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As if transforming Justin Timberlake's sweaty club banger "SexyBack" into a rustic traveling song wasn't horseplay enough, the seven men and women of Toronto's Rock Plaza Central have announced plans to take 2006's stellar steel horse saga Are We Not Horses? on the road beginning this weekend.

Granted, most of that road is confined to Eastern Canada, but the septet will duck into the U.S. for a pair of dates in February and March. And given all the empty days surrounding those gigs in Brooklyn, and yes, Iowa, don't be surprised if Rock Plaza decides to rock all over their Southern neighbors' faces in the near future. Consider our fingers crossed.

Like a Rock:

01-06 Toronto, Ontario - Tranzac Rock'n'Roll Wedding 4 *
01-13 Ottawa, Ontario - Zaphod's #
01-18 Guelph, Ontario - E-Bar ^
01-27 Montreal, Quebec - Main Hall %
01-28 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace %$
02-17 Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands %+
03-31 Iowa City, IA - Mission Creek Festival

* with Lullabye Arkestra, Mantler
# with As the Poets Affirm, My Dad Vs. Yours
^ with Constantines
% with Oxford Collapse
$ with Thunderbirds Are Now!
+ with Meneguar