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It looks like side projects are the new black for 2005's Fall fashion season, as Le Tigre singer/multi-instrumentalist JD Samson has joined the fray with her extra-curricular outfit New England Roses. The band, which also features Brendan Fowler (BARR) and Sarah Shapiro, will head out for a trio of East coast dates later this week in support of their debut album, Face Time With Son, which will be released on Doggpony Records (which Fowler co-runs) on November 9.

More shows are promised follow early next year, according to the band's MySpace page. And hey, when was the last time a MySpace page steered you wrong?! Dates:

10-27 Brooklyn, NY - Warehouse *
10-28 New York, NY - Cake Shop #
10-29 Philadelphia, PA - Space 1026

* with Holy Hail (featuring Cat from Fannypack), the Gossip
# with Lucky Dragons, The Redcoats Are Coming, Wrists & Pistols

Face Time With Son is a collection of minimal, atonal originals and oddball covers of the likes of George Michael, Tracy Chapman, and Dave Matthews. Freak out the frat guys:

01 These Days
02 All for the Night
03 Dancing Nancies
04 Blood Blood Blood
05 The Good Wife
06 Kids in the City
07 Broken Heart
08 Candy
09 Love Song
10 Confidence
11 Faith
12 Revolution

The band members continue to busy themselves with other projects, of course. According to the Le Tigre website, the 2006 version of Samson's "JD's Lesbian Utopia" pin-up calendar will be available soon. Fowler's latest BARR album, Beyond Reinforced Jewel Case, came out on 5RC/Doggpony on October 11, and he will tour the nation with fellow party experimentalists XBXRX and Hawnay Troof in November. Dates:

n 11-14 San Francisco, CA - ATA *
11-16 Denver, CO - Rhinoceropolis *
11-17 Columbia, MO - The Ranch *
11-18 Bloomington, IN - TBA *
11-19 Chicago, IL - Open End Gallery *
11-20 Akron, OH - Lime Spider *&
11-21 Brooklyn, NY - TBA *
11-22 Northampton, MA - Flywheel *#
11-23 Baltimore, MD - Talking Head *@
11-25 Atlanta, GA - Larry's Bar *
11-26 Mobile, AL - Picklefish *
11-27 Pensacola, Fl- Sluggos *
11-28 Houston, TX - Andrew *
11-29 Austin, TX - Emo's * $
11-30 Lubbock, TX - TBA *
12-01 Flagstaff, AZ - TBA *
12-02 San Diego, CA - Che Café * %
12-03 Los Angeles, CA - The Smell *

* with XBXRX, Hawnay Troof
& with Nautical Almanac
# with Thurston Moore, Bomb Treb
@ with Chromatix
$ with Old Timerz, Sneeze
% with Sex Affection

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