Pitchfork: Chin Up Chin Up Head Back on the Road

There's no time to rest when you're a promising new indie rock band, and Chin Up Chin Up are raring to go. OK, so we're cheating a little by calling them new-- they're sort of like, Grammy Best New Artist-new, rather than new-new. They've been around since the turn of the millennium, when they released an eponymous six-track EP. It's long since out of print, but being the fine Chicagoans that they are, the band will be re-releasing it this summer on Record Label/Flameshovel. Chin Up Chin Up are heading back into the studio to record an acoustic track for the EP's expanded edition, which will also feature remixes.

Meanwhile, we're gonna get some more shows out of them, too. Fresh off of a 20,000 mile, 39-date tour with Make Believe in support of their infectiously catchy art-pop debut, We Should Have Never Lived Like We Were Skyscrapers, Chin Up Chin Up have more shows lined up this spring, as they head out with Appleseed Cast. Tour dates tour dates:

03-29 Ames, IA - Maintenance Shop #
03-30 Chicago, IL - Logan Square Auditorium #
03-31 Newport, KY - Southgate House #
04-01 Harrisonburg, VA - PC Ballroom #
04-22 Iowa City, IA - Gabe's Oasis
04-23 Madison, WI - Union South (w/ ZZZZ)
05-10 St. Louis, MO - Creepy Crawl #
05-12 Nashville, TN - Grimey's Records #
05-13 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn #
05-14 Wilmington, NC - Soapbox Laundro-Lounge #
05-15 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 #
05-18 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church #
05-19 Brooklyn, NY - North Six #
05-20 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Upstairs #
05-21 East Haven, CT - Wallingford American Legion #
05-23 Lansing, MI - Mac's Bar #
05-24 Grand Rapids, MI - Skelletones #

# with Appleseed Cast