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For starters, it's called "Eight Is Enough: The Concert to End Our Long, National Nightmare", so if you arrive in your fresh John McCain t-shirt (and probably, like, socks with sandals), you may be the recipient of a scowl or three.

On August 27 at St. Paul, Minnesota's Turf Club, organizers Andrew Broder of Fog and Joe Selinski of The Dad in Common will rope in a good cross-section of left-leaning Minnesota talent. Just to gripe? Nah, not just; as they put it, the night's aim will be to "raise money for Barack Obama, and to loudly reject the disastrous Republican Agenda and its unwelcome infiltration of St. Paul." Said inflitration will take place during the Republican National Convention, September 1-4 in the Twin Cities.

For "Eight is Enough", Broder and Selinski will bring in the likes of Low, Josh Grier and Jeremy Hansen of Tapes 'n Tapes, Dosh, STNNNG, Kill the Vultures, Skoal Kodiak, and P.O.S., plus DJs from Burlesque Design, Rhymesayers, and some special guests. Bring the pocketbook, and don't forget your soapbox!

hello all you beautiful people! we hope you're having a lovely july. we sure are. it's about to get a whole lot lovelier. because today, july 16th, we're going to be playing some songs and doing some talking on national public radio's world cafe from 2pm-4pm (eastern). there's all sorts of ways that you can listen. check it out:

if you live in the us of a and have a radio, you can find your local station by clicking here scrolling to the bottom & choosing their state under "Find a Program Broadcast Time"
...or worldwide you can listen online to the wxpn/philadelphia to the live stream by clicking here
...or, if you miss it all together, later today the audio will be available on the national public radio website

in other news, we've got some more shows coming up. first off, this weekend (july 19 and 20) we're playing in san francisco and la at the download festival. then in august we're gonna be playing all over the place. and by all over the place, we mean, baltimore, brooklyn, pittspburgh, indianapolis, davenport, madison, chicago, seattle, and kind of st. paul (see the tours page for details). so look out, cause we're coming to town! all of the tour dates (and some convenient little ticket buying links) are up on our tours page.

that's all for now. but there's certain to be more soon...
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first off, tonight (6/30), we're gonna be on "late night with conan o'brien" again! ok, full discloser, they're rebroadcasting the episode that we were on back in april....but, we're still super excited, and thought we'd let you know about it. so check your local listings, grab some popcorn, plop down in front of the old tv, and join us, eddie izzard, morgan spurlock, conan, and the whole gang, for and hour of laughs, music, and fun!

in other news...we've been back home from europe for a couple of weeks now. and we have to say, europe, you were great. and it wouldn't have been nearly as great if it hadn't been for all of you wonderful people that came out to the shows. thanks! and a special thanks to land of talk for playing with us. y'all are wonderful!

but enough about the past, it's time to focus on the future. more importantly, the next few months. we've got some shows coming up. first up, we'll be heading on out to beautiful california on july 19th and 20th to play the download festival in san francisco and los angeles, respectively.

then a few short weeks later we'll be heading out to mccarren pool in brooklyn to play with the black keys and be your own pet on august 7th. we'll probably have some more shows to announce soon around that time...like the one we'll be playing on august...

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yes yes y'all. we'll be playing the majestic theater in madison, wi on august 15th. it's been a really long time since we've been to madison, especially considering the proximity! should be really fun, we're happy and excited to be making the trip.

as you can see, our dates we've announced are kind of here and there. there will be some filling in of gaps and some new show announcements coming very soon. keep your eyes and ears peeled for more details soon. promise.

last week we wrapped up our north american tour, this week we kick off our european tour. Ireland, UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Germany we're coming to visit, and we're bringing a rockin good time with us. we're going to be joined for the whole tour (except ireland) by our soon to be best friends, land of talk. we're super excited! all of our european tour are on our shows page.

we can't wait to see all of your smiling faces! see you soon!

p.s. if you don't live in europe, we've got some more US tour dates that we'll be announcing soon, so stay tuned...