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Just three days after announcing that their next album, Friend Opportunity, will be released on Kill Rock Stars/5RC on January 23, 2007, Deerhoof have dribbled out even more delicious morsels of newsy goodness.

First of all, there's the Friend Opportunity tracklist, which is printed below, as well as the fact that the album artwork was created by Scottish artist David Shrigley, the man behind Bonnie "Prince" Billy's "Agnes Queen of Sorrow" and Blur's "Good Song" videos.

Then there's the announcement that the band is working with composer Ed Shearmur on the soundtrack to the film Dedication, directed by actor Justin Theroux (Mulholland Drive, Six Feet Under, Miami Vice) and starring Billy Crudup, Mandy Moore, Tom Wilkinson, and Amy Sedaris.

Finally, and most amazingly, on October 23 and 24, at Waterman's Community Center in North Haven, Maine, the North Haven Community School will perform a Milk Man ballet, based on Deerhoof's 2004 album of the same name. It will primarily feature kids from grades three through eight.

In fifteen years, if you meet a kid who graduated from North Haven Community School in North Haven, Maine, and they complain about how much their elementary school or middle school sucked, feel free to call them a liar, and then beat them up.

Friend Opportunity:

01 The Perfect Me
02 +81
03 Believe E.S.P.
04 The Galaxist
05 Choco Fight
06 Whither the Invisible Birds?
07 Cast off Crown
08 Kidz Are So Small
09 Matchbook Seeks Maniac
10 Look Away

Deerhoof tour dates:

09-12 Charlottesville, VA - Charlottesville Pavilion ^
09-13 Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle ^
09-15 Oklahoma City, OK - Zoo Amphitheatre ^
09-24 New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom ^
10-18 Providence, RI - Lupo's %
10-19 New Haven, CT - Toad's Place %
10-26 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center $
10-27 Pittsburgh, PA - Andy Warhol Museum $
10-28 Buffalo, NY - Showplace Theater $%
10-30 Toronto, Ontario - Opera House %
10-31 Montreal, Quebec - Le Tulipe %
11-01 Burlington, VT - Higher Ground %
11-03 New York, NY - Hiro Ballroom (Kill Rock Stars CMJ Showcase) #
11-11 San Francisco, CA - RIOTTT! Festival
12-08 Somerset, England - Butlins Holiday Resort (ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas)

^ with Flaming Lips
% with Fiery Furnaces
$ with Fog
# with Mary Timony, Erase Errata, Excepter