The Flaming Lips Announces Spring 2017 Tour Dates

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American psychedelic rock band, The Flaming Lips have announced some additional tour dates in support of their current album Oczy Mlody. The band is set to travel all along the West Coast in the U.S.before heading up North for a show in Vancouver, Canada, in May
The Flaming Lips are best known for their associations with the 1960s and 1970s psychedelic subculture and continuing tradition of trippy and elaborate stage setups.

The Flaming Lips will kick off a world tour in support of Oczy Mlody on Jan. 21st with a show at London’s Brixton Academy. The album was produced by the band and their longtime producer Dave Fridmann and is the first follow-up to be released since 2013’s The Terror. Oczy Mlody was initially created during a series of projects with Miley Cyrus, who appears on the album’s closing track: “We A Famly.”

Recently in an interview with Rolling Stone frontman Wayne Coyne dispelled the long running myth that the group’s longtime stoner favorite song “Puff The Magic Dragon” is not actually about smoking pot. He says

I’d run into people who’d say, “Oh, that’s them singing about marijuana,” and even though I would outwardly laugh, it was never that to me; and I’d never want that, or purposely do music that did. To me, it is about a dragon, and it’s very sad and emotional. I knew those things existed, but our music doesn’t do that. If it did, it’d be an accident.

Flaming Lips Full Tour Dates
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Mar 03: H.O.B.v – Boston, MA
Mar 04: The Fillmore – Philadelphia, PA
Mar 05: 9:30 Club – Washington, DC
Mar 06: 9:30 Club – Washington, DC
Mar 08: College Street Music Hall – New Haven, CT
Mar 09: Terminal 5 – New York, NY
Mar 11: Westbury Theater – Westbury, NY
Mar 13: Rebel Complex – Toronto, ONT
Mar 14: Royal Oak Music Theater – Royal Oak, MI
Mar 29: War Memorial Aud. – Nashville, TN
Mar 30: The Fillmore – Charlotte, NC
Mar 31: The Ritz – Raleigh, NC
Apr 02: Tabernacle – Atlanta, GA
Apr 03: H.O.B. – Lake Buena Vista, FL
Apr 04: Jannus Live – St. Petersburg, FL
Apr 06: Augusta, GA: Major Rager – The Augusta Common
Apr 17: Riviera Theatre – Chicago, IL
Apr 19: 20 Monroe Live – Grand Rapids, MI
Apr 21: The Orpheum Theater – Madison, WI
Apr 22: Hoyt Sherman Place – Des Moines, IA
Apr 23: The Pageant – St. Louis, MO
Apr 25: Cain’s Ballroom – Tulsa, OK
May 05: The Observatory North Park – San Diego, CA
May 09: CAThe Theatre at Ace Hotel – Los Angeles
May 10: Fox Theater – Oakland, CA
May 12: Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
May 13: Knitting Factory – Spokane, WA
May 15 Queen Elizabeth Theatre – Vancouver, BC
May 16 Paramount Theatre – Seattle, WA
Jun 30: Vida Festival – Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain