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It's been the Boredoms' career-long mission to inspire anything but. After a brief detour as V8redoms, the legendary Japanese psych-avant-noise-whatever legends are back at last to save the world.

To that end they've announced a spate of U.S. and EU tour dates, and if you know one thing, know the Boredoms' live spectacle is a rare and unique treat. So c'mon already people, get yr rejoice on!

Longtime drummer Yoshimi-- she of pink-robot-battling fame-- will be on board, along with two other drummers, and of course King Bore / maestro Yamatsuka Eye. As with anything Boredoms, details beyond that are sketch, so there's a chance they may retain the V8redoms moniker / play their entire catalog on kazoo / invoke the divine power of the sun to destroy us all. And we'll love it, best believe.

Hail the sunshine:

05-20 Camber, England - Camber Sands Holiday Centre (All Tomorrow's Parties)
05-22 Berlin, Germany - Maria am Ostbahnhof
05-26 Dublin, Ireland - Temple Bar Music Centre
05-29 London, England - Shepherds Bush Empire
06-01 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Festival
06-24 Chicago, IL - Intonation Music Festival
06-25 St. Paul, MN - Turf Club
06-27 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center
06-28 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop
06-30 Philadelphia, PA - Starlight Ballroom

A date tentatively scheduled for Nantes, France has been cancelled, according to a European promoter. And a rumored six-disc Boredoms box set is also definitely not happening, according to the band's American label, Vice Records.

However, the Boredoms are slated to perform two free shows at New York's Deitch Projects gallery in early summer, as part of Yamatsuka Eye's "Drum Kit Parking Lot" exhibit. The installation opens July 7 and will feature 77 drum kits, set up by "eYe" (as he's known in the art world), and functioning as "artwork, architecture, and principally for activation," according to a press release. So bring the kids, this shit's interactive!

eYe will also collaborate with several other artists of note to create 20-foot murals for display and/or the blowing of minds.

Now please excuse me while I vanish into a plume of smoke.