Pitchfork: The Strokes Pay Tribute to Joey Ramone, Add Dates

The Strokes Pay Tribute to Joey Ramone, Add Dates

After the Strokes' dental insurance turned down their current tour's application for braces, Julian Casablancas and crew decided to fill in the gaps themselves. The band recently turned its back on vacation time and stuck seven new U.S. gigs smack in the middle of everlasting trek in support of latest album First Impressions of Earth.

The newly added gigs fall between May 19 and June 11, and will kick off with a tribute concert for the late Joey Ramone at New York's Irving Plaza. Also performing are the Dead Boys, Andy Shernoff (the Dictators), and Cheetah Chrome, and the show takes place on what would have been Joey's 55th birthday. All proceeds from the show, tagged the Joey Ramone Birthday Benefit, go to the Lymphoma Research Foundation.

Work hard and say it's easy:

04-22 Atlantic City, NJ - Borgata
04-23 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
04-25 Boston, MA - Agganis Arena
04-26 Washington, DC - D.A.R. Constitution Hall
04-29 Tucson, AZ - Tucson Sports Park
05-06 Toronto, Ontario - Ricoh Colliseum
05-07 Montreal, Quebec - CEPSUM (University of Montreal)
05-09 Ottawa, Ontario - Ottawa Civic Center
05-10 London, Ontario - John Labatt Centre
05-12 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Burton Cummings Theatre
05-14 Calgary, Alberta - Stampede Corral
05-15 Edmonton, Alberta - Shaw Conference Centre
05-17 Vancouver, British Columbia - Plaza of Nations
05-19 New York, NY - Irving Plaza *
05-20 Glen Allen, VA - Innsbrook Pavilion
05-22 Memphis, TN - Oprheum Theatre
05-23 Birmingham, AL - Sloss Furnace
05-25 North Chareston, SC - Center Stage of the Plex
05-26 Asheville, NC - Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
06-11 Santa Barbara, CA - Santa Barbara Bowl (KJEE's Summer Roundup) !
06-16 Hultsfred, Sweden - Hultsfred Festival =
06-18 Manchester, England - Lancashire County Cricket Club #
06-21 London, England - Hyde Park (Wireless Festival) ^
06-23 Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany - Southside Festival %
06-24 Scheessel, Germany - Hurricane Festival %
06-26 Cologne, Germany - Palladium
06-27 Berlin, Germany - Berlin Arena
06-29 Paris, France - Zenith
06-30 Belfort, France - Les Eurockeennes Festival &
07-08 Nass, Ireland - Punchestown Racecourse (Oxygen Festival) $
07-09 Balado, Scotland - T in the Park Festival @
07-11 Amsterdam, Holland - Heineken Music Hall
07-13 St. P�lten, Austria - VAZ
07-14 Montreux, Switzerland - Montreux Jazz Festival
07-15 Turin, Italy - Traffic Festival
07-21 Benicassim, Spain - Benicassim Festival +
07-22 Lisbon, Portugal - Lisbon Soundz Festival

* with Dead Boys, Andy Shernoff, Cheetah Chrome
! with Franz Ferdinand, Hard-Fi, She Wants Revenge, Yellowcard, Panic! At The Disco
= with Korn, Pharrell, Deftones, Babyshambles, the Cardigans, Amadou & Mariam, the Soundtrack of Our Lives, Opeth, the Concretes, Kano, Gogol Bordello, the Gossip, Juana Molina, and more
# with the Foo Fighters
^ with Belle and Sebastian, Super Furry Animals
% with B-52's, Death Cab for Cutie, Maximo Park, Sigur Ros, the Ark, the Hives, Wolfmother, Coheed and Cambria, and more
& with Depeche Mode, Muse, Coldcut, Deftones, Morrissey, Sigur R�s, Daft Punk, and more
$ with the Who, the Arctic Monkeys, James Brown, Richard Ashcroft, Primal Scream, Editors, Eels, the Magic Numbers, the Go! Team, Hard Fi, and more
@ with the Who, the Arctic Monkeys, Hard-Fi, the Magic Numbers, the Proclaimers, the Subways
+ with Depeche Mode, Echo & the Bunnymen, Franz Ferdinand, Madness, Morrissey, Pixies, Placebo, Scissor Sisters, Art Brut, Babyshambles, Beth Orton, Coldcut, the Futureheads, and more

* Pitchfork Review: The Strokes: First Impressions of Earth
* Pitchfork Feature: Live: The Strokes