Motion City Soundtrack Extends Tour With Say Anything
Tickets On Sale Now
New Album ‘The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World’ Available Now
“For super-fans of early 2000s pop-punk and emo music, the band’s screeching synth and idiosyncratic lyrics are unforgettable.” – NPR
“Everything is all right — because Motion City Soundtrack are back and better than ever.” – Rolling Stone
“The album charts the journey the band have had over the last 10 years, almost like an amalgamation of what initially inspired them to make music together.” – AltPress
“The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World feels like the most logical jumping off point from Motion City Soundtrack’s adored 2010 LP of My Dinosaur Life, and front-man Justin Pierre still remains his quirky and captivating self on this 11-song set…” – Chorus.FM
“First thing to note about TSOWWW: their time away has not rusted their razor-sharp musicianship or melodic hooks.” – Kerrang!
After showcasing a triumphant return to form on their first record in ten years, Midwest pop-punk veterans Motion City Soundtrack have announced new tour dates with Say Anything for early 2026. The co-headlining Fall run officially starts on November 19th, and after wrapping up in December, the two bands will be back on the road for another seventeen nights of nostalgia. The Winter 2026 leg of the tour kicks off in Florida on January 23rd, traipsing through cities like Nashville, NYC, Philly, and Chicago before ending in MCS’s home state of Minnesota on Valentine’s Day. Tickets are now on sale, get yours HERE.
Motion City Soundtrack On Tour
Oct. 23 – Gainesville, FL – Fest 23*
Nov. 19 – Houston, TX – House of Blues Houston
Nov. 21 – Austin, TX – Emo’s Austin
Nov. 22 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues Dallas
Nov. 23 – Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom
Nov. 25 – St Louis, MO – The Pageant
Nov. 26 – Indianapolis, IN – Old National Centre
Nov. 28 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
Nov. 29 – Denver, CO – The Fillmore Auditorium
Nov. 30 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Union Event Center
Dec. 2- Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo
Dec. 3 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
Dec. 5 – San Francisco, CA – The Warfield
Dec. 6 – San Diego, CA – SOMA
Dec. 7 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
Dec. 9 – Phoenix, AZ – Marquee Theatre
Winter 2026
Jan. 23 – Ft Lauderdale, FL – Revolution Live at the Backyard
Jan. 24 – Orlando, FL – House of Blues
Jan. 26 – Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works
Jan. 27 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
Jan. 28 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore
Jan. 30 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
Jan. 31 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore
Feb. 1 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore
Feb. 3 – New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall
Feb. 4 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner
Feb. 6 – Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom
Feb. 7 – Buffalo, NY – Buffalo RiverWorks
Feb. 9 – Cleveland, OH – Agora Theatre
Feb. 10 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore
Feb. 11 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave / Eagles Club
Feb. 13 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
Feb.14 – St. Paul, MN – Palace Theatre
*Festival Play
“Don’t Call It a Comeback” isn’t just the name of a song off Motion City Soundtrack’s 2003 debut I Am The Movie, it’s also an apt way to summarize the band’s mission statement. During their initial run from 1997 to 2016, the Minneapolis-based group released six celebrated albums, toured the world countless times and achieved gold status for their hit single “Everything Is Alright.”
After taking a three-year hiatus, the band—vocalist/guitarist Justin Pierre, guitarist Joshua Cain, bassist Matt Taylor, keyboardist Jesse Johnson and drummer Tony Thaxton—started performing live again in 2019, but even the most optimistic fans didn’t necessarily expect a follow-up to 2015’s Panic Stations. “When we started conceptualizing the idea for this record, I was thinking about what we loved about doing this originally,” Cain explains. The result is The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World, an album that sees the band transmuting the last decade of life experiences into the catchiest songs of their career. Listen to it in full HERE.
