Blog darlings The Hold Steady will hit the road in support of their new cd, Boys and Girls in America. Now, I am gonna be honest…I have the cd but I have not been inclined to put the damn thing in my cd player yet so I do not have an opinion on the album…but everyone else in the somewhat-free-world loves the damned thing. I will listen to it eventually but I probably won’t type anything about it here because every other blog on the internet has already jizzed all over the back of the blog world about it…..but i digress…here are those dates:

10-12 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress *
10-13 San Diego, CA - Brick by Brick *
10-14 Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar *
10-16 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour *
10-17 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall *
10-19 Portland, OR - Lola’s *
10-20 Vancouver, British Columbia - Plaza Club *
10-21 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Café *
10-24 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *
10-25 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *
10-26 Chicago, IL - Metro *#
10-27 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick *
10-28 Toronto, Ontario - Horseshoe Tavern *
10-29 Ottawa, Ontario - Zaphod Beeblebrox *
10-30 Cambridge, MA - Middle East *
11-21 Philadelphia, PA - North Star Bar $
11-22 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw $
11-24 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell’s
11-25 Washington, DC - Black Cat
11-26 Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle
11-27 Columbia, SC - New Brookland Tavern
11-29 Orlando, FL - The Social
11-30 Tampa, FL - Orpheum
12-01 Tallahassee, FL - Beta Bar
12-02 New Orleans, LA - The Parish at House of Blues
12-04 Little Rock, AR - Sticky Fingerz Chicken Shack
12-05 Columbia, SC - Mojo’s
12-06 Lawrence, KS - The Bottleneck
12-07 Iowa City, IA - The Picador
12-08 Newport, KY - Southgate House
12-09 Louisville, KY - Headliner’s
12-13 Buffalo, NY - Showplace
12-15 Northampton, MA - Pearl Street

The Orpheum? If these guys are as popular as the internets make them sound that place is waaaaaaayyyyyy too small.