Tally Hall ties up early spring road trip

Quirky indie-rockers Tally Hall have lined up a headlining tour ahead of the April major-label re-release of their 2005 debut album, "Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum."

The Michigan-based five-piece--whose members each wear a different colored tie onstage--will kick off the run Feb. 27 in Phoenix. The group has 16 cities lined up for the outing, which includes a pair of showcase appearances during the March 12-16 SXSW conference in Austin, TX. Dates are below.

The band, which signed to Atlantic last year, took up residency in a New York City recording studio with producer Chris Shaw (Super Furry Animals, Weezer) to rework "Marvin's" with a "new national audience" in mind, according to a press release. The new version of the disc is set to hit stores April 1.

"It was tremendously anti-climatic when it happened," Cantor told CMJ.com last year after the Atlantic signing. "We had to do it all over again.

"We'd go crazy if we couldn't be creative," he added, hinting that the band was plotting a new project to coincide with the old record's re-release. "'Marvin's' is so old for us too so there will be something new."

The band's most recent release was 2005's "The Pingry EP," a limited-edition nine-track CD featuring early demos of material that eventually appeared on "Marvin's," along with a pair of live tracks recorded at The Blind Pig in Ann Arbor, MI, and an additional cut recorded live on the Mitch Album Show on Detroit radio station WJR.

TOUR DATES
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February 2008
27 - Phoenix, AZ - Modified
28 - San Diego, CA - Beauty Bar

March 2008
1 - Los Angeles, CA - The Troubadour
2 - San Francisco, CA - Noise Pop @ Rickshaw Stop
4 - Portland, OR - Roseland Grill
5 - Seattle, WA - Nectar Lounge
7 - Provo, UT - Velour
9 - Denver, CO - Hi-Dive
15 - Austin, TX - Brush Square Park
15 - Austin, TX - Buffalo Billiards
17 - Tulsa, OK - Crush Lounge
18 - St. Louis, MO - The Bluebird
19 - Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews
20, 21 - Chicago, IL - Schuba's Tavern
22 - Grand Rapids, MI - Intersection Lounge

April 2008
5 - Lansing, MI - Mac's
6 - Mount Pleasant, MI - Rubble's Bar

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