Divine Fits Fall Tour - Pollstar News

Spoon’s Britt Daniel, Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner and New Bomb Turks’ Sam Brown are taking their new band Divine Fits on the road for its first full scale U.S. tour, officially starting off Oct. 16 in Rhode Island.

Divine Fits, which met up for its first practice in November 2011, released its debut album, A Thing Called Divine Fits, last week.

NPR’s Stephen Thompson describes the release as “the work of guys who know exactly what they want from their music: namely, to explore a bit of a new-wave streak while still operating in their wheelhouse of slick, sharp, smart pop-rock.”

Thompson adds, “Comparisons are fair and inevitable, but the album deserves that highest of compliments: For all its familiar components, it sounds like Divine Fits.”

Photo: John Davisson

Canada’s Wolf Parade plays to the ginormous crowd at the Austin City Limits Festival.

Fans can catch the band’s late-night television debut on Friday on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

On Sunday the band plays Brooklyn, N.Y., at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Festival appearances are booked at SoundLand in Nashville Oct. 6 and Treasure Island Music Festival in San Francisco Oct. 14.

And this is the fall tour schedule:

Oct. 16 – Pawtucket, R.I., The Met
Oct. 17 – Boston, Mass., Royale Nightclub Boston
Oct. 18 – Washington, D.C., 9:30 Club
Oct. 19 – Northampton, Mass., Pearl Street
Oct. 21 – New York, N.Y., Webster Hall
Oct. 22 – Philadelphia, Pa., Union Transfer
Oct. 24 – Columbus, Ohio, Newport Music Hall
Oct. 25 – Chicago, Ill., Logan Square Auditorium
Oct. 26 – Indianapolis, Ind., Deluxe
Oct. 27 – Asheville, N.C., U.S. Cellular Center Asheville
Oct. 28 – Raleigh, N.C., Lincoln Theatre
Oct. 29 – Atlanta, Ga., Terminal West
Oct. 31 – Austin, TX     Stubb’s Bar-B-Q / Waller Creek Amph.
Nov. 2 – Tucson, Ariz., The Rock
Nov. 3 – Pioneertown, Calif., Pappy And Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace
Nov. 4 – Los Angeles, Calif., The Fonda

Tickets for select dates will be available Sept. 7. Some shows are already on sale.

For more information visit DivineFits.com.