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Best Coast announce additional tour dates ahead of new EP

Best Coast are currently fresh off an arena tour with Green Day, and in the middle of a club tour with Lovely Bad Things, but the Los Angeles duo are showing no signs of slowing down. The group just announced another string of dates in the midwest and west coast, with Bleached as their support.

The band will be also be appearing at The Governor's Ball in New York and Riot Fest in Chicago, as well as opening for Belle & Sebastian in Santa Barbara. Check out a full list of tour dates, below.

May 29 – Nashville, TN – Exit/in *
May 30 – Birmingham, AL – Workplay *
May 31 – Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse *^
June 1 – Raleigh, NC – Lincoln Theater *^
June 3 – Richmond, VA – The National *^
June 4 – Washington DC – 9:30 Club *^
June 5 – Philadelphia, PA – Tla *^
June 6 – Boston, MA – Royale *^
June 7 – New York, NY – Governor's Ball
July 17 – Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl #
July 31 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
Aug. 1 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
Aug. 11 – Seattle, WA – Neumos ~
Aug. 12 – Vancouver, BC – Rio ~
Aug. 13 – Portland, OR – Hawthorne ~
Aug. 15 – San Francisco, CA – Fillmore ~
Aug. 16 – Big Sur, CA – Henry Miller Memorial Library ~
Aug. 17 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey ~
Sept. 13-15 – Chicago, IL – Riot Fest
Sept. 16 – St. Louis, MO – Firebird ~
Sept. 17 – Columbia, MO – Blue Note ~
Sept. 18 – Lawrence, KS – Granada
Sept. 19 – Omaha, NE – Waiting Room ~

* with Lovely Bad Things
^ with Guards
# with Belle & Sebastian
~ with Bleached

Best Coast recently finished recording a brand new EP, which is slated for release very soon. The group is expected to debut new material on the road this summer. Last month, the band released an exclusive 7″, Fear Of My Identity, for Record Store Day, which featured singer Bethany Cosentino's father Ricky Cosentino on drums.