{"id":481549,"date":"2019-01-30T08:40:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T15:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=786429"},"modified":"2019-01-30T08:40:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T15:40:33","slug":"vampire-weekend-plot-north-american-father-of-the-bride-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/vampire-weekend-plot-north-american-father-of-the-bride-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Vampire Weekend Plot North American \u2018Father of the Bride\u2019 Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/vampire-weekendtour.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/vampire-weekend\/\" id=\"auto-tag_vampire-weekend\" data-tag=\"vampire-weekend\">Vampire Weekend<\/a> will promote their upcoming fourth LP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/vampire-weekend-father-of-the-bride-interview-782719\/\"><em>Father of the Bride<\/em><\/a>, with a massive North American tour. The 35-date trek kicks off May 17th with a slot at Alabama\u2019s Hangout Music Festival and launches in full on June 5th in Toronto, Ontario; after a month-plus break in July, the second leg begins August 16th in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and concludes October 8th in Denver, Colorado.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tickets go on sale to the general public starting Friday, February 8th at noon local time via Live Nation. Registration for a Ticketmaster Verified Fan pre-sale is open through Sunday, February 3rd at noon ET; the sale will run from Tuesday, February 5th at 10 a.m. local time through Thursday, February 7th at 10 p.m. local time. Each online ticket purchased by U.S. residents will include a physical CD copy of <em>Father of the Bride<\/em>, which is tentatively due out in the spring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Vampire Weekend have yet to detail the full track list for the long-awaited album, which follows 2013\u2019s <em>Modern Vampires of the City<\/em>. The band recently previewed the 18-track record with two new songs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/vampire-weekend-new-song-harmony-hall-783785\/\">\u201cHarmony Hall\u201d and \u201c2021,\u201d<\/a> and they plan to issue two additional sets of songs before the LP\u2019s release date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>Father of the Bride<\/em>, the group\u2019s first since the departure of longtime multi-instrumentalist\/producer Rostam Batmanglij, is their first to feature guest vocalists. \u201cWe\u2019ve had three albums of the same voice over and over again,\u201d singer Ezra Koenig <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/vampire-weekend-father-of-the-bride-interview-782719\/\">told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI like the idea of opening up our world a little bit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Vampire Weekend 2019 Tour Dates<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">May 17th \u2013 Gulf Shores, AL @\u00a0Hangout Music Festival<br \/>June 5th \u2013 Toronto, ON @\u00a0RBC Echo Beach<br \/>June 7th \u2013 Indianapolis, IN @\u00a0Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn at White River State Park<br \/>June 8th \u2013 Milwaukee, WI @\u00a0BMO Harris Pavilion<br \/>June 9th \u2013 Minneapolis, MN @\u00a0The Armory<br \/><\/span><span class=\"s1\">June 11th \u2013 Madison, WI @\u00a0The Sylvee<br \/>June 12th \u2013\u00a0 St. Louis, MO @\u00a0Fabulous Fox Theatre<br \/>June 14th \u2013 Cleveland, OH @\u00a0Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica<br \/>June 15th \u2013 Cincinnati, OH @\u00a0PNC Pavilion<br \/>June 16th \u2013 Chicago, IL @\u00a0Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island<br \/>June 18th \u2013 Nashville, TN @\u00a0Ascend Amphitheater<br \/>June 21st \u2013 Raleigh, NC @\u00a0Red Hat Amphitheater<br \/>June 22nd \u2013 Charlotte, NC @\u00a0Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre<br \/>June 23rd \u2013 Dover, DE @\u00a0Firefly Festival<br \/>August 16th \u2013 Oklahoma City,\u00a0OK @\u00a0The Criterion<br \/>August 17th \u2013 Houston, TX @\u00a0White Oak Music Hall<br \/>August 18th \u2013 Dallas, TX @\u00a0The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory<br \/>August 20th \u2013 Austin, TX @\u00a0ACL Live<br \/>August 21st \u2013 Austin, TX @\u00a0ACL Live<br \/>August 24th \u2013 Miami, FL @ James L. Knight Center<br \/>August 25th \u2013 St. Augustine, FL @\u00a0St. Augustine Amphitheatre<br \/>August 27th \u2013 Atlanta, GA @\u00a0Fox Theatre<br \/>August 30th \u2013 Norfolk, VA @\u00a0Ted\u00a0Constant Convocation Center<br \/>September 3rd \u2013 Boston, MA @\u00a0Agganis Arena<br \/>September 4th \u2013 Philadelphia, PA @\u00a0Mann Center for the Performing Arts<br \/>September 6th \u2013 New York, NY @\u00a0Madison Square Garden<br \/><\/span><span class=\"s1\">September 8th \u2013 Montreal, QC @ MTELUS<br \/>September 25th \u2013 Vancouver, BC @\u00a0Festival Lawn at Deer Lake Park<br \/>September 27th \u2013 Seattle, WA @ WaMu Theater<br \/>September 28th \u2013 Portland, OR @\u00a0McMenamins Edgefield<br \/>October 1st \u2013 San Francisco,\u00a0CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium<br \/><\/span><span class=\"s1\">October 2nd \u2013 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl<br \/><\/span><span class=\"s1\">October 3rd \u2013 San Diego, CA @\u00a0CalCoast Credit Union Open Air Theatre at SDSU<br \/>October 6th \u2013 Salt Lake City, UT @\u00a0The Complex<br \/>October 8th \u2013 Denver, CO @\u00a0Red Rocks Amphitheatre<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/vampire-weekend-north-american-father-of-the-bride-tour-786429\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vampire Weekend will promote their upcoming fourth LP, Father of the Bride, with a massive North American tour. The 35-date trek kicks off May 17th with a slot at Alabama\u2019s Hangout Music Festival and launches in full on June 5th in Toronto, Ontario; after a month-plus break in July, the second leg begins August 16th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 08:13:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}