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In the Godzilla movies, big G cuts an initial swathe of destruction across a city, takes a breather to regroup, and then comes storming back to put the hurt on any remaining buildings and random gaijin.

Distinguished Scotsmen Mogwai will follow that same plan later this spring. After their April 30 Coachella appearance, the band will take a few days off to restring guitars and realign their chakras before turning back around and leveling the States with an additional series of tour dates. Gotta get the chakra aligned if you're going on a multi-state stomp; it's how G-Zilla is able to keep coming back after 50 years.

(Side note: Why isn't there a rapper named G-Zilla yet?)

Antsy Mog-watchers can keep tabs on the band through the website Follow the Beast (named in honor of their latest album, Mr. Beast. It's a crazy tech mash-up of Google mappage, Flickr image, and YouTube, um, YouTubeage that documents Mogwai's every move on their current U.S. tour. Send them your media from a Mogwai show and they'll use it on the site. It's kind of like shooting and uploading fuzzy cameraphone pics of Bigfoot except we're pretty sure Mogwai are real.

The numbers of the Beast:

03-10 Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge *
03-11 Atlanta, GA - WhirlyBall Atlanta *
03-12 Atlanta, GA - WhirlyBall Atlanta +
03-14 Houston, TX - Numbers +
03-15 Austin, TX - Stubb's (Matador SXSW Showcase) =
03-29 Bristol, England - Academy
03-30 Southampton, England - Southampton University
03-31 Wolverhampton, England - Wulfrun Hall
04-01 Oxford, England - Brookes University
04-02 Cardiff, Wales - Coal Exchange
04-04 Cambridge, England - Junction
04-05 Liverpool, England - Carling Academy
04-06 Newcastle, England - Northumbria University
04-07 Sheffield, England - The Plug
04-08 Lille, France - Splendid
04-09 Strasbourg, France - Laiterie
04-11 Toulouse, France - SDF
04-12 Clermont-Ferrand, France - Cooperative de Mai
04-13 Paris, France - Bataclan
04-14 Rotterdam, Holland - Motel Mozaique Festival
04-15 Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall
04-18 Florence, Italy - Flog
04-20 Milan, Italy - Rolling Stone
04-21 Treviso, Italy - New Age
04-23 Munich, Germany - Elserhalle
04-24 Berlin, Germany - Postbahnhof
04-25 Hamburg, Germany - Gruenspan
04-27 Edinburgh, Scotland - The Usher Hall (Triptych Festival)
04-30 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field (Coachella) $
05-02 Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot
05-03 Denver - CO Gothic
05-04 Lawrence, KS - Grenada
05-05 Dallas, TX - Gypsy Ballroom
05-06 Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa
05-08 Athens, GA - 40 Watt
05-10 Washington, DC - 930 Club
05-12 New York, NY - Webster Hall
05-13 New York, NY - Webster Hall
05-14 Boston, MA - Avalon
05-15 Montreal, Quebec - Le Spectrum
05-16 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix
05-18 Detroit, MI - St Andrews
05-19 Chicago, IL - Metro
05-23 Seattle, WA - Showbox
05-24 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom
05-25 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
05-27 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore
09-22 London, England - Royal Albert Hall

* with Growing
+ with Torche
= with Belle and Sebastian, New Pornographers, Brightblack Morning Light, Jennifer O'Connor
$ with Tool, Massive Attack, Madonna, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bloc Party, etc.

* Follow the Beast: http://mr.beastmap.com