RISE AGAINST ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN SUMMER HEADLINE TOUR
Santa Monica, California, April 6, 2015 – Rise Against will head out on a North American summer headline tour in support of their seventh studio album The Black Market. The tour kicks off July 17th at the FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island in Chicago, Illinois and concludes on August 16th at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, Colorado. Killswitch Engage and letlive will support on all dates. Tickets for most shows go on sale later this week, visit www.riseagainst.com for on sale dates.
For all the U.S. dates on this summer tour Rise Against is working with Revolutions Per Minute (RPM) to donate $0.50 per ticket to environmental and civil rights non-profit organizations. Rise Against will announce these donations once they’ve happened so check the band’s website for updates.
Rise Against released their seventh studio album The Black Market on Interscope Records July 15, 2014. The set debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart and landed at #1 on the iTunes Alternative Album Chart. The album also debuted at #1 in Germany, Australia and Canada where it has already achieved gold status.
After 16 years and six incendiary albums, Rise Against has become one of the most successful, challenging and revered punk rock bands on the planet. Rise Against have sold six million albums globally across their catalog – with 2011’s Endgame debuting at number one in Germany and Canada, and number two on the U.S. Billboard album chart.
Rise Against will play some festival shows before kicking off their summer headlining tour including Carolina Rebellion, Beale Street Music Festival, Rock in Rio Las Vegas, Rock on the Range and Rock the Park. For a complete list of tour dates visit www.riseagainst.com
Below is a list of Rise Against’s North American summer headline tour featuring support from Killswitch Engage and letlive:
July 17 Chicago, IL FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
July 19 Toronto, Ontario TD Echo Beach
July 21 Montreal, QC Olympia de Montreal
July 22 Philadelphia, PA Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing
July 24 Boston, MA Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
July 25 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE
July 26 Asbury Park, NJ Stone Pony Summer Stage
July 28 New York, NY Central Park Summer Stage
July 29 Silver Springs, MD The Fillmore
July 31 Milwaukee WI Eagles Ballroom
August 1 Minneapolis, MN The Cabooze
August 2 Winnipeg, MB Burton Cummings Theatre
August 4 Calgary, AB Big Four
August 5 Edmonton, AB Shaw Conference Centre
August 7 Seattle, WA ShowBox SoDo
August 9 Portland, OR Roseland Theater
August 11 San Francisco, CA The Masonic
August 13 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Palladium
August 16 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
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