The Fiery Furnaces - ballet, tour and new LP

From pint-sized pop-pimp Prince to Milkman-making musical trio Deerhoof, it seems as though the canons of acceptable scores for ballet hasn't changed this much since Merce Cunningham met John Cage.

Enter stage...wherever - The Fiery Furnaces, announcing their foray into scoring a performance by the nimble-toed on Billboard.com (although we highly doubt we'll see many pink tutu clad dancers at this one).

"The 'we're number one' finger and the heavy metal horn-sign," are some of the things we can expect to see at the show, says band member Matthew Friedberger of the performance. He speaks to the entirety of the dancing being based upon American Sign Language, and the aforementioned "American event social gestures."

Touring this fall to promote the October 9th release of Widow City, the latest LP of theirs to drop since they recruited granny to take over the vocals on 2005's Rehearsing My Choir, the brother and sister duo (Eleanor being the other half) will begin the trip the very night the record drops.

Tour dates:

October
9 - Newport, Kent. @ Southgate House
10 - Milwaukee, Wis. @ Shank Hall
11 - Madison, Wis. @ The Annex
12 - Saint Paul, Minn. @ Turf Club
15 - Vancouver, B.C. @ Richard's on Richards
16 - Seattle, Wash. @ Crocodile Cafe
17 - Portland, Ore. @ Aladdin Theater
19 - Berkeley, Calif. @ UC Berkeley
19 - San Francisco, Calif @ Independent
20 - Big Sur, Calif. @ Fernwood Resort
21 - San Diego, Calif. @ Casbah
22 - West Hollywood, Calif. @ Troubador
26 - Austin, Tex. @ Emo's
27 - Austin, Tex. @ Emo's
29 - St. Louis, Mo. @ Blueberry Hill
30 - Champaign, Ill. @ Highdive
31 - Chicago, Ill. @ Logan Square Auditorium