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Getting to kick out some jams with your idols is any young musician's dream come true, and for a young musician named Sam Fogarino from a young band called Interpol, that dream recently exploded into reality.

Fogarino met former Swervedriver lead Adam Franklin over dinner a winter ago, and the two must have hit it off, 'cause they done gone and formed a band. "i've been a swervedriver fan from the start, still am," wrote Fogarino on the Setting Suns' newly inaugurated MySpace page. "i would have killed just to bang a can for adam franklin. now, he makes sense of my melodies, and turns our ideas into a beautiful din. i feel lucky and alive.... and a bit sick from my own sap."

Thus far, the duo has posted two slow-burning bits of beautiful din on their MySpace: piano-dappled rainy-day dirge "Yesterday's Flowers", and a track called-- no joke-- "Cold War Kids".

As Franklin explained in a recent post, he's had the "Cold War Kids" idea for some time-- and even considered naming the band that until learning some youngins already snatched it up. "The inspiration behind [the song]," wrote Franklin, "was Bowie's Heroes, the film Christiane F and a song called Only The Dead Dreams Of A Cold War Kid by Hawklords, which was in effect Hawkwind contractually obligated to alter their name whilst playing Noo Wave music circa 1978." Good to know, good to know.

The Setting Suns have not yet unveiled any release details or tour plans. Franklin, meanwhile, has retired his Toshack Highway moniker for the moment, and will release an album called Bolts of Melody later this spring under his own name. Bolts will include Adam's cover of Wolf Parade's "Shine a Light", and several tracks off it may be streamed right now at dude's MySpace.

As previously reported, Sam Fogarino has put together a benefit for Callum Robbins, who suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophy. The event goes down April 16 at NYC's Bowery Ballroom and features performances from Bob Mould, Radio 4, and Mercury Rev offshoot Harmony Rockets. Expect special guests as well.

Interpol, that Capitol Records-signed band Fogarino drums for, embark on a totally epic Canadian tour next month, with several festival dates to follow. A Las Vegas gig recently popped up on Ticketbastard, and there's an awfully suspicious month-long gap between it and Interpol's Sasquatch! appearance at the end of May. Consider our fingers crossed.

Interpol:

04-15 Ottawa, Ontario -­ Capitol
04-16 Kitchener, Ontario - Element
04-17 London, Ontario - Cowboys Ranch
04-20 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Garrick Center
04-22 Calgary, Alberta - MacEwan Centre
04-23 Edmonton, Alberta - Event Center
04-25 Vancouver, British Columbia - The Commodore
04-27 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field (Coachella)
04-28 Las Vegas, NV - The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel
05-27 George, WA - The Gorge (Sasquatch!)
07-01 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter
07-07 Naas, Ireland - Punchestown Racecourse (Oxegen)
07-08 Balado, Scotland - T in the Park