The Airborne Toxic Event

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Good afternoon,

We’re somewhere in Idaho at the moment, about to wrap up the final week of our crazy North American tour. It’s been an amazing one so far, filled with lots of jumping, screaming, sweatiness, and boozy nighttime wanderings.. Thanks so much to all those who came out and made this tour such a memorable one. We’ve been having loads of fun in all these cities and enjoyed meeting all of you. It’s been especially nice seeing so many familiar faces speckling the crowds.

Also, our good friends and tour buddies The Henry Clay People and Red Cortez have been putting on some truly inspiring performances at all these shows. If you haven’t seen them yet, make sure you come early to catch them. If you have, you know exactly what we’re talking about..

NEW YEAR’S EVE IN CHICAGO:

To ring in 2010, we’re excited to announce that we’ll be playing a New Year’s Eve show in Chicago at the River East Arts Center. The night will feature a DJ set by Mark Ronson and additional performances by the Virgins and the Drums. Tickets go on sale this Friday. Go to the …
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Good afternoon,

We know we’ve been promising this for a while, so here it is. We couldn’t be more excited and honored to announce that we’ll be headlining a very unique and special show at the beautiful Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown Los Angeles on December 4th.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic Presents:
The Airborne Toxic Event
Friday, December 4, 2009
Walt Disney Concert Hall
With special Guests The Calder Quartet

This performance will be the only L.A. date on our upcoming tour and the only rock show to take place at the concert hall through the end of the year. The event will be a celebration, not just of California, but of the music and culture of East Los Angeles—which we love and are proud to call home—and will feature multiple surprise guests and collaborators to that effect. We’ve never done anything like this before, and we’re hoping it’ll be something special and memorable. It’s, among other things, our thank you to the city of L.A. for the amazing support we’ve received and as a source of inspiration for this little art project of a band that we started almost three years ago. We’re also happy to …
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Photo Credit: Benjamin Hoste

good afternoon–

The hazy sky over the San Gabriel mountains makes the view from the van window look like some sort of post-modern water-color mash-up: equal parts pastoral landscape and industrial wasteland. Such thoughts drift lazily through one’s mind on days like this.

We are on our way to Arizona to play a series of shows in Tempe, Tucson and Phoenix.

The official video for our song Sometime Around Midnight is now on YouTube. You can view it here .

You can also view it on our Myspace page and on MTV and VH-1.

You can listen to a stream of our appearance on Morning Becomes Eclectic on KCRW by going here .

You can watch us play a bunch of acoustic songs on LiveDaily by going here .

Our North American tour begins in 10 days in Cleveland. See you there (dates below).

More soon, including huge UK news.

we miss you and love you and find ourselves spinning in ever-widening circles of surreality–

Photo Credit: Benjamin Hoste

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Good day–

We’re thrilled to announce our first-ever full U.S. tour beginning September 1st in Cleveland, OH.

This includes 20 or so dates with Scottish juggernauts the Fratellis .

We fully expect it to be an adventure and hope we can meet you in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Des Moines, and other sunny glens along the American interstate. Dates and locations are posted below. We’ll be announcing additional ones shortly.

Spin.com named us Artist of the Day today. That was very nice of them.

We’re playing Late Night with Conan O’Brien this Friday . Hope you can watch.

Right now, we’re on the 95 South, having just crossed the Delaware River (much like George Washington did back in the day, only with guitar amps). The tour so far has been amazing and ridiculous. We’ve had a few firsts this tour, including an encounter with a bear, a ping pong tournament with M83, and a helicopter ride into the Pemberton Festival, against our better judgment. The show was fantastic, the people were lovely, Canada rocks and rolls and stays for beers after.

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We’ve posted the sixth installment of our ten-part acoustic video series, for the song “This is Nowhere.” This one was filmed in Griffith Park in Los Feliz, CA, next to a burnt-out portion of the park.

We leave for London in less than a week. We can’t wait. Here’s a listing of our U.K. shows and everything else we’ve got planned so far:

Tuesday, July 15 – London, UK – Barfly

Wednesday, July 16 – London, UK – 229 Club

Saturday, July 19 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre – Download Festival

Thursday, July 24 – Portland, OR – Towne Lounge

Friday, July 25 – Seattle, WA – Capitol Hill Block Party

Sunday, July 27 – Pemberton, BC – Canada – Pemberton Festival

Tuesday, July 29 – Washington, DC – DC9

Thursday, July 31 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge

Friday, August 1 – New York, NY – Late Night with Conan O’Brien (for tix, call 212.664.3056)

Saturday, August 2 – Philadelphia, PA – Susquehanna Bank Center (actually, in Camden, NJ) – Download Festival

Thursday, August 7 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre

On another note, Mikel is playing a solo acoustic set tonight as part of …
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