Bands Reuniting on the Road in 2020

The world loves a good reunion tour. Getting to see your favorite disbanded band one more time can be exciting for fans nostalgic for the “good old days.” Lucky for us, 2020 already has a handful of big name reunion tours announced, many just in time for the summer festival season.

With a whole lot of reunions in the news, Vinyl Bay 777, Long Island’s music outlet, is taking a look at some of the most anticipated. Whether it’s only been a few years since disbanding or nearly a decade, here are seven reunited groups heading out on tour in 2020.

1.       My Chemical Romance: One of the biggest announcements of 2019 was when mid-2000s “emo” favorites My Chemical Romance announced that they were getting back together. The band has already played one very successful show together in Los Angeles, CA and will be heading overseas in 2020 to play shows in Australia, New Zealand and Japan. This past week, the band announced another UK show, only this time they also included two minutes of unheard music that have fans wondering if a new album could be on the horizon from this reunion too.

2.       Mötley Crüe: Another of the biggest tour announcements late last year was that of hair metal legends Mötley Crüe. The band had signed a “cessation-of-touring” agreement in 2015, which the group symbolically torched in the tour’s announcement video. It doesn’t feel like Mötley Crüe have gone anywhere, given that the band has recorded and released new music in the last two years (though not a new album, they haven’t done that since 2008), but it is that success that prompted the band to do their first tour in half a decade in the first place. The North American tour kicks off July 7 in Miami, FL and wraps up September 5 in Los Angeles, CA with a stacked line-up of openers including Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.

3.       Pussycat Dolls: Mid-2000s girl group the Pussycat Dolls are getting ready for their first tour in nearly a decade. Disbanding in 2010, the girls went their separate ways towards their own solo careers, the most successful of which being that of Nicole Scherzinger (whose most known for being a reality competition judge these days). The group got back together (sans Melody Thornton) for a performance on ‘The X Factor UK’ (which Scherzinger judges) late last year and will be heading out on the road for the ‘Unfinished Business’ tour around the UK in April. New music is also on the horizon, as the group debut a new song, “React,” during their ‘X Factor’ performance.

4.       Rage Against The Machine: It’s hard to believe that Rage Against The Machine’s last reunion was already eight years ago, but the political rap-metal band is back again! So far, the reunion tour is limited to five west coast dates around their appearances at the 2020 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April.

5.       Faith No More: It’s been five years since metal outfit Faith No More capped off their first reunion with their last album, ‘Sol Invictus,’ and disbanded after a year of touring. Now the band will be returning to Europe for a festival tour throughout June and July. A new album, however, may not be in the cards, as Roddy Bottum said in an interview with ‘Kerrang!’ that the band has “no plans right now to record any new music.”

6.       Bright Eyes: Conor Oberst has not been a stranger to the music scene over the last ten years, presenting his own solo works and leading various groups, the most recent of which was the duo Better Oblivion Community Center with Phoebe Bridgers last year. But after nine years, Oberst is getting his most well-known band back together, Bright Eyes. It was announced this week that the band had signed to Dead Oceans and will be releasing their first album since ‘The People’s Key’ in 2011. A short tour was also announced, featuring dates in Tokyo, Japan in March, Los Angeles, CA in May, Queens, NY in June and an appearance at the End of the Road Festival in the UK in September.

7.       Circle Jerks: Punk Rockers Circle Jerks’ debut album ‘Group Sex’ turns 40 this year and the band is celebrating by playing their first shows together in nearly a decade.  Dates announced so far include Punk Rock Bowling in Las Vegas, NV and the Wiesen, Austria, Berlin, Germany and Munich, Germany dates of the re-launched Punk In Drublic Festival.

With disbanded acts in pop, indie rock, metal and punk gearing up to reunite on the road in 2020, now’s the time to see them live before it all goes away again. Check out the reuniting bands listed above and let us know what bands you’re excited to see/would like to see reunite in the comments below.

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Bands Who Are Reuniting in 2018

Last week, Vinyl Bay 777, Long Island’s music outlet, took a look at artists who have decided to retire in 2018. But for every artist that is bowing out, there are others that are looking to get back into the game.

In the last couple of months alone, there have been a large handful of bands who have decided to get back together. For some of these artists, their reunion will come in the form of a tour. For others, the members came together in the studio to record new music. Whether it’s the former, the latter or both, these reunions are enough to get rock and pop fans excited.

 We here at Vinyl Bay 777 love a good reunion. That’s why we’re taking a look at some of the reunions we have to look forward to in 2018. Here are seven that we can’t wait to check out.

1.       Smashing Pumpkins: Probably the most anticipated of these reunions, the original line-up of the Smashing Pumpkins has not released music together since 2000. But that’s about to change this year. In January, photos started to surface of Billy Corgan in the studio with James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin, which created rumors that the band was putting aside their differences and getting back together. The only person missing from the reunion is bassist D’arcy Wretzky, who says her invitation to reunite was rescinded by Corgan. There is currently a countdown clock on the Pumpkins’ website indicating that (as of writing this article) something is going to be announced or released in less than two days, presumably 11 AM on February 15.

2.       L7: In September, female punk band L7 stunned everyone when they released “Dispatch from Mar-a-Lago,” their first new song in nearly 18 years. The reunion continued this week with the release of a new song, “I Came Back to Bitch” and the announcement of a short tour (There is no New York date). No full-length album has been announced yet, though singer Donita Sparks told Rolling Stone that she has written more songs.

3.       Gaslight Anthem: 2018 marks the 10^th anniversary of the Gaslight Anthem’s debut album, ‘The 59 Sound.’ In honor of the milestone, the band has announced a handful of tour dates for this summer, which includes a set at New York’s Governors Ball Music Festival. This will be the first time the band has played together since announcing their indefinite hiatus in 2015. However, this tour will probably be all we see from the band for a while. Frontman Brian Fallon told Rolling Stone in an interview that fans should not expect new music.

4.       Spice Girls (Maybe): Rumors of a Spice Girls reunion started circulating earlier this month when “Baby Spice” Emma Bunton posted a photo on Instagram of the five members posing together. News started to snowball from there with TMZ reporting that the girl group was going to tour the US and UK this year. That rumor has since been shut down by “Posh Spice” Victoria Beckem, who said in an interview with Vogue that they were only bouncing ideas off each other. Even so, fans are hoping that more will be coming from the Spice Girls camp this year. The last time all five reunited was in 2012.

5.       The Distillers: Back in January, frontwoman Brody Dalle posted a video to her Instagram of her rocking out in slo-mo with the caption “The Distillers 2018” set to new music. Following a week later, it was announced that the band would be playing their first show in 12 years at Atlanta, GA’s Shaky Knees Festival, with an entire tour announced a week after that (There is no New York date yet). There is no word yet on if there will be a new album.

6.       Sugarland: After going their own ways in 2012, country duo Sugarland announced late last year that they would be reuniting for a new album and tour. The duo released the single, “Still The Same” in December, though no date for a full album has been announced yet. The tour, however, will take place this spring / summer, with North American dates starting on May 4 and wrapping up on September 8 with a date at New Jersey’s Prudential Center.

7.       Belly: Though 1990s alt-rockers Belly began their reunion in 2016, the band has finally announced that they will be releasing their first album of new music in more than two decades this year. ‘Dove’ is set to hit shelves on April 6.

With the extreme amount of artists that have announced that they were calling it quits in 2018, there have also been a lot of bands so far who have announced their reunion. Whether it’s for a short tour or a full album, we can’t wait to see what these bands have in store for fans in the future.

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