Following a sold-out US tour throughout North America that continues through the end of November, Mute Records and M83 [Official, Myspace] are proud to announce that the band is confirmed to open for The Killers during their arena tour in January and February 2009. The tour is still in support of M83′s fifth album Saturdays = Youth released April 2008 on Mute.

Saturdays = Youth debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top New Artist Heatseekers Chart, went to #1 on the CMJ Top 200, and is the #1 record of 2008 at Urban Outfitters. The videos for the singles, “Graveyard Girl,” and “Kim and Jessie,” were nominated for MTV2’s “Video of the Year” award. In December, M83 will be opening for the Kings of Leon during their entire UK arena tour.

Tour dates and more “after the jump”

The record also met with widespread critical acclaim including an 8.5/10 review ranking from Pitchfork, an 8/10 review ranking from Wired, and a Remix magazine cover story. Rolling Stone hailed that Saturdays = Youth is full of “70mm songs for John Hughes movies yet to be filmed,” while Black Book said the album evokes “the spiritual atmospherics of Sigur Ros and My Bloody Valentine‘s epic shoegaze sprawl…the results stun in glorious slow motion.” NPR nominated the record for its “Album of the Year” award.

The M83 live setup includes Gonzalez on vocals, guitars and keyboards, Loic Maurin on Drums, Pierre-Marie Maulini on bass and guitar and featured album vocalist Morgan Kibby (of LA-based band The Romanovs) on vocals and keyboards.

Tour Dates (supporting The Killers):
1/17 Denver, CO @ Magness Arena – Ritchie Center
1/19 Minneapolis, MN @ Northrop Auditorium
1/20 Chicago, IL @ UIC Pavilion
1/21 Detroit, MI @ EMU Convocation Center
1/23 Toronto, ONT @ Air Canada Centre
1/25 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
1/26 Boston, MA @ Agganis Arena
1/28 Washington, DC @ George Mason University Patriot Center
1/29 Myrtle Beach, SC @ House of Blues
1/30 Atlanta, GA @ Atlanta Civic Center
1/31 Nashville, TN @ Grand Ole Opry House
2/01 Houston, TX @ Verizon Wireless Theater
2/03 Austin, TX @ Frank Erwin Center
2/04 Dallas, TX @ Nokia Theatre

And it’s still not to late to take part in M83′s open call to fans to submit their best video interpretations of “We Own The Sky”, their latest single from Saturdays=Youth. The competition launched on Thursday, November 13th on Pitchfork. Anyone who wants to submit an entry has until January 20, 2009 to produce a video for “We Own the Sky” and upload it onto the Youtube contest page at http://www.youtube.com/group/m83. The winning entry will have its Pitchfork TV debut early next year! Now get cracking.

“We Own the Sky” (Maps Remix) [mp3]

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