THE SADDEST LANDSCAPE ANNOUNCE AUGUST SOUTHWEST DATES WITH DROUGHT
SELECT DATES INCLUDE PORTRAITS OF PAST, BITE THE HAND, ROMAN CANDLE, + LIVELONGERBURNEVERYTHING
DROUGHT ALSO SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR “SAINT” FEATURING ERIC BUTLER OF MOM JEANS — WATCH
The Saddest Landscape have announced a short run of August Southwest tour dates with Bay Area post-hardcore band Drought, bringing the two bands through San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Las Vegas.
The run begins August 20 at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and continues through Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Las Vegas. The first two dates will see The Saddest Landscape and Drought supporting Portraits of Past, the foundational Bay Area hardcore band whose influence continues to loom large across modern emotional hardcore and screamo. The Phoenix and Las Vegas dates will feature support from Bite the Hand, with LiveLongerBurnEverything joining in Phoenix and Roman Candle (who recently released their new LP Unadulterated on Sumerian Records) joining in Las Vegas.
Formed in Boston in 2002, The Saddest Landscape have long stood as one of screamo and post-hardcore’s most enduring and emotionally uncompromising bands, known for a sound that is urgent, cathartic, and unguarded. In 2026, the band returned with Alone With Heaven, their first album in more than a decade, co-produced by the late Steve Albini and Jack Shirley.
Joining them for all four dates are Drought, whose recent full-length Souvenir expands the band’s version of post-hardcore through songs shaped by grief, family, illness, endurance, and recovery. To coincide with the tour announcement, Drought have shared a new music video for “Saint,” featuring Eric Butler of Mom Jeans.
“Saint” captures Drought at their most direct and emotionally exposed, balancing heavier post-hardcore instincts with melodic urgency and a sense of unresolved catharsis. The accompanying video, directed by Matt Reyes, catalogs the band’s energetic live performances through the end of last year.
“One of many reasons we were excited to sign with Iodine was their ability to cultivate a sort of family of bands around them and we missed that over the past few years whilst being kind of isolated working on the new record,” says The Saddest Landscape’s Andy. “Drought is a band that is part of that family we wanted to meet up with and do something together, we always love to see any band breathing new life into the scene and they very much have been doing that. As for Portraits of Past, that is a pure bucket list moment for us. When they released their LP close to 30 years ago, it really raised the bar with what was possible within this genre of music. It definitely had a major influence on how I write. We are stoked to play new songs at these shows and just reconnect with a room of people again.”
“‘Saint’ was written to be kind of cheeky, but is ultimately about accepting impermanence. These days, everything feels like it needs to be archived, and there’s something dehumanizing about our images and stories turned into ones and zeroes. That’s why it felt so fitting to work with Eric from Mom Jeans; he gets how silly all that is. We can’t wait to be hitting the road and sharing these songs on stage with The Saddest Landscape, a band we all grew up loving,” says DROUGHT’s Viggy Ram.
Together, the run brings several generations of emotionally charged hardcore into the same rooms: from Portraits of Past’s Bay Area legacy, to The Saddest Landscape’s long-running influence, to Drought’s contemporary take on post-hardcore, built from rupture, resilience, and release.
Tickets are available here.
THE SADDEST LANDSCAPE + DROUGHT SOUTHWEST TOUR DATES:
8/20 — San Francisco, CA — Great American Music Hall *
8/21 — Los Angeles, CA — Zebulon *
8/22 — Phoenix, AZ — The Nile Underground ^&
8/23 — Las Vegas, NV — Grey Witch ^#
* supporting Portraits of Past
^ with Bite the Hand
# with Roman Candle
& with LiveLongerBurnEverything
Watch Drought’s “Saint” feat. Eric Butler of Mom Jeans: HERE
Listen to The Saddest Landscape: [STREAMING LINK]
Listen to Drought: [STREAMING LINK]
Tickets: [TICKET LINK]
