**Guards’ play Lollapalooza on Sunday August 4 from 12:00-12:45p at the Lake Shore stage** Come on. You're hard core enough to get up early after raging for 2 days at Lolla! Kick your day off right. They're worth it.
GUARDS TO JOIN QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE AND MGMT ON TOUR THIS FALL
UPCOMING APPEARANCES AT LOLLAPALOOZA AND OSHEAGA FESTIVAL
FEATURED ON NPR “TINY DESK”
“One of the year’s best albums.” – Wall Street Journal
Guards are excited to announce that they will be joining Queens of the Stone Age on tour this fall, kicking off September 10 in Toronto. Afterwards, Guards will head overseas for a 4-week trek supporting MGMT on their European run. On tour in support of their acclaimed new album In Guards We Trust, Guards has spent most of the year on the road, including outings with alt-J, Palma Violets, Best Coast, and Portugal. The Man as well as show-stopping sets at Coachella, SXSW and Primavera Sound. The band is currently gearing up to perform at Lollapalooza, Osheaga Festival, and FYF Festival. See below for details.
In Guards We Trust has received overwhelming acclaim since its release earlier this year. Esquire named the band one of “15 Music Artists to Watch in 2013” and Vogue selected them as “Band of the Week,” with additional praise coming from Stereogum, Pitchfork, Wall Street Journal, Buzzfeed, and Elle, among others. The music video for their hit single “Ready To Go” premiered a few months back across multiple channels at MTV (MTV2, MTVu, MTV Buzzworthy Blog, MTV Hive and VH1.com) and can be viewed here. Their highly-buzzed SXSW appearances earned them a spot at the top of several festival roundups, including NPR Music, who selected the band as one of “15 Essential Moments From SXSW 2013,” praising, “I walked across the street to the Empire Control Room, toward the sound of good, strong, guitar-laden pop…I loved what I was hearing.”
Founded in New York City by singer Richie Follin, Guards also features Kaylie Church and Loren Humphrey.
GUARDS TOUR DATES
(Click HERE for ticket information)
August 2 Montreal, Canada Osheaga Festival 2013
August 4 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza 2013
August 4 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza Aftershow (w/ Alt-J)
August 24 Monterey, CA First City Festival
August 25 Los Angeles, CA FYF Fest 2013
w/ Queen s of the Stone Age
September 10 Toronto, Canada Air Canada Centre
September 12 Detroit, MI The Fillmore Detroit
September 13 Cincinnati, OH PNC Pavilion
September 14 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE
September 15 Columbus, OH LC Pavilion
September 17 Indianapolis, IN The Murat Theater at Old National Centre
September 18 Louisville, KY Louisville Palace
September 19 Charlotte, NC The Uptown Amphitheatre at The Music Factory
September 20 Asheville, NC Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
w/ MGMT
September 26 Cologne, Germany Live Music Hall
September 27 Brussels, Belgium AB
September 29 Stockholm, Sweden Cirkus
September 30 Oslo, Norway Sentrum Scene
October 1 Vesterbro/Kongens Enghavem, Denmark VEGA Main Hall
October 3 Berlin, Germany Astra Kulturhaus
October 4 Vienna, Austria Gasometer
October 5 Munich, Germany Kesselhaus
October 6 Zurich, Switzerland Komplex 457
October 8 Paris, France Olympia
October 9 Hamburg, Germany Docks
October 10 Utrecht, NetherlandsVredenburg Leidsche
October 12 Glasgow, UK O2 ABC
October 13 Wolverhampton, UK Civic Hall
October 14 Manchester, UK O2 Apollo Manchester
October 16 London, UK Forum
October 19 Dublin, Ireland Olympia Theatre
