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Posted in music | tour dates on March 4, 2013
by Andrew Sacher
The Flaming Lips at Jones Beach in 2011 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin)
The Flaming Lips will be touring internationally this year, beginning with their big shows in Austin for SXSW this month, and they'll make their way to the NYC area for a show on May 16 at The Wellmont Theatre in Montclair, NJ. Tickets for that show go on sale Friday (3/8) at noon. All tour dates are listed below.
The tour is in support of their thirteenth full length album, The Terror, which is due out on April 2 via Warner Brothers. The Terror is a depressingly existential concept album about the relationship (or lack thereof) of life and love. "We want, or wanted to believe that without love we would disappear," explains Wayne Coyne in a press release, "The Terror is we know now, that even without love, life goes on... we just go on... there is no mercy killing." It's the kind of concept that we can imagine being taken on by a band 30 years into their career, and impressive to see the Lips doing something like this rather than copying their old sounds or fading away.
Musically, it's one of the band's noisiest albums since the '90s, with their multi-layered psychedelia tightly packed into a claustrophobic container of sound. Like last year's The Seer by Swans, it's the type of record that takes you on a trip for the entire listen, but while Swans took you deep into the underworld, The Flaming Lips take you to Mercury, or year 3,000, or both. And while it's more of an album-album than a song-album, it's worth mentioning that The Terror's goal is best executed on its 13+ minute centerpiece; the wildly psychedelic "You Lust."
All tour dates are listed, along with a video of The Flaming Lips performing "You Lust" live with Phantogram, and a recent pitchfork documentary on their 1999 classic The Soft Bulletin, are below...
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The Flaming Lips & Phantogram - "You Lust" at Hard Rock Casino in Biloxi
Pitchfork Classics - 'The Soft Bulletin'
The Flaming Lips -- 2013 Tour Dates
3-14-2013 Austin, TX, USA The Warner Sound, The Belmont
3-15-2013 Austin, TX, USA SXSW, Auditorium Shores
3-29-2013 Sao Paulo, Brazil Lollapalooza Brazil
4-28-2013 Kansas City, MO, USA Sprint Center*
4-29-2013 Indianapolis, IN, USA Egyptian Room at Old National Centre*
4-30-2013 Pittsburgh, PA, USA CONSOL Energy Center*
5-2-2013 Atlanta, GA, USA Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood*
5-3-2013 Nashville, TN, USA Bridgestone Arena*
5-4-2013 Chattanooga, TN, USA Track 29
5-5-2013 Memphis, TN, USA Beale St. Music Festival
5-10-2013 Napa, CA, USA Bottle Rock Festival
5-16-2013 Montclair, NJ Wellmont Theatre
5-20-2013 London, England, UK Roundhouse
5-21-2013 London, England, UK Roundhouse
5-22-2013 Brighton, England, UK Brighton Festival, Brighton Dome Concert Hall
5-24-2013 Paris, France Villette Sonique
6-14-2013 Hultsfred, Sweden Hultsfred Festival
6-15-2013 Aarhus, Denmark Northside Festival
7-11-2013 Raleigh, NC, USA Time Warner Cable Pavilion*
7-12-2013 Simpsonville, SC, USA Charter Amphitheatre at Heritage Park*
9-6-2013 Isle of Wight, England, UK Bestival
* - w/ The Black Keys
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The Wellmont? Again?
Posted by Anonymous | March 4, 2013 3:25 PM
how do they consistently fail to play good venues in NYC? i'm starting to this there is a good perhaps music biz reason for this, i've been dying to see them for YEARS and the only chance i've had was at Central Park which sounds bad and is small for them.. Whats the deal???
Posted by Anonymous | March 4, 2013 3:42 PM
It's not like their act has changed recently. Totally skippable if you've seen them once within the past, uh, ten years.
Posted by Anonymous | March 4, 2013 3:49 PM
the new record is IMO their best since The Soft Bulletin
and agreed, their show is exactly the same songs with the new ones added
Posted by Anonymous | March 4, 2013 3:51 PM
gimmick-a-thon
Posted by Anonymous | March 4, 2013 4:04 PM
the dude from Butthole surfers told them if they come into NY he'll beat them up for aping his stage show
Posted by Anonymous | March 4, 2013 4:14 PM
I've loved this band for so long that I hate to jump ship on them. Hopefully the new album will be good, but would it kill them to play something pre-Soft Bulletin other than Jelly?!?!?
Posted by Anonymous | March 4, 2013 4:27 PM
are they still doing the big balloon in the audience thing?
Posted by Anonymous | March 4, 2013 4:32 PM
well apparently they are going to be doing a different thing live since this album is so different.
Posted by Anonymous | March 4, 2013 5:37 PM
embryonic was awesome. gladly they left the track that was leading them in the mystics route.
can't wait to hear this album.
Posted by Anonymous | March 4, 2013 5:55 PM
their last show at Central Park was the best I have seen them in 10-15 years. Plus Oneida opened. So, you clearly haven't seen them lately.
Posted by Anonymous | March 4, 2013 5:56 PM
more car commercials please
Posted by Anonymous | March 4, 2013 6:41 PM
The made a tremendous album.
Posted by Anonymous | March 4, 2013 7:22 PM
loved these guys since i was a kid but i only saw them once and was blown away by how many time wasting gimmicks they had on stage.
Posted by Anonymous | March 4, 2013 7:31 PM
If they cut out some of the bullshit antics they could probably tack another 6 or 7 songs onto the show. Perhaps even some songs from their back catalog?
Posted by Anonymous | March 4, 2013 8:05 PM
Has anyone here ever seen them play? I heard they have confetti and a ball and some fun stuff. Is that true? I hope they bring a ball. I like to play with fun stuff.
Posted by Anonymous | March 4, 2013 8:17 PM
i hate them. really bad music for cretins.
Posted by gilgamesh | March 5, 2013 2:51 AM
well, i think they're just swell.
Posted by enkidu | March 5, 2013 3:48 AM
The Terror is a great album, better than Embryonic
Posted by Anonymous | March 5, 2013 8:45 AM
$50 before service charge!
Posted by Anonymous | March 5, 2013 11:18 AM
They need Ronald back in the band..they need to gut their entire setlist throw in some more Satellites, Clouds, and Hit to Death, drop the gimmicks and play a straight ahead rock show with maybe just a spot light and one video screen! THAT WOULD BE GREAT!
Posted by Anonymous | March 5, 2013 11:31 AM
65 bucks after charges is not worth it for their half assed shit show
Posted by Anonymous | March 5, 2013 11:41 AM
^ I'd pay 65 bucks to bring in a tool to pop the ball.
Posted by Anonymous | March 5, 2013 11:42 AM
65 bucks to hear Grandpa Wayne stand on his soapbox and talk about hippie shit.
Posted by Anonymous | March 5, 2013 2:43 PM