Odd Future

Odd Future Supports New Mixtape Release with Tour

Odd Future Supports New Mixtape Release with Tour

After becoming increasing popular on the pop music scene throughout 2011, Odd Future looks like they will be keeping just as busy during 2012, including a 12-date North American tour that will begin March 9 in Tempe, Ariz. The tour will support a new mixtape by the band, The Odd Future Tape Vol. 2, which will be released as a digital download March 20.

The North American tour will run through April 11, when it ends in Seattle. Other cities on the tour will include Minneapolis, Toronto, New York, Boston, Atlanta and San Francisco. During the North American Tour, Odd Future will hop across the Atlantic for five dates in the United Kingdom before coming back to the U.S. to finish the tour. They currently are in Australia playing the remaining Big Day Out festivals.

But the mixtape and tour are only the beginning of what the collective, officially known as Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, or OFWGKTA, has planned for the rest of the year. At least two members, Tyler, the Creator and MellowHype also will release solo albums. Tyler’s second solo full-length album, called Wolf, will be released in May, while MellowHype’s debut solo album will be released in the summer and is likely to be called Numbers.

Additionally, the group’s Adult Swim sketch comedy show, “Loiter Squad,” will premiere March 25. Not too much information has been released about the show, but Adult Swim’s website claims it will be a “live-action show that features sketches, man on the street segments, pranks and music from Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All.”

Odd Future member Earl Sweatshirt apparently will not appear on any planned releases. Sweatshirt has been in the news over the past year because he is reportedly at a school in Samoa called the Coral Reef Academy, and it has been reported that his mother forced him to attend to the school and that she is not allowing any of his music to be released. Assuming this all is true, it is worth noting that Sweatshirt will turn 18 in February.