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East meets west and north meets south as two popular alternative acts team up for a pretty impressive co-headlining Canadian tour.

Toronto synth pop darlings Metric, and Washington State-based stalwarts Death Cab For Cutie are hitting the road together for the cross-Canada Lights on the Horizon Tour early next year.

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The package run will hit this neck of the woods for a pair of Alberta shows, March 29 at Rexall Place and, more importantly, March 30 at the BMO Centre in Calgary.

“We are so happy that everything fell into place for Death Cab For Cutie and Metric to do this tour of Canada together,” Metric frontwoman Emily Haines said in a statement announcing the tour.

“Nick Harmer and I worked on creating the poster artwork together, and while we were on the phone riffing on imagery and ideas for what to call the tour we decided on Lights On The Horizon. I was standing on a rooftop at sunset looking out at the Statue of Liberty at the time and it just felt right. The name expressed our shared desire to focus on what lies ahead, creatively and personally, so we went with it.”

“We’re so excited about touring with Metric, a band that we’ve been fans of for a long time, and also to be playing shows in a number of Canadian cities that we’ve never been to previously,” said Death Cab For Cutie singer-guitarist Ben Gibbard.

Pre-sales for all shows will begin Tuesday, today, at 10 a.m. local time from each of the bands’ websites ilovemetric.com/presale-tickets/ and bit.ly/1HOTPbt. Tickets for the general public are $56 (plus service charges) and go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. from ticketmaster.ca.

Metric are currently touring their latest release Pagans in Vegas, which was released in September, and Death Cab, who endeared themselves to this town by name-checking it in the gorgeous anthem I Will Follow You Into the Dark, are supporting their current Grammy-nominated effort Kintsugi.