Pop-punk heads, we’ve won.
Paramore is officially back. After teasing fans throughout 2022 about its long-awaited comeback, the beloved veteran pop-punk band has announced that it’ll be hitting the road to play a series of intimate concerts this fall throughout the U.S. and Canada.
The special tour will kick off in October in Bakersfield, CA, and will take the band to intimate theater venues throughout the midwest, Canada, and the South, with festival appearances scheduled throughout. The tour route largely sticks to a midwest itinerary, hitting mid-sized theaters in places like Omaha, NE, Bonner Springs, KS, and Cincinnati, OH. It originally didn’t include plans to stop at big cities like New York City or Los Angeles. However, on Sept. 12, the band added two shows at L.A.
tour. The band has since been on a break of sorts, though they began teasing a comeback in 2021. “Paramore can’t be ‘on a break’ forever now can we?” Hayley Williams wrote in a newsletter to her fans back then. Months later, the band officially confirmed that they were working on their sixth studio album, and that the sound of the projectNo details have been released about the album or music yet, but it’s likely the band will debut new music during their upcoming shows.
On July 22, Paramore announced that they will be donating a part of their proceeds from the tour to select abortion clinics and funds in the U.S. and Canada. “We are outraged by the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe V. Wade, ending federal constitutional right to abortion, affecting millions across the country,” the band wrote in a statement to Instagram.
A dollar of every ticket sold for their U.S. fall 2022 shows will be donated to ARC Southeast, while $1 of every ticket sold for their Bonner Springs, Kansas show will be donated specifically to the Kansas Abortion Fund. A dollar of every ticket sold for their Toronto, ON show will be donated to Women’s Shelters Canada.