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Hipsters rejoice! Sondre Lerche is hitting the road this fall in support of his new album, Heart Beat Radio. Lerche announced his U.S. tour dates via his Twitter profile , his website, and in conjunction with a Billboard article, much to the delight of his faithful following.(myself included!)

The tour kicks off September 5th in Philadelphia, Pa. and ends September 30th in Vancouver. Tickets go on sale starting Friday, July 10th. He also plans to tour Europe in October, dates have yet to be released.

Due September 8th, Heart Beat Radio is Lerche’s first album since working on the Dan in Real Life soundtrack/musical score. If you can, see Sondre perform at a city near you, you won’t regret it. Tour dates after the cut!

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Sondre Lerche is back. The Norwegian born singer-songwriter who now calls Brooklyn his home, has released a new single “Heartbeat Radio,” which also happens to be the title of his upcoming album. Those cool cats at StereoGum have the first listen, but what we can tell you is that “Heartbeat Radio” is fun swipe at his inability to break mainstream and be devoured by the masses.

Having witnessed Lerche’s brilliance in person several times, I have to admit I’m a bit dumbfounded as to why his pop-rock gems have yet to receive heavy rotation, but perhaps he’s just to ambitious for his own good by writing clever tracks. Or maybe he just needs T-Pain to auto-tune up a song for him. Either way, head over to Stereogum and listen to “Heartbeat Radio.”

Heartbeat Radio is out 9/8 via Rounder. Tracklist, complete with the clearly Brooklyn influenced “I Guess It’s Gonna Rain Today,” below.
01 “Good Luck”
02 “Heartbeat Radio”
03 “I Cannot Let You Go”
04 “Like Lazenby”
05 “If Only”
06 “Pioneer”
07 “Easy to Persuade”
08 “Words and Music”
09 “I Guess it’s Gonna Rain Today”
10 “Almighty Moon”
11 “Don’t Look Now”
12 “Goodnight”