Arcade Fire Announce Summer Tour Dates, Four to Include Spoon

Arcade Fire announced a slew of July/August tour dates today in support of their forthcoming record, The Suburbs, out 8/3 (Merge Records).

This is Arcade Fire's first US headlining tour since 2007's Neon Bible, but what's also cool is that Spoon will be special guesting at four of the dates (NYC; Philadelphia, PA; Washington, DC, and Atlanta, GA) for this leg of the tour.

$1 from every ticket sold will be donated to to Partners In Health, an organization helping impoverished communities around the world combat disease and poverty.

ARCADE FIRE, TOUR DATES 2010
* = w/ Spoon
6/7: Sherbrooke QC – Theater Granada
6/8: Sherbrooke QC – Theater Granada
6/30: Rättvik, Sweden – Dalhalla
7/2: Tromøy, Norway – Hove Festival
7/4: Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter
7/9: County Kildare, Ireland – Oxegen Festival
7/12: Quebec, Canada – Quebec City Summer Festival
7/13: Ottawa, Canada – Ottawa Bluesfest
7/31: Montreal, QC – Osheaga
8/1: Boston, MA – Bank of America Pavillion
8/2: Philadelphia, PA – Mann Centre for the Performing Arts *
8/4: New York, NY – Madison Square Garden *
8/6: Washington, DC – Merriweather Post Pavilion *
8/8: Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza
8/9: Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
8/11: Atlanta, GA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre *
8/14: Toronto, ON – Olympic Island
8/27: Leeds, UK – Leeds Festival
8/28: Reading, UK – Reading Festival
8/29: Saint Cloud, France – Rock En Seine
9/2: Bologna, Italy – I-Day Festival

Public onsale for Boston, Philly, and Montreal dates starts here on Friday, 6/4, with presales via fanclub and such earlier. Brooklyn Vegan proclaims that the NYC tickets have a public onsale of Saturday, 6/12, with an AmEx presale 6/9 and fanclub presale 6/10. Ticketfly doesn't have the date up on their site for the 8/6 DC date at Merriweather, but you'd assume it should be this week with details.

We were told that pre-sale tickets for six of the dates (see below), including three of the four with Spoon, are supposed to be available now at the Arcade Fire website; however, no links are up yet so keep checking back there too.

8/1– Boston, MA – Bank of America Pavilion
8/2 – Philadelphia, PA – Mann Center for the Performing Arts w/ Spoon
8/4 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden w/ Spoon
8/6 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion w/ Spoon
8/9– Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
8/11 – Atlanta, GA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at Encore Park w/ Spoon

Hey You in LA...Go See Spoon for Free Tonight

Are you in Los Angeles today? Do you like yourself some Spoon? It seems they're playing a free mini-show tonight at 6:45 pm on the Jimmy Kimmel Live outdoor stage.

Tickets are still available (and did I mention FREE)? Go here for tickets and info.

KCRW Celebrating 'Today's Top Tune' Hitting the 1000 Mark With Live Spoon, Cold War Kids

As of today, famed radio station, KCRW has given away 1000 songs with their Todays Top Tune daily free-download program. If you don't know the program, the downloads are free for 24 hours, then stream for 90 days thereafter.

To celebrate the big milestone, today's 1000th track is a rarely-played-live song from Spoon. "While in the studio for a recent "Morning Becomes Eclectic" session, they stayed to record a song they rarely play live, “Something to Look Forward To,” off their album Kill the Moonlight. They played it live for the first time in 5 years the night before the session," says KCRW PR Director Rachel Reynolds.

On Wednesday. KCRW will be posting a solo performance of “Cryptomnesia” by Cold War Kids singer Nathan Willett, and on Thursday, they'll have a Jose James track from his forthcoming album.

Go check out the Spoon track and all of the others here.

Coachella Lineup Announced Today

A rather hefty lineup was announced today for this year's Coachella Festival. But so was last year (Leonard Cohen) headlined, cmon...), so how do you follow it up? Apparently you do it with the first United States show of the Pavement reunion tour, Public Image Ltd, Spoon, and Thom Yorke with question marks, among others. Wait, Thom Yorke and question marks, what's that about? Apparently it isn't meant to imply anything potentially possible, like a special guest, it's just sort of a band name.

(Yorke) intends to perform with the same backing band he assembled for a handful of Los Angeles dates last fall— Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, producer Nigel Godrich, and seasoned session hands Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco. Yorke never got around to naming the new band back then, resulting in some mysterious marquee displays around L.A., and now he’s decided to stick with the same question marks to indicate those guys’ presence. (Source)

Coachella will be held from 4/16-4/18 at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, CA. Tickets go onsale here this Friday (1/22) at 10 AM PST (or 1 PM for you east coasters).

And So It Begins...Cheap Trick, Spoon Announce Headline Shows at SXSW 2010

It's early January and right on schedule, some acts have announced headlining shows for SXSW in March.

-3/17: NPR is opening the conference with their showcase at Stubbs; Spoon is headling. The show kicks off Spoon's US tour for their 1/19 release, Transference. (Transference is available for pre-order here.) As is usual with NPR, they will be broadcast, webcast, and podcasting the entire show. Hopefully a Britt Daniel acoustic show announcement somewhere won't be far behind...

NPR also announced today that they are streaming Transference now through 1/18 for free here.

-3/19: Legendary rockers Cheap Trick are headlining the Auditorium Shores Stage on Ladybird Lake with special guest, The BoDeans. The show will be free and open to the public.

And rumor has it that BL&L favorites The Hold Steady will not be making the trip south this year but Lucero will be, playing out at Ladybird Lake at some point during the week; here's hoping additional locations will be added!