The 16-city tour fires up February 3 at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and runs through March 10, when it wraps up at the Media Club in Vancouver, B.C.

The band has planned three special performances during the run of the tour, beginning with a show February 8 at the Field House at Newton South High School in Newton Center, Mass. Boston-based quintet the McCoy Brothers will join State Radio as special guests for the show. All proceeds from the show will go to humanitarian aid in Darfur.

The second special show is a two night stand at New York’s Bowery Ballroom February 16 and 17. The band will play a different set list each night, and will have different openers and special guests as well.

The last special date on the tour is March 2 at Slim’s in San Francisco as part of the 2007 Noise Pop Festival, which is the West coast’s answer to Austin’s South by Southwest.

On top of all of that, State Radio founder Chad Urmston is participating in a trio of sold-out benefit concerts July 13 – 15 at New York’s Madison Square Garden with his former group, East coast jam band phenom Dispatch. The band is reuniting for the shows with the aim of drawing attention to the atrocities happening in Zimbabwe.