Tonight: The Spinto Band @ 7th Street Entry

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About a recent show, Culture Bully's Erik Thompson said that the "7th Street Entry is a venue built specifically, it seems, for loud, sweaty rock shows." The Spinto Band aren't a group that fits the loud part, but don't be surprised if you find yourself surrounded by dancing, sweating peers once Delaware-based blog-pop sextet The Spinto Band take the stage. The band exudes melodic effortlessness, and all of the songs off of its latest effort, Moonwink, are affable and upbeat. But for a band who's on their sixth studio album, the fact that the record sounds like a group is search of a musical identity (there's hints of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah in the vocals, and a more caberet Broken Social Scene in the music) is disconcerting. Still, expect at the very least an energetic show as the band plays the more danceable selections (i.e., the first couple song off of Moonwink).

The Spinto Band Announce Tour Supporting Frightened Rabbit

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On the heels of their forthcoming new album, Moonwink, which will see release on October 7th, self-described devotees to the five-Bs ("bacharach, beatles, beach boys, berlin, bowie") and East Coast lush-pop sextet The Spinto Band have announced a whole slew of European and American tour dates. The European dates mostly find the band in the United Kingdom, with beginning dates in Brussels (wonder if they'll have time to visit Bruges) and Amsterdam serving as outliers. In terms of their American dates with like-minded Scots Frightened Rabbit, that jaunt find them starting out in the East Coast, before making their way to the Midwest, the far West, and, finally, the South, before the tour ends back in our nation's capital.

Here are those dates:

-Europe Dates--
Mon 09/22/08 Brussels - Botanique
Tue 09/23/08 Amsterdam - Paradiso
Wed 09/24/08 Paris - La Maroquinerie
Thurs 09/25/08 London - Borderline
Sat 09/27/08 Norwich - Arts Centre
Sun 09/28/08 Oxford- Bullingdon Arms
Mon 09/29/08 Glasgow- Oran Mor
Tue 09/30/08 Liverpool - Korova
Wed 10/01/08 Stoke - Sugarmill
Fri 10/03/08 Bristol- Louisiana
Sat 10/04/08 Leeds - Cockpit
Sun 10/05/08 Manchester - Night & Day
Mon 10/06/08 York - Duchess
Wed 10/08/08London - Koko
Wed 10/08/08 Cambridge,Soul Tree

--US Dates--
Fri 10/17/08 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church*
Sat 10/18/08 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg*
Sun 10/19/08 Cambridge, MA - Middle East*
Mon 10/20/08 Montreal, QC - Petit Café Campus*
Tue 10/21/08 Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace*
Wed 10/22/08 Columbus, OH - Skully's Music Diner*
Thu 10/23/08 Chicago, IL - Metro*
Fri 10/24/08 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon*
Sat 10/25/08 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry*
Tue 10/28/08 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey*
Wed 10/29/08 Vancouver, BC - The Media Club*
Sat 11/01/08 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill*
Sun 11/02/08 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill*
Mon 11/03/08 Los Angeles, CA - The Echoplex*
Thu 11/06/08 Phoenix, AZ - The Rhythm Room*
Sun 11/09/08 Austin, TX - Fun Fun Fun Festival*
Tue 11/11/08 Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge
Fri 11/14/08 Washington, DC - Black Cat

*w/Frightened Rabbit

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(Jonathan Graef)