Japanese Breakfast heads out on world tour with new record

Japanese Breakfast releases her anticipated new album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), today via Dead Oceans along with a cinematic video directed by Michelle Zauner for album standout “Picture Window.”

“Over the course of promoting this new album I’ve often been asked to clarify the difference between melancholy and sadness. I think of melancholy as a kind of anticipatory grief, one that comes from an acknowledgment of the passage of time, from the recognition of mortality and finitude. In some way, too, I think it marks the artist’s condition, constantly observing through that lens,” Zauner says of the album. “‘Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy,’ Virginia Woolfe writes. I wanted this album to capture the moments where that knife slips. When people want too much, when they cede to temptation, when they are seduced and punished.”

Japanese Breakfast will be celebrating the album’s release by playing a sold out album release recital tomorrow, March 22nd at El Museo del Barrio in New York. Their tour in support of For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) kicks off with a performance at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA and continues with headline shows across North America and Europe this year. The Melancholy Tour is the band’s first tour in three years, following the Jubilee Tour in 2022. All tour dates can be found below and tickets are on-sale now via japanesebreakfast.rocks.

Upcoming tour dates:

Mar 22 – New York, NY @ El Museo del Barrio – SOLD OUT
Apr 12 & 19 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
Apr 23 – Austin, TX @ ACL Live at the Moody Theater *
Apr 24 – Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom *
Apr 26 – Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle *
Apr 27 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore *
Apr 28 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium *
Apr 30 – Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed *
May 01 – Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed * – SOLD OUT
May 02 – Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed * – SOLD OUT
May 03 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore *
May 05 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall * – SOLD OUT
May 06 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall *
May 07 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway *
May 09 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount * – SOLD OUT
May 10 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount * – SOLD OUT
May 11 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount * – SOLD OUT
May 12 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount *
May 15 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia *
May 16 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia * – SOLD OUT
Jun 03 – Sydney, AU @ Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House
Jun 05 – Melbourne, AU @ RISING at PICA
Jun 07 – Auckland, NZ @ Auckland Town Hall
Jun 11 – Tokyo, JP @ Zepp Shunkjuku
Jun 13 – Osaka, JP @ Club Quattro
Jun 15 – Cheorwon-gun, KR @ DMZ Peace Train Music Festival
Jun 21 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest
Jun 24 – Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller
Jun 25 – Stockholm, SE @ Filadelfia #
Jun 26 – Copenhagen, DK @ VEGA #
Jun 28 – Pilton, UK @ Glastonbury Festival
Jun 29 – Manchester, UK @ Academy 1 #
Jun 30 – Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland #
Jul 01 – Bristol, UK @ O2 Academy Bristol #
Jul 03 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton #
Jul 4-6 – Ewijk, NL @ Down The Rabbit Hole 2025
Jul 05 – Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg #
Jul 08 – Paris, FR @ Le Trianon #
July 10 – Bilbao, ES @ Bilbao BBK Live
July 27 – Portland, OR @ Project Pabst
Aug 23 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl *
Aug 27 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic *
Aug 28 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic * – SOLD OUT
Aug 30 – Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater *
Sep 01 – Vancouver, BC @ The Orpheum *
Sep 02 – Seattle, WA @ Woodland Park Amphitheater *
Sep 03 – Seattle, WA @ Woodland Park Amphitheater *
Sep 05 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Twilight Concert Series @ Pioneer Park * ^
Sep 06 – Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom *
Sep 09 – St Paul, MN @ The Palace Theater *
Sep 10 – Madison, WI @ The Sylvee *