Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti

Ariel Pink and Black Lips will play a few dates together on the West Coast in October.

Lookout, North America: Ariel Pink is hitting the road. It's about to get hypnagogic up in here! Andrew W.K. has evidently found a product he believes in.

Ariel Pink is out there. Like a reach-for-the-thesaurus-to-describe-adequately status of strange: quirky, idiosyncratic, madcap -- those might do. The Los Angeles-based singer has churned out a stream of basement-tape consciousness -- as in hundreds of cassette tapes -- before catching the ear of Animal Collective. As his first album for 4AD arrived in 2010, ‘Before Today,’ the lo-fi was traded in

Drummer Aaron Sperske says that even though his bandmates in Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti ousted him in May, he's still entitled to 25% of their earnings. To collect his alleged share of the band's profits, Sperske has filed a lawsuit against the rest of the band for $1 million.

Since breaking through into the mainstream with their last release, the critically-acclaimed 'Before Today,' Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti are set to release their followup album, 'Mature Themes,' on Aug. 21.