American Football released one album in 1999, played a handful of shows, and then broke up. It was an inauspicious ending for a band that was graduating college and moving on.

In May, the band announced two reunion performances: One in New York and one headlining the Pygmalion Festival in Urbana-Champaign, Ill., where the trio attended college. They underestimated the demand: the band added two more New York shows as well as scattered dates in California and Chicago.

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