When not doodling or making music, Phil Elverum (a.k.a. Mount Eerie) is apparently booking tourdates. Beginning today, Elverum will head out on a gigantic tour that’ll take him everywhere from the beautiful beaches of Idaho to the caves of Norway. As previously reported, Elverum will be touring with WHY? for part of the tour and later with Julie Doiron (picked to appeal to Hilary fans?), who will also perform with Dick Morello as Calm Down, It’s Monday for most of the dates. The Music Tapes, who inspired me to get all verbose a few weeks ago (TMT Review), will play a stripped-down show with him September 15 in Athens.

Capitalist that he is, Elverum is selling some of his new, COMMODIFIED tunes on the tour too, including his mini-album with Doiron and Fred Squire Lost Wisdom (in stores October 7) and Dawn (November 4). Don’t like to go out? Spoiled, anti-social misanthrope like me? Thankfully, P.W. Elverum & Sun expects to implement a download store in the near future "where you can buy digital albums with extreme direct-ness, and featuring some rarities." It’s kinda, like, shattering the glass ceiling into 18 million pieces or something. So inspiring. Things are changing. New politics. Hope, change, mavericks, blah blah blah.

09.03.08 - Nampa, ID - Flying M 09.04.08 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court 09.05.08 - Denver, CO - Brooks Center Arts 09.06.08 - Peñasco, NM - The Peñasco Theatre (with Jodie Jean Marston) 09.07.08 - Marfa, TX - Marfa Book Company 09.08.08 - Austin, TX - Mohawk $ 09.09.08 - Dallas, TX - early show: 5:30pm - Good Records 09.09.08 - Dallas, TX - Granada Theater $ 09.10.08 - Ruston, LA - Louisiana Tech. 09.11.08 - Pensacola, FL - Sluggo’s $ 09.12.08 - Gainseville, FL - ComGrounds $ 09.13.08 - Miami, FL - White Room $ 09.14.08 - Tampa, FL - Transitions Gallery 09.14.08 - Orlando, FL - The Social $ 09.15.08 - Athens, GA - Ciné * 09.16.08 - Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle $ 09.17.08 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church $ 09.18.08 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom $ 09.19.08 - Brooklyn, NY - Lutheran Church of the Messiah 09.20.08 - Northhampton, MA - Iron Horse % 09.21.08 - Worcester, MA - Clark University % 09.22.08 - Providence, RI - Building 16 % 09.23.08 - Purchase, NY - SUNY Purchase % 09.24.08 - Pittsfield, MA - Copperworks % 09.25.08 - Saratoga Springs, NY - Skidmore College % 09.26.08 - New Haven, CT - People’s Center % 09.27.08 - Boston, Mass. - Mass Art % 09.28.08 - Annandale-on-Hudson, NY - Bard College % 10.02.08 - Sydney, Australia - Paddington Uniting Church @ 10.03.08 - Newcastle, Australia - Sound Summit festival 10.04.08 - Brisbane, Australia - Lofly Hangar 10.05.08 - Melbourne, Australia - Brunswick Arts Space 10.06.08 - Hobart, Tasmania, Australia - the Venue 10.07.08 - Melbourne, Australia - Triple R Performance Space @ 10.12.08 - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - La Sala Rossa 10.13.08 - Ottawa, ON - SAW Gallery % 10.14.08 - Toronto, ON - Church of the Redeemer % 10.15.08 - East Lansing, MI - Scene Metrospace % 10.16.08 - Pontiac, MI - Crofoot Ballroom ^ 10.17.08 - Cincinnati, OH - Art Damage Lodge % 10.18.08 - Gambier, OH - Kenyon College % 10.19.08 - Delaware, OH - Ohio Wesleyan University % 10.20.08 - Chicago, IL - AV-aerie % 10.21.08 - Madison, WI - Gates of Heaven % 10.22.08 - Louisville, KY - Skull Alley % 10.23.08 - Bloomington, IN - The Cinemat % 10.24.08 - St. Louis, MO - Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center % 10.25.08 - Springfield, MO - Randy Bacon Gallery % 10.26.08 - Norman, OK - Opolis % 10.27.08 - Santa Fe, NM - Warehouse 21 % 10.28.08 - Phoenix, AZ - Modified % 10.29.08 - Irvine, CA - Cross Cultural Center 10.29.08 - Los Angeles, CA - SiteLA % 10.30.08 - Santa Cruz, CA - The Crepe Place 11.01.08 - San Francisco, CA - Million Fishes ! 11.02.08 - Oakland, CA - TBA 11.03.08 - Sacramento, CA - VOX 11.04.08 - Eugene, OR - Wandering Goat Cafe 11.15.08 - Castellon, Spain - Tanned Tin Festival 11.17.08 - London, Englan.08 - Tufnell Park Dome 11.20.08 - Oslo, Norway - TBA 11.21.08 - Bodø, Norway - 10th Bodø Hardcore Fest

$ WHY? @ Lucky Dragons ! White Fang and Thanksgiving % Julie Doiron and Calm Down, It’s Monday ^ Julie Doiron and NO KIDS and Mirah * Music Tapes & Thimble Circus and Nesey Gallons

[Drawing by Phil Elverum, as part of Fancy People Adventures for Arthur Magazine]