Angus & Julia Stone announce September US tour dates behind new album ‘Karaoke Bar,’ including three nights in LA. Tickets on sale July 10
Angus & Julia Stone are bringing their new chapter stateside. The Australian sibling duo announced a run of North American dates for this September in support of Karaoke Bar, their seventh studio album, due September 4 via Virgin Music.
The routing is deliberately intimate: a three-night residency at Los Angeles’ Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever on September 14, 15 and 16, followed by East Coast club dates at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg on September 22 and Racket in New York City on September 23, with previously announced Canadian festival stops at Quebec City’s FONO Festival on September 11 and Ottawa’s CityFolk on September 19 bookending the American shows. Tickets go on sale Friday, July 10 at 10 a.m. local time through the duo’s official website.
The venue strategy tells its own story. For an act that has headlined the Royal Albert Hall and packed European theaters, rooms this size are a choice, not a ceiling, designed to put the new material in close quarters with the faithful before the album is even out.
A Record Shaped by Geography
Karaoke Bar was written and recorded across Greece, France and Australia, and the itinerant process is baked into the music. The project is framed as an exploration of songs shaped by places and emotional experience, following 2024’s Cape Forestier. Its recently released single “Monroe,” a warm, quietly funky meditation on love, fragility and emotional reciprocity, was cut at the storied Miraval Studios in the south of France, the same rooms that have hosted Pink Floyd, The Cure and AC/DC.
Julia has said the song was written for a dear friend who moved to Paris, a detail she shared from the stage during the duo’s sold-out show at the city’s Trianon theater on June 30, where the two new singles brought a noticeably more danceable, funk-leaning energy to a set built on career-spanning favorites.
That European warm-up run suggests the US shows will balance the new material with the catalog that built their global audience, anchored by “Big Jet Plane,” the 2009 breakout from their Australian chart-topping second album Down The Way. That single swept five ARIA Awards including single of the year, topped Triple J’s Hottest 100 and claimed the APRA song of the year prize, a trophy haul few Australian songs have matched.
The Long Commercial Arc
The Stones’ US footprint has been building for over a decade. Their 2014 self-titled album, produced by Rick Rubin, hit No. 1 in Australia and reached No. 54 on the Billboard 200, their best American chart showing. Rubin, not a man given to loose praise, called the siblings truly unique and described them as authentic artists who work entirely from the heart.
Since then, the duo has diversified impressively, including soundtracking the 2021 video game Life Is Strange: True Colors, an album that introduced their hushed folk-pop to an entirely new audience and remains a streaming engine in their catalog.
The September dates arrive at a healthy moment for the intimate-venue touring market, where established international acts are increasingly trading room size for demand density, multiple sold-out small rooms over single half-full theaters.
A three-night Los Angeles stand at a venue as atmospheric as the Masonic Lodge, on the grounds of the Hollywood Forever cemetery, is precisely that play, and given the duo’s track record, promoters should not expect inventory to linger past the weekend. For American fans who have waited since the Cape Forestier cycle for a proper visit, September cannot come fast enough.
