Photo credit: Alexa Viscius
American Football have previewed LP4 with the release of 8-minute epic ‘Bad Moons’. Originally written as two separate reacks, the first section is built around a sample of a gentle harp strum as Mike Kinsella ponders over past misdemeanours and the hurt they’ve caused: ‘Surprise, I’ve been so many boys in this trenchcoat. Ask my ex-wife, she met Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’.
As the song heads past the halfway point, Mike’s confessions become increasingly eye-opening and intimate as the instrumentation gets ever more fraught, fuzzy and darkly tinged: ‘I lost my mind in the dark, I told all my lies in the dark, I poured my drinks in the dark, I explored new kinks in the dark, I found every vein in the dark, I hid my shame in the dark, I got turned on in the dark, I was so far gone in the dark’.
2026 Tour Dates
15/05 – Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall *
17/05 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Block Party
18/05 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Hall *
19/05 – Seattle, WA @ Moore Theater *
20/05 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom *
22/05 – San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom *
23/05 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern *
24/05 – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park * SOLD OUT
19/06 – Milan, Italy @ Alcatraz !
20/06 – Stuttgart, Germany @ Im Wizeman !
21/06 – Cologne, Germany @ Die Kantine !
23/06 – Brussels, Belgium @ La Madeleine !
24/06 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso !
26/06 – Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy !
27/06 – London, UK @ O2 Kentish Forum !
28/06 – London, UK @ O2 Kentish Forum ! NEW DATE
08/07 – Boston, MA @ Royale #
09/07 – New York, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount #
10/07 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall # NEW VENUE
11/07 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club #
14/07 – Richmond, VA @ The National #
15/07 – Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel # SOLD OUT
16/07 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse #
26/07 – Niigata, JP @ Fuji Rock Festival
07/08 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues ^
08/08 – Toronto, ON @ History ^ (New Venue)
09/08 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Roxian Theatre ^
10/08 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall ^
12/08 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works ^
13/08 – Indianapolis, IN @ Deluxe at Old National Centre ^
14/08 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed ^
15/08 – Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom ^
16/08 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue ^
Mei Semones
! Marconi Union
IAN SWEET
^ Afternoon Bike Ride
In response to the deadly violence and intimidation around the country provoked by ICE, American Football will be partnering with PLUS1 to donate $£1/€1 from every ticket sold across the tour to Safe Passage International & The Illinois Coalition for Immigration & Refugee Rights; two essential organizations defending immigrant rights and supporting deportees, migrants and refugees.
