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Like fellow up-and-comers Tokyo Police Club, Under Byen, and controller.controller, You Say Party! We Say Die! have up and signed to Paper Bag Records. The label will release their second album, Lose All Time, on April 10.

The Vancouver party poopers have plenty of tour dates to keep them busy in the meantime. They will kick things off March 1 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, aka the funniest name for a city we've heard in a while and our newest insult ("Screw you too, medicine hat!"). For the end of the tour, they will join up with fellow Canucks Malajube and Champion for the punctuationally appropriate "Exclaim! Tour".

If the band's dates don't look particularly international, there's a very good, very frustrating reason for that. Because of visa troubles they encountered on their October tour, they "won't be going back to play in the USA for five years," according to their website. "The soonest we can return is October 2011. It will still be likely that we will need time after that to apply for a waiver to get back in. Complicated but true."

Bummer guys, but we'll always have international waters!

Dates:

03-01 Medicine Hat, Alberta - TBA
03-02 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Amigos
03-03 Brandon, Manitoba - North Hill Inn
03-05 Thunder Bay, Ontario - The Office
03-07 Sudbury, Ontario - TBA
03-08 Guelph, Ontario - TBA
03-09 Toronto, Ontario - Horseshoe Tavern (Canadian Music Week) *
03-10 Toronto, Ontario - Whippersnapper (Canadian Music Week) #
03-15 Canmore, Alberta - Canmore Hotel
03-16 Fernie, British Columbia - The Royal
03-17 Kelowna, British Columbia - Habitat
03-25 Victoria, British Columbia - Sugar ^
03-26 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards ^
03-28 Calgary, Alberta - The Warehouse ^
03-29 Edmonton, Alberta - Dinwoodie Lounge (University of Alberta) ^
03-30 Regina, Saskatchewan - Distrikt ^
03-31 Winnipeg, Manitoba - West End Cultural Center ^
04-03 London, Ontario - Call the Office ^
04-04 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix ^
04-05 Ottawa, Ontario - Capital Music Hall ^
04-06 Montreal, Quebec - Spectrum ^
04-07 Quebec City, Quebec - Theatre Imperial ^

* with Cadence Weapon, Land of Talk
# with Uncut, the Hot Springs
^ with Malajube, Champion

[Photo by Jenn Wong]