Pitchfork: Hold Steady Announce U.S. Tour (Ybor City Included)

Hold Steady Announce U.S. Tour (Ybor City Included)

Befitting a group with a Springsteen-like bar band sound, the Hold Steady are back at work and ready to give the people a glimpse of their latest hard rock novellas. On February 1, Craig Finn and co. will head out on the road for a little more than two weeks of U.S., touring, including, at last, a show in Ybor City, Florida. Then they'll head off to Australia with French Kiss labelmates Les Savy Fav and Thunderbirds Are Now!

The band has been working on material for their forthcoming third record, which they hope to release later this year. According to a post on the Hold Steady website, "the new songs are spilling out and we will be playing a lot of them on our upcoming tour."

If you ask the Hold Steady's PR (and we did), the songs, such as one titled "Stuck Between Stations", feature many of the same lovably ill-fated characters found on last year's breakout Separation Sunday and their debut, Almost Killed Me.

The majority of the American dates will feature Secretly Canadian's Swearing at Motorists and French Kiss' Plastic Constellations on opening duties. The fun will last until Los Angeles, where the Hold Steady will hook up with LSF and TAN!, and then high-tail it Down Under:

Killer parties:

02-01 Washington, DC - The Black Cat *%
02-02 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 *%
02-03 Athens, GA - Tasty World *%
02-04 Atlanta, GA - The Earl *%
02-06 St. Augustine, FL - Caf� Eleven *%
02-07 Gainesville, FL - The Covered Dish *%
02-08 Orlando, FL - The Social *%
02-09 Ybor City, FL - Masquerade *%
02-10 Tallahassee, FL - The Beta Bar *%
02-11 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon *%
02-13 Houston, TX - Walters on Washington *%
02-14 Denton, TX - Hailey's *%
02-15 Austin, TX - Emo's *%
02-18 Phoenix, AZ - The Brick House %
02-19 San Diego, CA - The Casbah %
02-21 Los Angeles, CA - The Avalon #
02-25 Sydney, Australia - Gaelic Club #
02-26 Melbourne, Australia - St. Jerome's Laneway Festival #$
02-27 Melbourne, Australia - The Corner Hotel #
03-01 Perth, Australia - The Rosemount #
03-02 Adelaide, Australia - Jive #
03-03 Brisbane, Australia - The Zoo #
03-04 Sydney, Australia - TBA #
03-05 Sydney, Australia - St. Jerome's Laneway Festival #$

* with Swearing at Motorists
% with Plastic Constellations
# with Les Savy Fav, Thunderbirds Are Now!
$ with the Avalanches, Broken Social Scene, New Buffalo, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Youth Group