Pernice Brothers: Another Auld Lang Syne
Fogelberg meets Spielberg in special-effects driven sextravaganza

[Posted Thursday, October 30th, 2003 04:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time]

The Pernice Brothers continue to tour their latest record, Yours, Mine and Ours. They'll join Stephen Malkmus for a few dates in December before hooking up with Boston's Blake Hazard. While the bulk of the tour takes place on the highly flammable left coast in December, the Pernice Brothers return to their homestate of Massachusetts in time to deliver a glorious rendition of "Auld Lang Syne" to an appreciative but inebriated Boston audience on New Year's. At least that's what we assume will happen, and you heard it here first. Joe Pernice: your marching orders. And the dates:

11-05 London, England - Scala
11-07 Dublin, Ireland - Temple Bar Music Centre
11-20 Salem, MA - Peabody Essex Museum (Joe Pernice solo show)
12-01 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey *
12-02 San Francisco, CA - Slim's *
12-03 San Francisco, CA - Slim's *
12-05 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom *
12-06 Seattle, WA - Showbox *
12-07 Seattle, WA - KEXP Radio
12-08 Eugene, OR - Sam Bond's Garage +
12-10 San Juan Capistrano, CA - Coach House +
12-11 San Diego, CA - The Casbah +
12-12 Phoenix, AZ - Modified +
12-13 Tucson, AZ - Plus +
12-18 Atlanta, GA - The Earl +
12-20 Baltimore, MD - Ottobar +
12-31 Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre
01-02 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
01-03 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge

* with Stephen Malkmus
+ with Blake Hazard

In related news, Joe Pernice's contibution to the 33 1/3 series of album-related lit was released on October 1st. Each book in the series, published by Continuum Books, focuses on a significant and/or critically acclaimed album of the past 40 years. Pernice took on The Smiths' Meat is Murder with a fictional angle, although the protagonist could easily be the author himself.

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