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  Nov 07 2008, 09:06 PM

  All Things Considered! Tomorrow, Saturday Nov 8!

  

  we are so happy today.

  we are on the road with Horse Feathers.  they blow our Mind(s).

  pluswhat'sMore, we stopped by The Current and Minnesota Public Radio today to record a session for none other than

   

  ALL.

  THINGS.

  CONSIDERED.

   

  woah.

  we love them.

  it was brilliant.

  they are brilliant.

  they ask really good questions.

  YOU CAN LISTEN TO IT.  YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO IT.  THIS IS HOW YOU LISTEN TO IT.  OR, RATHER, HOW YOU FIND OUT HOW YOU LISTEN TO IT:

  http://www.npr.org/templates/stations/schedule/index.php?prgId=7&showNav=1[http://www.npr.org/templates/stations/schedule/index.php?prgId=7&showNav=1

  do it.  now.  we're on TOMORROW - ER, NEARLY ALMOST TODAY!!! SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8th!!!!!!!!

  listen to their Smart Questions and our Tired Answers and our Live Songs!

   

  ear!

  heart!

  ever!

  tUs!
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  Nov 03 2008, 07:24 AM

  Last Shows fr '08 -- IL! Iowa! Minne! Mich! IN! KY! O-Hey-oh! Penn! NYC! W'bury! DC!

  

  Autumn Air's Electric, much more rebirth than death these days -- and, thankfully, much Larger Things Afoot than yr ole pal TUS. so we'll keep it uncharacteristically short.  you've got paper and pens and ballots and brains to wield, after all...

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  in short, then:  COME SEE US PLAY OUR MUSICS WITHIN LIVE ROCK AND ROLL SETTINGS!  we put on a really good show, promise. to boot, many of these will be one-time-in-Time-only kinda affairs: where were YOU on Weds, Nov 5, fr instance, when our First Great Ameri...ah, OK, OK, let's not jump the gun just yet...

  really, though, Nov 6-10 we'll be doing as a stripped-down trio opening up fr our good pals Horse Feathers, whom're deadly amazing. Blitzen Trapper is headlining the St. Paul show, too.  then there's Bishop Allen, Death Ships, The Subjects, Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, Jeremy Messersmith, our long-time DC favorites The Cassettes, and - well, the list just goes n goes...

  
  Weds Nov 5 - Chicago, IL - The Empty Bottle
  Thur Nov 6 - Grinnell, IA - Grinnell College
  Fri Nov 7 - Northfield, MN - Carleton College
  Sat Nov 8 - St. Paul, MN - Turf Club
  Sun Nov 9 - Iowa City, IA - KRUI In-Studio
  Sun Nov 9 - Iowa City, IA - The Mill
  Mon Nov 10 - Rock Island, IL - Huckleberry's
  Thur Nov 13 - Detroit, MI - P.J.'s Lager House
  Fri Nov 14 - Ft. Wayne, IN - The Brass Rail
  Sat Nov 15 - Lexington, KY - Al's Bar
  Sun Nov 16 - Louisville, KY - The Rudyard Kipling
  Mon Nov 17 - Cincinnati, OH - WOXY Lounge Act
  Mon Nov 17 - Newport, KY - Southgate House
  Tues Nov 18 - Pittsburgh, PA - Brillobox
  Weds Nov 19 - New York, NY - Knitting Factory
  Thur Nov 20 - Waterbury, CT - Brooklyn Cafe
  Fri Nov 21 - Swarthmore, PA - Swarthmore College

  Sat Nov 22 - Washington, DC - Black Cat

  
  

  therefore: join us.  we may have much to Celebrate.  more details at that Same Old Place, rightHeredaMySpace...

  
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  Exclusive Team TUS Yearbook Photo, Hot off th'Presses from Spokane, WA!

  there is no real reason to show you the above attached picture except that it will possibly fill your heart with Joy and the Spirit of the Season.  we played a college in Spokane, WA, on this last trip.  there was someone named Charley taking yearbook photos. she offered to take our yearbook photo.  it's too bad Justin's not in this. and Duane. and Kyle. and Jeremy. and Josh and Winston. and David, and Rob. and you, really.  especially you. those're all the folks who've helped to make 2008 such a very special year for us.  especially you. therefore WHY HAVEN'T YOU ALREADY CRASHED THE INTERNET SENDING OUT MULTIPLE INVITATIONS FOR OUR LAST TOUR OF THE YEAR ON YOUR FACEBOOKING PAGE AND YR MYSPACER AND ILIKE'EM AN YR BEBO AND YR MEMO AND NANO AND YR ZAPPO AND EVEN THAT ONE PAGE THAT YOU DON'T TELL ANYONE ABOUT JUST DO IT ALREADY IF YOU DON'T COME OUT TO THESE SHOWS THEN WE WILL TAKE THIS PICTURE AWAY FROM YOU AND THEN WHAT WILL YOU HAVE TO KEEP YOUR HEART WARM IN THIS FRIGID FRIGID SEASON YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING THAT IS WHAT YOU WILL HAVE
  YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE NOTHING FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON DO YOU?!?!?!?

  vote!

  heart!

  love!

  paz!

  tUs!
  
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  Oct 14 2008, 10:04 AM

  Aw, PITCHFORK, You So Crazy! // Aw, KEXP, You so Kindly! // Aw, OBAMA, You So Positively!

  we're out West!  we made it!  even Tom's pedal steel made it! 
  we're sitting in the Sunshine!  Jared is wearing white heart-shaped Sunglasses!
  
  we saw Pitchfork wrote something about our album(s) - a mixed review, if you will - which lots of you Kind Kind People n Former Lovers took as a personal affront - which we appreciate!  but there's actually a lot of good stuff n Truth to what they say, too.  generally speaking, we think Pitchfork is pretty smart.  and we're not just saying that because, as goes the Wisdom, they could Make or Break us!  they've already Broken us, so that's no concern!  yay!  permission to speak Freely, therefore!  S. Deusner's a good writer, and his description of the Music We Make's pretty Accurate, actually -- tho of course we do have a different interpretation of Why we do How we do.  more on that soon, hopefully.  ironically, far from his intentions it would seem, Stephen has inspired us to Make MORE Words, not Less!  we'll have them to you Soon as we Articulate’em within our own Minds…until then, become Hepped on the Latest here at Da Fork [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/146000-these-united-states-a-picture-of-the-three-of-us-at-the-gate-to-the-garden-of-eden-crimes…
  
  meantime, Life Outside goes on All Around... we're psyched fr the upcoming KEXP visit next weekend in Seattle!  To celebrate, here?s a Free Podcast [http://www.digitalwell.washington.edu/dw/1/51/b5/b5918a15-beb5-4de0-98e1-022ba4fca0ca.mp3 from them they were kind enough to put one of our songs on!  Enjoy it!  call em!  Tell em how much y’ve been Enjoying it!
  
  finally, then, in the News Much Bigger Than All of Music category, there is: Barack Obama.  and no thing and no one else.  except Everyone.  Join us, this Wednesday, 15th of October, at The Independent in San Francisco.  gonna be a big fun Blowout [http://baracknrollsf.com/ to raise a few bucks to get some hardworking volunteers out to swing States, get some minds turned this way…oh, and the Headliner is awesome – trust us…
  
  ever,
  tUs!
  
  p.s.  ha ha awesome – well, at least there’s That One [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/146383-beastie-boys-vampire-weekend-do-obama-shows we can all agree to agree on, you crazy ‘Forkers…
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  Oct 06 2008, 10:32 AM

  Flophouse Session! Susie at the Seashore! West Coast next week!

  people of the West Coast!

  we're coming to the West Coast! 

  we put some new Audio Treats up to celebrate!

  they're on TheMySpace: www.myspace.com/theseunited

  one is Susie at the Seashore, a track from the new album!

  the other is a FlopHouse Session we did with the Band in Boston foik, featuring some Very Strange Extra Rare Weird Cuts on Different Instruments (including an old-Timey Drum Machine!) by Tom n Robby n Jesse!

  listen to these things!

  come to these shows!

   

  revel witUs,

  tUs
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  Oct 05 2008, 04:42 PM

  Can You Even Believe We Got Into a Real Live Knife Fight with Jukebox the Ghost?

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  Sep 15 2008, 07:06 AM

  CRIMES.

  

  look at us. what a happy family we appear. it's hard to imagine that we ever could have committed so much Crimes. but we have. for you. September 23. this year, some Year of some Lord, 2008. go now, young Thief - do what you will for it...