Cymbals Eat Guitars get new bassist

October 28th, 2009

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Courtesy: Pitchfork.com

If fresh-faced Staten Island indie formalist bashers Cymbals Eat Guitars looked a little different in this CMJ photo, your eyes weren’t playing tricks on you. The band’s MySpace page lists a new bassist, a fellow named Matthew Whipple. He replaces Neil Berenholz, who, according to CEG’s publicist, left the band amicably because he didn’t like touring.

In other CEG news, they’ll tour Europe this fall, playing dates with the likes of the Flaming Lips and the Dodos. Dates below.

Cymbals Eat Guitars:

10-29 Brooklyn, NY – Sound Fix
10-31 Brooklyn, NY – 14 Steuben Street
11-07 Lubeck, Germany – Rolling Stone Weekender
11-08 Oostend, Belgium – Manuscript
11-10 London, England – The Troxy %
11-11 London, England – The Troxy %
11-12 London, England – The Lexington (RockFeedback)
11-14 Dublin, Ireland – Crawdaddy
11-15 Belfast, Northern Ireland – Aunt Annie’s
11-16 Edinburgh, Scotland – Sneaky Pete’s
11-17 Manchester, England – Night & Day Café (Now Wave)
11-18 Birmingham, England – Academy 3
11-20 Den Haag, Netherlands – Crossing Border Festival
11-21 Antwerp, Belgium – Trix ^
11-23 Cologne, Germany – MTC
11-24 Paris, France – Nouveau Casino *
12-10 Madrid, Spain – Nasti (Primavera Club Festival)
12-11 Madrid, Spain – Caracol (Primavera Club Festival)
12-12 Barcelona, Spain – Sidecar (Primavera Club Festival)