BEEN STELLAR Announce 2025 North American Headline Tour
BEEN STELLAR
ANNOUNCE 2025 NORTH AMERICAN
HEADLINING TOUR ON TOUR SUPPORTING FONTAINES D.C. NOW
DEBUT ALBUM
SCREAM FROM NEW YORK, NY
OUT NOW VIA DIRTY HIT
Today, New York’s Been Stellar has announced a 2025 North American headlining tour. The dates kick off in Philadelphia on January 9th with legs both at the top of the year and again in May. Highlights include Lincoln Hall in Chicago on January 17th, the Bowery Ballroom in their hometown of New York City on January 24th and The Echo in Los Angeles on May 25th. All tickets are on sale this Friday, October 18 at 10AM local time HERE.
Been Stellar are currently on their North American tour supporting Fontaines D.C. and then will head back to Europe and the UK for an extensive headlining tour. The band spent the spring on a major European tour supporting The 1975, followed by their own sold out headlining UK tour which included stops at The Great Escape and London Calling.
This summer Been Stellar released their highly anticipated debut album Scream from New York, NY out now via their new label home Dirty Hit. A remarkably brutal debut – bruised and volatile, it captures an image of ‘20s New York that’s unrelenting and harsh, where tenderness is a finite resource burned up by the machinery of the city and human connection is a luxury product. Leaving behind the driving shoegaze of their early recordings, the NYC-based five-piece tap into the disaffected sound and spirit of New York luminaries like Sonic Youth and Interpol, as well as the nihilistic, yearning cool of Iceage and Bends-era Radiohead, striking upon a sound that’s fearsome, buffeting and beautiful at the same time – a tidal wave as viewed from underneath.
As its wry title implies, Scream from New York, NY, is a record about what happens when language fails – between friends, partners, a city and its citizens – and the primal scream you might let out when words just don’t work anymore.
Purchase the album on vinyl, CD and cassette from Dirty Hit HERE.
Tour Dates
2024
Oct 15 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount * (SOLD OUT)
Oct 16 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount *
Oct 18 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club * (SOLD OUT)
Oct 19 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club *
Oct 20 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore Philadelphia *
Nov 3 - Amsterdam, NL @ Bitterzoet
Nov 4 - Cologne, DE @ Blue Shell
Nov 6 - Berlin, DE @ Cassiopeia
Nov 7 - Hamburg, DE @ Molotow Skybar
Nov 9 - Warsaw, PL @ Klub Hybrydy
Nov 10 - Prague, CZ @ Cafe V Lese
Nov 11 - Munich, DE @ Orangehouse
Nov 13 - Milan, IT @ Bellezza
Nov 14 - Zurich, CH @ Exil
Nov 16 - Brussels, BE @ Witloof Bar
Nov 17 - Paris, FR @ Point Ephemere
Nov 19 - Bristol, UK @ The Fleece
Nov 21 - Manchester, UK @ Manchester Academy 3
Nov 22 - Glasgow, UK @ King Tuts
Nov 24 - Newcastle, UK @ The Cluny
Nov 25 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
Nov 26 - Nottingham, UK @ Bodega
Nov 28 - London, UK @ Scala
Nov 30 - Dublin, IE @ The Workman’s Club
Dec 1 - Galway, IE @ Roisin Dubh
Dec 2 - Belfast, UK @ Ulster Sports Club
2025
1/9 - Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA*
1/10 - Washington D.C. @ Songbyrd*
1/11 - Millvale, PA @ The Funhouse*
1/12 - Columbus, OH @ The Summit Music Hall*
1/14 - Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club*
1/15 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry*
1/17 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall (Tomorrow Never Knows)*
1/18 - Detroit, MI @ Third Man Records Cass Corridor*
1/20 - Toronto, ON @ The Garrison*
1/21 - Montreal, QC @ Petit Campus*
1/23 - Boston, MA - Berklee College of Music @ The Red Room at Cafe 398*
1/24 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom*
5/15 - Denver, CO @ Globe Hall
5/18 - Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
5/19 - Seattle, WA @ Barboza+
5/21 - San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord+
5/22 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo+
* supporting Fontaines D.C.
*with Malice K
+with Enumclaw
Like so many other dyed-in-the-wool New York bands, Been Stellar are transplants. Guitarist Skyler Knapp and vocalist Sam Slocum first met in their freshman year of high school a decade ago; members of the cross country team, they bonded over the band t-shirt Skyler was wearing and decided to start jamming together. In Michigan, they started performing under the Been Stellar name, but it wasn’t until the pair began studying at NYU, and met Brazilian-born guitarist Nando Dale, bass player Nico Brunstein and drummer Laila Wayans, that a sound started to coalesce. Despite working in wildly disparate styles – Nando and Skyler bonded over British bands like The Cribs; Nico was making electronic music, and Laila rave – the group bonded over a shared sense of humor, forming a motley crew based more on emotional compatibility than any rigid ideas of shared artistic sensibility.
Determined to break new sonic ground, the band embarked on a relentless practice schedule, even renting scrappy studios on days off during tours with Fontaines DC and Shame. After befriending him at SXSW, the band tapped producer Dan Carey (black midi, Wet Leg) to help coalesce the disparate elements of their sound that had been percolating: forceful, driving physicality; pop classicism; gnarled beauty; and a rich emotional core. The resulting 10-song album announces Been Stellar as gimlet-eyed chroniclers of contemporary youth, staring through noise and confusion into the dark heart of modern life. These songs embody the spirit of a city that makes and breaks its inhabitants on a daily basis - an irony befitting the album’s tone: Been Stellar’s preternatural ability to capture the disconnection that haunts New York with photorealist detail might just be the thing that vaults them into its pantheon.
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