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The Knifeannounced last week that they're bringing theirShaking the Habitualliveshow, whichhas featured"absurdist aerobics" and "danceoke", to North America.Today, they've shared the exact datessurroundingtheir sets at Coachella, which takes placeApril 11-13 and April 18-20, as Brooklyn Vegan points out.

As previously reported, the show has been tweaked since its European incarnation last year, but is a "continuation," the band writes, with some new songs. Light Asylum's Shannon Funchess, who sang onHabitual, will perform on the tour.

The Knifewrote abouttheir touring intentions:

Shaking the Habitual, the album, lays the groundwork for this show. Based on the artistic and political ideas therein, we play with the expectations and question habits of the concert, the dance performance, the club and the music festival.Working within a highly commercial, professionalised and male-dominated music industry, we strive to twist and strangle hierarchies to find other ways of organizing work and its conditions. Disrespecting borders between digital and analogue, fake and real, professional and dilettante, star and cast, experimental acts and glamorous shows, nature and culture, audience and artist, blood family and chosen family, dance and action, a Buchla and bongo and the sound of a hit and a kiss.

The Knife:

04-11 Indio, CA - Coachella 04-15 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater 04-18 Indio, CA - Coachella 04-21 Denver, CO - Fillmore 04-23 Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom 04-35 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus 04-26 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis 04-28 Boston, MA - House of Blues 04-30 New York, NY - Terminal 5

Read our interview with the Knifehere. And here's the Knife's 13-minute film onShaking the Habitual:

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Published: 8:35AM Wednesday January 15, 2014 Source: ONE News

Katy Perry's Roar could be the secret to staying on track with your excercise resolutions.

Spotify has revealed a list of the tracks topping gym-goers' playlists across the globe with Eminem, Britney Spears and Pitbull among those featuring.

It has also unveiled the ultimate workout playlist based on the popularity of tracks coupled with scientific analysis of the songs that will make you sweat harder in the gym.

The music streaming service analysed over 6.7 million workout playlists globally and Can't Hold Us by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis was the most popular choice followed by Wake Me Up by Avicii, 'Till I Collapse by Eminem and Don't You Worry Child by Swedish House Mafia.

Men work out more frequently during the latter part of the week and feel the burn to a range of music from classic tracks such as Eye of the Tiger by Survivor and Eminem's aptly named 'Till I Collapse.

Data reveals more women opt for a morning workout over men's lunchtime trip to the gym.

Women are choosing to sweat it out at the beginning of the week with modern classics such as Rihanna's We Found Love. And women have a greater tendency than men to exercise in time to the beat.

Spotify has partnered with the Music in Exercise and Sport Group at Brunel University in London to create the ultimate workout playlist based on tempo (BPM), style and lyrical content.

"When synching your movements to the beat of the music, increase the intensity of your workout by raising the music tempo by one or two BPMs beyond your comfort zone - this will increase your workrate with the added benefit that the difference in effort will be almost imperceptible," the university's Dr Costas Karageorghis said.

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