Kurt Vile Announces 2024 Tour Dates & Heads ‘Back To Moon Beach’ With New EP

Kurt Vile confirmed 2024 tour dates set to take place in March east of the Mississippi with support from Weak Signal and King Kong on select dates. The singer-songwriter also announced a new EP, Back to Moon Beach, due out on November 17 via Verve Records and previewed by lead single/video for “Another good year for the roses.”

Kurt Vile’s first tour dates of 2024 get underway on March 17 at Baltimore’s Ottobar followed by a concert in Columbus, Ohio. March 19 will see Vile in Louisville, Kentucky.

Following a previously announced appearance at Knoxville, Tennessee’s Big Ears Festival, Kurt comes to Minglewood Hall in Memphis on March 22.

Concerts in Little Rock, Arkansas and Oxford, Mississippi come next ahead of a show at Tipitina’s in New Orleans on March 26. March 27 will see Vile in Birmingham, Alabama followed by an engagement in Atlanta. Kurt Vile wraps the March run in Athens, Georgia on March 29.

Vile will be touring around his upcoming EP. With the digital/CD/deluxe vinyl version containing nine tracks clocking in at just under an hour — including covers from Wilco, Bob Dylan and more — Back to Moon Beach could easily be called a full-length album.

Kurt Vile further detailed the record:

Hi! Here’s the opening track from my upcoming ep… ok, it’s longer than an ep… now I call it a KV comp. The first 6 tracks — which are the ones that fit on a single LP — are new to the world, with one foot in the not-too-distant past and the other with one tiny toe pointing toward the future. Together my feet are like a couple spanning time together. This song was started at Stinson Beach, CA in September 2019 for a few days of recording with Rob Laakso, Stella Mozgawa, Chris Cohen, Cate Le Bon (and Adam Langellotti floating as a fly on the wall as well). Adam and I being the two overseers across this entire endeavor: we finished it on our own (and with some friends along the way). We ended up demonically overdubbing for weeks straight at OKV Central, Philly (my studio)… this was all of May 2023… so many magic moments.

The Stinson Beach material marks some of Vile’s final recordings with longtime collaborator Rob Laakso who sadly died in early 2023. Kurt previews Back to Moon Beach with original “Another good year for the roses,” which a press release described as “a richly psychedelic downtempo earworm with an instantly memorable arpeggiated piano melody.”

Watch the music video for “Another good year for the roses” below starring Michael Shannon and Kevin Corrigan:

Back to Moon Beach Tracklist:

1. Another good year for the roses
2. Touched somethin (caught a virus)
3. Back to Moon Beach
4. Like a wounded bird trying to fly
5. Blues come for some
6. Tom Petty’s gone (but tell him i asked for him)
7. Must Be Santa
8. Passenger side
9. Cool Water