This summer will be business as usual for Chromeo. They’ve already announced the August 17th release of their new studio album Business Casual, and now the Montreal electro rockers have mapped out a North American summer tour. Following a one-off appearance at next month’s Bonnaroo Music Festival with the legendary Daryl Hall and a slew of European festival appearances, Chromeo will embark on their newest North American trek on July 26th in Washington, DC. In the weeks that follow, the band will travel up the east coast, through Canada and the mid-west, stop at Lollapalooza, and then finish things off with dates out west. An appearance at this year’s Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco is also heavily rumored. Even better, DFA-signed up-and-comers Holy Ghost will serve as the tour’s openers.

Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.com and go on sale starting today, May 24th.

As for Chromeo’s upcoming studio album, speaking recently with the Wall Street Journal, frontman David Macklovitch, aka Dave 1, described the effort as more “sophisticated” than their previous releases. There’s more piano, more strings, more acoustic guitar. At the same time, he said, the serious funk and dance songs are “almost more fierce and dramatic this time around.”

Chromeo 2010 Tour Dates:
06/11 – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music Festival ^
06/25 – Pilton, UK @ Glastonbury Music Festival
06/27 – Istanbul, TR @ Otto Santral
07/02 – Beflort, FR @ Eurockeennes Festival
07/06 – Montreux, CH @ Montreux Jazz Festival
07/07 – Novi Sad, SR @ Exit Festival
07/15 – Arvika, SE @ Arvika Festival
07/16 – Dour, BE @ Dour Festival
07/17 – Ferropolis, DE @ Melt Festival
07/18 – London, UK @ Lovebox Festival
07/26 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club #
07/27 – Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero #
07/29 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom #
07/30 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues #
07/31 – Montreal, QC @ Metropolis (Osheaga Music Festival) #
08/02 – Ottawa, ON @ Capital Music Hall #
08/03 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix #
08/05 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic #
08/06 – Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza
08/07 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue #
08/10 – Calgary, AB @ Flames Central #
08/11 – Vancouver, BC  Commodore #
08/12 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox Market #
08/13 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater #
08/16 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues #
08/19 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Twilight Concert Series
08/20 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre #
08/24 – Austin @ Stubbs #
08/25 – Dallas, TX @ Palladium #
08/26 – Nashville, TN @ Cannery Ballroom #
08/27 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade #
08/29 – Hollywood, CA @ Hollywood Bowl *

^ = w/ Daryl Hall
# = w/ Holy Ghost
* = w/ Chemical Brothers