Toronto rockers DANKO JONES have announced a rare headline show for Los Angeles, CA. It will take place at The Troubadour in West Hollywood on December 5th.. It’s the first time the band will play a full set in the area for many many years. Recently, they’ve only done smaller showcase gigs and support shows.

The band will also play The Machine Shop in Flint, Michigan om December 11th. Click here for ticket information.

More US dates will be announced soon.

BW&BK; caught up with Danko Jones on October 20th in Nuremberg, Germany duringthe band's ongoing European headline tour. An excerpt from the story is available below:

It’s fair to say that some of the current buzz surrounding Danko Jones is owed to GUNS N' ROSES. What was supposed to be a short Canadian leg of the Chinese Democracy tour at the beginning of the year became repeated invites from the G’N’R camp to do on-and-off support shows over the course of 2010.

“The beginning of the whole machine moving was the Guns N’ Roses tour across Canada in January 2010. Ever since then we’ve been out. We had four or five weeks off around February, but since then it’s been pretty much non-stop. They’ve taken us to 10 countries, places we never would have gotten to otherwise. They actually offered us a spot on their current tour but we had this one booked already. It’s a really great gig because we get treated really well by the crew and the band.”
“Those Eastern European shows Guns N’ Roses did, we were supposed to do the whole tour, so it’s really too bad we couldn’t do that tour and this one,” Danko continues. “It’s a little disappointing for me. We’ve proven ourselves when there were certain situations that arose where we had to deliver. Sometimes we had to extend our set or whatever. Sometimes as an opening band you get sidelined, and some bands complain, but we’re pretty grounded and we’re well aware of how it goes. We’re just glad to be out on the road, and I think the Guns people really appreciated that. We gained their respect, and when you do that with an entity like Guns N’ Roses you get treated really well. That makes life really easy and it was cool. We have absolutely no complaints.”
“The only complaint I have is that we’re not playing with them tonight (laughs). Touring with them has definitely helped us in terms of raising the profile of our band.”

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Danko's current European tour schedule is as follows:

November (* with Young Guns)

9 - Garage - Saarbrucken, Germany *
10 - Live Music Hall - Koln, Germany *
12 - Melkweg - Amsterdam, Netherlands *
13 - Effanaar - Eindhoven, Netherlands *
14 - Trix - Antwerp, Belgium *
15 - Rockhal Club - Luxembourg, Luxembourg *
16 - Garage - London, England

As previously reported, Danko has released the second music video in his nearly completed video trilogy from the album Below The Belt (Bad Taste Records/Caroline). The new highly-stylized, film-like music video noir for the track 'Had Enough' stars Ralph Macchio (The Karate Kid), comedian Don Jamieson (That Metal Show) and is the prequel to 'Full Of Regret'. The video also features Frank Drank, best known for his recurring role as a Viking in the current Capital One ad campaign, reprising his role as Lemmy Kilmister's (MOTÖRHEAD) henchman.

Check out the video for 'Had Enough' below.

Directed again by the Diamond Brothers and shot completely in New York, 'Had Enough' portrays Macchio as a mad scientist who has found a way to clone himself. The band of Danko Jones is ordered off to deal with it, but their failure at the end of the video is what ultimately leads henchmen Frank and Lemmy to send Elijah Wood and Selma Blair after the band in 'Full Of Regret'.

The previously released 'Full Of Regret' music video has been described as "one-part 'Sabotage', one-part Guy Ritchie, one-part Quentin Tarantino." It stars Elijah Wood and Selma Blair with featured guest appearances by Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead) and Mike Watt (MINUTEMEN, FIREHOSE, STOOGES). Shot in downtown Los Angeles, the video portrays Lemmy as a mob boss who hires hit men Elijah Wood and Selma Blair to take out the members of the band. Mike Watt plays the narrator as the action-packed story continues to unfold. View 'Full Of Regret', also below.