Photo by Tommy Moore
The New Orleans eight-piece The Revivalists are rolling through Massachusetts a few times this summer, and the headline stop for Boston fans is August 1 at TD Garden, where the band will open for The Red Clay Strays. They’re also playing two sold-out shows at Nantucket’s Chicken Box on July 14 and 15 — an annual stop that has become something of a tradition — plus an August 4 date at Treehouse Brewing in Deerfield with Maine’s Rustic Overtones opening.
The tour is built around the band’s sixth studio album, Get It Honest, out July 24. It’s their first full-length of new material in roughly three years, following 2023’s Pour It Out Into the Night.
Frontman David Shaw has been pretty open that Get It Honest is a grown-up album from a grown-up band. Seven of the group’s eight members are now fathers, and Shaw has been talking in press materials about trading old “ego-fueled thrills” for family — including, somewhat improbably, a shoutout to his cat Ricky Peach on the new single “Razorblades and Runways.”
The album was produced again by Rich Costey (Vampire Weekend, Foo Fighters, Death Cab for Cutie) at Guilford Sound in Vermont, the same studio where Costey and the band cut Pour It Out Into the Night. The lead single, “Heart Stop,” is currently sitting at No. 21 on Billboard’s Triple A radio chart, which is decent but not the runaway hit the band landed back in 2018 with the 3x platinum “Wish I Knew You.”
The Revivalists have always been more of a live band than a studio band, and the Get It Honest Tour schedule reflects it. Beyond the Red Clay Strays support run — which also hits Madison Square Garden on August 9 — there’s a Grand Ole Opry debut on May 22 as part of the Opry 100 celebration, a FIFA Fan Festival appearance in Vancouver on June 11, and the usual return to Red Rocks on September 25.
One other detail worth flagging: the band is running an “honest ticket” program with promoter Concerted, where fans who put in two hours of community service can receive a ticket in exchange. It fits with the band’s broader charitable work through RevCauses, a nonprofit fund that says it has raised over $418,000 over the past six years from a $1-per-ticket pledge and other fundraising.
What You Need to Know — New England Dates
- July 14 & 15 — Chicken Box, Nantucket, MA — SOLD OUT
- August 1 — TD Garden, Boston — supporting The Red Clay Strays
- August 2 — Bowl in the Pines, Sidney, ME — w/ Rustic Overtones
- August 4 — Treehouse Brewing, Deerfield, MA — w/ Rustic Overtones
- August 13 — Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, VT — w/ Olivia Barnes
General-public tickets for the tour go on sale today at 10:00 a.m. local. Full details at therevivalists.com/tour.