Brand New announce a 16-date tour built around The Devil and God's 20th anniversary
The Long Island band's first full run since its 2017 hiatus opens September 29 in Nashville and closes November 14 in Phoenix.
Maverick Jackson
July 1, 2026Brand New are going back out behind the record their fans have spent twenty years calling their best.
The Long Island band announced a 16-date North American tour built around The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me, the 2006 album that turns 20 this year. The run opens September 29 at The Pinnacle in Nashville and closes November 14 at Arizona Financial Theatre in Phoenix, with stops in Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta, Denver and Las Vegas along the way. A presale ran June 24, and tickets went to the general public on June 26.
The album they are actually touring
The Devil and God is the reason people still argue about this band. Brand New arrived in 2001 as a pop-punk act on Your Favorite Weapon, got sharper and more literate on 2003's Deja Entendu, and then made a third record that sounds like a different group. The hooks moved underground. The guitars go quiet and then turn violent in the same bar.
"Sowing Season (Yeah)" opens on a near whisper before it detonates. "Jesus Christ" rides a slow, seasick chord change while Jesse Lacey sings about the fear of dying and means it. "Degausser" and "You Won't Know" keep swinging between a hush and a scream, and there is tape hiss and doubt baked right into the mix. It is the record that let a band from a maligned scene get taken seriously, and it has aged into the one everyone reaches for first.
Playing it at 20 is the pitch. The band has not confirmed whether it will run the album front to back, but the framing does not leave much mystery about where the setlist lives.
The full run
| Date | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 29 | Nashville, TN | The Pinnacle |
| Oct. 3 | Chicago, IL | Aragon Ballroom |
| Oct. 6 | Detroit, MI | Fox Theatre |
| Oct. 9 | Toronto, ON | Coca-Cola Coliseum |
| Oct. 12 | Brooklyn, NY | Barclays Center |
| Oct. 16 | Philadelphia, PA | TD Pavilion at Highmark Mann |
| Oct. 18 | Boston, MA | Roadrunner |
| Oct. 22 | Atlanta, GA | Fox Theatre |
| Oct. 25 | Hollywood, FL | Hard Rock Live |
| Oct. 28 | Independence, MO | Cable Dahmer Arena |
| Oct. 30 | Grand Prairie, TX | Texas Trust CU Theatre |
| Nov. 2 | Denver, CO | Mission Ballroom |
| Nov. 6 | Las Vegas, NV | The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas |
| Nov. 7 | Anaheim, CA | Honda Center |
| Nov. 11 | San Francisco, CA | Bill Graham Civic Auditorium |
| Nov. 14 | Phoenix, AZ | Arizona Financial Theatre |
The years off
The current lineup is Lacey on vocals and rhythm guitar, Vincent Accardi on lead, Garrett Tierney on bass and Brian Lane on drums. That same four-piece played what looked like its last show in 2017, in Dallas, before the band went dark. The hiatus followed 2017 allegations of sexual misconduct against Lacey, which surfaced during that fall's wider reckoning across the music industry and kept the group off the road for years.
The comeback has been slow and mostly unannounced. Brand New played a secret set in Nashville in 2024, then booked a handful of reunion shows in 2025, including a night in Dallas, the same city where they had walked away. That set ran 18 songs and included the live debuts of "Waste" and "Batter Up." The fall tour is the first time the reunion looks like a real campaign rather than a one-off.
The announcement carried a caption reading "7 years + 13 of The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me." The math lands on the album's 20th birthday, and fans on the band's subreddit read the 13 as its dozen tracks plus the bonus cut "Luca (Reprisal Version)."