Pitchfork: Caribou, Junior Boys to Tour U.S. in Spring

Caribou, Junior Boys to Tour U.S. in Spring

Former Manitoba man Dan Snaith will hit the road this Spring on his first headlining tour under new moniker Caribou. Snaith's extensive jaunt begins in late April in Kingston, Ontario, and runs through early June, winding its way through much of the United States and Canada-- though, perhaps not coincidentally, he's just skipping the entire province of Manitoba altogether.

A good patriot, Snaith has enlisted the help of his fellow Canadian bedroom producers and Pitchfork favorites Junior Boys and the Russian Futurists, creating a pretty dynamite bill of fey, futurist indie pop. If that isn't exciting enough, the visuals on the tour will once again be handled by Delicious 9, although there is no word whether the live presentation will reprise the masks that the boys in then-Manitoba wore the last time they came through your town. Here are the dates, all of which feature the previously mentioned triple bill except the April 28 show, which will feature support from the Singing Saw Shadow Show:

04-26 Kingston, Ontario - Elixir Night Club
04-27 Ottawa, Ontario - Babylon
04-28 Toronto, Ontario - Legendary Horseshoe Tavern
04-30 Ithaca, NY - Noyes Community Center
05-02 Northampton, MA - Iron Horse
05-03 Providence, RI - The Living Room
05-04 Cambridge, MA - Middle East
05-09 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
05-10 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn
05-11 New Orleans, LA - House of Blues Parish
05-12 Houston, TX - Mary Janes Fat Cat
05-13 Austin, TX - The Parish
05-14 Denton, TX - Haileys
05-16 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theatre
05-18 Salt Lake City, UT - Egos
05-24 Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland
05-25 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
05-27 Portland, OR - Berbatis Pan
05-28 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey Presents
05-29 Victoria, British Columbia - Lucky Bar
05-30 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richards on Richards
06-01 Calgary, Alberta - Broken City
06-02 Edmonton, Alberta - New City Liqwid Lounge & Suburbs
06-03 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Amigos
06-05 Minneapolis, MN - 400 Bar
06-06 Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews
06-07 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
06-09 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
06-10 Hamilton, Ontario - The Casbah

As previously reported, Caribou's The Milk of Human Kindness album will be released on the week of April 18 on Domino in North America and Leaf in the rest of the world. The first hint of what that record will sound like was issued yesterday, when Caribou released a one-sided 12-inch of "Barnowl". The disc is extremely limited-- only 300 copies were pressed-- and is available online from Domino or PostEverything.com. In March, the first proper single, "Yeti", will be released.