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With large bands like the New Pornographers, where each member is also in a different group, it's not easy to coordinate a tour. Also, it's hard to cram so many people onto a tour bus. Not to mention all the...pornography. But when you've got a new album coming out, touring is what you've got to do, no matter how cramped the quarters.

Formed by Carl Newman in 1997, the other Pornographers are filmmaker Blaine Thurier, Destroyer's Dan Bejar, Kurt Dahle and Todd Fancey of Limblifter, the Evaporators' John Collins, and Neko Case.

As previously reported, the New Pornographers will play a handful of shows in the Northeast at the end of June. They'll split for the summer before reconvening in the fall to support their new album, Twin Cinema, which will be released by Matador on August 23.

The fall tour will commence in band headquarters Vancouver. It'll crawl down the West Coast before making its way through the Midwest and back to the East. There are some holes in the schedule, so it's safe to assume that more dates are forthcoming.

06-22 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's
06-23 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's
06-24 Lancaster, PA - Chameleon Club
06-25 Brooklyn, NY - Celebrate Brooklyn (Prospect Park)
06-26 Northampton, MA - Pearl Street Nightclub
09-23 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom #
09-24 Seattle, WA - Showbox #
09-27 San Francisco, CA - Bimbo's #
09-28 San Francisco, CA - Bimbo's #
09-29 Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theater #
09-30 San Diego, CA - Belly Up #
10-01 Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture #
10-07 Newport, KY - Southgate House #
10-08 Kalamazoo, MI - Club Soda #
10-11 Boston, MA - The Roxy #
10-12 New York, NY - Webster Hall #
10-13 New York, NY - Webster Hall #
10-15 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club #
10-20 Chicago, IL - Metro #

# with Destroyer, Immaculate Machine

Neko Case is currently wrapping up her own tour and will play a few shows in July and August, while A.C. Newman will be performing at Pitchfork's Intonation Festival on July 16.