Casiotone For The Painfully Alone To Embark On US Summer Tour!

"His songs are equal parts haunting and comforting - like running into your ex at the airport." - SPIN

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone will be hitting the road this summer in support of Advance Base Battery Life, a collection of 7-inch split-singles and compilation tracks he released from 2004-7 (all but two of them on CD for the first time) and Vs. Children, the fifth album proper from CTFPA since 2006's Etiquette.

Tour Dates

05/28/09 - Chicago, IL - The Hideout >
06/25/09 - Bloomington, IN - Russian Recording
06/26/09 - Columbus, OH - Cafe Bourbon Street
06/27/09 - Louisville, KY - Skull Alley
06/28/09 - Nashville, TN - The End
06/29/09 - Knoxville, TN - Pilot Light
06/30/09 - Atlanta, GA - 529 (529 Flat Shoals Ave) /+
07/01/09 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 /+
07/02/09 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Chapel /+
07/03/09 - Brooklyn, NY - Market Hotel /+ &
07/05/09 - Keane, NH - EF Lane Hotel /+
07/06/09 - Cambridge, MA - TT The Bear's /+
07/07/09 - Montreal, QC - Il Motore /+
07/08/09 - Toronto, ON - The Boat /+ *
07/09/09 - Grand Rapids, MI - DAAC /+
07/10/09 - Chicago, IL - The Hideout /+
07/11/09 - St Paul, MN - Turf Club /+
07/12/09 - Fargo, ND - The Aquarium /+
07/14/09 - Seattle, WA - Healthy Times Fun Club /+ ^
07/15/09 - Portland, OR - The Artistery /+
07/16/09 - Vancouver, BC - The Biltmore Cabaret /+ #
07/17,18,19/09 - Anacortes, WA - What The Heck Fest 2009
07/21/09 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill %
07/22/09 - San Luis Obispo, CA - Steynberg Gallery %
07/23/09 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo %
07/24/09 - San Diego,CA - The Casbah%
07/25/09 - Phoenix, AZ - Trunk Space %
07/26/09 - Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture %
07/28/09 - Denver, CO - Hi-Dive %
07/30/09 - Omaha, NE - Slowdown
07/31/09 - Iowa City, IA - Public Space One

> w/ Lineland & Animal Hospital
/+ w/ Cryptacize
& w/ Katie Eastburn
* w/ Mantler
^ w/ Ribbons
# w/ No Kids
% w/ Concern


If Stephin Merritt is the Stephen Foster of DIY synthpop, deconstructing romance with droll precision, Ashworth might be Bert Williams, swaying around the beat to simultaneously emphasize and unpack his melancholy. - Village Voice