Free Energy will be busy for the rest of the summer: on July 21, the band will release its self-titled debut 7-inch single via DFA and embark on a tour of the East Coast starting this evening in Ottawa. “Free Energy,” the James Murphy-produced track, will feature a B-side entitled “Something In Common,” produced by Eric Broucek. Only 350 copies of the single have been pressed, so MAKE HASTE PLEASE.

Tour dates are as follows:

07.13.09 Ottawa, ON @ Ottawa Blues Festival
07.14.09 Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
07.16.09 Minneappolis, MN @ Triple Rock Club
07.18.09 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle (after the Pitchfork Festival – w/ Slim Cessna’s Auto Club)
07.25.09 New York, NY @ Fixed at Tribeca Grand (w/ Riton – RSVP Only)
08.01.09 Philadelphia, PA @ Theater of Living Arts (w/ Tinted Windows)
08.03.09 Boston, MA @ Paradise (w/ Tinted Windows)
08.07.09 New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge (w/ Edward Sharpe & Magnetic Zeros)
08.26.09 Washington, DC @ Black Cat

You can’t accuse me of it if I admit it first: I’m jumping on a bandwagon. You can’t call me a follower if I just don’t care. You can’t bring me down when I’m pumping out “Dream City”, the awesome new jam from recently DFA-signed feel-gooders Free Energy.
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Maybe it’s because sometimes she likes to wear helmets on stage too, but Olof & Karin Dreijer from The Knife have invited UK-by-way-of-Germany artist Planningtorock to help co-write their opera about Darwin, which will debut this September in Copenhagen. And that’s only the beginning of her plans for 2009.
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