California indie rock luminaries Grouplove are back, and they have some good news. It all revolves around their new album, Big Mess, which lands on planet Earth on September 9, and a world tour later this year to support the new record.
That tour will bring the band to the House of Blues in Boston on November 3. Ticket pre-sale for the tour starts Wednesday, and general on-sale is Friday (June 24) at 10 a.m.
November seems a long ways away, as does September, but in the meantime, we have the band’s new album teaser trailer to keep us warm. And judging from the snippets of the handful of tracks teased out, a new Grouplove jam could actually knock “Tongue Tied” out of our heads for the first time in five years. The new songs sound huge.
“We made this album at an important crossroads in our lives,” singer Christian Zucconi says in a press release, via Paste, which notes that the first single off the new LP is titled “Welcome to Your Life”. We’ll hear it in full July 15, but it teases at the end of the album trailer below.
Grouplove Fall Tour
August 10 – Honolulu, Hawaii @ The Republik
August 16 – Sydney, Australia @ Oxford Art Factory
August 18 – Melbourne, Australia @ Corner Hotel
September 21 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
September 22 – Hamburg, Germany @ Reeperbahn Fest
September 23 – Cologne, Germany @ Luxor
September 24 – Paris, France @ Les Etoiles
September 26 – Manchester, United Kingdom @ Academy 3
September 27 – London, United Kingdom @ Electric Ballroom
October 5 – Las Vegas, Nev. @ Brooklyn Bow ^
October 6 – Oakland, Calif. @ Fox Theater ^
October 7 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ Hollywood Palladium ^
October 10 – Vancouver, British Columbia @ Commodore Ballroom ^
October 13 – Portland, Ore. @ Roseland Theatre ^
October 14 – Seattle, Wash. @ The Crocodile Café &
October 17 – Salt Lake City, Utah @ The Complex – Grand Room ^
October 18 – Denver, Colo. @ Ogden Theatre ^
October 21 – Kansas City, Mo. @ Uptown Theatre ^
October 22 – Minneapolis, Minn. @ First Avenue ^
October 23 – Madison, Wis. @ Orpheum Theater ^
October 25 – Indianapolis, Ind. @ Egyptian Room at Old National Centre ^
October 27 – Columbus, Ohio @ Express Live! (with MUNA)
October 29 – Royal Oak, Mich. @ Royal Oak Music Theatre ^
October 30 – Toronto, Ontario @ Danforth Music Hall &
October 31 – Montréal, Quebec @ Corona Theatre &
November 1 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ The Fillmore ^
November 3 – Boston, Mass. @ House of Blues ^
November 5 – New York, N.Y. @ Hammerstein Ballroom ^
November 9 – Washington, DC @ Echostage ^
November 10 – Norfolk, Va. @ The Norva ^
November 12 – Nashville, Tenn. @ Cannery Ballroom^
November 13 – New Orleans, La. @ House of Blues ^
November 15 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues ^
November 16 – Houston, Texas @ House of Blues ^
November 18 – Austin, Texas @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater ^
^ = with MUNA and Dilly Dally
& = with MUNA