Shudder To Think announces First Tour in Over a Decade
After two rare, up-close performances at Los Angeles’ Permanent Records Roadhouse this spring – marking their first shows in over a decade – post-hardcore art rock pioneers Shudder to Think are ready to return to the road. This fall, the band will launch their first US tour in 17 years on October 23 in Boston and conclude in Los Angeles on November 11. Along the way they will play in their hometown of Washington, DC on October 24 and New York City on October 25. All dates are listed below and tickets are on-sale here.
Ahead of the tour, the band will head to Chicago for this year’s Riot Fest, performing on September 19. That night, they will also play at the Cobra Lounge as part of the festival’s Late Night Aftershows.
As with their shows this Spring, the lineup will feature Pony Express Record-era bandmates Craig Wedren on lead vocals, Nathan Larson on guitar, and Adam Wadeon drums, alongside Clint Walsh on guitar, and Jherek Bischoff on bass. Watch the band perform “X French T-shirt” live from their spring reunion shows in LA here.
The LA shows were the kind of nights fans talk about for years: two sets in an intimate space packed with diehards, friends, and an enviable guest list of fellow musicians, filmmakers, and comedians. The band tore through a set that spanned their Dischord and Epic Records catalog, and debuted a new song, “Playback,” to an ecstatic crowd. From the stage, Wedren promised, “We are Shudder to Think and we intend to do this more!” – and the upcoming tour now delivers on that vow.
Shudder To Think 2025 US Tour Dates:
9/19/25: Chicago, IL – Riot Fest
9/19/25: Chicago, IL – Cobra Lounge
10/23/25: Boston, MA – Sonia
10/24/25: Washington, DC – Black Cat
10/25/25: New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
11/7/25: Portland, OR – Star Theater
11/8/25: Seattle, WA – Barboza
11/10/25: San Francisco, CA – Brick & Mortar Music Hall
11/11/25: Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room Highland Park
Last year, the band celebrated the 30th anniversary of their groundbreaking 1994 album Pony Express Record – their first album on Epic Records, following several releases on Dischord Records. Pitchfork called the album “a nugget of operatic, sinister, and gleefully self-aware art punk” and “an album that pushed the boundaries of mid-1990s indie rock in new and exhilarating directions,” and Stereogum noted it as “a masterwork of alternate dimension progressive pop.”
By the late-’90s, Shudder to Think dove into the world of scoring films and creating music for soundtracks with the 1998 releases of Jesse Peretz’s First Love, Last Rites; Lisa Cholodenko’s High Art. and the Todd Haynes epic, Velvet Goldmine. Wedren and Larson have gone on to be prolific film and television composers, with Wedren working on Yellowjackets, Wet Hot American Summer, The School Of Rock, Laurel Canyon, and more; and Larson working on Our Idiot Brother, The Skeleton Twins, Juliet, Naked, and High Fidelity (TV series), among others.
