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Axel Willner-- best known to you and me as Swedish beatball the Field-- has garnered enough praise for the glitchy grooves etched in this spring's Best New Music recipient From Here We Go Sublime to earn himself a little American holiday.

Unfortunately for him, it's a working holiday, but fortunately for us, that translates to a week's worth of live dates from the prodigious producer in the muggy wilds of mid-July. Of course, you've already got plans to show our friend Axel a little warm Midwestern hospitality come July 15, when he takes the stage at the Pitchfork Music Festival, along with the cream of 2007 musical crop.

Far afield:

06-02 Stockholm, Sweden - Re Publik
06-05 Padova, Italy - Summer Student Festival
06-08 Stockholm, Sweden - China Teatern
06-15 Barcelona, Spain - Nitsa Club (Kompakt Party at Sonar Festival) *
07-13 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey #
07-15 Chicago, IL - Union Park (Pitchfork Music Festival) %
07-16 Boston, MA - Great Scott
07-17 Cleveland Heights, OH - B Side Liquor Lounge
07-18 Brooklyn, NY - Studio B
07-19 Hollywood, CA - Joseph's Café
07-20 Portland, OR - Holocene !
07-21 San Francisco, CA - RX Gallery $
07-28 Dublin, Ireland - TBA
10-05 Barcelona, Spain - TBA
10-26 Monterrey, Mexico - Zona Forum

* with Reinhard Voigt, DJ Koze, SuperMayer, Tobias Thomas, Navid Tahernia
# with Fred Gianelli
% with Stephen Malkmus, the New Pornographers, De La Soul, Klaxons, Of Montreal, Jamie Lidell, the Sea and Cake, Junior Boys, the Ponys, Menomena, Deerhunter, the Field, Cadence Weapon, the Cool Kids, Nomo, Brightblack Morning Light, Craig Taborn's Junk Magic, Fred Lonberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra
! with Strategy
$ with Broker/Dealer