Currently in the midst of headlining NME’s sold out New Noise tour in support of their acclaimed debut album, Crystal Castles, the genre blurring boy-girl duo from Toronto, Canada will be playing an all ages instore gig at Glasgow’s Avalanche Records this Saturday at 5pm.

They recently graced the cover of NME’s ‘Future 50 Issue’ which unveiled their pick of bands, artists and innovators who are driving music forward in 2008. Their recently released debut album has already been called ‘a defining album of 2008’ by Rough Trade shop, ‘an amazing piece of modern electronica’ by Dazed & Confused whilst ID magazine said it is ‘awe inspiring’. NME simply claimed that ‘you’ll hear nothing better this year’.

The summer will see them appear at a string of festivals including Glastonbury, Great Escape, Latitude, Reading / Leeds and Bestival.

The New Noise tour continues tonight in Birmingham. The full schedule for the tour shapes up as follows.

May

Thu 8th Birmingham - Carling Academy 2
Sat 10th Glasgow - The Arches
Sun 11th Newcastle - Carling Academy 2
Mon 12th Manchester - Academy 2
Wed 14th London - Astoria 2
Thu 15th Stoke - The Sugarmill

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dr ops said:

	crystal castles have already lost all cred by lying that they knew nothing of the scene and chiptune artists that it's now been proven that they sampled heavily then they disrespect their fans by lying to the press about it. http://www.pileup.com/babyart/blog/?p=130 or just google 'crystal castles steal'
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