Pitchfork

With frontman Britt Daniel wrapping up a brief solo tour of the western United States, Merge Records' website has just announced that Spoon are gearing up for a larger full-band tour this summer. At the shows, the band will reportedly be premiering material from their forthcoming full-length, which is tentatively titled The Beast and Dragon Are Adored and due out late this year. As previously reported, the band has been hard at work on the record at bandmember Jim Eno's studio in Austin for months, with engineer Scott Solter at the helm.

Spoon's full-band tour will kick off just over a month from now in at Kansas' Wakarusa Festival, with the group taking the stage alongside Guided by Voices, Drive-By Truckers, Robbie Fulks, Lucero and Hackensaw Boys, as well as an unusually high proportion of rural rock and jam bands like Big Metal Rooster, Four Fried Chickens and a Coke, Perpetual Groove, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, and The Schwag. After that, it's across the midwest to Columbia, Minneapolis, Madison, St. Louis and Chicago (at night), then across the south to hit Louisville, Nashville, Memphis and New Orleans. Daniel also still has two more solo dates scheduled in Texas and Oklahoma. See:

06-16 Austin, TX - Hole in the Wall (Britt Daniel solo)
06-18 Norman, OK - Opolis (Britt Daniel solo)
06-19 Clinton Lake, KS - Wakarusa Festival
06-20 Columbia, MO - Blue Note
06-22 Minneapolis, MN - 400 Bar
06-23 Madison, WI - The Annex
06-24 St. Louis, MO - The Duck Room
06-25 Chicago, IL - Metro
06-26 Louisville, KY - Headliners
06-28 Nashville, TN - 12th and Party
06-30 Memphis, TN - Hi-Tone
07.01 New Orleans, LA - Howlin' Wolf