Themselves (Doseone and Jel) [MySpace] return to the scene a mere seven months after the release of celebrated mixtape, theFREEhoudini [Download], with their third album, CrownsDown. The release is being called “a careful and vicious exhibition of mastered rap tactics and sampling ethics” that “serves as both the opus that these lionhearted two were always meant to make, and the album that their hip-hop-obsessed teenaged selves always hoped to hear”.

I didn’t write that, but holy $h!t that sounds hot, right? Check out the premiere of the “Roman Is As Roman Does” video and grab a track “after the jump”

[mp3] Themselves – “You Ain’t It”

Tour dates

11/19 Austin, TX Highball #
11/20 Denton, TX Hailey’s #
11/21 Baton Rouge, LA Spanish Moon #
11/22 New Orleans, LA The Parish Room – HOB #
11/23 Atlanta, GA 529 #
11/24 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506 #
11/25 Washington, DC Rock and Roll Hotel #
11/27 Brooklyn, NY Knitting Factory #
11/28 Cambridge, MA Middle East Downstairs #
11/29 Providence, RI Jerky’s Live Music Hall #
12/01 Toronto, ONT El Mocambo #
12/02 Ann Arbor, MI Blind Pig #
12/03 Chicago, IL Reggie’s #
12/04 Minneapolis, MN Varsity #
12/05 Milwaukee, WI Cactus Club #
12/11 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court
12/12 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge

# = w/ Eyedea & Abilities

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