THE FLAMING LIPS ADD FIVE SHOWS WITH TAME IMPALA TO CURRENT U.S. TOUR
BAND TOURING IN SUPPORT OF CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED LATEST ALBUM THE TERROR, OUT NOW
Having already announced a series of summer tour dates, including shows with The Black Keys, Spiritualized, as well as several outdoor festivals and the Rock For Oklahoma Benefit Concert in July, THE FLAMING LIPS will perform a string of East Coast dates with Australian rock band Tame Impala this fall, including shows in Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia. All upcoming tour dates are listed below.
The band are touring in support of their latest album THE TERROR, their thirteenth studio album, which is out now and has amassed critical praise:
“Before the confetti cannons and sci-fi Day-Glo-pop operettas, The Flaming Lips made great acid-nightmare rock records about the high cost of transcendence. The Terror is that darkness returned: a gripping middle-age-mystic crisis with rude, cosmic-German electronics crowding Wayne Coyne’s tremulous boy-explorer voice. The beauty is fleeting but piquant. A choral glow cuts past the clatter and seizures…Heaven, on Earth or anywhere else, doesn’t come easy.” -Rolling Stone (4 out of 5 stars)
“…Entrancing darkness makes for some seriously bleak, intensely involving new music.” – Spin.com (9 out of 10)
“Sounding almost post-apocalyptic in its scabrous, searching bleakness… The Terror moans and scrapes ominously from its opening seconds onward. Scorched and frayed, with an almost industrial ugliness to it… the sound of a world (and, it would seem, a band) in distress, even decay.” – NPR
The Flaming Lips upcoming tour dates are as follows. Newly announced East Coast dates are in bold:
07/11 Raleigh, NC Time Warner Cable Pavilion w/The Black Keys
07/12 Greenville, SC Charter Amphitheatre w/The Black Keys
07/13 Louisville, KY Forecastle Festival
07/15 Wallingford, CT Oakdale Theatre w/Spiritualized
07/16 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE Outdoors w/Spiritualized
07/17 Lewiston, NY Artpark
07/23 Oklahoma City, OK Rock For Oklahoma, Chesapeake Arena
07/25 Salt Lake City, UT Twilight Concert Series, Pioneer Park
07/27 Troutdale, OR McMenamins Edgefield
07/28 Seattle, WA Capitol Hill Block Party
07/30 Reno, NV Grand Sierra Resort & Casino
07/31 Costa Mesa, CA The Pacific Amphitheatre
08/01 Las Vegas, NV Bud Light Music First, House of Blues
08/17 Omaha, NE Maha Music Festival
09/06 Isle Of Wight, UK Bestival
09/07 Stekene, Belgium Crammerock Festival
09/30 Boston, MA Agganis Arena
10/01 New York, NY Terminal 5
10/02 New York, NY Terminal 5
10/03 Philadelphia, PA Penn’s Landing, Festival Pier
10/04 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion
10/21 Tokyo, Japan Blitz
10/22 Tokyo, Japan Blitz
10/23 Osaka, Japan Hatch
10/24 Nagoya, Japan Club Diamond Hall
West Coast tour dates will be announced soon. Keep an eye on www.flaminglips.com for details, new merch and important clues.