The second volume of M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel’s retro-pop project She & Him came out earlier this year, and it is unfortunately just as enjoyable and melodic and adorable as Volume 1. People have noticed: the duo recently put on their cute little sideshow act to a crowd of about 15,000 in Chicago’s Millennium Park, many of whom no doubt spent the show stifling a deep, burning, jealous rage. Yesterday they announced a stop at the Uptown, on Monday, August 30. It’s a show guaranteed to make you feel old, unattractive, and untalented. When will these two just give it a rest already, am I right?

Tickets are on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. [SOURCE]

Zooey (She & Him) were at the 2010 Bonnaroo Music And Arts Festival – Day 2. Pictures are in the gallery.

I have added new pictures of She & Him at Chicago’s Millennium Park!

Tour Dates:
5/28 Santa Cruz, CA @ Rio Theatre
5/29 Oakland, CA @ Fox Theatre
5/30 Bend, OR @ Le Schwab Amphitheatre*
5/31 George, WA @ Sasquatch! Music Festival
6/4 Milwaukee, WI @ Verge Music Festival 2010
6/5 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
6/6 Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Theatre
6/7 Chicago, IL @ Millennium Park – Downtown Sound Series
6/9 Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy (Venue Change)
6/10 Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
6/11 Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
7/1 Boston, MA @ House of Blues
7/2 Philadelphia, PA @ Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing
7/3 Oxford, ME @ Nateva Music Festival
7/4 New York, NY @ The Beach at Governors Island
7/6 New York, NY @ Terminal 5
7/7 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
7/9 Atlanta, GA Atlanta @ Botanical Gardens
7/10 Birmingham, AL @ Sloss Furnaces
7/11 Louisville, KY @ TBD
7/18 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl**
08/29 St. Louis, MO @ LouFest

* w/ BAND OF HORSES & DAWES
** w/ The Swell Season & Bird and the Bee

“How’s the soy cappuccino?” asks Zooey Deschanel, sliding back into her seat and peering over at the white cup and saucer set before M Ward. “It looks really big,” says Ward, with some trepidation.

“Big?!” exclaims Deschanel. “That’s exactly the size it is in Italy. Always that size. Exactly that size,” she insists. “And that’s the best cappuccino you can get. The original.” She sips Ward’s soy cappuccino. “I really don’t like that,” she frowns. “It tastes like hot chocolate.”

Spend even a short while in the company of Deschanel, the Hollywood actress with the impeccable indie credentials, and Matt Ward, the celebrated lo-fi musician with the cult following, and you begin to understand the intricate workings of She & Him, the musical duo they launched two years ago with the beguiling record Volume One, followed now by Volume Two. They speak at the same time, steer each other’s sentences, bandy and quibble and banter. Transcribing their conversation later becomes more like a delicate process of unpicking – unravelling Deschanel’s bright, high voice from Ward’s baritone murmer as they speak over and under one another. (more…)