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They claim they can't go on, but they did go on... go on tour, that is! (Ouch.)

The Broken West, City of Angels born and power-pop bred, have seedy motels to crash in, the strange scents of long-forgotten cheeseburgers to rediscover in their van, and copies of their Merge-issued debut LP I Can't Go On, I'll Go On to hock. Their tour of North America is in progress now, and along the way, the zippy guitar-rockers will stand upon some of the very stages acts like the National, the Comas, and Fountains of Wayne will take mere minutes later.

Breakin' it down:

05-25 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's *
05-26 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge *
05-28 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom #
05-30 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Upstairs *
05-31 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's *
06-01 Washington, DC - Black Cat *
06-02 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle *
06-03 Atlanta, GA - The Earl *
06-03 Birmingham, AL - Zydeco *
06-05 Nashville, TN - Exit/In *
06-06 Columbus, OH - Little Brothers *
06-07 Pittsburgh, PA - Diesel &
06-09 Cleveland, OH - House of Blues &
06-10 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace &
06-11 Detroit, MI - St. Andrew's Hall &
06-13 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue &
06-14 Oshkosh, WI - Waterfest &
06-15 Chicago, IL - Taste of Randolph Street &
06-17 Austin, TX - Emo's ^
06-25 San Diego, CA - Casbah #
06-26 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre #
06-27 San Francisco, CA - Bimbos 365 #
06-28 Portland, OR - Berbatis Pan #
06-29 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards #
06-30 Seattle, WA - Neumos #

* with the Comas
# with the National
& with Fountains of Wayne
^ with the Stills