, titled Offcell, will be released on April 29th. The five tracks to be included are all exclusive to this release. Tracklist:

01 Microtonic Wave
02 Victorious D
03 Off Cell
04 B
05 Grey - Machine

Meanwhile, Ace Fu's Pinback EP is said to be comprised of outtakes and B-sides from the West Coast post-modernists, though the release date and tracklist are still up in the air at this time. The label would only say that the offering would probably hit shelves somewhere between late summer and Christmas of 2003. The Touch & Go release is rumored to drop on March 11th, but our sources were unable to confirm or deny this. If all this information is utterly confusing to you, try writing it. Shit, maybe you should just go to a record store in mid-March and see what they have there. Alternatively, you could go to a Pinback show and check the merch table. (Um, we're doin' our best here, people.)

And speaking of Pinback shows, the band has booked a solid month of tour dates beginning roughly this time next month. They expect to cover 24 cities over 25 dates, hitting Chicago on two separate occasions, possibly to be extra sure they get to bitchslap Schreiber for running that fuckin' half-wit review of Blue Screen Life back in December of '01. Tour dates:

03-12 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress
03-14 Austin, TX - Emo's
03-17 St Louis, MO - Rocketbar
03-18 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
03-19 Champaign, IL - High Dive
03-20 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
03-21 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
03-22 Washington, DC - Black Cat
03-23 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
03-24 Brooklyn, NY - North Six
03-26 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Restaurant
03-27 Ithaca, NY - Noyes Community Center
03-28 Columbus, OH - Little Brothers
03-29 Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall
03-30 Chicago, IL - Fireside Bowl
03-31 Iowa City, IA - Gabe's Oasis
04-02 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
04-03 Salt Lake City, UT - X-Scape
04-05 Spokane, WA - Whitworth College Cafe
04-06 Seattle, WA - Showbox Showroom
04-07 Portland, OR - Berbatis Pan
04-09 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
04-10 Oakland,CA - Metro
04-11 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
04-13 San Diego, CA - Canes Ballroom

In related news, Pinback frontman Rob Crow has just completed a solo album entitled My Room Is a Mess. As it's just been turned in for pressing, we've still got a while to wait on it, but sources at Absolutely Kosher have it slated for release on May 20th. A firm tracklist isn't yet in place, but the record is said to contain not one, not two, but 18 songs. According to sources at the label, fans can expect styles ranging from "boy-band pop/new jack R&B; to death metal to odd new wave to the simple, minimal pop" that Pinback is known for. Which leaves us, for once, Absolutely speechless.