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Arctic Monkeys announce North American tour with two Canadian dates

by Nicole Villeneuve

With a weekend of breathing room between the release of their dozy, guitar-thick new track “Brick by Brick,” the Arctic Monkeys have announced a North American spring tour that includes two Canadian stops—Toronto on May 21, and Montreal on May 22. Though the new song isn’t an official single, it does come from the yet-to-be-announced forthcoming album and is to serve as a sample of what to expect, as drummer Matt Helders confirmed.

The yet-untitled album is the band’s first since 2009’s Humbug , which was co-produced by Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme and James Ford ( half of Simian Mobile Disco), who the band had worked with on their second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, and who has produced the new one as well. Tour dates and the new song can be found below.

05-17 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
05-18 Philadelphia, PA – Knitting Factory
05-19 Boston, MA – House of Blues
05-21 Toronto, Ontario – Kool Haus
05-22 Montreal, Quebec – L’Olympia
05-24 New York, NY – Central Park SummerStage
05-26 Detroit, MI – Clutch Cargoes
05-27 Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
05-28 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
05-30 Denver, CO – The Ogden Theatre
05-31 Salt Lake City, UT – In the Venue
06-03 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium