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Photos by Akmal Naim

Supporting this month's Best New Music-garnering LP, London's Clientele played a packed show at Hollywood's Knitting Factory last night. Alasdair MacLean and company-- including the band's newest permanent member, multi-instrumentalist Mel Draisey-- gracefully rocked a set half-comprised of songs from their excellent third full-length, God Save the Clientele.

Warming up the stage was another Pitchfork-approved act, the down-to-earth duo of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally, together known as Beach House. They droned and intoned most of last year's self-titled debut, but also offered a couple of new songs, including "Wedding Bell" and one apparently involving a monster.

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BEACH HOUSE




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BEACH HOUSE






Clientele dates:

05-25 Visalia, CA - Howie & Son's Pizza #
05-26 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall #
05-27 Portland, OR - Doug Fir #
05-28 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Cafe #
05-31 Minneapolis, MN - 400 Bar #
06-01 Madison, WI - High Noon #
06-02 Chicago, IL - Subterranean #
06-03 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick #
06-04 Toronto, Ontario - El Mocambo #
06-05 Ottawa, Ontario - Babylon Nightclub #
06-06 Montreal, Quebec - Club Lambi #
06-08 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom #
06-09 Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts #
06-20 London, England - Legion
06-22 Valencia, Spain - Benicàssim Festival

# with Beach House

Beach House dates:

07-10 London, England - Royal Festival Hall (Bella Union Showcase)
07-14 Chicago, IL - Union Park (Pitchfork Music Festival) *

* with Yoko Ono, Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues, Clipse, Iron and Wine, Girl Talk, Grizzly Bear, Battles, Califone, The Twilight Sad, Fujiya & Miyagi, Oxford Collapse, Dan Deacon, Professor Murder, Ken Vandermark's Powerhouse Sound