According to their (really, his) website, Chicago via San Francisco’s Casiotone For The Painfully Alone are retiring.

What does that mean? It means after thirteen years, “Mr. Casiotione” Owen Ashworth is leaving that moniker behind and going forth like a brand new man. Owen will still be writing and recording and touring and all of those things that musicians do. What he won’t be doing is playing any of his old CFTPA tunes.

Well, that is not after a pretty huge tour – The 1st Annual Final North American Tour – he is embarking on starting here in September. So go and hear these songs for the last time live and thank Owen – the nicest guy you’ll ever meet – for all the years of painfully intimate and painfully good tunes.

The complete tour dates are below:

CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE
1ST ANNUAL FINAL NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
(Just kidding. It’s really actually the last one.)

9/8 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean *
9/9 Iowa City @ PS1 *
9/10 Omaha, NE @ The Bourbon Theatre *
9/11 Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive *
9/12 Salt Lake City, UT @ Subterranean/Slowtrain Records *
9/13 Boise, ID @ Visual Arts Collective *
9/14 Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern *
9/15 Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret *
9/16 Victoria, BC @ The Legendary Castle Troyler *
9/17 Victoria, BC @ Logan’s *
9/18 Portland, OR @ Artistery *
9/19 Portland, OR @ The Wail *
9/21 Oakland, CA @ 21 Grand *
9/22 Santa Cruz, CA @ The Crepe Place
9/23 San Luis Obispo, CA @ SLO Art Center *
9/24 Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell *
9/25 Phoenix, AZ @ Trunk Space *
9/27 Austin, TX @ Emo’s *
9/28 Houston, TX @ Khon’s Rooftop *
9/29 Denton, TX @ Dan’s Silverleaf *
9/30 Memphis, TN @ Hi-Tone *
10/1 Nashville, TN @ The End (Next Big Nashville Festival) *
10/2 Louisville, KY@ Zanzabar *
10/7 Kalamazoo, MI @ WIDR Barking Tuna Festival *
10/8 Toronto, ON @ The Piston *
10/9 Ottawa, ON @ Raw Sugar *
10/10 Montreal, QC @ Casa Del Popolo *
10/12 Biddeford, ME @ The Oak & The Ax (formerly Hog Farm Studios Annex) *
10/13 Cambridge, MA @ TT The Bear’s *
10/14 Manhattan, NY @ Mercury Lounge *
10/15 Brooklyn, NY @ Monster Island Basement *
10/16 Rochester, NY @ Bug Jar
10/17 Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Arts

* w/ Otouto