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Diplo, Switch Take Their Major Lazer Show On The Road
By Allen Starbury ♦ Published 01/22/2010

Diplo and SwitchMajor Lazer, the collaborative musical project from DJ-producers Diplo and Switch, announced this week that will bring their crazy live parties on the road for a tour they call "Lazers Never Die."

The tour begins on March 27 in Miami, Florida before heading mobile for nearly a month stopping in Atlanta, Cleveland, New York, Detroit, and Chicago, before they wrap things up with an appearance at Coachella on April 17th.

Here's just a some of the praise they received:

"Well paced and immaculately produced" - PITCHFORK

"The shotgun rhythms, spaghetti western guitars, and dubstep explosions intertwine with lover's rock, roots reggae, and other island styles to impressively evoke the pair's genre-splicing DJ sets." - SPIN

"This year's best dancehall album" - NYLON

"The guys do an incredible job of combining both the 'Diplo' and 'Switch' styles with that of Major Lazer, while still paying respect to a genre they clearly love." - URB

Last year's release of Major Lazer's debut album, Guns Don't Kill People, Lazers Do, brought a round of critical applause from major music publications like Rolling Stone, Spin, Fader, Paste, Pitchfork, and was voted one of the top 10 albums of the year by the New York Times.

The futuristic dancehall and digital reggae bangers have set the bar for DJs and their fans to expect a higher quality of cross continental influences in modern dance music. 2009 was just the start for Diplo and Switch's protégé, Major Lazer, and according to their camp, fans can expect more in 2010.

Major Lazer will be joined on the road by Rusko.

Below are confirmed dates and venues for the "Lazers Never Die" tour:

3/27 - Miami, FL @ Ultra Music Festival
3/28 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
3/30 - Carrboro, NC @ Cats Cradle
3/31 - Balitmore, MD @ Bourbon St
4/2 - Philadelphia, PA @ Starlight Ballroom
4/3 - New York, NY @ Terminal 5
4/4 - Cambride, MA @ Middle East
4/6 - Columbus, OH @ BoMa
4/7 - Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
4/8 - Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue
4/9 - Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore
4/10 - Chicago, IL @ Metro
4/11 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
4/13 - Denver, CO @ Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom
4/15 - Reno, NV @ The Knitting Factory
4/16 - San Francisco @ Mezzanine
4/17 - Indio, CA @ Coachella

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