Best Coast record new EP, to tour with Belle and Sebastian, Guards & more

Surf-pop twopiece, Best Coast have confirmed they’ve finished a new EP which they’ll showcase on their upcoming summer tour.

The band have announced a series of North American live dates throughout May, June, July, August and through into September, where they’ll be hitting the road with the likes of Belle and Sebastian, Guards, Bleached and Lovely Bad Things.

Beth Corsentino told MTV: ”We recorded it a couple months ago in LA, but we’re not on a label right now, so we’re trying to work out a release plan, and a label and all that stuff that goes along with being a band. We were thinking about releasing it on our own, but we’re too lazy. We just want other people to do everything for us.”

Corsentino continued to offer what to expect from the EP: “There’s one song that’s a very standard, Best-Coast poppy jam; it was really influenced by Blondie. There’s two slow songs, one of the slow songs is very Mazzy Star influenced, the other one is kinda heavy, a little bit like the Jesus and Mary Chain. And we got a Taylor-Swift inspired song. Apparently I’m the Taylor Swift for stoners; that’s pretty tight.”

The new EP is due shortly, with their upcoming tour dates in full beneath:

May
29 Nashville, TN – Exit/In
30 Birmingham, AL – Workplay
31 Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse

June
1 Raleigh, NC – The Lincoln Theatre
3 Richmond, VA – The National
4 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
5 Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts
6 Boston, MA – Royale Nightclub
7 New York, NY – Governors Ball

July
17 Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl
31 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue

August
1 Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
11 Seattle, WA – Neumos
12 Vancouver, British Columbia – Rio
13 Portland, OR – Hawthorne
15 San Francisco, CA – Fillmore
16 Big Sur, CA – Henry Miller Memorial Library
18 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey

September
13-15 Chicago, IL – Riot Fest
16 St. Louis, MO – Firebird
17 Columbia, MO – Blue Note
18 Lawrence, KS – Granada
19 Omaha, NE – Waiting Room

[via Pitchfork]