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Huzzah, new Art Brut! On November 13, Labels/Mute will release the "Nag Nag Nag Nag" single in the UK, on both CD and 7". It will include the B-side "I Found This Song in the Road".

We can probably guess what the new tunes will sound like; the big question is: on which "Nag" will Argos put the emphasis? The first? The fourth? The suspense is killing us.

In a press release, Argos is quoted as telling the magazine Artrocker all about the single: "Well. It's about-- and it can't just be me-- when I was younger and my parents had a go at me or I was in a bad mood, I'd put my Walkman on and go for a big long walk to sort myself out. And I was thinking about how much I did that-- ignored my parents nagging me-- and realizing that people who do that grow up funny. You miss something you should have been told because you weren't listening. I don't feel any different now to when I was 17-- I'm 26 now-- I don't think you change really between those periods and maybe it's because you're not listening to people. I dunno, it sounds very pretentious when I say it but it's just about putting your Walkman on, stonking out of the house and coming back again."

"Stonking"? I like that word. Us Americans should use it more often.

Art Brut are on tour in America now with We Are Scientists and the Spinto Band. They'll head back to the UK and Europe in November.

Dates:

10-02 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore *#
10-04 Eugene, OR - WOW Hall *#
10-05 Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre *#
10-06 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom *#
10-07 Seattle, WA - Neumos *#
10-09 Salt Lake City, UT - In the Venue *#
10-10 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater *#
10-11 Lawrence, KS - Granada *#
10-12 Chicago, IL - Metro *#
10-13 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick *#
10-14 Toronto, Ontario - Opera House *#
10-15 Montreal, Quebec - La Tulipe *#
10-16 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Downstairs #^
10-17 Washington, DC - Black Cat #%
10-18 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw #^
10-19 New York, NY - Irving Plaza #%
10-20 Philadelphia, PA - Starlight Ballroom #^
10-21 Ithaca, NY - Cornell University
11-03 Athens, Greece - Gagarin
11-08 Reading, England - Fez
11-09 Sheffield, England - The Plug
11-12 Liverpool, England - Carling Academy 2
11-13 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC2
11-14 Manchester, England - Academy 3
11-15 London, England - Mean Fiddler
11-16 Bristol, England - Fleece
11-17 Brighton, England - Concorde 2
11-18 Paris, France - Cite Des Sciences

* with We Are Scientists
# with the Spinto Band
^ with Tokyo Police Club