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Kinski, Sub Pop practitioners of primarily instrumental musings, are hitting the North American road in a typically expansive fashion this summer-- taking in a bunch of city sights, playing assorted locales, hooking up with a motley bunch of talented bands, and mowing down audiences with their tour de force shows. This tour comes shortly following the band's apologetic announcement that it was canceling it's preceding European tour for reasons yet unknown. However, it is expected that the band will make up the European dates up in October. The seriously heavy and trippy quartet will play a couple of Canadian dates and throughout the States with (depending on where you catch them) Oneida, Master Musicians of Bukkake, the Constantines, and Bardo Pond, among others. The Kinski summer gig season begins with a live radio session in Seattle on July 11 and commences in earnest with dates scattered along the west coast:

07-11 Seattle, WA - KEXP Radio Session (live @ 12PM)
07-14 Hollywood, CA - Amoeba Music (free in store @ 6PM)
07-14 Los Angeles, CA - Echo (w/ Open City)
07-15 San Francisco, CA - Amoeba Music (free in store @ 6PM)
07-15 San Francisco, CA - 12 Galaxies (w/ Residual Echoes)
07-16 Chico, CA - Off Limits (w/ West By Swan & Sleepyhead)
07-21 Vancouver, British Columbia - Wise Hall (w/ Master Musicians of Bukkake)
07-22 Portland, OR - (w/ Master Musicians of Bukkake)
07-23 Seattle, WA - Easy Street (free in store @ 6PM)
07-23 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe (w/ Master Musicians of Bukkake & Charming Snakes)
08-12 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
08-13 Kansas City, MO - Bricks
08-15 Moorhead, MN - Eastgate Lounge
08-16 Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry (w/ Oneida, Plastic Crimewave Sound & Diamonds)
08-17 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle (w/ Plastic Crimewave Sound)
08-18 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom (w/ Oneida)
08-19 Detroit, MI - 2500 Club (w/ Oneida)
08-20 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace (w/ Oneida, Constantines & Oakley Hall)
08-21 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa (w/ Oneida & Oakley Hall)
08-22 Newmarket, NH - Stone Church
08-23 Cambridge, MA - T.T. the Bear's
08-24 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
08-25 Philadelphia, PA - The Khyber (w/ Bardo Pond)
08-26 Washington, DC - Warehouse Next Door
08-27 Columbus, OH - Little Brothers

Why all the Kinski activity? Well, apart from the obvious fun of deafening new people in new and as-of-yet undeafened places, the Seattle-based noiseniks just happen to have a fresh new album, Alpine Static, coming out July 12 on Sub Pop. Furthermore, the band is planning to re-release its early albums SpaceLaunch for Frenchie and Be Gentle with the Warm Turtle in mid-August through the harmonious co-operation between their new Intellectual Drunks imprint and the Strange Attractors Audio House. So while Kinski are looking at a hectic summer and will be playing just about everywhere besides the Pitchfork-curated festival on July 16-17, we've got to give some respect, and pay special kudos to the reissue of ...Warm Turtle in particular, as it contains the feel good hit of the summer "Intonation Daydream" (wink, wink, groan...).

>> Alpine Static:
01 Hot Stenographer
02 The Wives of Artie Shaw
03 Hiding Drugs in the Temple (Part 2)
04 The Party Which You Know Will Be Heavy
05 Passed Out on Your Lawn
06 All Your Kids Have Turned to Static
07 The Snowy Parts of Scandinavia
08 Edge Set
09 Waka Nusa