Pitchfork

The time is 2002. The place is a folding chair on the coffee-and-Yellowtail-stained throw rug of your first college boyfriend's dorm room. You've spent hours staring deep into the eyes of his Strokes poster, you've run out of patience for his Donnie Darko and Royal Tenenbaums DVDs, and now, you're in the mood for a little dance party.

Hot Hot Heat were there.

Hot Hot Heat-- those squealin', synthy Canadian guys with the walls of hair and the "Bandages"-- wanna make you believe in the magic of 2002 all over again this fall, with the September 11 release of Happiness LTD. on Warner Brothers. The album, HHH's fifth, is their first since 2005's Elevator, and was produced in part by Green Day/My Chemical Romance hitmaker Rob Cavallo. Frontman Steve Bays described the record as "drastically different... unpredictable... [and] yet somehow it maintains an overall timelessness".

In other words, 2002 4 lyfe.

The ageless Hot boys are warming up crowds on dates with the Killers and the Oohlas through May.

05-10 Oklahoma City, OK - Diamond Ballroom *
05-11 Kansas City, MO - City Market #
05-12 Little Rock, AR - Juanita's Cantina Ballroom *
05-14 Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad *
05-16 Ft. Collins, CO - Aggie Theatre *
05-17 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre #
05-18 Salt Lake City, UT - Club Sound *
05-20 Seattle, WA - WaMu Theatre #
05-21 Vancouver, British Columbia - Thunderbird Stadium (Virgin Festival)
05-23 Edmonton, Alberta - Rexall Place #
05-24 Calgary, Alberta - Pengrowth Saddledome #

* with the Oohlas
# with the Killers