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Last week, a perplexing post popped up on the official Electric Six website: "In a tragic, yet intriguing, turn of events," it read, "Electric Six synthesizer player Tait Nucleus? this morning was administered the 'Chinese Cocktail' by a group of thugs who wanted him out of the picture.....permanently," it read. "However, every cloud is a lining. As long as he does enough crank and trucker speed, as long as keeps snapping peoples' necks and punching brick walls, he can live. He's gotta keep going.....keep moving......keep running.....fuck every person he sees, jump every motorcycle off of every drawbridge, jump out of every airplane, crash every car. Keep it up....1,000 percent of the time. Do that, and he'll be just fine....."

Wait a second...isn't that new movie Crank...ohhhhh, I get it. You jokers!

Electric Six will inject America with yet another dose of their silly disco-punk starting next week, when they release their SECOND album of the year, Switzerland, on September 12, courtesy of Metropolis Records. (It comes out in Germany, France, Italy, and the Netherlands on September 15, and in the UK "either September 25 or October 2", according to the band's website.) That same day, they'll kick off their "Swiss Vengeance Tour". So watch out.

On September 21, E6 will play the "South Park" tenth anniversary party in L.A. That's so...appropriate.

The band also has a new video for the track "I Buy the Drugs", which you may view here. What's that? The sound of speakers across the country being turned down at once? Five out of five stars!

Tracklist:

01 The Band in Hell
02 I Buy the Drugs
03 Mr. Woman
04 Night Vision
05 Infected Girls
06 Pulling the Plug on the Party
07 Rubber Rocket
08 Pink Flamingos
09 I Wish This Song Was Louder
10 Slices of You
11 There's Something Very Wrong With Us, So Let's Go out Tonight
12 Germans in Mexico
13 Chocolate Pope

Dates:

09-12 Marquette, MI - Upfront and Company
09-13 Lansing, MI - Temple Club
09-14 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace
09-15 Buffalo, NY - Showplace
09-16 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
09-17 Northampton, MA - Pearl St.
09-18 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's
09-19 Cambridge, MA - Middle East
09-21 Los Angeles, CA - Lot (South Park 10th Anniversary)
09-22 Baltimore, MD - Sonar
09-23 Washington, DC - Black Cat
09-25 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
09-26 Atlanta, GA - Earl
09-27 St. Petersburg, FL - State Theater
09-28 Miami, FL - Studio A
09-29 Orlando, FL - Social;
09-30 Tallahassee, FL - Beta Bar
10-02 Nashville, TN - Exit/In
10-03 Birmingham, AL - Bottle Tree
10-04 New Orleans, LA - House of Blues
10-05 Houston, TX - Walter's on Washington
10-06 Denton, TX - Hailey's
10-07 Austin, TX - Emo's
10-09 Tucson, AZ - Plush
10-11 San Diego, CA - Casbah
10-12 Santa Ana, CA - Galaxy Theater
10-13 Los Angeles, CA - Key Club
10-14 San Francisco, CA - Independent
10-16 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
10-17 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards
10-18 Seattle, WA - Neumos
10-20 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
10-21 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
10-23 Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground
10-24 Columbia, MO - Mojo's
10-25 Kansas City, MO - Record Bar
10-26 Madison, WI - Annex
10-27 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
10-28 Milwaukee, WI - Mad Planet
10-29 Louisville, KY - Headliners
10-31 Chicago, IL - Double Door
11-01 Newport, KY - Southgate House
11-02 Columbus, OH - Little Brother's
11-03 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop
11-04 Detroit, MI - Saint Andrew's Hall
11-10 Edmonton, Alberta - New City Liquid Lounge
11-11 Calgary, Alberta - Broken City