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Hey, did you hear Broken Social Scene have broken up? Yeah, you and everyone else; they haven't, but that's what we keep hearing, too. We don't understand why everyone is so into this rumor, but if it happens, we totally promise we'll let you know.

Leslie Feist is one of the many Canadian musicians on the fringe of the BSS collective, having sung a bit on You Forgot It In People, but she also has her own thing going on, a solo project under the header Feist. Pitchfork gave the second Feist album, Let It Die, a big juicy 8.1 way back in July 2004, and if you don't trust us, we've got the entire Canadian recording industry to back us up; they just gave Ms. Feist two Juno Awards for the album. Also, as we never get tired of telling people, much of Let It Die was produced by Jason Beck, also known as Peaches' partner in foul-mouth-dom, Chilly Gonzales.

Anyway, here's the point (finally): Let It Die is finally getting a U.S. release on April 26, thanks to the purely altruistic intentions of Interscope Records. Following the release of the album, Feist will be heading Stateside herself, for a North American tour with British Sea Power that will last the better part of May, prior to and following which she'll be all over Europe. Wait, she's touring alone? Does that mean Broken Social Scene have broken up? Shit, we have to tell everyone about this. Uh, dates:

04-08 Gottenberg, Sweden - City Sound @ Pusterviks Teatern
04-09 Malmo, Sweden - Inkonst
04-10 Stockholm, Sweden - Sodra Teatern
04-11 Oslo, Norway - John Dee
04-12 Paris, France - Olympia
04-13 Aarhus, Denmark - Voxhall
04-14 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
04-16 Schorndorf, Germany - Manufaktur
04-17 Frankfurt, Germany - Batschkapp
04-18 Dresden, Germany - Scheune
04-19 Berlin, Germany - Columbiaclub
04-21 Vienna, Austria - Szene Wien
04-22 Treviso, Italy - New Age
04-23 Rimini, Italy - Velvet
04-24 Rome, Italy - Circolo Degli Artisti
04-26 Milan, Italy - Rainbow
04-28 San Sebastien, Spain - Gastescena
04-29 Madrid, Spain - Moby Dick
04-30 Barcelona, Spain - Razzmatazz 3
05-03 San Diego, CA - Casbah #
05-06 Denton, TX - Hailey's #
05-07 Austin, TX - Emo's #
05-08 Houston, TX - Fat Cat's #
05-10 Atlanta, GA - The Earl #
05-11 Chapel Hill, NC - Cat's Cradle #
05-12 Washington, DC - Black Cat #
05-13 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church #
05-14 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom #
05-15 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom #
05-16 Boston, MA - Middle East #
05-17 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace #
05-18 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop #
05-19 Chicago, IL - Logan Square Auditorium #
06-10 Neuhausen, Germany - Southside Festival
06-11 Scheessel, Germany - Hurricane Festival
06-30 Montreal, Quebec - Montreal Jazz Festival
07-01 Toronto, Ontario - Harbourfront
07-03 Belfort, France - Festival Les Eurocknes
07-07 Montreux, Switzerland - Festival de Montreux
07-17 La Rochelle, France - Les Francofolies
07-21 Boulogne-sur-Mer, France - Festival de la Cd'Opale
07-22 Nice, France - Nice Jazz Festival

# with British Sea Power