American punk rock band Bad Religion has announced that they will be touring this summer with The Lawrence Arms, Dave Hause and The Explosion in the E.U., U.K. and North America. The band began the tour last night in France and will be continuing across the E.U. and U.K. with Dave Hause + The Mermaids, before continuing with The Lawrence arms in North America starting in June, and featuring in two special shows in August with The Explosion. The tour is following the release of Bad Religion’s new album, Age of Unreason, their first studio album since True North in 2013. Brett Gurewitz, guitarist and songwriter for Bad Religion said of the album: “Today…values of truth, freedom, equality, and tolerance are in real danger. This record is our response.”

Bad Religion and their new album exude influences of both 1970s rock and ideology. Vocalist Greg Graffin once stated, “Faith in your partner, your fellow men, your friends, is very important, because without it there’s no mutual component to your relationship, and relationships are important. So, faith plays an important role, but faith in people you don’t know, faith in religious or political leaders or even people on stages, people who are popular in the public eye, you shouldn’t have faith in those people. You should listen to what they have to say and use it.” The band is notoriously critical of the current political climate and is especially vocal about it in their new album, in which they urge the listener to “Do the Paranoid Style.”

Bad Religion’s summer tour will be a tribute to the band’s classic hits and new album alike and will be their 27th official tour since the band’s conception in 1980.

Bad Religion — 2019 Tour Dates

5.8 La Nef Open Air Angouleme, France #
5.10 Saarlandhalle Saarbrücken, Germany #
5.11 Oliver Arena Würzburg, Germany #
5.12 Messequartier Dornbirn, Austria #
5.13 Wizink Madrid, Spain #
5.14 Altice Arena – Sala Tejo Lisbon, Portugal #
5.17 Poble Español Barcelona, Spain #
5.18 Iradier Arena Vitoria-gasteiz, Spain #
5.21 Arena Vienna, Austria #
5.22 Effenaar Eindhoven, Netherlands #
5.23 Lokschuppen Bielefeld, Germany #
5.25 Slamdunk Festival Leeds, United Kingdom #
5.26 Slamdunk Festival Hatfield, United Kingdom #
6.2 Camp Anarchy, Thornville, OH *
6.29 Warped Festival, Atlantic City, NJ *
7.1 The Sylvee, Madison, WI *
7.2 First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN *
7.4 Burton Cummings Theater, Winnipeg, MB *
7.5 O’Brians Event Center, Saskatoon, SK *
7.6 Punk in Drublic, Edmonton, AB *
7.9 Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO *
7.10 The Union, Salt Lake City, UT *
7.13 Punk in Drublic, Vancouver, BC *
7.14 Showbox SoDoSeattle, WA *
7.16 Knitting Factory, Spokane, WA *
7.17 Knitting Factory, Boise, ID *
7.19 Majectic Ventura Theatre, Ventura, CA *
7.20 Warped Festival, Mountain View, CA *
7.25 Phoenix Concert Hall, Toronto, ON *
7.26 Montral ‘77, Montreal, QC *
7.27 Bold Point Park, East Providence, RI *
7.30 Aura, Portland, ME *
7.31 House of Blues, Boston, MA *
8.2 Webster Hall, New York, NY %
8.3 Brookyln Steel, New York, NY %
8.4 Roxian, Pittsburgh, PA / Roxian *
8.6 Anthology, Rochester, NY *
8.7 Royal Oak Music Hall, Royal Oak, MI *
8.9 Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL *
8.10 Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH *
8.11 Fillmore Silver Spring, Silver Spring, MD *
8.13 The Ritz, Aug Raleigh, NC *
8.14 The Masquerade, Atlanta, GA *
8.16 Mandalay Bay Psycho Festival, Las Vegas, NV *
9.21-22 Sea.Hear.Now, Asbury Park, NJ *
10.12 Aftershock, Sacramento, CA *

# – shows with Dave Hause + The Mermaids

* – shows with The Lawrence Arms

% – shows with The Explosion

Photo credit: Sharon Alagna