Pitchfork

Fond of sardined stages, marquee-crowding lineups, and embellished emotionality? How's this for excitement: O'Death and Rock Plaza Central, tired of respectively affixing that "gothic" tag right in front of country and folk from a distance, have gotten together to gloom up your early fall with a joint headlining tour through September.

The New York-based O'Death-- still not following their own advice after the recent reissue of 2005's Head Home-- and the caterwauling Canadians of Rock Plaza Central-- still regaling y'all with last year's equine saga Are We Not Horses?-- would like very much to leave you gutted. And so they shall.

Each band has a couple dates besides, including O'Death's pop-in at Chicago's noteworthy Hideout Block Party.

Rock Plaza Central/O'Death:

09-05 Washington, DC - Black Cat
09-06 Oberlin, OH - Oberlin College
09-07 Urbana, IL - Canopy Club Void Room
09-09 Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry
09-12 Seattle, WA - Neumos
09-13 Portland, OR - Dante's
09-14 Vancouver, British Columbia - Pat's Pub
09-19 San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Shop
09-20 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
09-22 Claremont, CA - Pomona College
09-26 Austin, TX - The Mohawk

Rock Plaza Central:

08-30 Guelph, Ontario - E-Bar
09-08 Chicago, IL - Schubas

O'Death:

08-16 Boston, MA - Middle East Upstairs
08-29 New York, NY - Spiegeltent *
09-08 Chicago, IL - Hideout Block Party ^
09-08 Chicago, IL - Open End Gallery &

* with Death Vessel
^ with Bloc Party, Art Brut, Andrew Bird, the Frames
& with Dan Deacon