Pitchfork

Bay area retro popsters, The Aislers Set are launching a whopping 33-date coast-to-coast tour of the United States, beginning tomorrow in their hometown. The San Francisco group started out as the solo garage project of songwriter Amy Linton, but was later augmented by guitarist Wyatt Cusick, drummer Yoshi Nakamoto, organist Jen Cohen and bassist Alicia VandenHevvel. This lineup released two albums: 1998's The Last Match and 2000's Terrible Things Happen. Their latest effort, How I Learned to Write Backwards, was released last month on Slumberland Records, and is a poignant and charming pop record, if you don't mind us saying so, that takes one more brave step towards officially plunging Belle & Sebastian into irrelevance. The group will be touring America this March and April in support of that record, bringing their Spector-esque reverbatronics to a town near you. Don't forget to pack some heat-- you never know when Dee Dee Ramone's gonna show up and crash the party. Oh, wait...

03-06 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall*
03-07 Sacramento, CA - Espresso Metro*
03-08 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour # (and Ted Leo)
03-09 San Diego, CA - Casbah #
03-10 Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture #
03-11 Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad #
03-13 Austin, TX - the Roxy, SXSW
03-16 Houston, TX - Proletariat +
03-17 Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves +
03-18 Fayetteville, AR - TBA +
03-19 Nashville, TN - Slow Club +
03-20 Atlanta, GA - Echo Lounge +
03-21 Tallahassee, FL - Beta Bar +
03-22 Gainesville, FL - Common Grounds +
03-23 Columbia, SC - New Brookland Tavern +
03-24 Greensboro, NC - Gate City Noise (Daytime, instore performance)
03-24 Carrboro, NC - Go! Rehearsal +
03-25 Washington, DC - Black Cat +
03-27 Philadelphia, PA - Northstar +
03-28 New York, NY - Knitting Factory +
03-29 Brooklyn, NY - Northsix +
03-30 Lewiston, ME - Bates College Benjamin Mays Center +
03-31 Cambridge, MA - TT the Bear's +
04-01 Northampton, MA - Iron Horse * and Mates of State
04-03 Cleveland, OH TBA *
04-05 Chicago, IL - Fireside Bowl +
04-06 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry +
04-07 Iowa City, IA - Gabe's Oasis +
04-08 Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck +
04-09 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater +
04-11 Seattle, WA - Graceland +
04-12 Olympia, WA - TBA +
04-13 Portland, OR - Blackbird +

*with Quails
# with Quails and Erase Errata
+ with Quails and Hella