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[Posted Monday, October 27th, 2003 04:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time]

As luck would have it, K Records' Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn (this is truncated on album sleeves and in AOL chatrooms to just Mirah) is saddling up for her next tour, bringing fans the Rock of Ages. Grab your scarves, whitey, it's going to be a cold November!

Mirah recently released a brand new album, Songs From The Black Mountain Music Project, with Ginger Brooks Takahashi and friends. As Pitchfork's own veteran ratings-slinger Matt LeMay put it, Mirah's sound is defined by a combination of accessibility and allure, and this record features much of the same.

For this record, Mirah and her musical cohorts secluded themselves in a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains and "surrounded themselves with instruments and recording equipment for one month." Does the album mark the Special Death of Mirah's long standing collaborative history with noise-pop pioneer Phil Elvrum? Only time and the Million Miles of Mirah's upcoming tour will tell. Here are those dates, marked with the Advisory Committee's official Recommendation:

10-27 Purchase, NY - SUNY Purchase
10-28 Bryn Mawr, PA - Bryn Mawr College
10-30 Providence, RI - TBA
11-02 Burlington, VT - Billings North Lounge
11-05 Montreal, Quebec - Island View Beach
11-06 Ottawa, Ontario - Club SAW
11-07 Toronto, Ontario - TBA
11-08 Alfred, NY - Alfred University
11-09 Saratoga, NY - Skidmore College
11-13 Keene, NH - Keene State
11-15 Northampton, MA - Smith College
11-16 Poughkeepsie, NY - Vassar
11-20 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
11-21 New York, NY - CBGB's 313 Gallery