After three albums on Park the Van (including last year's uneven Fate), Philadelphia '60s revivalists Dr. Dog have announced they are jumping to the larger confines of Anti- for their fifth LP, which is due out sometime in 2010. Dr. Dog frontman Scott McMicken says that the band is actually a band now that they're recording the whole thing together instead of broken up individually.

"Each album we've made was the best one we could have made at the time and I don't have any regrets. But something has changed. We've never really recorded as a band before. We started as a recording project but over the years we've become a real band. We tour all the time and we have this certain place we fall into. And I think we're ready to use that as a reference point now."

The band have a huge tour to tend to before they finish up work on album five. Here are the tour dates:

07.31 Portland, OR: Pickathon
08.01 Portland, OR: Pickathon
08.03 Bethlehem, PA: Bethlehem Musikfest
09.18 Chattanooga, TN: Nightfall Concert at Miller Plaza
09.19 Bristol, VA: Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion
09.20 Bristol, VA: Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion
09.28 Asheville, NC: The Orange Peel
09.29 Atlanta, GA: The Loft
09.30 New Orleans, LA: The Howlin' Wolf
10.01 Baton Rouge, LA: Chelsea's Cafe
10.02 Austin, TX: Austin City Limits Festival
10.03 San Francisco, CA: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival
10.05 Brookdale, CA: The Brookdale Lodge
10.06 Los Angeles, CA: Henry Fonda Theater
10.07 Tucson, AZ: Club Congress
10.09 Salt Lake City, UT: Urban Lounge *
10.10 Aspen, CO: Belly Up *
10.11 Boulder, CO: The Fox Theatre *
10.12 Lawrence, KS: The Bottleneck *
10.13 St. Louis, MO: The Gargoyle Club *
10.15 Covington, KY: Mad Hatter *
10.16 Cleveland, OH: Beachland Ballroom *
10.17 North Adams, MA: Mass MOCA
10.20 Charlottesville, VA: Gravity ^
10.21 Chapel Hill, NC: Cat's Cradle *
10.22 Baltimore, MD: Ottobar
10.23 Philadelphia, PA: Theater of Living Arts
10.24 Philadelphia, PA: Theater of Living Arts

* with Jeffrey Lewis
^ with Jeffrey Gaines