Kendrick Lamar Announces good kid, m.A.A.d. city World Tour Dates

Kendrick Lamar Announces good kid, m.A.A.d. city World Tour Dates

SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- It was announced today that Kendrick Lamar, the acclaimed Top Dawg Entertainment artist, is taking his gold, #1 R&B/Hip-Hop good kid, m.A.A.d city album on the road across America and around the globe with the good kid, m.A.A.d city World Tour. Hot on the heels of his 30+ performance Verge Campus Tour which kicked off March 29 and runs through mid-May, the good kid, m.A.A.d city World Tour launches May 21st and spans 16 U.S. dates from coast to coast plus 30 festivals in more than a dozen European countries and Japan. Accompanying Lamar on all of the good kid, m.A.A.d city World Tour U.S. dates will be ScHoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and Jay Rock.

Throw in several additional U.S. festivals--SUNFEST in West Palm Beach, FL (May 5), Sweetlife Festival in Columbia, MD (May 11), Sungod Festival in La Jolla, CA (May 17), Hangout Festival in Gulf Shores, AL (May 18), Governors Ball Music Festival at Randall's Island, NY (June 8), Bonnaroo in Manchester, TN (June 16), Firefly Music Festival in Dover, DE (June 22), Del Mar Fair in San Diego, CA (June 28), Kanrocksas Music Festival in Kansas City, KS (June 29) and Lollapalooza in Chicago, IL (August 3)--and Lamar will be one of the busiest rappers performing this year.

Lamar's debut major label album, good kid, m.A.A.d city (Top Dawg Entertainment/Aftermath Entertainment/Interscope), released October 22, 2012, debuted at #1 on both the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Rap Albums charts and #2 on the Billboard 200 album chart.


Date City Venue
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May 5 West Palm Beach, FL SUNFEST *

11 Columbia, MD Sweetlife Festival*

17 La Jolla, CA Sungod Festival*

18 Gulf Shores, AL Hangout Festival*

22 Las Vegas, NV Cosmopolitan

23 Salt Lake City, UT The Great Saltair

29 Portland, ME The Waterfront At Ocean Gateway

30 Albany, NY Armory

Jun 1 Junction, VT Champion Valley Exposition

3 Belle Vernon, PA Ice Garden

4 Cleveland, OH Jacob Pavilion at Nautica

5 Detroit, MI Chene Park

6 Indianapolis, IN Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn

8 Randall's Island, NY Govenors Ball*

10 Baton Rouge, LA Baton Rouge River Center

11 Houston, TX Reliant Arena

12 Grand Prairie, TX Verizon Theatre

13 New Braunfels, TX Whitewater Amphitheatre

16 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo*

19 St. Augustine, FL St. Augustine Amphitheatre

20 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle

21 Simpsonville, SC Charter Amphitheatre

22 Dover, DE Firefly Music Festival*

23 Raleigh, NC Red Hat Amphitheatre

26 Mesa, AZ Mesa Amphitheatre

28 San Diego, CA Del Mar Fair*

29 Kansas City, KS Kanrocksas*

29 Los Angeles, CA BET Experience

Jul 3 Gdynia, PL Heineken Open'er Festival

4 Roskilde, DK Roskilde Festival

5 Zurich, SE Touch the Lake Festival

6 Haachtsesteenweg, BE Rock Werchter Festival

7 Arras, FR Main Square Festival

8 Birmingham, UK Academy

9 Manchester, UK Apollo

10 Leeds, UK Academy

11 Grafenhainichen, DE Splash Festival

12 Kinross-shire, UK T in the Park Festival

13 London, UK Wireless Festival

14 Rotterdam, NL North Sea Jazz Festival

17 Montreaux, CH Montreaux Jazz Festival

18 Molde, NO Molde Jazz Festival

19 Tonsberg, NO Slottsfjell

20 Pori, FI Pori Jazz Festival

27 Naeba, JP Fuji Rock Festival

Aug 2 Toronto, CA Sound Academy

3 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza*

4 Montreal, CA Osheaga Music Festival

8 Oslo, NO Oya Festival

9 Helsinki, FI Flow Festival

10 Gothenburg, SE Way Out West

15 Hasselt, BE Pukkelpop Festival

16 Biddinghuizen, NL Lowlands Festival

17 Chelmsford, UK V Festival

18 South Staffordshire, UK V Festival

20 Glasgow, UK Bellahouston Park

22 Paris, FR Stade de France

23 Paris, FR Rock En Seine Festival

24 Hradec Kralove, CZ Hip Hop Kemp Festival


* Denotes
Festival


SOURCE Interscope Records

Interscope Records

CONTACT: Ray Alba, Interscope Records, 310.865.5675, Ray.Alba@umusic.com


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