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"Ohio has been boring as of late," Columbus' turgidly tuneful Times New Viking wrote in their most recent MySpace blog post, "and we are excited to find places even more boring!" That post has since been removed... perhaps Columbus became less boring?

Having done damn near everything but bore the crap out of audiences already in 2008-- beginning with their stellar Rip It Off LP-- TNV are headed to the UK and Europe before returning to North America in June.

Between club dates, these racketeers have lined up a handful of high-profile festival gigs, not the least of which being the ATP vs. Pitchfork throwdown and the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.

Just think: two whole continents practically begging you guys to get bored with 'em.

Times New Viking:

05-09 London, England - Proud Gallery
05-09-11 Rye, England - Camber Sands Holiday Centre (ATP vs. Pitchfork) *
05-12 Bristol, England - Louisiana
05-14 London, England - Café Otto
05-15 London, England - Stag and Dagger
05-16 Brighton, England - Drowned in Sound (Great Escape Festival)
05-17 Brighton, England - Bosh (Great Escape Festival)
05-19 Cardiff, Wales - Clwb Iforbach
05-20 Liverpool, England - Korova Bar
05-21 London, England - Corsica Studios
05-22 Leeds, England - The Common Place
05-23 Edinburgh, Scotland - Studio 24
05-24 Glasgow, Scotland - Captain's Rest
05-26 Dublin, Ireland - Andrew's Lane Theatre
05-28 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
05-31 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival
06-04 Bloomington, IN - Waldron Art Center
06-05 Omaha, NE - Waiting Room
06-06 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
06-07 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
06-09 Missoula, MT - Badlander
06-10 Seattle, WA - Neumo's !
06-11 Portland, OR - Doug Fir !
06-13 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill !
06-14 Visalia, CA - Howie & Sons !
06-15 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo !
06-17 San Diego, CA - Casbah !
06-18 Tempe, AZ - Modified
06-19 El Paso, TX - Hush Gallery!
06-20 Austin, TX - Emo's
06-21 Dallas, TX - Club Dada
06-22 Memphis, TN - Hi Tone
06-23 Atlanta, GA - The Earl
06-25 Washington, DC - Rock'n'Roll Hotel
06-26 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
06-27 New York, NY - Whitney Museum of American Art (Wordless Music Series)
06-28 Providence, RI - The Living Room
06-29 Boston, MA - Great Scott %
06-30 Montreal, Quebec - Divan Orange
07-01 Toronto, Ontario - Horseshoe Tavern
07-02 Buffalo, NY - TBD
07-20 Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival ^

! with Psychedelic Horseshit, Fabulous Diamonds
* with the Hold Steady, Jens Lekman, Caribou, Hot Chip, Les Savy Fav, No Age, Dirty Projectors, Of Montreal, Los Campesinos!, Bon Iver, Glass Candy, Vampire Weekend, Times New Viking, Meat Puppets, Jay Reatard, the Black Angels, Marissa Nadler, Wooden Shjips, Deerhunter, Shit and Shine, Sebadoh, Ween, Girls Against Boys, Redd Kross, Pissed Jeans, Yeasayer, Fuck Buttons, Apse, A Place to Bury Strangers, the Clientele, Black Mountain, Harmonia, Born Ruffians, Howlin Rain, Car Sick Cars, Even, Various Production (DJ set)
% with Hallelujah the Hills
^ with Spoon, Dinosaur Jr., Spiritualized, M. Ward, Ghostface and Raekwon, Les Savy Fav, the Apples in Stereo, Boris, Dirty Projectors, Cut Copy, Bon Iver, the Dodos, Occidental Brothers Dance Band International, King Khan & the Shrines, El Guincho, HEALTH, High Places, Mahjonng