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Hey, remember that kick-ass record the Thermals released last year?

Well, whether you do or not, the Thermals are making sure no one has the chance to miss them play songs from it live. They kick off their previously reported (and much expanded) tour tonight in their hometown of Portland, and they will join up with the Hold Steady on March 10 for the beginning of another previously reported tour.

Then they'll slowly bring it back to the West Coast at the end of March and beginning of April all by their lonesome-yet-still-rocking selves.

Dates:

02-19 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
02-21 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
02-22 Vancouver, British Columbia - Media Club
02-23 Bellingham, WA - Viking Union Multipurpose Room
02-24 Spokane, WA - CenterStage
02-27 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club *
02-28 Chicago, IL - Subterranean *
03-01 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom *
03-02 Washington, DC - Black Cat *
03-03 Cambridge, MA - T.T. the Bear's *
03-04 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *
03-05 Brooklyn, NY - Studio B
03-06 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church *
03-08 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 *
03-09 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn *
03-10 Orlando, FL - The Social *#
03-11 St. Augustine, FL - Cafe Eleven *
03-12 Tallahassee, FL - Club Downunder #
03-13 Birmingham, AL - BottleTree #
03-14 Memphis, TN - Hi-Tone #
03-15 St. Louis, MO - Off Broadway #
03-16 Indianapolis, IN - Music Mill #
03-17 Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall #
03-19 Iowa City, IA - Picador
03-20 Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck
03-22 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive
03-23 Rapid City, SD - T.R.E.A.
03-24 Billings, MT - The Yellowstone Perk
04-03 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
04-05 San Diego, CA - Casbah
04-06 Los Angeles, CA - Echo
04-07 Visalia, CA - Howie and Son's Pizza

* with the Big Sleep
# with the Hold Steady