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Tonight, in lovely Hoboken, New Jersey, smashing young septet Los Campesinos! will take the stage at Maxwell's at the first of nearly a month of North American tour stops. The band will make its way across the continent with a handful of young talent, including Parenthetical Girls, Jeffrey Lewis, and fellow exclamation enthusiasts We Say Party! You Say Die!. Plus, in a move seemingly designed to make your reporter consider securing some airfare to the greater NYC region, they'll play a lone gig with the terrific Titus Andronicus.

In the middle of all that, the band has lined up one of those Camelot for Kids benefit gigs at Chicago's Empty Bottle May 27. The performance, closed to the public, will bring together Los Campesinos! and some of the young people Camelot treats. In so doing, the band joins the ranks of previous Camelot concert-throwers Black Lips and Fujiya & Miyagi. Pretty darn cool.

UPDATE: Los Campesinos! are playing ANOTHER show for kids on this tour! On the afternoon of May 18, they'll play a Kidrockers show at the Living Room in New York City. You must be accompanied by a kid to attend!

Once the North American jaunt wraps, there's a whole world out there to conquer, and Los Campesinos! are prepared for the task. They've got European festival dates aplenty, with a trek to Japan's Summersonic fest on the docket, and talk of their first ever Australian tour, should the demand dictate such a move.

Their year, in list:

05-14 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's
05-15 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
05-16 Washington, DC - Black Cat
05-17 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
05-18 New York, NY - Living Room (Kidrockers) !
05-19 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *
05-21 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club ^
05-22 Montreal, Quebec - Petit Campus ^
05-23 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace ^
05-24 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick ^
05-26 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle ^
05-27 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle ^
05-28 Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theatre ^
05-31 Seattle, WA - Neumos !
06-01 Vancouver, British Columbia - Plaza Club !$
06-02 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge !$
06-03 Eugene, OR - WOW Hall !
06-05 Sacramento, CA - Harlow's !
06-06 San Francisco, CA - Bimbo's 365 Club !
06-07 West Hollywood, CA - The Troubadour !
06-08 Pomona, CA - Glass House !
06-26 Wrexham, Wales - Central Station
06-28 Glastonbury, England - Glastonbury Festival
07-05 Surrey, England - Redfest
07-11 Balado, Scotland - T in the Park Festival
07-12 Canterbury, England - Lounge on the Farm
07-18 Madrid, Spain - Summercase Festival
07-19 Barcelona, Spain - Summercase Festival
07-20 Gräfenhainichen, Germany - Ferropolis (Melt! Festival)
07-27 Ripley, England - Indietracks Festival
08-02 Manchester, England - A Day at the Races
08-03 Hertfordshire, England - Standon Calling
08-09 Osaka, Japan - Summersonic
08-10 Tokyo, Japan - Summersonic
08-15 Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop
08-16 Biddinghuizen, Netherlands - Lowlands Festival
08-17 Crickhowell, Wales - Green Man Festival

! with Pela
* with Titus Andronicus
^ with Jeffrey Lewis and the Jitters
! with Parenthetical Girls
$ with You Say Party! We Say Die!