Pitchfork: Mogwai Rock America, Score Film

Feel the club floor tremble! Feel that little guitar murmur grow into a mighty roaring chorus! Post-rock earthquakers Mogwai kick off their U.S. jaunt tonight in Pitchfork's hallowed hometown of Chicago, Illi-noise (thank you, Suf-jeezy).

The outspoken quintet will be drumming up support, quite literally, for the March 7 release of Mr. Beast via Matador Records. Mogwai kit-man Martin Bulloch put it best on their official website: "we're in america; fuck y'all."

We'll assume he meant that in the most affectionate way possible. Come find out:

03-01 Chicago, IL - Logan Square Auditorium *
03-02 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center for the Arts *
03-03 Lexington, KY - The Dame *
03-04 Charlottesville, VA - Satellite Ballroom *
03-06 New York, NY - Avalon *
03-07 Baltimore, MD - Sonar *
03-08 Chapel Hill, NC - Cat's Cradle *
03-09 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel *
03-10 Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge *
03-11 Atlanta, GA - WhirlyBall Atlanta *
03-12 Atlanta, GA - WhirlyBall Atlanta +
03-14 Houston, TX - Numbers +%
03-15 Austin, TX - Stubb's (Matador SXSW Showcase) #
03-17 Mexico City, Mexico - Venustiano Carranza 25
03-29 Bristol, England - Academy
03-30 Southampton, England - Southampton University
03-31 Wolverhampton, England - Wulfrun Hall
04-01 Oxford, England - Brookes University
04-02 Cardiff, Wales - Coal Exchange
04-04 Cambridge, England - Junction
04-05 Liverpool, England - Carling Academy
04-06 Newcastle, England - Northumbria University
04-07 Sheffield, England - The Plug
04-08 Lille, France - Splendid
04-09 Strasbourg, France - Laiterie
04-11 Toulouse, France - SDF
04-12 Clermont-Ferrand, France - Cooperative de Mai
04-13 Paris, France - Bataclan
04-14 Rotterdam, Holland - Motel Mozaique Festival
04-15 Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall
04-16 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique (Domino Festival)
04-18 Florence, Italy - Flog
04-19 Rome, Italy - Qube
04-20 Milan, Italy - Rolling Stone
04-21 Treviso, Italy - New Age
04-22 Krems, Austria - Danube Festival
04-23 Munich, Germany - Elserhalle
04-24 Berlin, Germany - Postbahnhof
04-25 Hamburg, Germany - Gruenspan
04-27 Edinburgh, Scotland - Usher Hall (Triptych Festival) $
04-30 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field (Coachella Festival) ^
09-22 London, England - Royal Albert Hall

* with Growing
+ with Torche
% with About This Product
# with Belle and Sebastian, Cat Power, New Pornographers, Brightblack Morning Light, Jennifer O'Connor
$ with Belle and Sebastian, Aphex Twin, A Certain Ratio, Silver Jews, Battles, the Long Blondes, the Concretes, Big Daddy Kane, Kool Keith, Juana Molina, Keiran Hebden and Steve Reid, Vashti Bunyan, Wolf Eyes, et al
^ with Tool, Massive Attack, Madonna, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bloc Party, Scissor Sisters, Sleater-Kinney, Wolf Parade, Gnarls Barkley, Amadou & Mariam, the Go! Team, Ted Leo, Metric, Art Brut, Dungen, et al

And further proving that sports and post-rock make damned sexy bedfellows, Mogwai have taken a cue from Explosions in the Sky and Friday Night Lights and are providing the soundtrack to Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait. This 90-minute documentary, directed by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, explores the life of French football star Zinedine Zidane. It's currently in post-production, and this time around, the football in question is real; i.e., actually kicked, with the foot, at least 95% of the time. Apparently some people call that "soccer" or something.