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Polyphonic Spree: watch your backs! Good bloke Dan Deacon has announced his intention to assemble a different backing choir in each and every city on his upcoming tour (the one that kicks off tonight). The lucky eight will perform Spiderman of the Rings jam "Wham City" with Deacon and don some fetching Spree-style neon robes created by Baltimore artist Stefani Levin and pictured here.

Do you have what it takes to back up batshit spazz-pop's reigning idiot savant? Fire an email off to handy address dandeaconchoir@gmail.com if so, but act fast! The first eight people (four male, four female) per city are in; everyone else must content themselves with singing along from the crowd and wearing the usual fitted New Era caps and neckerchiefs.

Every performance of "Wham City" on this tour will be filmed for the song's forthcoming music video. So if you make it into the choir, you'll be faaaamous.

God only knows what newly invented odors those robes will emit by the time they reach the Pitchfork Music Festival this July.







Go dumb:

05-25 Greensboro, NC - Two Art Chicks #
05-26 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 #
05-27 Asheville, NC - New French Bar #
05-28 Knoxville, TN - The Pilot Light #
05-29 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree Café #
05-30 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn #
05-31 Savannah, GA - The Jinx #
06-01 Jacksonville, FL - TSI #
06-02 Orlando, FL - Back Booth #
06-03 Miami, FL - PS14 #
06-04 Tampa, FL - New World Brewery #
06-05 Gainesville, FL - Common Grounds #
06-06 Tallahassee, FL - The Beta Bar #
06-07 Hattiesburg, MS - Thirsty Hippo #
06-08 New Orleans, LA - The Green Space #
06-09 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon #
06-10 Houston, TX - Mink #
06-12 Austin, TX - Emo's Jr. #
06-13 Dallas, TX - The Cavern #
06-14 Santa Fe, NM - Warehouse 21's Luna Space #
06-15 Tucson, AZ - Plush #
06-16 Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex #
06-17 San Diego, CA - Che Cafe #
06-18 Los Angeles, CA - Pehrspace #
06-19 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill #
06-20 Oakland, CA - 21 Grand ^
06-21 Sacramento, CA - Fool's Foundation #
06-22 Portland, OR - Holocene #
06-24 Missoula, MT - Higgins Hall #
06-25 Whitefish, MT - Grouse Mountain Lodge #
06-26 Boise, ID - Neurolux #
06-27 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge #
06-28 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive #
06-29 Lawrence, KS - The Jackpot Saloon #
06-30 Omaha, NE - Waiting Room #
07-02 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club #$
07-03 Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club #
07-05 Dekalb, IL - The House Cafe #
07-07 Detroit, MI - Scrummage University #%
07-08 Brooklyn, NY - McCarren Pool ~
07-09 Toronto, Ontario - Sneaky Dee's #
07-10 Ottawa, Ontario - Zaphod Beeblebrox #
07-11 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa #
07-12 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Upstairs #&
07-14 Chicago, IL - Union Park (Pitchfork Music Festival) !
07-21 Baltimore, MD - Whartscape Festival

# with Video Hippos
^ with Jana Hunter, Michael Leviton
$ with Nomo
% with Benny Stoofy
~ with Octopus Project, Erase Errata
& with Big Digits
! with Yoko Ono, Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues, Clipse, Iron and Wine, Girl Talk, Grizzly Bear, Battles, Califone, the Twilight Sad, Fujiya & Miyagi, Oxford Collapse, Dan Deacon, Beach House, Professor Murder, Ken Vandermark's Powerhouse Sound