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Over the weekend at his native Athens, Georgia's fabled 40 Watt Club, Mr. Bradford Cox and his Atlas Sound will take the stage on the first stop on their winter tour in support of the February 19 release of Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel on Kranky.

Cox will be joined onstage by "The Atlas Sound Music Group" (pictured up yonder), featuring Brian Foote of Nudge, Adam Forkner of White Rainbow, Honey Owens of Valet, and Atlanta-based drummer/guitarist Stephanie Macksey. Cox and the Atlas Sound will wrap things up with a series of showings at a little something I (and, I'm told, others) like to call South by Southwest.

As ever, Bradford's been filling up the Deerhunter blog with new music. Recent highlights include demos for Let the Blind standout "Recent Bedroom" and Cryptograms' "Spring Hall Convert", a spliff-worthy "PostGRUNGE death trip" called "Cloves", Valentine's Day offering the How I Escaped the Prison of Fractals CD-R, and the truly lovely Orange Ohms Glow EP, recorded earlier this month and posted within hours of its completion.

But what of that other band Bradford's in? Well, they've still got that one lonely gig to their name: the ATP vs. Pitchfork festival, May 9-11 at the Camber Sands Holiday Centre near Rye, England.

Atlas Sound:

02-16 Athens, GA - 40 Watt Club #
02-19 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn #
02-20 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 #
02-21 Washington, DC - Black Cat #
02-22 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's #
02-23 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge #
02-24 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall #
02-26 Boston, MA - Middle East #
02-27 Montreal, Quebec - Casa del Popolo #
02-28 Toronto, Ontario - Horseshoe Tavern #
02-29 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick #
03-01 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle #
03-02 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club #
03-05 Vancouver, British Columbia - Pat's Pub #
03-06 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe High Dive #
03-07 Portland, OR - Holocene #
03-08 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill #
03-11 Los Angeles, CA - Echo #
03-12-16 Austin, TX - SXSW

# with Valet, White Rainbow