Exciting times for Brooklyn’s indie avant-prog combo Fang Island after they earned Pitchfork’s "Best new Music" blessing. The band announced dates supporting The Flaming Lips in July – definitely a fitting opener for the quirky psych rock darlings. Fang Island will also headline their own mini-tour beginning May 15th in Phoenix, leading to a NYC homecoming on May 29th with Dan Deacon to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Cake Shop. The quintet also plays Chicago’s Green Music Fest in June. Fang Island began, oddly enough, as an art school project while the band members were attending the prodigious Rhode Island School of Design (also the foundation for Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Les Savvy Fav, Six Finger Satellite, Lightning Bolt and some band called the Talking Heads.)