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Starting tonight in Liverpool, the Horrors-- this year's winner of the coveted "Best Band to Crank While Sporting Nylons On Your Arms" award-- will bring three solid months of their spooky Buzzcocks-meets-gloomrock sound to scaremongers on both sides of the Atlantic.

Striking out on their own through mid-May, they'll hop a jet to Boise to link up with fellow fans of the dark stuff Black Rebel Motorcycle Club for a slew of North American dates. Hey, whatever happened to their rock'n'roll?

Nothing, as it turns out; come May Day, the boys in black 'n' leather will unleash Baby 81, the follow-up to 2005’s Howl. Wait, Baby 81? Seriously, guys, get a vasectomy already.

As it turns out, BRMC aren't the only ones with a new record to scare up support for. The Horrors dropped Strange House earlier this month in their merry olde homeland, though it won't be available to American fright-fans until May 15. Hey, the same day they step in for the Fratellis on the BRMC tour! How convenient. Maybe too convenient.

Baby 81 tracklist:

01 Took out a Loan
02 Berlin
03 Weapon of Choice
04 Window
05 Cold Wind
06 It's Not What You Wanted
07 666 Conducer
08 All You Do Is Talk
09 Lien on Your Dreams
10 Need Some Air
11 Killing the Light
12 American X
13 Am I Only

BRMC/Horrors, together at last:

05-15 Boise, ID - The Big Easy
05-16 Salt Lake City, UT - In the Venue
05-17 Denver, CO - Gothic Theater
05-18 Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground
05-19 Lawrence, KS – Granada
05-20 St Louis, MO - The Pageant
05-22 Minneapolis, MN - First Ave
05-23 Milwaukee, WI - The Rave
05-24 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
05-25 Detroit, MI – St. Andrews Hall
05-26 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus
05-28 Montreal, Quebec - Le Tulipe
05-29 Boston, MA – Avalon
05-30 New York, NY - Webster Hall
06-01 Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts
06-02 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
06-04 Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall
06-05 Indianapolis, IN - The Music Mill
06-06 Nashville, TN - City Hall
06-07 Atlanta, GA - Roxy Theatre
06-09 Fort Lauderdale, FL - Culture Room
06-10 Orlando, FL - The Social
06-12 Birmingham, AL – Zydeco
06-13 New Orleans, LA - The Republic
06-14 Houston, TX – Meridian
06-15 Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa
06-16 Dallas, TX - House of Blues

Horrors holdin' it down by their lonesome:

03-23 Liverpool, England - Academy 2
03-24 Manchester, England - Club Academy
03-25 Hull, England - Welly
03-26 Leeds, England - Cockpit
03-27 Birmingham, England - Barfly
03-29 Nottingham, England - Rescue Rooms
03-30 Cardiff, England - Barfly
04-01 Portsmouth, England - Wedgewood Rooms
04-02 Bristol, England - Thekla
04-03 Norwich, England- Waterfront
04-05 Newcastle, England - Academy 2
04-06 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC 2
04-07 Aberdeen, Scotland - Kef
04-08 Edinburgh, Scotland - Cabaret Voltaire
04-10 Stoke, England - Sugarmill
04-11 Brighton, England - Concorde 2
04-12 Southend, England - Chinnerys
04-13 London, England - The Coronet Theatre
04-16 Antwerp, Belgium - Trix
04-17 Nijmegen, Netherlands - Doornroosje
04-18 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
04-20 Copenhagen, Denmark - Loppen
04-21 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser
04-22 Malmo, Sweden - Inkonst
04-24 Berlin, Germany - Magnet
04-25 Cologne, Germany - Underground
04-26 Hamburg, Germany - Molotow
04-27 Munich, Germany - Backstage
04-28 Geneva, Switzerland - Usine
04-30 Zurich, Switzerland - Abart
05-02 Bologna, Italy - Estragon
05-03 Rome, Italy - Circolo Degli Artisti
05-04 Milan, Italy - Rainbow
05-06 Barcelona, Spain - Razzmatazz 3
05-07 Madrid, Spain - Moby Dick
05-09 Toulouse, France - Vents Du Sud
05-10 Limoges, France - Le Caf'teur
05-11 Paris, France - Point Ephemere

Black Rebel Motorcycle Concerts:

04-14 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC
04-15 Manchester, England - Ritz
04-17 Wolverhampton, England - Wulfrun Hall
04-18 London, England - Astoria
05-05 Tempe, AZ – Marquee Theatre *
05-06 San Diego, CA – House of Blues *
05-08 Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern *
05-09 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore *
05-11 Portland, OR – Roseland *
05-12 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richard's
05-13 Seattle, WA – The Showbox *
06-17 Oklahoma City, OK - Diamond Ballroom
06-19 Las Vegas, NV - University Theatre

* with The Fratellis