Sunset Rubdown has announced their first tour in 15 years, titled the 'Always Happy To Explode' tour. The tour will take place from October 10, 2024, to October 30, 2024, with performances across the mainland United States and Canada. The announcement was made on the band's official Instagram page on July 9, 2024:
Tickets for the tour will be available via the band label's official website or authorized ticket vendors like Ticketmaster on July 12, 2024, at 10:00 am local time.
In order to get said tickets, interested patrons need to visit the said official website, make their choice of show, and then click on it. They will be redirected to the ticket portal, where they will need to make a choice of ticket and input their details, such as their email address and so on.
Then they will need to make the payment. Tickets are usually sent to the email or mobile number used at the time of purchase once payment is successfully processed.
The tour is in support of Sunset Rubdown's upcoming album of the same name, which was announced concurrently with the tour announcement via another Instagram post. The album is scheduled to be released on September 20, 2024:
Sunset Rubdown tour dates, venues, and album tracklist
The dates and venues for Sunset Rubdown's 'Always Happy To Explode' North America tour in October 2024 are given below:
- October 10, 2024 — Vancouver, British Columbia at Rickshaw Theatre
- October 11, 2024 — Seattle, Washington State at Crocodile
- October 12, 2024 — Portland, Oregon at Wonder Ballroom
- October 14, 2024 — San Francisco, California at Bimbo’s
- October 15, 2024 — Los Angeles, California at Teragram Ballroom
- October 16, 2024 — Tucson, Arizona at 191 Toole
- October 18, 2024 — Austin, Texas at The Parish
- October 19, 2024 — Dallas, Texas at Club Dada
- October 20, 2024 — Baton Rouge, Louisiana at Chelsea’s
- October 21, 2024 — Atlanta, Georgia at Terminal West
- October 22, 2024 — Durham, North Carolina at Motorco Music Hall
- October 23, 2024 — Washington, DC at Black Cat
- October 24, 2024 — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at First Unitarian Church
- October 25, 2024 — Catskills, New York at Glen Falls House
- October 26, 2024 — Northampton, Massachusetts at Iron Horse Music Hall
- October 27, 2024 — New York City, New York at Irving Plaza
- October 29, 2024 — Montreal, Quebec at La Tulipe
- October 30, 2024 — Toronto, Ontario at Concert Hall
Always Happy To Explode is currently available for pre-order from the band label's official website. The tracklist for the album is given below:
- Losing Light
- All Alright
- Candles
- Snowball
- Ghoulish Hearts
- Reappearing Rat
- Cliché Town
- Worm
- Fable Killer
The first single from Sunset Rubdown's album, Reappearing Rat, was released on July 9, 2024, and has already garnered over two thousand views on YouTube. Band member Spencer Krug elaborated on the new single in a general press release on July 10, 2024:
"A kind of irresponsible and lazy surrender to the notion that we’re all just stuck with ourselves, this song is for those times you think ‘Why won’t that person just leave?,’ only to realize you’re referring to yourself. For better or worse, we live in our brains. Apparently so does the rat."
Sunset Rubdown's last album, Dragonslayer, was released through the Jagjaguwar label on June 23, 2009.