Photo by Greg Cristman
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Death From Above 1979 touring with Incubus and Deftones

by Andrew Sacher

photo: DFA1979 at T5 in 2014 (more by Greg Cristman)
DFA

Dancepunks Death From Above 1979 returned last year with their first album since 2004, and they’ll continue to tour in support of this year. This one’s a bit of a surprising tour though — they’ll be opening for alt-metal bashers Deftones and, uh, Incubus. If you had to make any sense of that, there are at least a few Incubus riffs that rock kinda hard (if you can deal with Brandon Boyd’s howling), but it somehow feels like there had to be a better tourmate for DFA than the band who wrote “Drive.”

The tour, also with The Bots opening, hits the NYC-area on August 4 at PNC Bank Arts Center, August 5 at Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, and August 8 at Susquehanna Bank Center. Tickets for those shows go on sale Friday, April 24 at noon with an Incubus Fan Club presale starting Monday (4/20) at noon and Live Nation/Facebook presales starting Thursday (4/23) at 10 AM.

All dates are listed below…

Death From Above 1979 – “Romantic Rights”

Deftones – “Minerva”

Incubus / Deftones / DFA1979 / The Bots — 2015 Tour Dates
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
Thursday, July 23, 2015 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre (no DFA)
Saturday, July 25, 2015 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
Tuesday, August 4, 2015 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
Wednesday, August 5, 2015 Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Friday, August 7, 2015 Mansfield, MA Xfinity Center*
Saturday, August 8, 2015 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
Sunday, August 9, 2015 Charlotte, NC PNC Music Pavilion
Wednesday, August 12, 2015 Atlanta, GA Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood
Thursday, August 13, 2015 Tampa, FL MIDFLORDIA Credit Union Amphitheatre
Friday, August 14, 2015 West Palm Beach, FL Coral Sky Amphitheatre
Sunday, August 16, 2015 New Orleans, LA Bold Sphere Music at Champion’s Square
Monday, August 17, 2015 Austin, TX Austin360 Amphitheater
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion pres. by Huntsman
Thursday, August 20, 2015 Dallas, TX Gexa Energy Pavilion
Monday, August 24, 2015 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
Sunday, August 30, 2015 San Diego, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre