IF YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW, JIM FAIRCHILD, AKA ALL SMILES, IS FILLING IN FOR JOHNNY MARR ON MODEST MOUSE'S TOUR.

That's right! Jim will be on the road with the Mouse through March; more dates were just announced today:

Modest Mouse dates w/Jim:
Feb 22 Oakland, CA Fox Theater
Feb 23 Visalia, CA The Fox Theatre
Feb 24 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Palladium
Feb 25 Tempe, AZ The Marquee
Feb 26 Albuquerque, NM Albuquerque Convention Center
Feb 28 Boulder, CO Balch Fieldhouse
Mar 2 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theater
Mar 3 Oklahoma City, OK Diamond Ballroom
Mar 4 Austin, TX Stubb's
Mar 5 Oxford, MS The Lyric Oxford
Mar 7 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle
Mar 8 Miami, FL Langerado Festival
Mar 15 New York, NY Terminal 5

AND, We will have more superbreakingnews supersoon re: All Smiles' upcoming EP (out this Spring) and ten-song full-length, titled OH, FOR THE GETTING AND NOT LETTING GO (out this summer) very soon! Some deets, though: the full-length and EP were both recorded with the aid of Mr. Brian Deck (Red Red Meat, Califone, Iron & Wine, Modest Mouse); Joe Plummer (Modest Mouse, Black Heart Procession) drummed, and Janet Weiss (Quasi, Sleater Kinney), Danny Seim (Menomena), Solon Bixer (Earlimart) and others were in the mix. YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS BUSINESS. E-mail me about it!

In the meantime, please check out new jams here:
http://www.allsmilesmusic.com/ALL_SMILES.html