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While they may have knocked our dreidels flat this year by forgoing their annual "Hanukkahriffic" holiday bonanza at Maxwell's in Hoboken, New Jersey, Yo La Tengo are still poised to whet Americans' ass-beating appetites.

The veteran trio just announced a brief spate of U.S. dates that will see them scurrying up the Atlantic Seaboard in further support of 2006 Best New Music inductee I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador). Folks fortunate enough to have a Beat Your Ass Season Pass can score tickets right now for these gigs. The rest of us will have to wait a spell.

As previously reported, Yo La Tengo have a live iTunes Session EP set to land digitally on January 9.

Ass jokes, they never get old, I tell you!

Yo:

01-25 Louisville, KY - Bomhard Theater
02-02 Jacksonville, FL - Florida Theater
02-03 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
02-05 Chapel Hill, NC - Cat's Cradle
02-06 Chapel Hill, NC - Cat's Cradle
02-08 Charlottesville, VA - Starr Music Hall
02-10 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero
02-19 Tokyo, Japan - Shibuya O-East
02-22 Nagoya, Japan - Nagoya Club Quattro
02-23 Osaka, Japan - Big Cat
02-24 Fukuoka, Japan - Drum Be-1
02-27 Perth, Australia - Amplifier *
03-01 Sydney, Australia - Metro #
03-03 Brisbane, Australia - Laneway Festival
03-04 Sydney, Australia - Laneway Festival
03-06 Melbourne, Australia - Corner Hotel #
03-08 Adelaide, Australia - Fowlers Live $
03-10 Meredith, Australia - Golden Plains Festival
03-12 Singapore, Singapore - Esplande Theatres on the Bay

* with New Rules For Boats
# with David Kilgour
$ with Clue to Kalo