Kurt Vile tour + album

Kurt Vile did not roll this out with a glossy teaser campaign. On April 7, he surfaced with a new single called “Chance to Bleed,” a new album called *Philadelphia’s been good to me* due May 29, and a long 2026 tour itinerary that starts in Toronto on June 16. (jambase.com) That matters because Vile had not put out a full studio album since *Watch My Moves* on April 15, 2022. Since then, the main new release in his catalog was the 2023 extended play *Back to Moon Beach*, so this is the first full-length album cycle in four years. (wikipedia.org, kurtvile.com) The new record is pointed straight at home. Vile called it his “bringing it all back home to Philly” album, and the title itself turns Philadelphia from a backdrop into the subject. (nme.com) He also made it mostly in the kind of place that shaped his early records: his own basement studio. Reports on the announcement say he began working on it in late 2023 and built much of it with Violators players Adam Langellotti, Matthew Jugenheimer, Kyle Spence, and Jesse Trbovich, plus producer Rob Schnapf. (brooklynvegan.com, jambase.com) The first song is a good clue to the album’s mood. “Chance to Bleed” looks back at underground Philadelphia nights, and Vile described it as “hillbilly techno,” which is a very Kurt Vile way of saying loose, fuzzy, and half-road-song, half-basement jam. (nme.com, jambase.com) The guest list on that track shows he is not treating this like a sealed-off solo project. Natalie Hoffman, Ethan Buckler, and Greg Cartwright appear on “Chance to Bleed,” and the video includes cameos from Jim E Brown and Philadelphia rap figure Schoolly D. (brooklynvegan.com, jambase.com) The tour is bigger than the first social post made it look. Vile’s official site already lists festival and headline dates from Green River Festival in Massachusetts on June 20 through End Of The Road in the United Kingdom on September 3 to 6, with stops at The Stone Pony, Paredes de Coura, Pukkelpop, Nox Orae, and Rock en Seine. (kurtvile.com, kurtvile.com) Other published dates fill in the parts his homepage does not show at a glance. The North American run includes Montreal, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Austin, Atlanta, Washington, and Brooklyn, before later legs return to Europe and then the United States again in the fall. (brooklynvegan.com, jambase.com) His official site also puts the new album at the very top of the page and is already selling *Philadelphia’s been good to me* on vinyl, including a signed two-record edition through Verve. That is the clearest sign this is not a one-off song drop but a full album campaign with merch, ticketing, and months of live dates attached. (kurtvile.com)