Pitchfork

It's easy to lose Canadian bands in the shuffle these days, there are so damn many of them (not that we're complaining). That's especially true of Malajube, who don't have a blog or a million side projects, and who sing in their native québécois. But Malajube's excellent second album, Trompe-l'Oeil, came out just last year, and come on, our attention spans are longer than that, right?

Hoping the answer to that question is "Yes!", the band will head out on a North American tour that will keep them going all the way into December. The tour begins tonight, October 31, in Ottawa, and its tail end finds Malajube exploring the overlooked corners of their native province: Lavaltrie! Rimouski! Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu! Sounds like a Sufjan song title.

Dates:

10-31 Ottawa, Ontario - Zaphod Beeblebrox
11-01 Waterloo, Ontario - Starlite Room
11-02 London, Ontario - Call the Office
11-03 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace
11-05 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
11-07 Ames, IA - The Maintenance Shop
11-08 Milwaukee, WI - Mad Planet
11-09 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
11-10 Madison, WI - Der Rathskeller (UW-Madison Memorial Union)
11-11 Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry
11-13 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop
11-14 Rochester, NY - Bug Jar
11-15 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
11-16 Swarthmore, PA - Olde Club (Swarthmore College)
11-17 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's
11-19 Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel
11-20 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
11-21 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Upstairs
11-23 Joliette, Quebec - L'Azile
11-24 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec - Bar Le Metric
11-28 Shawinigan, Quebec - Le Broadway Pub
11-29 Sainte-Hyacinthe, Quebec - Le Zaricot
11-30 Chicoutimi, Quebec - Le Bunker
12-01 Rimouski, Quebec - Le Sens Unique
12-04 Lavaltrie, Quebec - Café Culturel la Chasse-Galerie
12-05 Sherbrooke, Quebec - Théâtre Granada
12-06 Quebec City, Quebec - Le Grand Salon
12-08 Montreal, Quebec - Le Métropolis