NEWS: Baroness Announce North American Tour
PHILADELPHIA, March 7, 2016 – Baroness return to North America this spring, confirming their first national tour since the release of the band’s critically acclaimed fourth album, Purple.
The tour, which includes stops at the Sasquatch, Project Pabst and Shaky Knees festivals, kicks off on April 29 at the Royale in Boston before wrapping up at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles on June 3. Baroness is in the midst of a five-week European trek, which triumphantly launched in the city of the band’s now infamous 2012 bus accident, Southampton.
North American tour dates:
April 29 Boston, MA Royale
April 30 Quebec City, QC Le Ceree
May 1 Montreal, QC Corona Theatre
May 3 Toronto, ON The Opera House
May 4 Syracuse, NY Lost Horizon
May 6 Flint, MI The Machine Shop
May 7 Grand Rapids, MI Intersection
May 8 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls
May 10 Cincinnati, OH The Ballroom @ The Taft
May 11 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
May 13 Atlanta, GA Shaky Knees
May 15 Nashville, TN 3rd & Lindsley
May 17 Madison, WI The Majestic Theatre
May 18 Des Moines, IA Wooly’s
May 20 Colorado Springs, CO The Black Sheep
May 21 Denver, CO Project Pabst Denver
May 23 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
May 24 Boise, ID Knitting Factory
May 26 Calgary, AB Marquee
May 27 Edmonton, AB Starlite Room
May 29 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
May 30 Seattle, WA Sasquatch Festival
May 31 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom
June 2 San Francisco, CA The Regency Ballroom
June 3 Los Angeles, CA The Fonda Theatre
Tickets for all dates are available this Friday.
Purple was released on Dec. 18 via the band’s own Abraxan Hymns label. The Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev) produced album has been universally praised with Pitchfork saying Purple features “some of the biggest, strong songs Baroness has ever written,” Entertainment Weekly calling the album “their finest release yet,” Rolling Stone Australia dubbing it “the most dynamic, robust guitar album this year,” Mojo echoing those sentiments, saying “Baroness have delivered their masterpiece: an album grounding their cosmic heaviosity with earthbound, compelling drama,” and German magazine Visions declaring “the quasi-comeback Purple is their best album to date.” Purple and the songs from the album also landed on a number of year-end best of lists with “Shock Me” (video: https://youtu.be/hS5osAdTnm0) coming in at #10 on Entertainment Weekly’s Top 40 Songs of 2015,Pitchfork awarding it #6 on their Best Metal Albums of 2015 round-up and Rolling Stone placing the release at #7 on their 20 Best Metal Albums of 2015.
Complete Baroness tour dates:
March 8 Barcelona, Spain Razmatazz 2
March 9 Lyon, France Le Transbordeur Club
March 10 Milan, Italy Magazzini Generali
March 11 Zurich, Switzerland Mascott
March 12 Vienna, Austria Flex
March 15 Leipzig, Germany Conne Island
March 16 Munich, Germany Backstage Werk
March 17 Prague, Czech Republic Futurum
March 18 Warsaw, Poland Proxima
March 20 Berlin, Germany SO36
March 21 Cologne, Germany Stollwerck
March 22 Brussels, Belgium AB Theatre
March 23 Utrecht, Netherlands Tivoli de Helling
March 25 Schijndel, Netherlands Passpop Festival
March 26 Hamburg, Germany Gruenspan
March 27 Malmo, Sweden KB
March 29 Stockholm, Sweden Debaser Medis
March 30 Oslo, Norway Rockefeller
March 31 Copenhagen, Denmark Vega Small
April 1 Hannover, Germany Faust
April 2 Wiesbaden, Germany Alter Schlachthof
April 23 Mexico City, MX Vive Latino Festival
April 29 Boston, MA Royale
April 30 Quebec City, QC Le Cercle
May 1 Montreal, QC Corona Theatre
May 3 Toronto, ON The Opera House
May 4 Syracuse, NY Lost Horizon
May 6 Flint, MI The Machine Shop
May 7 Grand Rapids, MI Intersection
May 8 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls
May 10 Cincinnati, OH The Ballroom @ The Taft
May 11 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
May 13 Atlanta, GA Shaky Knees
May 14 Atlanta, GA The Loft
May 15 Nashville, TN 3rd & Lindsley
May 17 Madison, WI The Majestic Theatre
May 18 Des Moines, IA Wooly’s
May 20 Colorado Springs, CO The Black Sheep
May 21 Denver, CO Project Pabst Denver
May 23 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
May 24 Boise, ID Knitting Factory
May 26 Calgary, AB Marquee
May 27 Edmonton, AB Starlite Room
May 29 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
May 30 Seattle, WA Sasquatch Festival
May 31 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom
June 2 San Francisco, CA The Regency Ballroom
June 3 Los Angeles, CA The Fonda Theatre
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Photo credit: Jimmy Hubbard
