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Despite the urging of her constant companions, you can't keep a good Thao down. And we know of few Thaos quite as good as Thao Nguyen. In that spirit, Thao and her Get Down Stay Down will get up and continue touring tonight (April 10) in Claremont, California, then stay out on the road more or less through the middle of June.

With her tour with Xiu Xiu coming to a close this weekend, Thao's going in a slightly more mom-friendly direction with her next traveling companions: She'll join Rilo Kiley on a slew of the Cali combo's previously-reported tour dates.

"THANK YOU for taking us along for a three week jaunt on the east coast," Thao writes on her MySpace blog, adding, "Jenny Lewis sorry in advance for all of us who will try to hang out with you and touch your hair." We're guessing that didn't come up much with Jamie Stewart.

Oh, hey, and here's a nifty video of Thao and the Get Down Stay Down performing "Me on Top of You" in front of some folks:



It's like we're on top of them! Whoa dude.

Thao:

04-10 Claremont, CA - Pomona College
04-11 Los Angeles, CA - Echo *
04-12 Berkeley, CA - Rasputin (in-store)
04-12 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill *
04-14 Sacramento, CA - Blue Lamp ^
04-15 Portland, OR - Someday Lounge %
04-19 Williamsburg, VA - The College of William & Mary
05-01 Brooklyn, NY - Masonic Temple #
05-03 Cork, Ireland - Cyprus Avenue
05-04 Dublin, Ireland - Crawdaddy
05-06 Liverpool, England - Barfly
05-07 Glasgow, Scotland - Nice and Sleazy
05-08 Nottingham, England - The Social
05-09 London, England - The Luminaire
05-10 Brighton, England - Barfly
05-12 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
05-13 Offenbach, Germany - Hafen
05-14 Munich, Germany - Sudstadt
05-15 Berlin, Germany - Schokoladen
05-16 Leipzig, Germany - Panam
05-19 Paris, France - La Bataclan
05-20 Bologna, Italy - Locomotiv
05-21 Paris, France - Le Baron
05-22 London, England - Rough Trade (in-store)
05-22 London, England - Water Rats
05-26 George, WA - The Gorge (Sasquatch! Festival)
05-28 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix Theatre $
05-30 Worcester, MA - Palladium $
05-31 Providence, RI - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel $
06-01 Northampton, MA - Calvin Theater $
06-02 New York, NY - Terminal 5 $
06-03 New York, NY - Terminal 5 $
06-05 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory $
06-06 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club $
06-07 Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live! $
06-08 Richmond, CA - Toad's Place $
06-10 Norfolk, VA - The NorVa $
06-11 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel $
06-12 Charleston, SC - Charleston Music Farm $
06-15 Dallas, TX - Palladium $
06-16 Austin, TX - Stubb's Bar-B-Q $

* with Xiu Xiu
^ with Enon
% with Horse Feathers
# with I'm From Barcelona
$ with Rilo Kiley