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Wilco expand world tour

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They'll hit North America this summer

Wilco have expanded their world tour in support of their forthcoming album, 'Sky Blue Sky'.

Following several dates in Australia, the UK and Europe throughout April and May, the Chicago quartet will head to North America for a slew of shows beginning in Davenport, Iowa on June 13.

They'll play dates in New York, Boston and Toronto before heading back to England for the Latitude Festival on July 12.

They'll rap things up at Spain's Benicassim Festival on July 20.

The newly added tour dates are:

Davenport, IA Adler Theater (June 13)
Indianapolis, IN Murat Theater (15)
Manchester, TN Bonnaroo (17)
Atlanta, GA Chastain Park Amphitheatre (19)
Charlotte, NC Ovens Auditorium (20)
Red Bank, NJ Count Basie Theater (22)
Northampton, MA The Pines (24)
New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom (25)
Boston, MA Bank of America Pavilion (28)
Shelburne, VT The Green at Shelburne Museum (29)
Toronto, Ontario Massey Hall (30)
Kongsberg, Norway Kongsberg Jazz Festival (July 7)
Suffolk, England Latitude Festival (12-15)
Benicassim, Spain Festival Internacional de Benicassim (20)


As previously announced, Wilco's follow-up to 2004's 'A Ghost Is Born' is set to be released on May 14 in the UK, and a day later in the US.

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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