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Earlier this year Clipping dropped their fantastic new album Splendor & Misery, an album of Afrofuturist noise-rap that feels more and more relevant each passing day under Trump. In conjunction with the album we did a deep dive on the group and their backstory which you can check out here. Just before the album was released, Clipping appeared on James Corden for their first-ever TV performance to do “A Better Place” live.
Looks like a lot of people tuned in for that, because Conan had the group on as a musical guest last night, an even bigger look for the group, who recently announced a slew of tour dates for next year. For last night’s performance, they opted to do another song off Splendor & Misery, the clattering “Air Em Out,” enlisting drummer Chukwudi Hodge to provide live percussion, and recreate some of what they did in the studio to create the beats for the song. This song includes one of my favorite Clipping lyrics to date — “real players trip light years.” Watch it above and check out their tour dates below.
2016 tour dates:
12/09 Brussels, BE @ M4
12/10 Tilburg, NL @ Incubate / 013
12/12 Tel Aviv, IR @ Gagarin
12/13 Amsterdam, NL @ Sugar Factory
12/14 Hamburg, DE @ Hafenklang
12/15 Berlin, DE @ Cassiopeia
12/16 Frankfurt, DE @ Zoom
12/17 Munich, DE @ TBA
12/18 Düsseldorf, DE @ FFT Foyer
12/19 Paris, FR @ TBA
12/20 London, UK @ Corsica Studios
2017 tour dates:
2/17 Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
2/18 Los Angeles, CA @ The Broad
2/20 Portland, OR @ Holocene
2/21 Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
2/22 Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret
2/24 Oakland, CA @ Starline Social Club (Noise Pop!)
3/3 Boston, MA @ House of Blues *
3/4 Philadephia, PA @ The Fillmore *
3/5 Washington, DC @ 930 Club *
3/6 Washington, DC @ 930 Club *
3/9 New York City, NY @ Terminal 5 *
3/11 Westbury, NY @ The Space at Westbury *
3/13 Toronto, ON @ Rebel *
3/14 Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Theater *
3/29 Nashville, TN @ War Memorial Auditorium *
3/30 Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore *
3/31 Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz *
4/2 Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle *
4/3 Orlando, FL @ House of Blues *
4/4 St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live *
* w/ The Flaming Lips
