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With a slew of hometown SXSW shows now behind them, Austin instrumental trio the Octopus Project are finally ready to perform in states that you can mess with.

The octopi launch a Midwest/West Coast tour tonight at St. Louis' Creepy Crawl (how appropriate).

They will continue on 'til Coachella, a gig the Octopus Project were invited to play as a result of the festival's vote-for-your-favorite-up-and-coming-band contest on MySpace.

More dates than tentacles:

03-22 Champaign, IL - Canopy Club #
03-23 Bloomington, IN - Second Story ^
03-24 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen %
03-25 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
03-26 Fargo, ND - The Aquarium
03-28 Seattle, WA - Paradox &
03-29 Portland, OR - Holocene
03-30 San Francisco, CA - Bimbo's (Noise Pop Festival) @
04-01 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
04-03 Phoenix, AZ - Modified
04-04 Albuquerque, NM - Burt's Tiki Lounge +
04-05 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive
04-07 Lubbock, TX - Jake's
04-09 Ft. Worth, TX - Ridglea Theater (Wall of Sound Festival) =
04-30 Indio, CA - Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival $

* with Thunderbirds Are Now!, Rahim, Team Up!!, Micahveil, Thank Thank Thunk
# with the Show Is the Rainbow
^ with Horns of Happiness
% with Volcano!, The Show Is the Rainbow
& with An Albatross, The Assailant & Der Trasch
@ with Rogue Wave, Aqueduct, Scrabbel
+ with the Gingerbread Patriots
= with Okkervil River, Starlight Mints, the Czars, the Dark Romantics, the Deathray Davies
$ with Tool, Madonna, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Massive Attack, Bloc Party, Sleater-Kinney, Mogwai, Wolf Parade, Gnarls Barkley, the Go! Team, Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Art Brut, blah blah

* Pitchfork Review: The Octopus Project: One Ten Hundred Thousand Million