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The Lumineers announce North American dates of Automatic World Tour
The Lumineers have announced the eagerly awaited North American leg of their epic Automatic 2025 world tour. Headline dates begin July 3 and include stadiums, arenas, and amphitheaters across the US and Canada through mid-October. Highlights include shows at such vaunted venues as New York City’s Citi Field (July 11), Boston, MA’s Fenway Park (July 18), Denver, CO’s Mile High Stadium (August 2), Los Angeles, CA’s Kia Forum (August 9), Seattle, WA’s T-Mobile Park (August 16), Chicago, IL’s Soldier Field (August 30), Washington, DC’s Nationals Park (September 6), Detroit, MI’s Comerica Park (September 13), Philadelphia, PA’s Citizens Bank Park (September 19). Special guests for the tour will be Young The Giant, St. Vincent, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Lake Street Dive, Vance Joy, The Backseat Lovers, Dr. Dog, Hippo Campus, Tom Odell, and Chance Peña.
The upcoming tour celebrates the arrival of The Lumineers’ hugely anticipated new album, Automatic, available via Dualtone worldwide on Friday, February 14. Pre-orders are available now. “Same Old Song,” the first single from the album, is proving to be the fastest-rising single of the band’s career. It’s currently #4 at AAA and #6 at Alternative radio in the States, while achieving #4 at Alternative and #14 at Active Rock in Canada, cementing The Lumineers’ continued impact on the modern music landscape.
For first access to tickets, fans can register now for the Artist Presale tickets by signing up at www.thelumineers.com/tour. Artist presales begin Tuesday, February 18 at 10:00 am local time. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, February 21 at 10:00 am (local). For complete details and ticket information, please visit www.thelumineers.com/tour.
VIP Experiences will also be available starting with the Artist presale and include a premium reserved seat or GA pit ticket with early entry to the venue, an invitation to the pre-show Automatic Travel Lounge, an exclusive retro merchandise pack, and more. Details available here: thelumineers.100xhospitality.com/.
On top of their own shows, The Lumineers will headline upcoming festivals including Tempe, AZ’s Extra Innings Festival (February 28), Louisville, KY’s Bourbon & Beyond (September 11-14), and Richmond, VA’s Iron Blossom Music Festival (September 20-21).
Additionally, The Lumineers will celebrate the Valentine’s Day release of Automatic with a special late-night TV performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, airing tomorrow, February 13, on NBC (check local listings).
After twenty years of musical partnership, Automatic finds Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites traveling new sonic and thematic terrain with their most raw and personal collection thus far. Both men, now dads, fully embraced the life-altering, unromantic challenges and rewards of family life. When they reconvened to write, the emerging songs featured a new, aching vulnerability, sly humor, and bold acknowledgments of need – for love, respect, and connection in an increasingly chaotic world.
Inspired by Peter Jackson’s 2021 Beatles documentary Get Back, the band, with the help of co-producers David Baron and Simone Felice, set up shop in the expansive tracking room at Woodstock’s Utopia Studio. Multiple set-ups – with two sets of drums, three different pianos, and an array of amps, guitars, vocal mics – were laid out, allowing the musicians to pivot and capture as much as possible with minimal delay. The process further freed The Lumineers to perform the songs as a unit, allowing the band to capture the raw, organic presentation of the anthemic new tracks. For the first time on a Lumineers album, the band is credited as co-producers alongside Felice and Baron, who also engineered and mixed, as he did on the band’s last two albums.
Recorded in less than a month, the album, as Schultz says, feels “very much of this era.” While songs like the self-effacing “Asshole” and the spartan, wry “Better Day” reveal a risky intimacy and heretofore untapped undercurrent of humor, Automatic remains what fans around the world have come to love about The Lumineers – shadowy themes wrapped in upbeat, infectious melodies, sky-high choruses destined to be sung by tens of thousands each night on the road, and what Fraites calls “a palpable sense of connection between Wes and me. There’s lots of love on this record.”
THE LUMINEERS THE AUTOMATIC WORLD TOUR 2025 NORTH AMERICA
| February | ||
| 28 | Tempe, AZ | Extra Innings Festival |
| July | ||
| 3 | Saratoga Springs, NY | Broadview Stage at SPAC |
| 5 | Milwaukee, WI | Milwaukee Summerfest |
| 8 | Cincinnati, OH | Riverbend Music Center |
| 9 | Burgettstown, PA | The Pavilion at Star Lake |
| 11 | Flushing, NY | Citi Field |
| 13 | Uncasville, CT | Mohegan Sun Arena |
| 15 | Bangor, ME | Maine Savings Amphitheater |
| 18 | Boston, MA | Fenway Park |
| 22 | Noblesville, IN | Ruoff Music Center |
| 23 | Maryland Heights, MO | Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre |
| 25 | St. Paul, MN | Xcel Energy Center |
| 26 | Kansas City, MO | T-Mobile Center |
| 29 | Boise, ID | ExtraMile Arena |
| 30 | West Valley City, UT | Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre |
| August | ||
| 2 | Denver, CO | Empower Field at Mile High |
| 5 | San Francisco, CA | Chase Center |
| 6 | Sacramento, CA | Golden 1 Center |
| 9 | Inglewood, CA | Kia Forum |
| 13 | Bend, OR | Hayden Homes Amphitheater |
| 14 | Bend, OR | Hayden Homes Amphitheater |
| 16 | Seattle, WA | T-Mobile Park |
| 30 | Chicago, IL | Soldier Field |
| September | ||
| 3 | Darien Center, NY | Darien Lake Amphitheater |
| 6 | Washington, DC | Nationals Park |
| 8 | Toronto, ON | Budweiser Stage |
| 9 | Toronto, ON | Budweiser Stage |
| 11 | Louisville, KY | Bourbon & Beyond Festival |
| 13 | Detroit, MI | Comerica Park |
| 16 | Raleigh, NC | Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek |
| 17 | Charlotte, NC | PNC Music Pavilion |
| 19 | Philadelphia, PA | Citizens Bank Park |
| *21 | Richmond, VA | Iron Blossom Festival |
| 23 | Greenville, SC | Bon Secours Wellness Arena |
| 26 | Charleston, SC | Credit One Stadium |
| 27 | Savannah, GA | Enmarket Arena |
| 30 | Columbus, OH | Schottenstein Center |
| October | ||
| 1 | Grand Rapids, MI | Van Andel Arena |
| 3 | Nashville, TN | Bridgestone Arena |
| 4 | Atlanta, GA | State Farm Arena |
| 7 | Hollywood, FL | Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino |
| 8 | Tampa, FL | Amalie Arena |
| 10 | The Woodlands, TX | The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman |
| 11 | Fort Worth, TX | Dickies Arena |
| 14 | Austin, TX | Moody Center |
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Daniel Caesar Announces 2026 North American Tour ‘Son Of Spergy’
Daniel Caesar announces his headline 2026 tour in support of his album Son Of Spergy. Launching May 16th in Singapore, the Live Nation-promoted tour will see Daniel take his lauded discography across Asia and North America for a 30-date arena run that includes 7 dates in his native Canada, including his hometown of Toronto, as well as stops in Chicago, Brooklyn, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Anaheim, and more.
TICKETS: Tickets for the North American leg will be available starting Thursday, April 2nd, at 10 am local time via artist pre-sale, and on-sale will begin Friday, April 3rd, at 10 am local time HERE. He’ll be joined by Faye Webster and 070 Shake as supporting acts on select dates of the North American leg.
VIP: The tour will also offer a variety of different VIP packages and experiences for fans to take their concert experience to the next level. Packages vary but include premium tickets, access to the exclusive pre-show VIP soundcheck, early entry, exclusive VIP gift item & more. VIP package contents vary based on the offer selected. For more information, visit vipnation.com.
The tour announcement comes alongside new commercial milestones for several of Daniel’s records and albums. These accolades include RIAA certifications for his debut album Freudian, now 2x Platinum, “Get You,” now 7x Platinum, “Best Part feat. H.E.R,” now 7x Platinum, “Japanese Denim,” now 3x Platinum. He also received Platinum certifications for “We Find Love,” “Loose,” “Streetcar,” “Hold Me Down,” “Blessed,” “CYANIDE,” “LOVE AGAIN,” “Who Hurt You?,” Gold & Platinum certifications for “Superpowers” and “Always,” and Gold certifications for his 2023 album NEVER ENOUGH, 2021’s CASE STUDY 01, “Take Me Away feat. Syd,” “Transform feat. Charlotte Day Wilson,” and his 2014 single “Violet.”
This past weekend, Daniel received the 2026 JUNOs with the International Achievement Award, performed Son Of Spergy standout “Who Knows,” and took home the JUNO awards for Best Contemporary R&B Recording of the Year and Songwriter of the Year. To kick off 2026, he performed a rare, showstopping second Tiny Desk Concert and performed alongside Mustafa, Alex G, Blood Orange, Rex Orange County, Jazmine Sullivan, Geese, Ravyn Lenae, and more at the Artists for Aid benefit concert hosted by Bella Hadid and Pedro Pascal in Los Angeles, which raised $5.5 million for charities in Sudan and Palestine. This past fall, Daniel released his new album Son Of Spergy, which debuted on the Billboard 200 at #4 and Billboard R&B Album Chart at #1, his highest-charting body of work yet and first Top 10 album. Shortly after its release, he performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon with a moving performance of the album track “Who Knows,” a runaway streaming hit.
Son Of Spergy serves as the follow-up to his Top 15 Billboard 200-charting album NEVER ENOUGH and includes previously released singles “Have A Baby (With Me),” “Call On Me,” and most recently, “Moon,” all of which offer windows into the album’s central theme of reconciliation, specifically with his father. From the intoxicating “Root Of All Evil,” to the Bon Iver-assisted “Moon,” Caesar spends the album interrogating himself in pursuit of purer, healthier relationships.
As a wildly successful artist at such a young age, Caesar lived much of his 20s in self-indulgence. The only people who really ever told him no, who ever truly held him accountable, were his family members. Now, at 30 years old, he uses this album to animate his thoughts on core concepts: his own purpose on this Earth, what he means in relation to his parents, and how the world will change when he eventually becomes a dad. “I have a lot of respect for my dad, and I hold him in high regard. The album is about me realizing that I am exactly like him,” he shares. “In that sense, it’s about having patience, respect, and admiration for myself.”
Mainly recorded in Jamaica, Daniel is joined by Sampha, Bon Iver, Blood Orange, Yebba, 646yf4t, and his own father, Norwill Simmonds, for an album that is both compositionally and melodically breathtaking. Ahead of the album’s release, Daniel put on a tour of pop-up, impromptu performances at parks in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Bozeman, Los Angeles, Houston, and Atlanta, performing intimate sets for massive crowds of fans. Daniel was joined by Mustafa for many of the performances, and, in Los Angeles, Turnstile’s Brendan Yates performed a solo rendition of his band’s song “NEVER ENOUGH” on the keys. Earlier that week, Caesar wrapped up the string of moving performances with a pair of shows at the Harlem Parish Church.
Son Of Spergy was first teased with a video letter shared on socials and discussed in Daniel’s Billboard cover story. In a conversation with Tyler, The Creator for Billboard, the two discuss Daniel’s career to date, their creative relationship (especially as it pertains to Daniel’s extensive work across Tyler’s 2024 album CHROMAKOPIA), what fans can expect from Son Of Spergy, and more. Earlier in 2025, Daniel joined forces with close friend and collaborator Rex Orange County for a special two-track bundle, “Rearrange My World / There’s A Field (That’s Only Yours).” Daniel was also featured on “The Field,” from Blood Orange’s new album Essex Honey, alongside Caroline Polachek, Tariq Al-Sabir, and The Durutti Column, and contributed songwriting, backing vocals, and production to “DEVOTION” featuring Dijon on Justin Bieber’s GRAMMY® nominated album, SWAG.
Listen to Son Of Spergy above and stay tuned for more from Daniel Caesar coming soon.
Upcoming Live Dates
* = support from Faye Webster
+ = support from 070 Shake
^ = non-Live Nation date
5/16 – Singapore @ Singapore Indoor Stadium
5/19 – Manila @ SM Mall of Asia Arena
5/24 – Kuala Lumpur @ Idea Live Arena
5/29 – Seoul @ KINTEX Hall 10
5/31 – Jakarta @ Java Jazz Festival ^
6/2 – Hong Kong @ AsiaWorld-Expo, Hall 10
6/4 – Tokyo @ Tokyo International Forum
6/6 – Taipei @ Messe Taoyuan
6/9 – Bangkok @ Impact Arena
7/14 – Denver, CO @ Ball Arena *
7/16 – Phoenix, AZ @ Mortgage Matchup Center *
7/19 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center *
7/20 – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center *
7/23 – Tampa, FL @ Benchmark International Arena *
7/24 – Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena *
7/25 – Eau Claire, WI @ Eaux Claires Festival ^
7/26 – Chicago, IL @ United Center *
7/28 – Baltimore, MD @ CFG Bank Arena *
7/30 – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center *
7/31 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden *
8/2 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena *
8/5 – Ottawa, ON @ Canada Tire Centre +
8/6 – Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre +
8/10 – Winnipeg, MB @ Canada Life Centre +
8/13 – Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place +
8/14 – Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome +
8/16 – Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena +
8/18 – Portland, OR @ Moda Center +
8/20 – San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center +
8/23 – Anaheim, CA @ Honda Center +
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Yeat Announce The LOVE/LYFE 2026 Tour
Today, chart-topping rapper and cultural disruptor Yeat announced his upcoming The LOVE/LYFE Tour, a North American run in support of his blockbuster new double album ADL (A Dangerous Lyfe / A Dangerous Love), out now via Field Trip Recordings / Capitol Records. Slayr, BNYX will join the tour as special guests in select cities.
Produced by Live Nation, the tour will kick off on July 17 in Minneapolis and make stops across major cities including Chicago, Toronto, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Houston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, before wrapping on August 18 in San Diego. Tickets will be available starting with an artist presale beginning Tuesday, March 31 at 10AM local time. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginningFriday, April 3 at 10AM local time at LiveNation.com and yeatofficial.com.
Building on the world of ADL, The LOVE/LYFE Tour is set to translate Yeat’s most cinematic era yet into a one-of-a-kind live experience. The project released just last week following months of anticipation fueled by a non-stop rollout, capped off by Yeat’s first sit-down interview in five years withApple Music’s Zane Lowe. In February, commuters in New York City were met with a prosthetic version of Yeat’s arm hanging out of the back of a taxi with a bumper sticker beside it reading “LYFE IS DANGEROUS”. Following that, Yeat hosted Twizz City Night at the Portland Trail Blazers game and released the first visual look into ADL, reimagining Yeat as ‘The Most Dangerous Man Alive’.
With appearances from new contributors including Elton John,Grimes, andNBA YoungBoy, alongside returning collaborators likeDon Toliver,Joji,and Julia Wolf,ADLspans genres, sonic influences, and eight years of musical evolution–ushering in Yeat’s boldest and most cinematic era yet.
THE LOVE/LYFE TOUR DATES:
Fri, Jul 17 – Minneapolis, MN – The Armory #
Sun, Jul 19 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island ~
Tue, Jul 21 – Toronto, ON – Coca-Cola Coliseum #
Wednesday, July 22 – Montreal, QC – Place Bell #
Thu, Jul 23 – New York, NY – SummerStage in Central Park ^ #
Sat, Jul 25 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway ^ #
Mon, Jul 27 – Charlotte, NC – Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre ^
Tue, Jul 28 – Virginia Beach, VA – The Dome by Rutter Mills ^
Thu, Jul 30 – Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy #
Sat, Aug 1 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – War Memorial Auditorium ^
Tue, Aug 4 – Houston, TX – 713 Music Hall *
Wed, Aug 5 – Irving, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory ^
Fri, Aug 7 – Denver, CO – Junkyard #
Mon, Aug 10 – Seattle, WA – WAMU Theater @ Lumen Field #
Tue, Aug 11 – Vancouver, BC – PNE Forum #
Thu, Aug 13 – San Francisco, CA – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium #
Sat, Aug 15 – Los Angeles, CA – Intuit Dome @
Tue, Aug 18 – San Diego, CA – Gallagher Square at Petco Park #
# with BNYX
^ with SLAYR
* support TBD
~ with Lyrical Lemonade All Stars
@ with Yeat & Friends