Bleachers Are Playing Five Nights at the Troubadour and It Will Be Electric
Five nights. The Troubadour. Bleachers in a 500-cap room. If that doesn't immediately make you want to figure out how to get tickets, I don't know what to tell you.
Jack Antonoff and company just unveiled the Bleachers Forever tour, a 24-city North American run kicking off June 5th in Chicago and wrapping October 8th in Nashville. But buried in the middle of all of that is something special for Los Angeles. A five-night residency at the Troubadour from September 10th through the 15th. That's the kind of thing that turns a regular tour announcement into something you circle on the calendar in permanent marker.
Why the Troubadour Matters
Look, Bleachers sold out Madison Square Garden last October. Grossed over a million dollars on nearly 14,000 tickets in a single night. Antonoff has 13 Grammys. This is a band that plays arenas and amphitheatres. So when they book five nights at the Troubadour, one of the most legendary small venues in LA, that's a deliberate choice. That's an artist saying they want to sweat in a room with fans close enough to feel it.
The Troubadour holds around 500 people. Five nights gives you maybe 2,500 total. For context, they're playing Madison Square Garden again on June 23rd on this same tour. The intimacy of the Troubadour run compared to the scale of everything else on this routing is going to make those five shows feel like something completely different. Honestly, if you live in LA, this is the move.
New Album Incoming
The tour is in support of everyone for ten minutes, the band's fifth studio album dropping May 22nd via Dirty Hit. It's their first record since the 2024 self-titled LP, and from everything we've heard so far, it's being described as lovestruck and optimistic. Eleven tracks. Lead single "you and forever" is already out, and the latest single "dirty wedding dress" dropped alongside the tour announcement. That one sounds like it might be about Antonoff's wedding to Margaret Qualley, with lyrics about an August gathering where the neighbors lost their minds and they had to board up windows and shoot out drones. Pretty vivid stuff.
By the time the Troubadour residency rolls around in September, that album will have been out for almost four months. Fans will know every word. In a room that small, with that kind of energy, those songs are going to hit differently.
The Full Tour
Beyond the Troubadour residency, the routing is stacked. The tour hits Salt Shed Fairgrounds in Chicago, Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Mann Center in Philadelphia, MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston, and that MSG date in New York. After the LA residency, they head to the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, Dune Peninsula in Tacoma, Red Rocks in Denver, The Armory in Minneapolis, and wrap things up with stops in Atlanta, Raleigh, and Nashville.
The openers rotate throughout the run, and the lineup is genuinely great. Wednesday opens the Canandaigua and MSG dates. American Football gets Red Rocks, which is a pairing that just makes sense. The Linda Lindas handle the West Coast dates in Berkeley, Tacoma, and Bend. Hovvdy takes the mid-Atlantic swing. Momo Boyd opens Chicago, Toronto, and Montreal. And This Is Lorelei carries the back half of the tour from Minneapolis through Nashville. The Troubadour dates appear to be solo, no listed support, which honestly might make them even more compelling.
Tickets and the Anti-Scalping Push
I'll be real, the way Antonoff is handling ticket sales deserves a mention. He posted a note to socials saying the team has "worked our asses off to eliminate bullshit and get bleachers forever tickets to you at face value." Fans are being asked to sign up for the shows they want, which helps the team filter out bots before the presale even starts. No tickets at absurd prices. If you see that, you're in the wrong place. That's a direct quote.
The artist presale kicked off Wednesday, March 18th at 10:00 a.m. local time. A Live Nation presale for select dates followed on Thursday, March 19th. General on-sale is Friday, March 20th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Also worth noting, $1 from every ticket sold goes to The Ally Coalition, Jack and Rachel Antonoff's organization supporting LGBTQ+ youth.
Full Tour Dates
06/05 – Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed Fairgrounds (w/ Momo Boyd)
06/09 – Toronto, ON @ RBC Amphitheatre (w/ Momo Boyd)
06/10 – Montreal, QC @ MTELUS (w/ Momo Boyd)
06/12 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion (w/ Hovvdy)
06/13 – Philadelphia, PA @ Mann Center for the Performing Arts (w/ Hovvdy)
06/16 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway (w/ Hovvdy)
06/20 – Canandaigua, NY @ CMAC (w/ Wednesday)
06/23 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden (w/ Wednesday)
09/10 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour
09/11 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour
09/12 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour
09/14 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour
09/15 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour
09/17 – Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre (w/ The Linda Lindas)
09/19 – Tacoma, WA @ Dune Peninsula (w/ The Linda Lindas)
09/20 – Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater (w/ The Linda Lindas)
09/23 – Denver, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre (w/ American Football)
09/26 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory (w/ This Is Lorelei)
09/27 – Milwaukee, WI @ Landmark Credit Union Live (w/ This Is Lorelei)
09/29 – Sterling Heights, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre (w/ This Is Lorelei)
09/30 – Cincinnati, OH @ The Andrew J Brady Music Center (w/ This Is Lorelei)
10/05 – Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy (w/ This Is Lorelei)
10/06 – Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater (w/ This Is Lorelei)
10/08 – Nashville, TN @ The Truth (w/ This Is Lorelei)
Don't Sleep on This
If you're in LA and you've ever wanted to see Bleachers the way they're meant to be experienced, up close, loud, personal, those five Troubadour nights are it. A band this big choosing a room that small is a gift. Five chances to get in the door, but with demand like this, none of them are going to be easy. Get your tickets on Ticketmaster and don't wait around.
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