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The Grizzly Bear den will be empty for the next month, as the band kicks off an extensive North American tour tonight in Philadelphia. Dirty Projectors will lend support for much of the first half of the trek, with the latter half handled by San Francisco's Papercuts.

Grizzly Bear have three spring festival appearances on the calendar as well; they'll perform at Coachella in California on April 29, ATP vs the Fans in England on May 18, and Barcelona's Primavera Festival on May 31.

As previously reported, CSS will follow Girl Talk in remixing Grizzly Bear's "Knife", and there's a chance that the track may be released on a tour-only 7". According to NME.com, Grizzly Bear plan to return the favor with a CSS cover.

And speaking of "Knife", the video for the Yellow House number is nearly complete, thanks to the folks at Encylcopedia Pictura.

Dates:

02-01 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's *
02-02 Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts *
02-03 Northampton, MA - Iron Horse *
02-04 Montreal, Quebec - Main Hall *
02-05 Ottawa, Ontario - Barrymore's Music Hall *
02-06 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace *
02-08 Ann Arbor, MI - Blind Pig *
02-09 Chicago, IL - Subterranean *
02-10 Minneapolis, MN - 7th St. Entry *#
02-11 Iowa City, IA - The Picador *
02-13 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
02-14 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
02-16 Seattle, WA - Neumos ^
02-17 Vancouver, British Columbia - Plaza Club ^
02-18 Portland, OR - Mission Theatre (early show) ^
03-18 Portland, OR - Mission Theatre (late show) ^
02-20 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall ^%
02-21 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour ^%
02-23 Tucson, AZ - Plush ^
02-24 Marfa, TX - Ballroom Marfa ^
02-26 Norman, OK - Opolis ^
02-27 Dallas, TX - Club Dada ^$
02-28 Austin, TX - Emo's Jr. ^$
03-01 Baton Rouge, LA - Chelsea's ^
03-02 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn ^@
03-03 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 ^
03-04 Washington, DC - Black Cat ^&
03-06 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom ^&
03-07 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom ^&
04-29 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field (Coachella)
05-18 Somerset, England - Butlins Minehead (ATP vs the Fans)
05-31 Barcelona, Spain - Parc Del Fòrum (Primavera Festival)

* with Dirty Projectors
# with Portastatic
^ with the Papercuts
% with Foreign Born
$ with Peter and the Wolf
@ with Deerhunter
& with Beach House