Tour news: Hamilton Leithauser, Barenaked Ladies / Guster, Isaiah Collier, Rema, QOTSA, TRSH, Nouvelle Vague, Cut Worms, more

Here’s a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more.

BARENAKED LADIES / GUSTER / SUGAR RAY / FASTBALL

Barenaked Ladies have announced the 2025 edition of their Last Summer on Earth tour, which this year is with Guster on the first leg and Sugar Ray on the second, and Fastball as opener on all shows. Dates begin June 3 in Atlanta and wrap up August 7 in Clarkston, MI.

BOB DYLAN

Bob Dylan has added more headline shows to his 2025 tour schedule, which also includes dates as part of Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival tour.

HAMILTON LEITHAUSER

The Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser has announced spring dates for his This Side of the Island Tour, which begins May 5 in Dallas and has Greg Freeman and Johanna Samuels opening at various dates along the way. Before that, he’ll release This Side of the Island on March 7, and has a residency at NYC’s Cafe Carlyle with 15 shows from March 6 – 29.

JAPANESE BREAKFAST

Japanese Breakfast‘s anticipated new album For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) arrives in March, and they’ve added some more new shows to their tour supporting it, including additional dates in Brooklyn, Seattle, Madison, Bristol, and Utrecht.

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE

Queens of the Stone Age will return to the road in June for shows rescheduled from their postponed 2024 tour, and they’ve added a couple new shows with The Kills to the run.

ISAIAH COLLIER

Spiritual jazz torch-carrier Isaiah Collier released two great albums last year with his band The Chosen Few, The Almighty and the overtly political The World Is On Fire, and now he’s set to make his Blue Note Jazz Club debut on May 8, with shows at 8 PM and 10:30 PM. He has other upcoming dates as well.

The World Is On Fire by Isaiah Collier

BEYONCÉ

Beyoncé has added more shows in five cities to the Cowboy Carter stadium tour that she announced last week.

KENDRICK LAMAR / SZA

Fresh off making history at the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show together, Kendrick Lamar and SZA have announced a Europe/UK leg of their upcoming co-headlining stadium tour (which hits North America this spring).

OKLOU

Having released her very good debut LP, choke enough, this past Friday, Oklou was scheduled to begin her North American tour supporting it in March, but she’s now postponed those dates to the fall.

SQUID

UK art rock band Squid are fresh off releasing their third album Cowards, and now they’ve announced a North American tour in support of it.

FLORIST

Florist have announced a spring North American tour supporting their upcoming album Jellywish.

REMA

Nigerian Afrobeats singer Rema has announced a world tour surrounding his appearances at Coachella, including a show at NYC’s Madison Square Garden on May 3. An artist presale begins Tuesday (2/11), followed by other presales throughout the week. The general public on-sale begins Thursday (2/13) at 10 AM local. All dates and tickets here. He also recently put out a new single, “Baby (Is it a Crime).”

TORI AMOS 

Tori Amos is releasing her first children’s book, Tori and the Muses, on March 4, and she’ll be on a short book tour for it.

CUT WORMS

Max Clarke will celebrate Valentine’s Day Weekend with two “Loners & Lovers” shows at Baby’s All Right on February 14 with Josephine Network and February 15 with Daneshevskaya.

TRSH / DEAR MARYANNE / DOAN / SUMMERBRUISE

Midwest emo purveyors TRSH have signed to Wax Bodega, and their first single for the label is the yelpy, anthemic “I Really Am Feeling Better.” They also announced a tour with Dear Maryanne, Doan, and Summerbruise (including Brooklyn’s Elsewhere Zone One on May 10).

BADBADNOTGOOD

BADBADNOTGOOD have announced a spring tour in support of last year’s Mid Spiral suite: Chaos, Order and Growth. It will be an expanded lineup of the group for these shows, and joining them on US/Canada dates will be Baby Rose, for a performance of their joint EP, Slow Burn.

NOUVELLE VAGUE

Nouvelle Vague, the long-running French group that do bossa-nova covers of new wave classics, begin a short North American tour on Tuesday (2/11) in Los Angeles, and from there head to San Francisco, NYC (2/14 at Racket with Katie Martucci), Toronto and Montreal.

THE MINUS 5

The Minus 5, the group led by Seattle legend Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows, R.E.M.) and featuring a rotating cast of friends/collaborators, announced their first new album in six years and a West Coast tour.

THE DOOBIE BROTHERS

The Doobie Brothers, which has had Michael McDonald back in the band since 2019 (alongside Patrick Simmons, Tom Johnston, and John McFee), will be on tour this summer with the late Jimmy Buffett’s backing group The Coral Reefer Band.

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