BREAKING NEWS: The Decemberists' Spring Tour On Sale This Weekend

O Colin! O Valencia! O Joy!

The incomparable Decemberists have announced that they'll head back out on the road to tour behind their recent release, The Crane Wife -- one of the best albums of 2006, hands down. And I must say, their performance at NY's Hammerstein Ballroom during CMJ was probably one of the 3 best shows I saw in 2006. And that's saying something, considering the competition.

So if you're even remotely on the fence about whether or not you should catch Colin Meloy and Co., banish all doubt, and dive in. This is one tour you will seriously regret missing. I mean it. There, you've been warned. I've done everything I can. Now it's on you.

Presale begins 1/23 and shows go on sale to the general public starting 1/26-27.
FIND DECEMBERISTS TICKETS HERE

Here's the full tour listing, from their publicity peeps...

DECEMBERISTS SPRING 2007 TOUR

3/21  -  Jersey City, NJ  -  Loews Theater
3/22  -  Jersey City, NJ  -  Loews Theater
3/23  -  Boston, MA  -  Avalon
3/24  -  Boston, MA  -  Avalon
3/26  -  N. Bethesda, MD  -    -  Strathmore Music Center
3/27  -  Upper Darby, PA  -    -  Tower Theater
3/30  -  Buffalo, NY  -  Center for the Arts
3/21  -  Grantham, PA  -  Messiah College
4/01  -  Norfolk, VA  -  The Norva
4/02  -  Raleigh, NC  -  Meymendi Concert Hall
4/04  -  Knoxville, TN  -  Tennessee Theater
4/05  -  Nashville, TN  -  City Hall
4/06  -  Atlanta, GA  -  Tabernacle
4/08  -  Orlando, FL  -  Hard Rock Live
4/09  -  Tallahassee, FL  -  The Moon
4/10  -  Birmingham, AL  -  Alabama Theater
4/11  -  Memphis, TN  -  New Daisy Theater
4/13  -  Louisville, KY  -  Brown Theater
4/14  -  St. Louis, MO  -  The Pageant
4/15  -  Champaign, IL  -  Foellinger Auditorium/University of Illinois
4/16  -  Milwaukee, WI  -  Pabst Theater
4/18  -  Chicago, IL  -  Riviera Theater
4/19  -  Chicago, IL  -  Riviera Theater
4/20  -  Madison, WI  -  Orpheum Theater
4/21  -  Kansas City, MO  -    -  Uptown Theater
4/22  -  Denver, CO  -  Fillmore Auditorium
4/25  -  San Francisco, CA  -    -  Warfield Theater
4/26  -  San Francsico, CA  -    -  Warfield Theater
5/03  -  Eugene, OR  -  McDonald Theater
5/04  -  Seattle, WA  -  Paramount Theater
5/05  -  Bellingham, WA  -  Western Washington University

 * My Brightest Diamond supports all dates except April 4-6.

Need more convincing? Here's a hilarious outtake from that Hammerstein show, featuring the afore-name-dropped O Valencia!

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