Kurt Vile announces tour

Kurt Vile did not just post a few festival holds. On April 7, 2026, he announced a new album called *Philadelphia’s been good to me*, and the first leg of the tour stretches from Toronto on June 16 to South Lake Tahoe on July 5 before later festival dates in Europe in August and early September. (stereogum.com) (kurtvile.com) The album is due May 29, 2026, and the official store lists 12 tracks, including “Chance to Bleed,” “99 BPM,” “Philly’s been good to me,” and “Avalanches of Snow.” The store also lists digital, compact disc, and vinyl preorders, including signed editions. (store.ververecords.com 1) (store.ververecords.com 2) This is his first full-length album since *(watch my moves)* in 2022, and Stereogum describes it as his 10th official long-playing album, counting the Courtney Barnett collaboration. Vile said the new record was mostly self-produced in his home studio in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia. (stereogum.com) That Philadelphia part is not branding pasted on after the fact. The Verve store says Vile still lives in the city and records most of his music there, and the lead single’s video was filmed at Kung Fu Necktie in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia. (store.ververecords.com) (stereogum.com) The first single, “Chance to Bleed,” also shows how Vile builds records now. Stereogum says the track brings in Natalie Hoffman of NOTS and Optic Sink, Greg Cartwright of Reigning Sound and Oblivians, and Ethan Buckler of King Kong and Slint, with Cartwright sharing lead guitar. (stereogum.com) The routing tells you this is more than a hometown victory lap. The June run hits Toronto, Montreal, Burlington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Saint Paul, Vancouver, Portland, and Seattle, then later dates on his official site place him in Portugal, Norway, Belgium, Switzerland, France, and the United Kingdom. (stereogum.com) (kurtvile.com) The official site also shows the tour is still expanding in pieces instead of arriving as one giant block. Individual event pages published on April 7 already list November stops like Headliners Music Hall in Louisville on November 6 and Ottobar in Baltimore on November 24. (kurtvile.com 1) (kurtvile.com 2) That staggered rollout usually means fans are watching three things at once: album preorders, venue presales, and festival confirmations. Bandsintown already shows a July 7 date at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco that was not visible on the shorter official tour snapshot returned in search, which is a good sign more city dates are still being added. (bandsintown.com) (kurtvile.com) For Vile, the timing lines up cleanly. The album lands on May 29, the North American run starts 18 days later on June 16, and the summer dates give him a straight runway to turn new songs like “Chance to Bleed” into live staples before the bigger late-2026 club shows fill in. (store.ververecords.com) (stereogum.com)