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At the Drive-In reunite to release new music and tour

by Jeremy Mersereau

Time to break your skinny jeans back in: post-hardcore heroes At the Drive-In are officially getting back together. The band’s official website reveals a slew of live dates taking the influential band around North America and Europe starting in March, as well as a teaser of a new song.

Since ATDI’s original break-up in 2001, the members have been involved in a non-stop cavalcade of projects, including Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala’s proggy Mars Volta, who announced their break-up in 2013. Jim Ward and Tony Hajjar’s more straightforward alt-rock project Sparta hasn’t been heard from since releasing a new song in 2012 and announcing they were headed into the studio to work on a fourth album.

Though they originally reunited for a few festival dates in 2012, ATDI and Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez said back in 2013 that “playing those songs, I thought, ‘Here’s a person at the time that I don’t relate to anymore.’ He didn’t care about his life and was doing drugs and was really disconnected from the world and a whole lot of other personal stuff that I won’t get into. If I give myself to that, I can feel the psychological effects of that personality in the same way that an actor can say it wasn’t healthy to live in that role so long or bring that role home every night.”

Well, let’s hope he doesn’t still feel that way.

Here are At the Drive-In’s 2016 tour dates:

03/23 – Hollywood, CA @ Fonda Theatre
03/26 – Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street
03/27 – London, UK @ Roundhouse
03/29 – Paris, FR @ Le Trianon
03/30 – Cologne, DE @ Palladium
03/31 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg
04/01 – Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique
04/04 – Berlin, DE @ Columbiahalle
04/05 – Vienna, AT @ Vienna Arena
04/07 – Milan, IT @ Fabrique
04/08-09 – Lausanne, CH @ Impetus Festival
04/10 – Barcelona, ES @ Razzmatazz
05/13-15 – Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees Music Festival
05/17 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
05/19 – Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre
05/20-22 – Columbus, OH @ Rock on the Range Music Festival
06/03 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
06/05 – Portland, OR @ McMenamin’s Crystal Ballroom
06/07 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
06/08 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox Sodo
06/11 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore
06/14 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
06/17 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5
06/18 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues
06/21 – Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall
06/23 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Hall