In advance of a new album, the Silver Jews will be touring the UK and Ireland in May. Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (reported on here) has been pencilled in for a US release in late June on Drag City, presumably near a similar UK date. The album will be the band's sixth and first since 2005's Tanglewood Numbers.
In the band's 20-year history, this tour will account for only their second gracing of these isles. Those dates then:
May
7 Brighton Concorde 2
8 Leeds City Varieties
9 Glasgow ABC
10 Belfast Black Box
11 Dundalk Spirit Store
14 Cork Cyprus Avenue
15 Galway Roisin Dubh
16 Dublin Whelan's
16-18 Butlins Holiday Centre Explosions In The Sky ATP
20 Hamburg Fabrik
21 Berlin Columbia Club
22 Frankfurt Brotfabrik
23 St. Gallen Palace Theatre
25 Paris Point Ephemere
27 Manchester The Dancehouse Theatre
28 Liverpool The Zanzibar Club
29 London ULU (moved from indig02)
29-31 Barcelona Primavera Sound Festival
And scene.