The Arcs Kicked Off Their Three-Week North American Tour

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The Arcs - Dan Auerbach, Leon Michels, Richard Swift, Homer Steinweiss, and Nick Movsho - kicked off their three-week North American tour this week, in support of Yours, Dreamily, their debut album. The band is joined by special guests Mariachi Flor de Toloache to play the LC Pavilion in Columbus, in Auerbach's home state of Ohio, tonight and The Fillmore in Detroit on Sunday. (Next up is a home-town show for Auerbach at the Akron Civic Theatre on Tuesday.)

"The Arcs feel less like a hobby-turned-side project than a full-formed band that can stand on its own merits without the backstory of the mothership," says the Guardian in a four-star review of the band's first of two shows at the Vic in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune found "Auerbach's creative spark on display with Arcs at the Vic."

Last week, on Record Store Day Black Friday, The Arcs released The Arcs vs. The Inventors Vol. I, a limited-edition 10" record featuring Dr. John and David Hidalgo, in independent record stores. You can hear one of the six songs, "Young," here. The EP will be released digitally next week.

Yours, Dreamily, just came in at number 9 on Rolling Stones's 50 Best Albums of 2015, with the magazine calling it "riveting." You can see a complete view of the list, which also includes Rhiannon Giddens's Tomorrow Is My Turn.