Los Angeles’ natives Bad Religion will kick off a House of Blues tour in February that will include multiple dates in West Hollywood, Anaheim, San Diego and Las Vegas.  The band has spent the last six months touring the world in support of 2007’s critically acclaimed release New Maps of Hell, and will bring their incendiary live show home to California starting on February 29^th at the House of Blues Anaheim.

In an unprecedented move, Bad Religion decided to create themed setlists which will feature material rarely performed live and focus the night’s performance on a particular era from their long and legendary career.  While the band is not announcing which set they will play which night, they have said that they will be concentrating the shows on the “early” years, the “classic” years, the 90s era and the work from recent years, in addition to incorporating their most popular live songs into the sets each night.

Singer Greg Graffin explains the band’s motivation: “We have hundreds of songs that span at least four different eras of punk music,” he says.  “Punk is now a mainstay of modern music culture, and BR has contributed to, and lived through the major span of punk rock's evolutionary history. So we decided to play multiple nights at the same venues in order to perform songs in chronological order and to celebrate a different era of our history each night.”

Bad Religion’s long history in the Southland dates back to 1980 when the group was conceived by founding members Graffin, Jay Bentley and Brett Gurewitz in the suburbs of Los Angeles.  Since then the band has toured the world, sold millions of records and released well over a dozen critically acclaimed albums.  

Bad Religion’s fourteenth studio album, New Maps of Hell, “revels in roaring guitar riffs and pounding drum beats as it explores ‘bittersweet idealism’ and ‘guarded hope’ on tracks with a big, anthem-like feel” (Dallas Morning News).  Produced by Joe Barresi (Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Melvins), the album harkens back to the band’s earlier, turbulent work,   “proving that the L.A. sextet is still the epitome of a tempestuous, polemically driven punk band” (LA Weekly).

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Tour Dates:

2/29 – House of Blues – Anaheim, CA

3/1 – House of Blues – Anaheim, CA

3/2 – House of Blues – Anaheim, CA

3/4 – House of Blues – West Hollywood, CA

3/5 – House of Blues – West Hollywood, CA

3/7 – House of Blues – San Diego, CA

3/8 – House of Blues – San Diego, CA

3/11 – House of Blues – West Hollywood, CA

3/21 – House of Blues – Anaheim, CA

3/25 – House of Blues – Anaheim, CA

3/26 – House of Blues – Anaheim, CA

3/28 – House of Blues – Las Vegas, NV

3/29 – House of Blues – Las Vegas, NV

(MORE DATES TO BE ADDED SOON)