Turn-of-the-millennium indie favorites Grandaddy have announced their first North American tour in 20 years.
The fall trek will find the group not only supporting their 2024 album, Blu Wav, but celebrating the 25th anniversary of their classic 2000 album, The Sophtware Slump. The tour kicks off Sept. 11 at the Observatory North Park in San Diego and wraps Oct. 18 at Union Transfer in Philadelphia. Tickets for all shows will go on sale Friday, May 9 at 10 a.m. local time, with full info on the band’s website.
Pedro the Lion will provide support for most of the first half of the tour, while Greg Freeman will open during most of the second half. Openers for Grandaddy’s Sept. 18 show in Seattle and Oct. 17 show in Washington, D.C. will be announced at a later date.
Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle wrote and recorded much of The Sophtware Slump alone with — as legend has it — music equipment he had to return to the electronics store before the refund window expired. Arriving in May 2000, the album perfectly captured the inflection point of the early internet era as digital and human worlds, past and present, began to intersect.
In an interview with Rolling Stone in 2020, Lytle even joked about predicting Google Earth on the song, “Miner at the Dial-a-View,” which tells the story of a laborer digging for ore on a distant planet. “He goes into a bar and puts money in [a machine that resembles tabletop video poker] and punches in the coordinates on Earth of his house, so he’s looking at his house and he sees this other dude pulling into the driveway and hanging out with his wife,” Lytle said. “So that’s what the song is about, and [years later] I was just like, ‘That’s fucking Google Earth.’ So maybe somebody working at Google is a Grandaddy fan and owes me some money.”
As for their most recent project, Grandaddy released Blu Wav last February, with the album marking the group’s first since LP of all new material since 2017’s Last Place.
Grandaddy 2025 Tour Dates
Sept. 11 – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park (with Pedro the Lion)
Sept. 12 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre (with Pedro the Lion)
Sept. 13 – Pomona, CA @ The Glass House (with Pedro the Lion)
Sept. 14 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy + Harriet’s (with Pedro the Lion)
Sept. 16 – San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom (with Pedro the Lion)
Sept. 18 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre (opener TBD)
Sept. 20 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall (with Pedro the Lion)
Oct. 8 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue (with Greg Freeman)
Oct. 9 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall (with Greg Freeman)
Oct. 10 – Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall (with Greg Freeman)
Oct. 11 – Toronto, ON @ The Danforth Music Hall (with Greg Freeman)
Oct. 13 – Montreal, QC @ Le Studio TD (with Greg Freeman)
Oct. 14 – Boston, MA @ Royale (with Greg Freeman)
Oct. 15 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel (with Greg Freeman)
Oct. 17 – Washington, DC @ The Howard Theatre (opener TBD)
Oct. 18 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer (with Greg Freeman)
