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Well do ya, do ya do ya want to live where soul meets body? This March and April, you can. In a brilliant display of major-label alt-rock synergy, Franz Ferdinand and Death Cab for Cutie have announced that they will tour North America together. Cities such as Reno, Ithaca, and Calgary will be blasted to bits by the sheer force of so much nice-guy attitude.

Come on dance with me, Gibbard:

03-22 Portland, OR - Memorial Coliseum
03-23 Sacramento, CA - Memorial Hall at Sacramento Convention Center
03-24 Reno, NV - Reno Hilton Pavillion
03-27 Tucson, AZ - Centennial Hall at University of Arizona
03-29 Austin, TX - The Backyard
03-30 Houston, TX - Verizon Wireless Theater
03-31 Grand Prairie, TX - Nokia Theatre
04-07 Durham, NC - Cameron Stadium at Duke University
04-08 Camden, NJ - Tweeter Center Indoors
04-09 Ithaca, NY - Barton Hall at Cornell University
04-11 Washington, DC - Constitution Hall
04-12 Boston, MA - Agannis Arena
04-13 New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom
04-14 New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom
04-15 Montreal, Quebec - Cepsum at University of Montreal
04-17 Toronto, Ontario - The Docks
04-18 Detroit, MI - State Theatre
04-19 Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom
04-20 St Paul, MN - Northrop Auditorum at University of Minnesota
04-23 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Burton Cummings Theatre
04-25 Edmonton, Alberta - Shaw Conference Centre
04-26 Calgary, Alberta - Stampede Corral

Franz Ferdinand are currently in the midst of the massive Big Day Out tour Down Under. They've got a bunch of festival dates scheduled throughout the coming months (Bangkok 100, Roskilde, Coachella, Benicàssim), as well as a brief stint opening for U2 in South America. Chilean fans are currently circulating an online petition to get the band to play their own headlining show in Santiago, and we don't blame them. You can sign it here. Apparently, such a tactic worked in Buenos Aires.

Take them out:

02-03 Adelaide, Australia - Royal Adelaide Showground (Big Day Out) *#
02-05 Perth, Australia - Claremont Showgrounds (Big Day Out)*#
02-08 Nagoya, Japan - Zepp #
02-10 Tokyo, Japan - SU #
02-12 Osaka, Japan - Zepp #
02-16 Singapore, Rep. of Singapore - Indoor Stadium
02-18 Bangkok, Thailand - Bangkok 100 Rock Festival %
02-20 Sao Paulo, Brazil - Morumbi Stadium $
02-21 Sao Paulo, Brazil - Morumbi Stadium $
02-23 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil - Ciro Voador
02-26 Santiago, Chile - Estadio Nacional $
02-28 Buenos Aires, Argentina - Luna Park
03-01 Buenos Aires, Argentina - River Plate Stadium $
03-02 Buenos Aires, Argentina - River Plate Stadium $
04-29 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field (Coachella) @^
06-02 Nuremberg, Germany - Rock Im Park @
06-04 Nuremberg, Germany - Rock Am Ring @
06-29 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
07-20-23 Benicàssim, Spain - Festival Internacional de Benicàssim @&

* with Iggy & the Stooges, the White Stripes, Sleater-Kinney, the Mars Volta, Kings of Leon, the Living End, Soulwax / 2ManyDJs, AFI, the Living End, Gerling, Dei Hamo
# with the Magic Numbers
% with Oasis, Ian Brown, dEUS, Modern Dog, Ebola, Flure
$ with U2
^ with Sigur Ros, Common, Damian Marley, My Morning Jacket, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cat Power, Animal Collective, Devendra Banhart, The Walkmen, The Juan Maclean, Lady Sovereign, Deerhoof, my fingers are getting tired of typing
@ with Depeche Mode
& with Echo & the Bunnymen, Jay-Jay Johanson, The Rakes, The Sunday Drivers, Venus, Dionysos, Teitur

If you just can't wait for your Death Cab fix, tune in to your local PBS affiliate on February 11 for Death Cab's performance on "Austin City Limits". As previously reported, Death Cab will play Bonnaroo on June 16-18 in Tennessee, and they kicked off a European tour this week, sans Franz, but with John Vanderslice. Those dates, again:

02-03 Hamburg, Germany - Markthalle
02-04 Malmo, Sweden - KB
02-05 Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller
02-06 Stockholm, Sweden - Berns
02-11 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
02-12 Bielefeld, Germany - Kamp
02-13 Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall
02-14 Frankfurt, Germany - Batschkapp
02-15 Heidelberg, Germany - Kulturhaus
02-16 Dresden, Germany - Starclub
02-17 Vienna, Austria - Arena
02-18 Munich, Germany - Ampere Muffathalle
02-19 Fribourg, Switzerland - Fri-son
02-20 Zurich, Switzerland - Abart Music Club
02-21 Milan, Italy - Rainbow
02-23 Barcelona, Spain - Bikini
02-24 Madrid, Spain - Copernica
02-25 San Sebastian, Spain - Rock Star
02-27 Paris, France - Trabendo
02-28 London, England - Astoria
03-01 London, England - Astoria
03-02 Nottingham, England - Rock City
03-03 Manchester, England - Academy 1
03-04 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowlands
03-05 Newcastle, England - Northumbria University
03-06 Portsmouth, England - Pyrimids Centre
03-07 Brussels, Belgium - AB
03-08 Amsterdam, Netherlands - The Melkweg
03-11 Oxford, England - Brookes University

In other Death Cab news, the band has slowly started rolling out the web-only "Directions" series of videos for each song on their latest album. "Soul Meets Body" is currently viewable on the band's website, but act fast, because come February 6, it will be replaced by "Summer Skin".

Also, Death Cab has partnered with Guitar Center for one of those silly contests where you can win a trip to a Death Cab show in L.A., an autographed guitar, all of the band's albums, and "exclusive Death Cab for Cutie merchandise". OK, I guess the contest itself isn't inherently silly, but the fact that Guitar Center refers to Death Cab as the "nation's hottest band" is. Gibbard and Walla probably peed themselves laughing when they read that.

* Pitchfork Review: Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have It So Much Better
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