Lightspeed Champion announces US tour

Lightspeed Champion Pic: Jo McCaughey

Dev Hynes will hit the road with a full band

Lightspeed Champion has announced the dates of an extensive North American tour this summer.

After performing a handful of solo shows earlier this year, Devonte Hynes will return to the States with a full band.

The tour kicks off on June 3 in Washington DC, where he will support Adam Green of The Moldy Peaches for the first two shows of the tour.

Lightspeed Champion will then play headlining dates in New York, Boston, Montreal, Seattle, San Franciso and Los Angeles before wrapping up the tour in Pomona, California on June 22.

He will be supporting his recent debut album, 'Falling Off the Lavender Bridge'.

The tour dates are:

Washington, DC Black Cat (June 3)
Philadelphia, PA First Unitarian Church (4)
Hoboken, NJ Maxwell’s (5)
New York, NY Bowery Ballroom (7)
Boston, MA Great Scott (8)
Montreal, QC Les Saints (10)
Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace (11)
Pittsburgh, PA Andy Warhol Museum (12)
Chicago, IL Empty Bottle (13)
Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry (14)
Seattle, WA Chop Suey (17)
Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge (18)
San Francisco, CA The Independent (20)
Los Angeles, CA Troubadour (21)
Pomona, CA Glass House (22)

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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