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Seattle's self-proclaimed "Baroque / Sacred Harp / Minstrelsy" quintet Fleet Foxes have signed on the dotted line to become members of the Sub Pop family, thus expanding the label's roster of bands who sort of sound like the Band beyond Blitzen Trapper and Band of Horses. And hooray for bands who even sort of sound like the Band!

Sub Pop will release Fleet Foxes' Phil Ek-produced debut full-length on June 3. It's a self-titled affair clocking in at 11 tracks. Preceding the album will be an Ek-produced five-song Sub Pop EP called Sun Giant, which you can get from Sub Pop's website in March and elsewhere April 8-- or pick up a copy on Fleet Foxes' North American tour with labelmates Blitzen Trapper.

That tour starts tonight with a FF headline show in Walla Walla, Washington and doesn't end until late April. Along the way, the Foxes will play a "secret show you can't go to w/ U2, Bob Dylan, Led Zep" in "Rapture, Hawaii," a date at "Carpal Tunnel, Connecticut"'s legendary "Typing This Makes My Hands and Brain Hurt" club, and another in "Norman (Is this a real place?), Oklahoma." They'll even take a "day off, slowly grow to hate each other" in "Transylvania, Alaska." All of this according to their MySpace, naturally.

Sun Giant EP:

01 Sun Giant
02 Drops in the River
03 English House
04 Mykonos
05 Innocent Son

Fleet feet:

02-14 Walla Walla, WA - Whitman College
02-15 Seattle, WA - The Vera Project
02-28 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill (Noise Pop) *
02-28 West Hollywood, CA - Troubadour *
03-01 San Diego, CA - The Casbah *
03-03 Phoenix, AZ - Modified Arts *
03-04 Denton, TX - Hailey's *
03-05 Houston, TX - Walter's on Washington *
03-07 Tallahassee, FL - The Beta Bar *
03-09 Jacksonville, FL - The Eclipse *
03-11 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree *
03-12 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon *#
03-13 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-14 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-15 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-16 Norman, OK - The Opolis *
03-17 Columbia, MO - Mojo's *
03-19 Nashville, TN - Exit/In *
03-20 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn *
03-21 Columbia, SC - New Brookland Tavern *
03-22 Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle *
03-23 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 *
03-25 Washington, DC - Black Cat Backstage *
03-26 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's *
03-27 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Upstairs *
03-29 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *
03-30 Worcester, MA - The Grind at Clark University
04-01 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa *
04-02 Toronto, Ontario - El Mocambo *
04-03 Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place *
04-04 Cleveland Heights, OH - The Grog Shop *
04-05 Detroit, MI - The Magic Stick *
04-06 Chicago, IL - Schubas *
04-08 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon *
04-09 Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry *
04-10 Grinnell, IA - Grinnell College *
04-11 Omaha, NE - Slowdown *
04-12 Lawrence, KS - Jackpot *
04-14 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive *
04-15 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge *
04-17 Vancouver, British Columbia - Media Club *
04-18 Seattle, WA - Neumos *
04-19 Portland, OR - Holocene *

* with Blitzen Trapper
# with Man Man