Kurt Vile Announces Tour

Kurt Vile just put a date on his first full album in four years: *Philadelphia’s been good to me* arrives May 29, 2026 on Verve Records, and he launched it with a new single called “Chance to Bleed.” The tour starts before summer is over, with the first announced North American date set for June 16 in Toronto, and his official site already shows festival and headline stops running through Europe into early September. This is Kurt Vile’s 10th studio album, which matters because his last full-length record, *Watch My Moves*, came out in 2022, so fans have mostly been living on singles, live shows, and side releases since then. The album title is not random branding: Vile is a Philadelphia musician through and through, and he described this one as a “bringing it all back home to Philly” record made in the comfort of his own zone. That hometown angle shows up in the routing too, because one of the biggest listed dates is a Philadelphia stop at the Dell Music Center on July 25, sitting deep in the middle of the North American run instead of being treated like an afterthought at the end. The first song, “Chance to Bleed,” points back to the version of Kurt Vile that indie-rock fans know best: long, drifting guitar lines, a voice that sounds half-spoken and half-sung, and songs that feel loose even when they are carefully built. He also said he had been chasing the feel of his old home recordings again, but in higher fidelity, which is a neat way of saying he wanted the songs to keep their dust and wobble without sounding like rough demos. The official tour page already shows how wide this run is: Greenfield, Asbury Park, Eau Claire, Philadelphia, then Portugal, Norway, Belgium, Switzerland, France, and the United Kingdom by early September. So the announcement is really three releases at once: a 10th album on May 29, a lead single out now, and a tour map that stretches from Toronto in June to European festivals at the end of August and start of September.