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Seems Sam Simkoff and his Le Loup have been snapped up by Memphis Industries in the UK, home to the Go! Team, the Pipettes, Field Music, and more.

Memphis will issue Le Loup's debut with the super long, folk art-inspired title-- The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly, don't you know-- December the 3rd over there. The disc is already out in the States on Sub Pop-sidiary Hardly Art.

Le Loup had been playing shows alongside fellow District of Columbia residents Georgie James; illness, however, caused the James gang to cancel their plans for the next few weeks. Le Loup will soldier on sans Georgie for two more shows, then pick things right back up in December on another quick jaunt, this one with Margot & the Nuclear So and So's.

Le Loup:

10-26 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon
10-27 Austin, TX - The Mohawk
12-08 Covington, KY - The Madhatter +
12-09 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom Tavern +
12-10 Washington, DC - Black Cat +
12-11 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church +
12-12 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Upstairs +
12-13 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge +

+ with Margot & the Nuclear So and So's