Tours: What do you get when you combine a straight edge band with a bunch of drunks?

If you said "possibly one of the best combinations for a tour ever" you'd be right. Chicago punks [and sloppy drunks]The Lawrence Arms are hitting the road with fellow Chicagoians [and straight edgers] Rise Against in January, hitting the majority of the Southwest and getting all over California, too. Touring with them for part of the dates are soon-to-be transplanted Chicagoians The Ghost, whose debut album drops on March 5th on Some Records [by the way, the Ghost rules]. After the tour draws to a close in Kansas, The Ghost and The Lawrence Arms will continue to play around the midwest with another great Chicago band, The Honor System, while Rise Against will play a few shows with Agnostic Front and The Casualties in the midwest. What does this mean for you, the human in front of your computer? It means that there's a bunch of good rock shows coming up, so get off your ass and check them out.

[all shows below are w/Lawrence Arms/Rise Against]
1/11/2002 Vino's Little Rock, AR
1/12/2002 Galaxy Club Dallas, TX
1/13/2002 Zero's Corpus Christi, TX
1/14/2002 Emo's Austin, TX
1/16/2002 Cantina La Tuya El Paso, TX
[all shows below are w/The Ghost, too]
1/17/2002 Nile Basement Mesa, AZ
1/19/2002 Che Cafe La Jolla, CA
1/21/2002 Jerry's Pizza Bakersfield, CA
1/22/2002 Filthy's Lake Elsinore, CA
1/24/2002 Skrappy's Tucson, AZ
1/26/2002 Green Door Oklahoma City, OK
1/27/2002 Bottleneck Lawrence, KS

[all shows below are w/Lawrence Arms/Honor System/The Ghost]
02.01.02 Milwuakee, WI @ The Globe
02.02.02 Madison, WI @ TBA
02.08.02 Ann Arbor, MI @ Halfway Inn
02.09.02 Chicago, IL @ Fireside Bowl

[all shows below are w/Rise Against]
02/03/2002 Metro Chicago, Il Agnostic Front, The Casualties
02/04/2002 The Globe Milwaukee, WI Agnostic Front, The Casualties, Reject Allstars