Tue, 10/16/2012 - 10:12 am

On the heels of a triumphant pair of performances on Saturday Night Live, Passion Pit announce their first of many 2013 tour dates:  a headline performance on February 8th at New York City’s Madison Square Garden with very special guests Matt & Kim.  With a capacity of over 13,000, the Madison Square Garden show will be the bands largest headlining show to date.  Tickets for the MSG show will be available via presale on Thursday, October 18th, with the public on-sale set for Friday the 19th.  For more details, visit Bowery Presents.

Passion Pit is currently in the midst of a U.S. headline tour that will continue through the end of 2012.  The band will complete their run of three sold-out shows at Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club today, before continuing southeast for sold-out shows in Raleigh and Charleston. This tour also sees the band playing two nights at Minneapolis’ First Avenue, along with twelve other headline dates across the U.S. in October/November. After a quick trip to the UK and Mexico, the band finishes the year with a run of radio shows in December.  A full list of U.S. dates is included below.

Passion Pit returned to the stage in September with a co-headline performance at the fabled Hollywood Bowl, about which Variety Magazine raved, “Angelakos' voice is as divisive as it is stunning to behold -- a helium-soaked sonic weapon that is frequently pushed to the very apex of its register. On this evening, he was in top form, hitting notes with precision and infusing his melodies with a desperate emotional intensity.”

Four months after the bands #4 Billboard chart debut with Gossamer, Passion Pit is seeing their first top 10 Alternative chart hit with “Take A Walk” (which currently is sitting at # 6.)  Additionally, Passion Pit made their first TV appearance in support of Gossamer performing “Take A Walk” and the infectious album cut “Carried Away”  on Saturday Night Live. Both tracks, along with the album, saw a spike in sales after the bands energetic performance this past weekend  showing that in conjunction with prominent features and collaborations over the months - including including a synch in Obama’s 100 Days Campaign, an original track on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 soundtrack and inclusion in the Brooks Brothers 2012 Fall Catalog – Passion Pit are continuing to grow strong with Gossamer; a dichotomous masterwork bound by the precise vision of wunderkind Michael Angelakos.

Passion Pit on tour:

10/14                     Washington, DC                9:30 Club  SOLD  OUT

10/15                     Washington, DC                9:30 Club SOLD  OUT

10/16                     Washington, DC                9:30 Club SOLD  OUT

10/18                     Raleigh, NC                         Disco Rodeo SOLD  OUT

10/19                     Charleston, SC                   Music Farm  SOLD  OUT

10/20                     Atlanta, GA                        Masquerade Music Park

10/22                     Lake Buena Vista, FL       House of Blues

10/23                     Hollywood, FL                    ArtsPark Amphitheater

10/24                     Gainesville, FL                   Stephen O’Connor Center

10/26                     Oxford, MS                        The Lyric Oxford

10/27                     Memphis, TN                     Minglewood Hall

10/29                     Minneapolis, MN             First Avenue         SOLD  OUT

10/30                     Minneapolis, MN             First Avenue

11/1                       Milwaukee, WI                 Riverside Theater

11/2                       Royal Oak, MI                    Royal Oak Music Hall SOLD  OUT

11/3                       Columbus, OH                   The LC Pavilion SOLD  OUT

11/4                       Covington, KY                    The Madison Theater

11/6                       Pittsburgh, PA                   Stage AE

11/28                     Providence, RI                   Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel  (WBRU radio show)

11/29                     Philadelphia, PA               Liacouras Center

11/30                     Wilmington, NC                North Point Park  (WRMR radio show)

12/3                       Portland, OR                      Crystal Ballroom (KNRK radio show)

12/4                       Seattle, WA                        Key Arena (KNDD radio show) 

12/7                       San Diego, CA                    Viejas Arena (91x radio show) 

12/13                     Tulsa, OK                             Brady Theater (KMYZ Holiday Show)

12/14                     Grand Prairie, TX              Verizon Theatre (KDGE  radio show) 

2/8                         New York, NY                    Madison Square Garden

Mon, 11/05/2012 - 10:07 am

With 2013 around the corner, Passion Pit is excited to announce a headlining North American tour in February and March with special guests Matt & Kim. The tour starts on February 5th in Norfolk, VA, three nights before the bands previously announced headlining debut at Madison Square Garden. The tour continues with a hometown show in Boston, MA on February 9th at the Agganis Arena, before heading west for theatre and arena shows in Denver, Salt Lake City and more – making this the band's largest headlining tour to date! See the full list of dates below.The band recently completed a three night stand at Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club, where the Washington Times raved that “Passion Pit is the personification of pop music.” While in D.C., Michael Angelakos and Ian Hultquist from the band stopped by the NPR offices to perform a Tiny Desk Concert. After a triumphant return to the stage this fall, Passion Pit will finish out this year with a small European tour and a series of U.S. radio dates.Passion Pit is featured on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 soundtrack, with an original track titled “Where I Come From.” The song is featured in the beginning of the film (out Nov. 16th), and you can preview it now on iTunes.Four months after the bands #4 Billboard chart debut with Gossamer, Passion Pit is seeing their first top 5 Alternative chart hit with “Take A Walk.” Passion Pit made their first TV appearance in support of Gossamer last month performing “Take A Walk” and the infectious album cut “Carried Away”  on Saturday Night Live. Additionally, the band is the face of Brooks Brothers 2012 fall line.Passion Pit 2013 tour dates:2/5       Norfolk, VA               NorVa*2/8       New York, NY           Madison Square Garden*2/9       Boston, MA                Agganis Arena*2/12     Portland, ME              State Theater*2/15     Montreal, QC              Metropolis*2/16     Toronto, ON               Kool Haus*2/18     Rochester, NY            Main Street Armory*2/23     Madison, WI               Orpheum*2/25     Columbia, MO            Jesse Auditorium*2/28     Ames, IA                    Hilton Coliseum at Iowa State University*3/1       Denver, CO                 First Bank Center*3/2       Salt Lake City, UT      Complex**all dates are with Matt & KimFan presales for the shows start Wednesday, November 7th at 12pm local time, with the public on-sale kicking off Friday, November 9th for most shows.  For more info and tickets, visit http://passionpitmusic.com/tour Additional dates for this tour will be announced in the upcoming weeks.

Tue, 07/16/2013 - 11:56 am

A year out from the release of their critically-acclaimed  sophomore album Gossamer, Passion Pit have announced a massive fall headlining tour across North America, including festival appearances at the First City Festival, Boston Calling, Austin City Limits and North Coast Music Festival.  The tour also includes two shows at New York City's Pier 36 on September 6th and 7th, where Passion Pit will offer discounted tickets to fans that purchased seats to the band's sold-out February performance at Madison Square Garden, but were unable to attend due to a blizzard. Proceeds from these specially-priced tickets will be donated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. 

The tour will feature special guests The Joy Formidable on a number of dates beginning September 29th, with stops in Los Angeles (where Passion Pit will headline the fabled Greek Theatre), Atlanta, New Orleans, Salt Lake City, San Diego and many other cities throughout October and November.  A full list of dates are included below-- tickets go onsale beginning Friday, July 19th, with a special fan presale kicking off on Wednesday, July 17th at 10am at PassionPitMusic.com.  All fans that purchase presale tickets will have the chance to enter to win a meet and greet with the band at the show. Pres-sale link: http://bit.ly/pasionpit13

Picked by Relix Magazine as one of their “Summer Stars” on the festival circuit, Passion Pit returned to Bonnaroo for a second time, where they played what Billboard exclaimed was a “show-stopping performance of "Take a Walk," with the audience belting the titular lyrics along to the chorus.”  After Bonnaroo the band hopped over to Nashville to record a VEVO Presents: Unexpected Covers session.  The session is live now on VEVO and includes performances of “Take A Walk”, “Carried Away”, and a cover of FUN.’s “Carry On.”

Washington Times raved that “Passion Pit is the personification of pop music.”  A year after its release, Gossamer has yielded a gold single in “Take A Walk,” while the band has fulfilled a dream in selling out a headline show at Madison Square Garden, performed on Saturday Night Live and continued touring in the largest venues of their career.  Passion Pit is the studio project of Michael Angelakos, and is joined onstage by Ian Hultquist, Jeff Apruzzese, Xander Singh, and Chris Hartz.

Passion Pit on tour:

8/10       Somerset, WI                                    Summer Set Music Festival

8/24       Monterey, CA                                   First City Festival

8/30       Chicago, IL                                           North Coast Music Festival

8/31       Calgary, Canada                                X-Fest

9/1         Edmonton, Canada                          Sonic Boom Festival

9/3         Saskatoon, Canada                          The Odeon

9/4         Winnipeg, Canada                            Garrick Centre

9/6         New York, NY                                     Pier 26

9/7         New York, NY                                     Pier 26

9/8         Boston, MA                                        Boston Calling Festival

9/29       Charlottesville, VA                           nTelos Wireless Pavilion ^

10/1       Ashville, NC                                        Orange Peel ^

10/2       Winston-Salem, NC                         Ziggys ^

10/3       Birmingham, AL                                Iron City ^

10/5       Austin, TX                                            Austin City Limits

10/7       Wilmington, NC                                Greenfield Lake Amphitheatre ^

10/8       North Myrtle Beach, SC                 House of Blues ^

10/10     Atlanta, GA                                        Masquerade Music Park ^

10/11     New Orleans, LA                              The Civic Theatre ^

10/12       Austin, TX                                         Austin City Limits

10/15     Broomfield, CO                                 1st Bank Center ^

10/16     Salt Lake City, UT                             The Complex ^

10/18     Spokane, WA                                    Knitting Factory Concert House ^

10/19     Portland, OR                                      Theater of The Clouds

10/21     Sacramento, CA                               The Theatre at Sleep Train Arena ^

10/22     San Diego, CA                                    Open Air Theatre ^

10/25     Los Angeles, CA                                Greek Theatre ^

10/26     Santa Barbara, CA                            Santa Barbara Bowl ^

10/27     Las Vegas, NV                                   Life is Beautiful Festival 

10/29     Kansas City, MO                               The Midland by AMC ^

10/31     Fairfax, VA                                          Patriot Center ^

11/1       Atlantic City, NJ                                 Showboat ^

11/3       Norfolk, VA                                        The Norva ^

11/8       St. Augustine, FL                              St. Augustine Amphitheater *

11/9       Tampa, FL                                            Coastline Festival

11/10     West Palm Beach, FL                      Coastline Festival

 

 ^ With The Joy Formidable

 * With Two Door Cinema Club, The Joy Formidable and St. Lucia