Exclusive: Page France Reveal LP, MP3, Headlights Tour

Baltimore is supposedly one of the most depressing cities in America, full of drugs, crime, and failing schools. Well, that's what "The Wire" tells us anyway.

But somehow, that (allegedly) festering shithole has produced Page France, who are responsible for "Hat and Rabbit", one of the happiest, bounciest, and all-around peppiest songs of 2007 so far. The glockenspiel (or xylophone? I can't tell the difference) alone provides enough mirth to light a seedy back alleyway for a month.

"Hat and Rabbit" is available as an exclusive download by clicking on the link below. Or wait to hear it in context when it appears on Page France's forthcoming album ...and the Family Telephone, due out May 8 on Suicide Squeeze.

Or hop along with the tune in a live setting, as Page France hit the road with Polyvinyl band Headlights for a cross-country tour in March and April. Page France have a string of dates with the now label-less Margot & the Nuclear So and So's before that tour starts, and Headlights head to Europe with the Album Leaf in February.

Headlights are also prepping a limited edition tour EP featuring live sets recorded at XM Radio, WOXY, Daytrotter, and Indie 103.1 in the fall of 2006. The songs will be culled from the band's debut album Kill Them With Kindness as well as a brand new tune called "This One".

...and the Family Telephone Tracklisting:

01 The Ruby Ring Man
02 Wet Dog Afternoon
03 Me, Violin and Dancing Bear
04 Be My Pianist
05 Pigeons
06 Hat and Rabbit
07 A Belly to the Sea
08 A Belly in the Fish
09 Rooster and Its Crow
10 The Jokers Joke
11 Here's a Telephone
12 Beggar's Table Legs
13 Circus Head (Nobody Knows)
14 Casting Day

Page France and Headlights dates:

03-10 Champaign, IL - Courtyard Café *
03-21 San Diego, CA - Che Café
03-23 San Francisco, CA - Café Du Nord
03-26 Portland, OR - Doug Fir
03-27 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Café
03-28 Boise, ID - Neurolux
03-29 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
03-30 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive
03-31 Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground
04-02 Fargo, ND - Aquarium
04-03 Duluth, MN - University of Minnesota
04-04 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
04-05 Milwaukee, WI - Stonefly Brewery
04-06 Champaign, IL - Cowboy Monkey
04-07 Chicago, IL - Schubas
04-09 Lexington, KY - Mecca Stuido
04-10 Gambier, OH - Kenyon College
04-11 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern
04-12 Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place
04-13 New York, NY - Pianos
04-14 Brooklyn, NY - Union Hall
04-15 Boston, MA - Middle East Upstairs

* with Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, Canada, Gentlemen Auction House

Page France dates:

01-17 Grantham, PA - Messiah College Larsen Student Union
03-06 Grand Rapids, MI - Calvin College Fine Arts Center *#
03-07 Ann Arbor, MI - Blind Pig #
03-08 Newport, KY - Southgate House #
03-09 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen *#
03-11 St. Louis, MO - Blueberry Hill *#
03-12 Springfield, MO - Randy Bacon Studio and Gallery *#
03-13 Dallas, TX - Ellum: ONSTAGE *#

* with Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
# with Canada

Headlights dates:

01-21 DeKalb, IL - The House Café *
01-26 Champaign, IL - Courtyard Café
02-02 Champaign, IL - Highdive ^
02-08 Offenbach, Germany - Hafen 2
02-09 Ramseck, Germany - Haus der Jugend
02-10 Basel, Switzerland - Kaserne !
02-12 Vienna, Austria - Arena
02-13 Würzburg, Germany - Cairo
02-14 Münster, Germany - Gleis 22 &
02-15 Hamburg, Germany - Fundbureau
02-16 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso @
02-17 Brugge, Belgium - Music in Mind @
02-18 Roubaix, France - Le Grand Mix @
02-20 Paris, France - Le Point Ephemere @
02-21 Amiens, France - La Lune Des Pirates @
02-22 London, England - Sonic Cathedral $
02-25 Exeter, England - Cavern
02-26 London, England - Windmill
02-27 Brighton, England - The Hope
02-28 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique @
03-01 Rotterdam, Netherlands - Rotown @
03-02 Magdeburg, Germany - P7
03-03 Berlin, Germany - TBA
03-04 Cologne, Germany - TBA #

* with Asobi Seksu, Inspector Owl
^ with the Living Blue, Shipwreck, Dress Code
! with Blondelle
& with Fotos
@ with The Album Leaf
$ with The Ponys
# with Handsome Furs

MP3: Page France: Hat and Rabbit [from the forthcoming ...and the Family Telephone LP]