Nine Inch Nails touring with Soundgarden, Death Grips
This month marks the 20th anniversary of two landmark alternative rock albums: Soundgarden‘s Superunknown and Nine Inch Nails‘ The Downward Spiral. And to mark the occasion, both bands are going on tour together. Opening the tour is Death Grips, whose most recent album is 2013’s Government Plates.
On some level, a Soundgarden/Nine Inch Nails tour makes perfect sense. On another, it’s a little baffling given how prone Trent Reznor is to giving Chris Cornell shit. Then again, maybe they’re just like the North American version of the Gallagher brothers? We’ll see how this works out. However it turns out, this should be a pretty amazing summer of classic alternative music. Check out the dates and concert poster below.
Nine Inch Nails Soundgarden tour:
7/19 Las Vegas, NV – Planet Hollywood
7/21 Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Ampitheatre
7/24 Tinley Park, IL – First Midwest Bank Ampitheatre
7/26 Clarkston, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre
7/27 Toronto, Ontario – Molson Canadian Ampitheatre
7/29 Mansfield, MA – XFINITY Center
7/30 Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center
8/1 Wantagh, NY – Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre
8/2 Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
8/4 Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live
8/5 Virginia Beach, VA – Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach
8/7 Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavillion
8/8 Atlanta, GA – Aaron’s Ampitheater at Lakewood
8/10 West Palm Beach, FL – Cruzan Ampitheatre
8/11 Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Ampitheatre
8/14 Austin, TX – Austin360 Ampitheater
8/16 Woodlands, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion
8/17 Dallas, TX – Gexa Energy Pavillion
8/19 Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Ampitheater
8/21 Chula Vista, CA – Sleep Train Ampitheatre
8/22 Irvine, CA – Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre
8/24 Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Ampitheater
8/25 Hollywood, CA – Hollywood Bowl
(all dates with Death Grips)
Jeff Terich is the founder and editor of Treble. He's been writing about music for 20 years and has been published at American Songwriter, Bandcamp Daily, Reverb, Spin, Stereogum, uDiscoverMusic, VinylMePlease and some others that he's forgetting right now. He's still not tired of it.