Constantines Tour With Hold Steady, Cover Neil Young

Constantines

Everyone's favorite synergizers of Springsteenian ruggedness and Fugazian angularity, the Constantines, have a brand new album out. It's called Tournament of Hearts and it's named after a curling competition. Oh you silly Canadians!

The third proper Constantines album, Tournament arrived on American store shelves yesterday courtesy of Sub Pop, but was available in Canada a couple weeks ago thanks to their longtime label, Three Gut. Unfortunately, its arrival was bittersweet, as Three Gut announced back in June that the record would be the label's last official release.

The Cons (as they are affectionately called by friends and family) will carry on, of course. Tonight they will begin a two-month, continent-hopping tour. For the last half of October, they'll be playing opposite the Hold Steady's stein-tapping sounds, and for the first five dates in Europe in November, they'll rock out with Sub Pop labelmates Sleater-Kinney. Good as they are at picking touring partners, the Constantines are best at executing their trad-ish eclecticism.

Working full-time:

10-12 Edmonton, Alberta - Powerplant
10-14 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards *
10-15 Seattle, WA - Neumos *#
10-16 Portland, OR - Berbati's Pan*#
10-17 Eugene, OR - W.O.W. Hall *#
10-18 San Francisco, CA - Great American Hall *#
10-20 Los Angeles, CA - Knitting Factory *#
10-21 Los Angeles, CA - UCLA Bradley Hall
10-22 San Diego, CA - Casbah *
10-23 Tucson, AZ - Plush *
10-25 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge *
10-27 Columbia, MO - Mojo's *
10-28 Chicago, IL - Logan Square Auditorium *$
10-29 Madison, WI - Annex *$
10-30 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *$
11-01 Ferndale, MI - Magic Bag *$
11-02 Toronto, Ontario - Opera House *$
11-03 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa *$
11-05 Cambridge, MA - Middle East *$
11-06 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
11-08 Brighton, England - Concorde %
11-09 Bristol, England - Fleece %
11-10 Nottingham, England - Rescue Rooms %
11-11 Glasgow, Scotland - Oran Mor %
11-12 Leeds, England - Cockpit %
11-13 London, England - Barfly
11-14 Liege, Belgium - Lescalier
11-15 Paris, France - Batofar
11-16 Munich, Germany - Orangehouse
11-18 Brescia, Italy - Riot Club
11-19 Pontedera, Italy - Riot Club
11-22 Rome, Italy - Circolo Degli Artisti
11-23 Bologna, Italy - Covo club
11-24 Vienna, Austria - The Chelsea
11-25 Linz, Austria - Kapu
11-26 Prague, Czech Republic - Klub 007
11-27 Stuttgart, Germany - Schocken
11-28 Leipzig, Germany - Fruh Auf
11-29 Berlin, Germany - Knaack Klub
11-30 Hamburg, Germany - Molotov
12-01 Lund, Sweden - Mejeriet
12-03 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser
12-05 Amsterdam, Holland - Paradiso
12-06 Cologne, Germany - Blue Shell
12-07 Munster, Germany - Gleis 22
12-08 Rotterdam, Holland - Rotown
12-09 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique
12-10 Diksmuide, Belgium - Muziekclub 4AD

* with the Hold Steady
# with Tim Fite
$ with Thunderbirds Are Now!
% with Sleater-Kinney

This Saturday, October 15, at three p.m., the Constantines will perform live in the studio at KEXP, the Seattle-based indie-yuppie powerhouse. And speaking of mom-rock, the Toronto record label Blue Fog will release a limited split 12" between the Constantines and the Unintended (which includes members of Eric's Trip, the Sadies, and Blue Rodeo) sometime this fall. According to the Constantines' website, "we're playing some of our favourite Neil Young songs, they're doing their favourite Gordon Lightfoot songs." Wow, that sure is patriotism right there.

* Pitchfork Review: Constantines: Tournament of Hearts
* Pitchfork News: Three Gut Records Closes Shop
* Pitchfork News: Constantines Discuss New Album
* Constantines: http://www.constantines.ca
* Three Gut: http://www.threegutrecords.com
* Sub Pop: http://www.subpop.com

source: pitchfork_by Zach Vowell