Silversun Pickups Headline Tour

After supporting Placebo’s winter European tour and Muse’s North American spring trek, Silversun Pickups is hitting the road in June for its own headlining tour.

The Los Angeles-based group wrapped up its tour with Muse last week with an April 14 gig at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif.

The performance earned kudos from the San Jose Mercury News, which wrote, “As good as the band is on record, however, the group showed in Oakland that it can achieve even greater heights on the live stage. That’s the setting where the Pickups’ brand of jammed-out alt-rock, which recalls the Smashing Pumpkins, Neil Young’s Crazy Horse and My Bloody Valentine, truly shines.”

Silversun Pickups will be showing off new tunes from the band’s sophomore album 2009’s Swoon in addition to favorites from 2006’s debut Carnavas.

Against Me! and Henry Clay People will open the tour.

More dates will be added soon; so far, we've got:

Tue 06/15/10 Orlando, FL Hard Rock Cafe / Hard Rock Live

Wed 06/16/10 Boca Raton, FL Sunset Cove Amphitheatre

Fri 06/18/10 Ybor City, FL The Ritz

Sat 06/19/10 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle

Sun 06/20/10 Raleigh, NC Disco Rodeo

Mon 06/21/10 Richmond, VA The National

Wed 06/23/10 Washington, DC DAR Constitution Hall

Thu 06/24/10 Montclair, NJ Wellmont Theatre

Fri 06/25/10 Brooklyn, NY Williamsburg Waterfront

Mon 06/28/10 Philadelphia, PA The Great Plaza At Penn's Landing

Tue 06/29/10 Toronto, ON Sound Academy

Fri 07/02/10 Detroit, MI The Fillmore Detroit

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