ScHoolboy Q's Blank Face World Tour to Begin in August
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South Central hip-hop star ScHoolboy Q (Quincey Matthew Hanley) announced today the launch of his "Blank Face World Tour," marking the July 8th release of his new Top Dawg Entertainment/Interscope album of the same name, for an extensive world tour.
Blank Face LP is ScHoolboy Q's follow-up to his 2014 major label debut, Oxymoron, after a pair of independent releases on Top Dawg Entertainment, including Habits & Contradictions (2012) and Setbacks (2011).
The new album features guest appearances by Kanye West "THat Part", Vince Staples "Ride Out", Jadakiss "Groovy Tony/Eddie Kane", E-40 "Dope Dealer", Tha Dogg Pound "Big Body", Anderson .Paak "Blank Face", Miguel and Justine Skye "Overtime", with production by Sounwave, Swizz Beatz, Metro Boomin, Southside and Cardo, along with Nez & Rio, DJ Dahi and members of TDE's Digi+Phonics team.
The critics have raved, with Pitchfork's 8.3 review calling it "a collection of catchy, urgent gangsta rap songs that show the South Central native at his charismatic best, gallows humor and tough talk failing to obscure a humane core." The Vulture's Craig Jenkins called "Ride Out," Q's collaboration with Vince Staples, "five minutes of these two cripping out of control over TDE maestro Sounwave's evil-robot disaster-movie production certainly does the trick." Rolling Stone's 3.5-star review hailed the new collection as "trapped and haunted...
his music is richer for its resistance to escapist fantasy."
Blank Face World Tour dates listed below:
8/30 Indianapolis, IN: Egyptian Room **
8/31 Royal Oak, MI: Royal Oak Music Theatre **
9/1 Toronto, ON: Sound Academy **
9/6 Wallingford, CT: The Dome
9/8 Philadelphia, PA: Electric Factory
9/9 Lowell, MA: Tsongas Center
9/14 Fairfax, VA: EagleBank Arena
9/16 Raleigh, NC: The Ritz **
9/17 Myrtle Beach, SC: House of Blues **
9/18 Charlotte, NC: The Fillmore **
9/19 Atlanta, GA: Tabernacle
9/21 Louisville, KY: Palace Theater
9/23 Nashville, TN: Marathon Music Works
9/24 Memphis, TN: New Daisy Theater
9/25 Chattanooga, TN: Track 29
9/27 Orlando, FL: Venue 578
9/28 St. Petersburg, FL: Jannus Live
10/1 Austin, TX: Austin City Limits **
10/2 Oklahoma City, OK: The Criterion
10/4: New Orleans, LA: House of Blues
10/6 Dallas, TX: Southside Ballroom
10/7 San Antonio, TX: Aztec Theater
10/8 Austin, TX: Austin City Limits **
10/9 El Paso, TX: Buchanans Event Center
10/10 Albuquerque, NM: Tingley Coliseum
10/11 Phoenix, AZ: Mesa Amphitheater
10/13 Oakland, CA: Fox Theater
10/14 San Francisco, CA: Warfield Theatre
10/15 San Diego, CA: Observatory North Park
10/16 Las Vegas, NV: Brooklyn Bowl
10/18 Los Angeles, CA: Shrine Expo Hall
10/21 Seattle, WA: WaMu Theater at CenturyLink Field
10/22 Vancouver, BC: PNE Center
10/23 Denver, CO: Fillmore
10/24 Kansas City, MO: Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland
10/25 St Louis, MO: The Pageant
10/26 Clive, IA: 7 Flags Event Center
10/27 St Paul, MN: Myth
10/29 Milwaukee, WI: Eagles Ballroom
11/3 Auckland, NZ: Logan Campbell Centre
11/4 Sydney, AUS: Hordern Pavilion
11/5 Newcastle, AUS: This That Festival
11/8 Brisbane, AUS: Eaton's Hill
11/9 Melbourne, AUS: Festival Hall
11/10 Perth, AUS: Metro City
11/21 Helsinki, FIN: Circus
11/22 Oslo, NOR: Sentrum Scene
11/23 Stockholm, SWE: Annexet
11/24 Copenhagen, DNK: Falconer Salen
11/25 Hamburg, GER: Docks
11/26 Warsaw, POL: Progresja
11/27 Berlin, GER: Astra
11/29 Paris, FR: Zenith
11/30 Lausanne, CHE: Les Docks
12/1 Nimes, FR: Paloma
12/2 Zurich, CHE: Komplex 457
12/4 Esch-sur-Alzette, LUX: Rockhal Club
12/5 Brussels, BEL: AB Main Hall
12/6 Frankfurt, GER: Gibson
12/7 Cologne, GER: Live Music Hall
12/9 Utrecht, NLD: Tivoli
12/11 Manchester, UK: Academy
12/13 Glasgow, UK: O2 ABC
12/14 London, UK: Brixton Academy
12/15 Birmingham, UK: O2 Institute
North American dates marked with ** do not include Joey Bada$$