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Vibe-happy quartet Aloha greets the highway once again, embarking today on a tour that will see the Cleveland-, Cincinnati-, Rochester-, DC-, Brooklyn-based (OK, so everywhere-based) band traveling around the Midwest and East Coast, supported by Frenchkiss four-piece Rahim.

Aloha has already toured extensively in support of their recent 8.0-garnering full-length, Some Echoes (Polyvinyl), which the band is streaming in its entirely on their website.

Also, on September 26, Polyvinyl will release the debut solo album by Aloha drummer and Cex collaborator Cale Parks. Titled Illuminated Manuscript, the 12-track LP first appeared in June on Japan's Stiff Slack imprint (albeit with a slightly different tracklisting and cover art). The label approached Parks after he posted some tracks-- many of them experimental Aloha demos-- on his MySpace page. "I never really set out to make a great solo record," he said of the venture, "It's mostly a collection of random demos and things I'd recorded at home for fun."

Aloha welcomes you to the following shows:

08-16 Baltimore, MD - Ottobar *
08-17 Pittsburgh, PA - Garfield Artworks *
08-18 Columbus, OH - Little Brothers *
08-19 Bloomington, IN - Art Hospital *
08-20 Chicago, IL - Schubas *
08-21 Grand Rapids, MI - Division Ave. Arts Cooperative *
08-22 Toronto, Ontario - Tranzac *
08-23 Montreal, Quebec - Mile End *
08-24 Cambridge, MA - T.T. the Bear's *
08-25 Philadelphia, PA - North Star Bar *
08-26 Brooklyn, NY - North Six *
08-27 Washington, DC - Black Cat *

* with Rahim

Cale Parks album:

01 Pretty Boring
02 Galaxy 8180 *
03 Tiny Theme *
04 Halls of Avalon *
05 I Am the Arm
06 Late Show
07 Wet Paint
08 Me at Home
09 This Garden Is a Maze
10 Fearsome Opponent
11 Moccasin Bend
12 Beat Masheen

* New tracks for U.S. release

Parks toured earlier this summer as part of Cex and Georgie James (featuring ex-Q and Not U drummer John Davis). After heading out with Aloha today, he'll accompany Joan of Arc on a mini-tour next month, and then take a really long nap.