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Rather than spend the coming months at their lakeside log cabin-- stoking the fire, eating turkey, and piecing puzzles together-- or dwelling wherever they dwell and doing whatever they do in L.A. (see video), Blake Sennett and Co. have elected to embark on a fall tour of North America.

Yes, the Sennett-led pop/alt-country band known as the Elected kick off a string of autumnal dates this weekend, in support of its 2006 Sub Pop LP Sun, Sun, Sun. The long jaunt begins in California and zig-zags across the U.S. and parts of Canada, with Margot & the Nuclear So and So's in tow. Besides playing a whole bunch of Universities of California, the Elected will also rock this year's CMJ New Music Marathon, alongside all your Sub Pop favorites: the Shins, the Thermals, CSS, and more .

As previously reported, Sennett's other band Rilo Kiley is in the midst of recording its fourth full-length, said to include the "totally trippy" (in the words of Kiley-mate Jenny Lewis) new tune "Acid Tongue" and a reworked version of live favorite "Pull Me in Tighter".

They're not going home:

10-07 Los Angeles, CA - LA Weekly Detour Music Festival
10-13 Berkeley, CA - Bears Lair at University of California
10-14 San Francisco, CA - Café Du Nord *
10-17 Seattle, WA - Paradox *
10-18 Vancouver, British Columbia - Media Club *
10-20 Edmonton, Alberta - Powerplant *
10-21 Calgary, Alberta - Liberty Lounge *
10-23 Winnipeg, Manitoba - The Collective *
10-25 Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground *
10-26 Madison, WI - Club 770 *
10-27 Grinnell, IA - Grinnell College *
10-28 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock *
10-29 Chicago, IL - Abbey Pub *
10-30 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop *
11-02 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom (CMJ) #
11-03 Cambridge, MA - T.T. the Bear's *
11-05 New York, NY - Knitting Factory *
11-06 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church *
11-07 Washington, DC - Black Cat *
11-09 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn *
11-10 Mt. Pleasant, SC - Village Tavern *
11-11 St. Augustine, FL - Café 11 *
11-13 Orlando, FL - The Social *
11-14 Tallahassee, FL - Club Downunder at Florida State University *
11-16 Austin, TX - Emo's *
11-17 Houston, TX - Walter's on Washington *
11-18 Denton, TX - Hailey's *
11-20 Tempe, AZ - Modified Arts *
11-24 Pomona, CA - Glass House *
11-25 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour *
11-29 La Jolla, CA - Porter's Pub at University of California San Diego

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