Mark Kozelek, founder of the San Francisco based bands Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters has announced a string of West Coast tour dates in January. The concerts are Kozelek’s first in the U.S. since the release of Sun Kil Moon’s acclaimed Tiny Cities; an album which finds Mark covering and reworking 11 songs by Modest Mouse. The album, released Nov. 1 on Caldo Verde Records, has been called “hypnotically lovely” by Entertainment Weekly, “rich and sinewy” by the San Francisco Weekly and “uncannily moving” and “impassioned” by CMJ.

Kozelek’s tour will bring him to Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz and to the Great American Music Hall in his home city of San Francisco. He will be joined by Red House Painters guitarist Phil Carney on all dates, and will perform songs from the latest Sun Kil Moon album and their earlier Ghost of the Great Highway, as well as songs from the Red House Painters catalog and a diverse array of covers.

In addition to this upcoming tour and the newly released Tiny Cities, Kozelek recently recorded Neil Diamond’s “Kentucky Woman” for the Song from the Brown Hotel charity compilation EP, organized by Cameron Crowe to coincide with his new film Elizabethtown. Kozelek also appears in the Steve Martin produced Shopgirl.

MARK KOZELEK U.S. TOUR DATES

January 12 Doug Fir Portland, OR

January 13 Nuemos Seattle, WA

January 18 Great American Music Hall San Francisco, CA

January 21 Troubadour Los Angeles, CA

January 27 The Attic Santa Cruz, CA