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Casiotone, how ever could you be painfully alone when you're surrounded by piles upon piles of singles?

Owen Ashworth, known in the biz as Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, has a busy fall ahead of him: he's got five new singles coming out on three different labels and a European/U.S. tour alongside the Dead Science.

The first release is a limited edition (500 hand-numbered copies) seven inch, due October 31 on Rococo Records. It features a cover of Paul Simon's "Graceland", a Xiu Xiu remix of "Casiotone for the Painfully Alone in a Yellow Shirt" from the CFTPA album 2003 Twinkle Echo, and the B-side "Sunday Street". Later this year, Rococo will also release a Casiotone/Oscillating Innards split single. Oscillating Innards features Ashworth's brother Gordon, as well as one of the best band names we've heard in a long time.

Next up is the second single from the latest Casiotone album, Etiquette, "Bobby Malone Moves Home", due this autumn on Tomlab Records. It will be released in both seven inch and CD formats, and features the B-side "Jeane, If You're Ever in Portland (Donkeys version)" from a recent Daytrotter session. The CD version will also include four live tracks from Casiotone's 2005 tour with Donkeys. Cover art comes from-- oh, look at this-- Donkeys' Anthony Lukens. Hopefully he doesn't make an ass of himself. Ba dum dum.

Oedipus Records also gets in on the CFTPA action with a split seven inch with folk trio Foot Foot (Casiotone's contribution is called "It's a Crime") as well as a seven inch picture disc, the second in a series by photographer and Xiu Xiu tour manager David Horvitz. On it, listeners will find reworked versions of "New Year's Kiss" and "Lesley Gore on the TAMI Show".

After all this is out of the way, Casiotone plans to utilize the winter to write songs for a new album with, says his website, a "tentative release date of 2017," rofl.

Finally, Ashworth kicks off a European tour tomorrow in Berlin. He hits the U.S. West Coast in November. The Dead Science will perform as both his opening act and backing band, along with Tyson Thurston from Head of Femur on piano.

09-15 Berlin, Germany - Magnet Club *
09-16 Dresden, Germany - Scheune *
09-17 Schorndorf, Germany - Manufaktur *
09-18 Leipzig, Germany - UT Connewitz *
09-19 Darmstadt, Germany - Oetinger Villa *
09-20 Münster, Germany - Gleis 22 *$
09-21 Lund, Sweden - Mejerijt *
09-22 Gothenburg, Sweden - Kulturhuset Underjorden *
09-23 Copenhagen, Denmark - LAB *
09-25 Manchester, England - Phoenix *
09-26 Nottingham, England - Liars Club at the Social *
09-27 Glasgow, Scotland - King Tut's Wah Wah Hut *
09-28 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Bunker *
09-29 Dublin, Ireland - Whelan's *
09-30 Bristol, England - Cube Cinema *
10-01 London, England - Luminaire *
10-02 Brighton, England - Hope *
10-03 Tourcoing, France - Le Grand Mix *
10-04 Paris, France - Le Divan du Monde *
10-05 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique *
10-06 Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Paradiso *
10-07 Enschede, the Netherlands - Atak/the Overload *
10-08 Rouen, France - Emporium Galorium *
10-09 Metz, France - Le Tunnel *
10-10 Trier, Germany - Exhaus *
10-11 Freiburg, Germany - Swamp *
10-12 Lyon, France - Grnd Zero *
10-13 Barcelona, Spain - Apolo *
10-14 Madrid, Spain - Neu Club *
10-16 Düdingen, Switzerland - Bad Bonn *
10-17 Torino, Italy - TBA *
10-18 Cento, Italy - 500 Rockclub *
10-19 Rome, Italy - Circolo Degli Artisti *
10-20 Legnano, Italy - Jail *
10-21 Graz, Austria - Veilchen at Forum Stadtpark *
10-22 Wien, Austria - Chelsea *
10-23 Prague, Czech Republic - Klub 007 Strahov *
10-24 Berlin, Germany - Ausland *
11-04 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill *#
11-05 Los Angeles, CA - Knitting Factory Alterknit Lounge *
11-06 San Luis Obispo, CA - Downtown Brewing Co. *#
11-07 Merced, CA - TBA *
11-08 Davis, CA - TBA *#
11-09 Portland, OR - Someday Lounge *#
11-10 Seattle, WA - Paradox *#

* with the Dead Science
$ with Amusement Parks on Fire
# with the Papercuts