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You never got Frida Hyvönen right, but she's not mad about it. Indeed, she's out to give you another chance, playing her lively piano-pop tunes to you-- hot off the just-U.S.-released Until Death Comes (Secretly Canadian)-- on a series of dates in the States. The festivities commence tonight in Brooklyn as part of that CMJ shebang you've probably been hearing about. Sweden-bred Hyvönen then jets off to Europe in December for a few more gigs.

While you're hanging at the merch booth after the show, why not ask Frida what it was like to write and record a musical score for a bunch of poodles to dance to? She's just wrapped up Püdel (translation: poodle), meant to accompany a piece by choreographer Dorte Olesen that will play throughout Sweden in January and February of next year-- and featuring, yes, about 20 dancing poodles. A recording of Frida's score should see release early next year, so start teaching your pampered canine pal some ace moves now.

Frida!:

11-01 Brooklyn, NY - Union Hall (CMJ) *
11-02 New York, NY - Skirball Center (CMJ) #
11-03 Brooklyn, NY - Sound Fix Records (CMJ instore)
11-05 New York, NY - Tonic ^
11-07 Philadelphia, PA - The Manhattan Room
11-08 Washington, DC - R&R Hotel
11-09 Norfolk, VA - Relative Theory Records %
11-11 Murfreesboro, TN - Casa Burrito
11-14 Baton Rouge, LA - Red Star Bar
11-15 Dallas, TX - The Cavern
11-16 Houston, TX - Proletariat +
11-17 Austin, TX - Emo's ~
11-19 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen $
12-06 London, England - 93 Feet East !
12-09 Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Paradiso
12-10 Berlin, Germany - Privatclub
12-11 Cologne, Germany - Studio 672
12-12 Paris, France - Le Divan du Monde @

* with Earlimart
# with the Walkmen, the Wrens
^ with Josephine Foster, Kath Bloom, Rachel Mason
% with Trespassers William
+ with Dirty Projectors
~ with the Fiery Furnaces
$ with Bishop Allen
! with Mechanical Bride
@ with Anna