David Bazan announces album with Passenger String Quartet, fall tour

Singer-songwriter David Bazan will release an album with the avant-garde Passenger String Quartet on September 9 simply titled David Bazan + Passenger String Quartet Volume 1 that will include songs from Bazan's solo career as well as songs from Pedro the Lion and Headphones. They'll head out on a big fall tour in support of the album that includes a Triangle show.

They'll play the Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw on Sunday, October 26. David Dondero will open. Tickets are on sale now via Ticketfly for $20.

Check Bazan and the quartet performing the Pedro the Lion song "Bands With Managers" at a show in July 2012 below.

David Dondero & Franz Nicolay announce tour, coming to Chapel Hill

Singer-songwriters David Dondero (named by NPR as one of the best living songwriters) and Franz Nicolay (of The Hold Steady) are teaming up for a hefty seven-week tour that will kick off in Brooklyn on February 25 and cover the country before ending where they started in New York, NY on April 15.

The tour will stop at Local 506 in Chapel Hill on Tuesday, March 1. Tickets are on sale now via etix for $8.

Dondero's new album A Pre-Existing Condition will be released on February 22 via Ghostmeat Records. Download the song "Not Everybody Loves Your Doggie Like You Do" from the album below.