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This evening, in their native Baltimore, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally of Beach House will kick off a North American tour that will lilt its way gently but sure-footedly into April. On all but one of the band's dates, they'll be joined by San Francisco's Papercuts, who, curiously, won't be appearing with the band in their hometown.

Beach House, whose fine Devotion is out this week in the States on Carpark, are, at the moment, the most recent recipients of Pitchfork's Best New Music distinction. And Jason Quever of Papercuts won't just be there to look cute and kick out jams from his own Recommended album Can't Go Back; he'll sit in with Beach House on drums.

And take note, Beach combers: in addition to the recently Forkcasted clip for Devotion's "You Came to Me", the band mention on their MySpace blog that they've spent February working on videos for "Gila" and "Heart of Chambers".

Beach House:

02-28 Baltimore, MD - G-Spot *
02-29 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 *
03-01 Atlanta, GA - The Earl *
03-02 Birmingham, AL - BottleTree Café *
03-03 Memphis, TN - The Hi Tone Café *
03-05 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon *
03-06 Houston, TX - Walter's on Washington *
03-07 Austin, TX - Emo's *
03-08 Dallas, TX - Good Records (in-store)
03-08 Denton, TX - Hailey's *
03-10 Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture *
03-11 Phoenix, AZ - Modified *
03-12 San Diego, CA - The Casbah *
03-13 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo *
03-14 San Luis Obispo, CA - Steynberg Gallery *
03-15 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill #
03-17 Portland, OR - Holocene *
03-18 Seattle, WA - The Crocodile Café *
03-19 Vancouver, British Columbia - Media Club *
03-21 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court *
03-22 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive *
03-24 Omaha, NE - The Slowdown *
03-25 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry *
03-26 Chicago, IL - Schubas *
03-27 Cleveland Heights, OH - The Grog Shop *
03-28 Toronto, Ontario - El Mocambo *
03-29 Montreal, Quebec - Casa del Popolo *
03-30 Winooski, VT - The Monkey House *
03-31 Cambridge, MA - The Middle East *
04-02 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *
04-03 Philadelphia, PA - The Barbery *
04-04 Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel *

* with Papercuts
# with Anaura