Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner Tour Kicks Off On September 7th; Polyphia To Replace Animals As Leaders
Photo Credit: Steve Thrasher
Friday, August 27th, 2021 – Sacramento chart topping, genre defying quintet, Dance Gavin Dance are finally set to kick-off their long awaited North American Afterburner Tour on September 7th. It was announced today that previously announced main support, Animals As Leaders will no longer be joining the tour due to unforeseen circumstances. However, taking their place on this run will now be genre bending, prog masters, Polyphia. Rounding out the line-up, as planned, will be Veil Of Maya, Eidola and Wolf & Bear.Many shows on the Afterburner Tour have already sold out and several are on low ticket alert. Remaining tickets and VIP packages are available here.
The Afterburner Tour is in support of Dance Gavin Dance's 2020 chart topping album of the same name. The album hit the Billboard charts twice last year due to the band's decision to choose their fans over a chart position and release the digital-only version of the album first, forfeiting physical sales due to the COVID-19 induced manufacturing shut-down. In a hugely impressive turn of events, Dance Gavin Dance once again proved their undeniable popularity as the digital-only release of Afterburner (Rise Records) soared straight to the top of the charts hitting #1 across the Current Album, Alternative, Digital, Rock and Heavy Rock charts and #14 on the Billboard Top 200. This certifiable success was further cemented when the physical release of the album dropped months later and once again propelled Afterburner to the top of the charts, hitting the #1 spot on Billboard's Vinyl, Internet, Alternative, Rock, Hard Music and Independent Current Albums as well as hitting #3 on the Top Albums and Top Current Albums charts and re-entering the Top 200 at #47.
Fans have patiently awaited the opportunity to celebrate the album with Dance Gavin Dance in the live setting since March of 2020 when the tour was originally due to start and the time is finally here. The Afterburner Tour will kick off in Portland, OR on September and play a further 33 cites across North America, before culminating in Las Vegas, NV on October 20th. Full dates below
Sep 07 | Portland, OR | Crystal Ballroom
Sep 08 | Seattle, WA | Showbox SoDo
Sep 10 | San Francisco, CA | The Warfield
Sep 11 | Los Angeles, CA | Hollywood Palladium
Sep 13 | Salt Lake City | The Complex
Sep 15 | Denver, CO | Mission Ballroom
Sep 16 | Kansas City, MO | Arvest Bank Theatre
Sep 17 | Minneapolis, MN | Fillmore
Sep 18 | Indianapolis, IN | Egyptian Room
Sep 19 | St Louis, MO | The Pageant
Sep 21 | Chicago, IL | Aragon Ballroom
Sep 22 | Columbus, OH | Express Live
Sep 23 | Buffalo, NY | Buffalo Riverworks
Sep 24 | Pittsburgh, PA | Stage AE
Sep 25 | Detroit, MI | Masonic Temple Theatre
Sep 27 | Norfolk, VA | The NorVa
Sep 29 | Silver Spring, MD | The Fillmore
Sep 30 | Boston, MA | House of Blues
Oct 01 | Philadelphia, PA | Franklin Music Hall
Oct 02 | Philadelphia, PA | Franklin Music Hall
Oct 03 | New York, NY | Hammerstein Ballroom
Oct 05 | Orlando, FL | House of Blues
Oct 06 | St Petersburg, FL | Jannus Live
Oct 08 | Nashville, TN | Marathon Music Works
Oct 09 | Atlanta, GA | Masquerade
Oct 10 | Atlanta, GA | Masquerade
Oct 12 | Dallas, TX | Bomb Factory
Oct 13 | Houston, TX | Warehouse Live
Oct 14 | Houston, TX | Warehouse Live
Oct 15 | San Antonio, TX | Vibes Event Center
Oct 16 | Oklahoma City, OK | The Criterion
Oct 18 | Albuquerque, NM | El Rey Theater
Oct 19 | Tempe, AZ | Marquee Theatre
Oct 20 | Las Vegas, NV | Brooklyn Bowl
About Dance Gavin Dance
Rejecting tired formulas at every step, Dance Gavin Dancemerge progressive rock and post-hardcore with thick groove, brilliantly combining experimental music with hooks and a warped sense of humor. The group has amassed over 1.2 billion global streams, and 1 million album equivalent units sold across their catalog in the US alone. With hundreds of thousands of rabid fans engaged with Dance Gavin Dance on socials and their very own festival event, Swanfest, which sold out its inaugural edition in 2019 and is slated to return, once it is safe to do so, in 2022, it all amounts to a full force band facing a mainstream that has overlooked them for too long.
Dance Gavin Dance released their ninth studio album, Afterburner, earlier this year which has already clocked up113.5 million streams since release and topped a multitude of charts on two separate occasions.
In the heady tradition of Frank Zappa and Nirvana – people who made serious art without ever seeming self-serious – Dance Gavin Dance is a band that does what they want, how they want, confident that the audience will keep up.