The National preps new album, announce summer tour

Photo by Kevin Norris

Indie rock heavyweights The National have announced that they will release a new album, the follow-up to 2010's High Violet, in May. They haven't released further details about the album but the band will be hitting the road in late spring/early summer to support it which will bring them back to Raleigh.

The band will play the Red Hat Amphitheater on Monday, June 10. Dirty Projectors will open. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, March 1 via the Progress Energy Center box office and Tickemaster.

Check out photos and a review of The National's show at Memorial Auditorium in October 2010 HERE.

The National tour dates
05.16.13 - Ithaca, NY - State Theater
06.05.13 - Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center
06.06.13 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion #
06.07.13 - Philadelphia, PA - Mann Center for the Performing Arts #
06.08.13 - Richmond, VA - The National
06.10.13 - Raleigh, NC - Red Hat Amphitheatre #
06.11.13 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE #
06.13.13 - Montreal, QC- Lachine Canal
06.14.13 - Toronto, ON- Yonge Dundas Square
06.15.13 - Columbus, OH - LC Pavilion
06.13-16.13 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
06.21.13 - Scheessel, Germany - Hurricane Festival
06.22.13 - Neuhausen Ob Eck - Southside Festival
06.25.13 - Brussels, Belgium - Cirque Royal
06.28.13 - Cork, Ireland - Live at the Marquee
06.30.13 - Rome, Italy - Parco Della Musica
07.01.13 - Milan, Italy - City Sound Festival
07.02.13 - Zagreb, Croatia - Salata
07.14.13 - Cincinnati, OH - Bunbury Festival

# w/ Dirty Projectors