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Okay, so maybe a trip to this summer's Pitchfork Music Festival just isn't in the cards for you, for reasons of proximity, financial dearth, or serious illness (any other excuse just doesn't cut it). Maybe you're a mite bummed about missing Sonic Youth performing Daydream Nation in its glorious entirety. Well hang tight kid, because there's still hope for you yet.

Thurston, Kim, Lee, and Steve have tacked a few more extra special Daydream Nation engagements onto their summer itinerary, at which they'll play their masterpiece from start to finish. In addition to the previously reported stints at the Primavera Sound festival, ATP in London, and-- of course-- the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, SY will also give folks in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Munich, and Berlin a chance to teen age riot at a public station near them. Londoners who didn't score tickets also get one more chance to do so, as a third ATP date has been added in the English capital.

ATP and Don't Look Back present the Berkeley and L.A. shows, which go down, respectively, at the Community Theater (July 19) and Greek Theatre (July 20). Prior to that, SY rock Daydream at Munich's Tollwood Festival (June 21) and Berlin's Columbia Halle (June 27). Not content to simply dwell in the past, our daydreamers also play a bunch of regular dates in the coming months, including their first-ever shows in China.

Striking while the iron's shit-hot, the band will reissue Daydream Nation in deluxe two-disc format (with bonus tracks, liner notes, the whole nine yards) in June 2007, a wee bit shy of the 1988 LP's impending 20th anniversary.

Sonic Youth Daydream Nation dates:

06-02 Barcelona, Spain - Parc dèl Forum (Primavera Sound)
06-21 Munich, Germany - Tollwood Festival
06-27 Berlin, Germany - Columbia Halle
07-13 Chicago, IL - Union Park (Pitchfork Music Festival/ATP Don't Look Back)
07-19 Berkeley, CA - Berkeley Community Theater
07-20 Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre
08-30 London, England - Roundhouse (ATP Don't Look Back)
08-31 London, England - Roundhouse (ATP Don't Look Back)
09-01 London, England - Roundhouse (ATP Don't Look Back)

Regular Sonic Youth dates:

04-17 Osaka, Japan - Namba Hatch *
04-18 Nagoya, Japan - Diamond Hall *
04-20 Tokyo, Japan - Studio Coast *
04-23 Beijing, China - The Star Live
04-24 Shanghai, China – Shanghai Concert Hall
04-27 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field (Coachella)
05-17-20 Brooklyn, NY – No Fun Fest #
06-16 Wiesbaden, Germany - Schlachthof
06-23 Neuhausen, Germany - Southside Festival
06-24 Scheessel, Germany - Hurricane Festival
06-26 Cologne, Germany - E Werk
06-29 Gdynia, Poland - Open'er Festival
07-01 Cergy-Pontoise, France - Furia Sound Festival

* with Vooredoms
# Thurston Moore/Jim O'Rourke, Kim Gordon/Yoshimi