Rainbow Kitten Surprise brings their Love Hate Music Box Tour to Bridgeport
Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater • 500 Broad St, Bridgeport, CT 06604
September 18, 2024
Tickets go on sale on June 7, 2024 via www.rksband.com
Love Hate Music Box Tour
Returning to the road this fall, genre-bending live sensations Rainbow Kitten Surprise share the dates for their biggest North American headline run yet, the Love Hate Music Box Tour. This jaunt notably sees the band level up to an arena headliner with their biggest ticketed shows ever including a show at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater in Bridgeport, CT, on September 18, 2024.
The tour notably includes two evenings in Los Angeles, CA on November 14-15 at The Palladium and a stop at Radio City Music Hall in New York, NY before finally coming to a close on November 25 at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, CA.
Renowned for the inimitable stage presence, electrifying energy, and unforgettable sets, the Love Hate Music BoxTour promises to be a must-see event for diehard fans and new converts alike!
Various presales launch on June 4, while general on-sale commences on June 7 at 10 am. Presale for The Music Box Members goes from June 4 at 10 am through June 6 at 10 pm, while email list presale goes from June 4at 12pm local through June 6 at 10 pm local.
Making the most of their time on the road by giving back nightly, Rainbow Kitten Surprise has partnered with Plus1 so that $1 per ticket goes towards local organizations delivering mental health treatment, access to care, and support forthe LGBTQ+ community.
Right out of the gate, the record earned widespread acclaim. PASTE extensively profiled the band and proclaimed, “This new era of Rainbow Kitten Surprise is all about rebirth,” while Consequence featured an extensive deep-dive track-by-track. Touting it on the weekly “New Music Roundup,” V Magazine raved, “Rainbow Kitten Surprise is backwith their first full-length album in six years – and it’s proven to be well worth the wait.”
Not to mention, Billboard named it among “Queer Jams of the Week” and applauded it as “a sprawling 22-track LP that throws the band’s established sound out the window, aiming for bolder, brighter sounds in pop, rock, dance and Americana, all while maintaining some of the sharpest songwriting in the group’s history courtesy of frontperson ElaMelo.”
Right now, the group are in the midst of their Tiny Music Box Tour, a run of underplay shows that feature differing set lists each night, highlighting material from LOVE HATE MUSIC BOX alongside fan-favorites from throughout the band’s beloved discography. Due to overwhelming demand, additional shows had been added to their previously announced 2-night stands in Boston, Austin, and Denver – full routing below. Once again, they also joined forces with Plus 1 to donate $1 per ticket to support organizations delivering mental health treatment and access to care.
The last time the world received a complete body of work from the band was in 2018. Since that time, the North Carolina-bred quartet and longtime friends weathered unimaginable ups and downs. Through it all, their friendship and creative bond only strengthened, empowering them to fearlessly break the mold like never before with 22 tracks stitched together by blood, sweat, tears, and a willingness to sonically push the envelope. At a crossroads between psychedelia, alternative, rock, electronic, country, and hip-hop, RKS reign supreme. Produced by Daniel Tashian (Kacey Musgraves) along with Konrad Snyder (Noah Kahan) and lead singer Ela Melo, the much-anticipated album ponders life’s ups and downs, and traces the turbulent trajectory of relationships, painted out loud in hues of pop, electronic, rock, and hip-hop. As such, it finds the musicians at their most vulnerable, vibrant, and vital.
Simultaneously, Ela Melo shares her story without filter. Walking through flames, she endured mental health turbulence, overcame writer’s block, public tumult, and more to make an artistic statement of a caliber rarely heard in this day-and-age—though it may be more necessary now than ever.
You can hear the fire of the band’s rebirth loud and clear on the new single “Meticulous.” Uneasy guitar underlines an evocative and emotionally charged vocal as she intones, “I would have been meticulous if I had known wishes came true.”
Love Hate Music Box Tour Dates
September 9 – Indianapolis, IN – Everwise Amphitheater
September 10 -Columbus, OH – Kemba Live!
September 12 – New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall
September 14 -Philadelphia, PA – TD Pavilion at the Mann
September 16 – Shelburne, VT – The Green at Shelburne Museum
September 17 -Portland, ME – Thompson’s Point
September 18 – Bridgeport, CT –Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater
September 20 – Cooperstown, NY – Brewery Ommegang
September 21 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage
September 22 – Detroit, MI – Masonic Temple Theatre
September 24 – Cleveland, OH – Jacobs Pavilion
September 25 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
September 27 – Kansas City, MO – Starlight Theatre
September 28 – Chicago, IL – University of Illinois at Chicago – Credit Union 1 Arena
September 29 -Minneapolis, MN – The Armory
October 16 – Washington, DC – The Anthem
October 18 – Atlanta, GA – Gas South Arena
October 19 – Nashville, TN – Ascend Amphitheater
October 20 – Huntsville, AL – Orion Amphitheater
October 22 – Orlando, FL- Hard Rock Live
October 23 – St Augustine, FL – The Saint Augustine Amphitheatre
October 25 – Charlotte,NC – Spectrum Center
October 26 – Raleigh, NC – PNC Arena
November 8 – Houston, TX -713 Music Hall
November 9 – Dallas, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
November 11 – Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial Theatre
November 12 – San Diego, CA – The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park
November 14 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
November 15 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
November 18 – Salt Lake City,UT – The Great Saltair
November 19 – Boise, ID – ExtraMile Arena
November 20 – Portland, OR – Theater Of The Clouds
November 22 – Vancouver, BC – Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre
November 23 – Seattle, WA -WaMu Theater
November 25 – San Francisco, CA – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Rainbow Kitten Surprise
As if channeling another dimension where genres simply don’t exist, Rainbow Kitten Surprise finds harmony in unpredictability – weaving together lyrical poetry, hummable melodies, and a rush of instrumental eccentricities. Nowboasting over 2 billion global streams across platforms, the band first began building their devoted fanbase withindependent albums SEVEN + MARY(2013) and RKS (2015). In May 2024, Rainbow Kitten Surprise released their first album in six years, LOVE HATE MUSIC BOX. Produced by Daniel Tashian (Kacey Musgraves) along with Konrad Snyder (Noah Kahan) and lead singer Ela Melo, the record is the band’s most vulnerable project yet, and has been met with critical praise fromBillboard, Consequence, Paste, and more. LOVE HATE MUSIC BOX follows the band’s breakout full-length debutfor Elektra, HOW TO: FRIEND, LOVE, FREEFALL, which arrived in April 2018. Produced by GRAMMY® Award-winner Jay Joyce (Cage The Elephant, Lainey Wilson), the album featured RIAA-certified Platinum single “It’s Called: Freefall,” earned widespread praise from Billboard, TIME, Vice, and NPR, and saw the band make several national television appearances, including performances on “CBS Saturday Morning,” “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” and PBS’s “Austin City Limits.” After gracing the bills of Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and Osheaga, to name a few, RKS moved 80,000 tickets of their own on the sold-out 2018/2019 Friend, Love, Freefall Tour.
Following a sold-out run of underplay shows in May, Rainbow Kitten Surprise are heading back on the road this fall for the LOVE HATE MUSIC BOX Tour, which notably marks their largest tour to date, including multiple arena dates, astop at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, and two nights at the iconic Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.
Rainbow Kitten Surprise is: Ela Melo (she/her; lead vocals), Darrick “Bozzy” Keller (he/him; guitar, vocals), EthanGoodpaster (he/him; lead guitar, vocals), Jess Haney (he/him; drums)
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