Alvvays extends 2023 tour adding more dates with Maggie rogers
2023 World Tour Dates:
05/24 - London, UK @ Forum & [SOLD OUT]
05/25 - London, UK @ Forum &
05/26 - Derbyshire, UK @ Bearded Theory Festival
05/27 - Bristol, UK @ Dot To Dot Festival
05/28 - Nottingham, UK @ Dot To Dot Festival
05/30 - Manchester, UK @ New Century & [SOLD OUT]
05/31 - Glasgow, UK @ Galvanizers & [SOLD OUT]
06/02 - Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound
06/04 - Paris, France @ Trabendo & [SOLD OUT]
06/05 - Brussels, Belgium @ Botanique & [SOLD OUT]
06/06 - Berlin, Germany @ Astra Kulturhaus &
06/08 - Porto, Portugal @ Primavera Sound
06/09 - Madrid, Spain @ Primavera Sound
6/9-6/11 - Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands @ Best Kept Secret Festival
07/14 - Quebec City, QC @ Festival d’été de Québec
07/16 - Ottawa Blues Fest @ Ottawa, Ontario
07/21 - Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival
07/21-23 - Nelsonville, OH @ Nelsonville Music Festival
07/28 - Omaha, NE @ Maha Festival
08/09 - Red Rocks Amphitheatre @ Morrison, CO ^
08/10 - UCCU Center @ Orem, UT ^
08/11-13 - San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands
08/13 - Hollywood Bowl @ Los Angeles, CA ^
08/16 – WaMu Theater @ Seattle, WA ^
08/17 McMenamins Edgefield @ Troutdale, OR ^
08/22 - Brooklyn, NY @ Prospect Park *
08/23 - Brooklyn, NY @ Prospect Park * [SOLD OUT]
08/25 - Boston, MA @ Leader Bank Pavilion *
08/26 - Philadelphia, PA @ Dell Center *
08/27 - Martha's Vineyard, MA @ Beach Road Festival
08/28 - Toronto, ON @ The Budweiser Stage *
08/30 - Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak *
08/31 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE *
09/01 - Buffalo, NY @ Art Park *
$ w/ Disq
# w/ Big Rig
& w/ Ex-Vöid
^ w/ Maggie Rogers
* co-headline date w/ Alex G
Alvvays are pleased to announce they will be joining Maggie Rogers on more dates for her summer tour. They have already announced a Hollywood Bowl show in August and will also be playing the iconic Red Rocks, as well as more West Coast dates.
The band previously announced a co-headline tour with fellow indie-rock sensation Alex G for a stacked North American tour. The co-headline run will kick off at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Bandshell and include stops in Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto and more. All dates including their UK and European stops are listed below.
Also in case you missed it, Alvvays recently spoke to fellow Canadian legend Nardwuar.
More on Blue Rev…
Alvvays never intended to take five years to finish their third album, the nervy joyride that is the compulsively lovable Blue Rev. In fact, the band began writing and cutting its first bits soon after releasing 2017’s Antisocialites, that stunning sophomore record that confirmed the Toronto quintet’s status atop a new generation of winning and whip-smart indie rock.
Global lockdowns notwithstanding, circumstances both ordinary and entirely unpredictable stunted those sessions. Alvvays toured more than expected, a surefire interruption for a band that doesn’t write on the road. A watchful thief then broke into singer Molly Rankin’s apartment and swiped a recorder full of demos, one day before a basement flood nearly ruined all the band’s gear. They subsequently lost a rhythm section and, due to border closures, couldn’t rehearse for months with their masterful new one, drummer Sheridan Riley and bassist Abbey Blackwell.
The songs of Blue Rev thrive on immediacy and intricacy, so good on first listen that the subsequent spins where you hear all the details are an inevitability. This perfectly dovetailed sound stems from an unorthodox—and, for Alvvays, wholly surprising—recording process, unlike anything they’ve ever done. Alvvays are fans of fastidious demos, making maps of new tunes so complete they might as well have topographical contour lines.
But in October 2021, when they arrived at a Los Angeles studio with fellow Canadian Shawn Everett, he urged them to forget the careful planning they’d done and just play the stuff, straight to tape. On the second day, they ripped through Blue Rev front-to-back twice, pausing only 15 seconds between songs and only 30 minutes between full album takes. And then, as Everett has done on recent albums by The War on Drugs and Kacey Musgraves, he spent an obsessive amount of time alongside Alvvays filling in the cracks, roughing up the surfaces, and mixing the results.
Every element of Alvvays leveled up in the long interim between albums: Riley is a classic dynamo of a drummer, with the power of a rock deity and the finesse of a jazz pedigree. Their roommate, in-demand bassist Blackwell, finds the center of a song and entrenches it. Keyboardist Kerri MacLellan joined Rankin and guitarist Alec O’Hanley to write more this time, reinforcing the band’s collective quest to break patterns heard on their first two albums.
Alvvays’ self-titled debut, released when much of the band was still in its early 20s, offered speculation about a distant future—marriage, professionalism, interplanetary citizenship. Antisocialites wrestled with the woes of the now, especially the anxieties of inching toward adulthood. Named for the sugary alcoholic beverage Rankin and MacLellan used to drink as teens on rural Cape Breton, Blue Rev looks both back at that country past and forward at an uncertain world, reckoning with what we lose whenever we make a choice about what we want to become.
Sure, it arrives a few years later than expected, but the answer for Alvvays is actually simple: They’ve changed gradually, growing on Blue Rev into one of their generation’s most complete and riveting rock bands.
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