Northern State Teaming Up with Tegan and Sara for American Tour

The girls are fresh off a seemingly not-totally-amicable (but voluntary) split from Columbia Records, which released their debut album All City last year. But unlike most ex-lovers, NS are completely open about their break-up.

"We had some really amazing experiences making All City, working with some of our hip hop heroes like Pete Rock and Muggs from Cypress Hill," MC Spero said in a press release. "But you take a real risk when you sign with a major, and we knew that going into it." Sadly, the risk in question involved disappointment over Columbia's level of promotion for the record and not, say, Jello-wrestling alligators. If it had been Jello-wrestling alligators, you have to admit, that would have been cool.

But on to bigger and better things! The hook up with Tegan and Sara grew from e-mail exchanges between Spero and Tegan, wherein the girls expressed a mutual admiration for each other's music. The groups eventually met up and discussed "how much it sucks to feel like we're the only girls everywhere we go, especially when we're on the road," Spero said.

We're pretty sure women are actually sighted regularly in many of the cities below, but we can't vouch for all of them. Like, Bloomington could just be one giant Iron John group. We wouldn't know. Dates:

10-02 Providence, RI - Lupo's *
10-03 New Haven, CT - Toad's Place *
10-04 Northampton, MA - Pearl Street *
10-06 Detroit, MI - The Majestic *
10-07 Chicago, IL - The Metro *
10-08 Grinnell, IA - Harris Center Concert Hall, Grinnell College *
10-09 Bloomington, IN - Buskirk Chumley Theater *
10-10 Urbana, IL - Canopy Club *
10-11 Columbia, MO - Missouri Theater *
10-15 Berkeley, CA - Pauley Ballroom, UC Berkeley *
10-16 Sacramento, CA - University Ballroom, Cal State Sacramento *
10-17 Chico, CA - Bell Memorial Union #006, Cal State Chico *
10-18 Eugene, OR - McDonald Theater *
10-19 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom *
10-20 Seattle, WA - The Crocodile

* with Tegan and Sara

Northern State: http://www.northernstate.net
Tegan and Sara: http://www.teganandsara.com