On The Road Again: Dashboard Confessional, The Cheap Suits And The Unseen

Chris Carrabba's Dashboard Confessional haven't done a major tour for two years, and it's been three years since the band released their major breakthrough album, A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar. But the long-awaited follow-up, Dusk And Summer, will finally come out through Vagrant on June 27.

Expect to hear lots of the new material, and see some overly sensitive people shedding some tears, at these shows:

June 30 Toronto, ON @ Molson Amphitheatre
July 1 London, ON @ John Labatt Centre
July 3 Thunder Bay, ON @ Community Auditorium
July 4 Winnipeg, MB @ Winnipeg Convention Centre
July 6 Edmonton, AB @ Rexall Place
July 7 Calgary, AB @ Jack Singer Concert Hall
July 9 Vancouver, BC @ Plaza Of Nations

Toronto ska/pop/punk band the Cheap Suits were named indie artist of the year along with Tupelo Honey at last weekend's Canadian Organization Of Campus Activities Awards (COCA) show in Edmonton, which puts them in the same company as previous winners Bedouin Soundclash, Matthew Good Band and Great Big Sea.

The Suits are touring in support of their new One Giant Leap album and, if you talk to them politely, they might show you their COCA Award at one of these gigs:

June 30 Toronto, ON @ Third Floor Reilly's w/Skratch3 and The Makeshift Heroes
July 9 St. Catharines, ON @ Great Canadian
July 11 Sault Ste. Marie, ON @ Downbeat Lounge
July 12 Thunder Bay, ON @ Apollo w/The John Doe Project
July 13 Winnipeg, MB @ The Zoo
July 14 Regina, SK @ The Manhattan Room w/Bandwagon Device and Murky Dismal
July 16 Banff, AB @ The Rose And Crown
July 17 Kelowna, BC @ The Blue Gator
July 18 Vancouver, BC @ The Lamplighter
July 20 Saskatoon, SK @ The Roxy On Broadway
July 21 Winnipeg, MB @ TBA w/The Afterbeat
July 22 Thunder Bay, ON @ Apollo w/Wax Mannequin, OK Cobra and Joey Balducci
Aug. 11 Toronto, ON @ Edge 102 Studio

Veteran Boston punk rock band The Unseen will cross Canada to promote their Hellcat album, The State Of Discontent.

You can be assured that there will be no emo coming from the stages of these venues:

July 7 Montreal, QC @ Club Lambi
July 8 Ottawa, ON @ Babylon
July 9 Toronto, ON @ Kathedral
July 10 London, ON @ Call The Office
July 14 Winnipeg, MB @ West End Cultural Centre
July 15 Regina, SK @ Exchange
July 16 Saskatoon, SK @ Louis Pub
July 18 Edmonton, AB @ Starlite
July 19 Calgary, AB @ Underground