Pitchfork

When she's not splashing about in fountains, celebrating the music of Huey Lewis, getting her cast signed, or singing about a highway, Shara Worden is traversing the known world as My Brightest Diamond. One of the brightest gems in the Asthmatic Kitty crown, Worden and her Diamond kick off their brief fall tour this evening in Montreal, joined at every turn by Tim "Shaniqua" Fite. She's also got those plans to head to Australia and Japan with her dogg 4 life Sufjan Stevens, but that is so next year.

It also seems Worden's been crafting a new MBD LP since the last time we checked in with her. Oh so many dispatches from the studio have been posted on the band's website, from the somewhat banal to the downright wacky. A mouse infestation? Beatboxing? Oboes? Expect all that and more from the disc, tentatively titled A Thousand Shark's Teeth.

In the meantime, how about a reminder of the first My Brightest Diamond album, Bring Me the Workhorse? Check out the raw demo version of that LP's "Freak Out" below!

MBD:

11-08 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa *
11-09 Toronto, Ontario - The Drake *
11-10 Grand Rapids, MI - Calvin College *
11-11 Chicago, IL - Lakeshore Theatre *
11-12 Louisville, KY - 930 Listening Room *
11-13 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center *
11-14 Pittsburgh, PA - Andy Warhol Museum *
11-15 Philadelphia, PA - North Star Bar *
11-16 Arlington, VA - Iota *
11-17 New York, NY - Blender Theatre *
11-18 Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts *
11-19 Hamden, CT - The Space *
01-12 Sydney, Australia - State Theatre (Sydney Festival) !
01-13 Sydney, Australia - State Theatre (Sydney Festival) !
01-14 Sydney, Australia - State Theatre (Sydney Festival) !
01-21 Osaka, Japan – Club Quattro !
01-22 Tokyo, Japan – Club Quattro !

* with Tim Fite
! with Sufjan Stevens