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It's been a good couple of years for Austin's Misra Records. Two pretty little releases by Great Lake Swimmers last year, a solid outing from Shearwater, and the Recommended Evangelicals record So Gone make Misra one of the most consistent-- yet still somewhat overlooked-- labels in recent memory.

Add Centro-Matic to that list. We gave their most recent record, Fort Recovery, an 8.1, and central Centro-songwriter Will Johnson has been touring extensively in support of the record-- in Europe with Centro-Matic and in the U.S. as a member of the Undertow Orchestra (with Vic Chesnutt, American Music Club's Mark Eitzel, and David Bazan, aka The Artist Formerly Known as Pedro the Lion). Now, he's hitting the American West with Centro-Matic to show us exactly what we've been missing. Dates after the jump.

Tour machine:

08-30 Lubbock, TX – Jake's $
08-31 Albuquerque, NM - Launch Pad ^
09-01 Tucson, AZ – Club Congress ^
09-02 Phoenix, AZ – Modified Arts ^
09-04 San Diego, CA – Casbah ^
09-05 Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour ^
09-06 San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill ^
09-08 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge (MusicfestNW) *#
09-09 Seattle, WA – Neumos *
09-11 Boise, ID – Neurolux
09-13 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge %
09-16 Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Festival

$ with Thrift Store Cowboys
^ with David Dondero
* with Eric Bachmann, Richard Buckner
# with Richmond Fontaine, Dolorean
% with Kettle Black, Magic Cyclops