Pitchfork

Everyone knows that Pretty Girls Make Graves, but we also know that at the end of the month, the Matador Records power-punk band will embark on a grave procession across their home continent. PGMG will hit both the Northwest and the Northeast, before wrapping it all up in mid-December (like a present). Short and sweet.

This teensy trek might not hit your hometown, but before doing something that will put you on Santa's "Naughty" list, remember that PGMG have a new album in the works, following up 2003's The New Romance.

Aimed for an April 2006 release on Matador, the record is said to be completely different than the oldies. It even features some n00bs to the PGMG crew: producer Colin Stewart (Black Mountain) and multi-instrumentalist Leona Marrs (in place of former guitarist Nathan Thelen).

Bassist Derek Fudesco told Canada's ChartAttack.com, "The difference between Good Health and New Romance is not that big, but sort of big. This one is so much different than both of those. People who liked those two records might not really be into what's going on on this one." Gee, that's descriptive. He also told Milwaukee's Shepherd Express Online that the album is "less guitar-oriented than our other records," and "this is the first record where individual members wrote whole songs. There are a lot of different personalities." Once again, not too helpful.

Pretty girls, make some noise:

11-29 Victoria, British Columbia - Lucky Bar
11-30 Vancouver, British Columbia - Red Room
12-01 Tacoma, WA - Hell's Kitchen
12-02 Seattle, WA - Husky Union Building, University of Washington *
12-05 New York, NY - Knitting Factory #
12-06 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw #
12-08 Washington, DC - Black Cat #
12-09 Bellmore, NY - Live Trax #
12-10 Providence, RI - The Living Room #
12-11 Cambridge, MA - Middle East #
12-12 Philadelphia, PA - North Star Bar #

* with Andrew W.K.
# with The Double