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It's official: bonus EPs are the new cowbell. And why not? With early album leaks anathema to labels indie and major alike, the promise of a few extra songs seems as good an incentive as any to actually buy a record.

So on to today's subject, the Go! Team. Like their peers Spoon and Pinback, the Go! Team will bolster the U.S. edition of their forthcoming release-- Proof of Youth, due September 11 via Sub Pop-- with a nice little bonus EP. This one collects four tunes, all of which also appeared as B-sides in the UK (so your friends a pond away needn't sulk, since they've already got these tunes; also, they're getting the album a day earlier via Memphis Industries. So there.).

Act soon though-- only the first Sub Pop pressing of Proof of Youth will come with this choice collectable, and pre-order season has already begun.

As a bonus to yr bonus EP, catch the Go! Team live all autumn long.

Proof of Youth Bonus EP:

01 Milk Crisis
02 Phantom Broadcast
03 A Version of Myself
04 Grip Like a Vice (Black Affair Remix)

Go! Team on the go:

08-31 Argyll, Scotland, Connect Festival
09-02 Stradbally, Ireland - Electric Picnic Festival
09-07 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival
09-11 London, England - HMV Oxford Street (in-store)
09-12 London, England - Electric Ballroom
09-13 Manchester, England - Ritz
09-14 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC
09-25 Edinburgh, Scotland - Edinburgh University
09-27 Newcastle, England - Northumbria University
09-28 Liverpool, England - Guild
09-29 Loughborough, England - Loughborough University
10-01 Preston, England - 53 Degrees
10-02 Bangor, Wales - Bangor University
10-04 Cardiff, Wales - Cardiff University
10-05 Warwick, England - Students Union at Warwick University
10-06 Plymouth, England - Plymouth University
10-07 Bournemouth, England - Old Fire Station
10-09 London, England - Astoria
10-13 Chicago, IL - Double Door
10-15 Seattle, WA - Neumos
10-17 Portland, OR - Doug Fir
10-19 San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine
10-20 Pomona, CA - Glass House
10-21 Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex
10-25 Boston, MA - Paradise
10-26 Philadelphia, PA - Starlight Ballroom
10-27 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
10-28 Brooklyn, NY - Studio B
10-30 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
10-31 Toronto, Ontario - Opera House
11-09 Lille, France - Aeronef
11-10 Paris, France - Cigale
11-11 Nantes, France - Olympic
11-13 Toulouse, France - Bikini
11-15 Milan, Italy - Magazzini
11-16 Treviso, Italy - New Age
11-17 Bologna, Italy - Estragon