X Ambassadors To Play Hometown NY Shows Celebrating 10th Anniversary Of Debut Album

X Ambassadors are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their debut album VHS, which featured their massive hit “Renegades,” with back-to-back hometown shows in Ithaca later this year.

The alternative rock trio will perform at the State Theatre on Sept. 19 and 20, and tickets for the shows go on sale this week. VIP packages are available via the artist presale, and the general onsale begins May 9 via xambassadors.com. Additional dates and cities will be announced soon.

“It’s a rare thing to be in a band that’s been together as long as we have. We’ve been together for almost 20 years,” Sam Nelson Harris, the band’s frontman, said in a statement.  “This album was made, conceived, and released 10 years ago, but we had already been hustling for almost a decade prior to that. When the door finally was opened for us with ‘Renegades,’ it was a scramble to finish an album and get it out. VHS was mostly made on the road — in the back of our van, backstage in green rooms, bathrooms, hotel rooms, wherever we could steal a moment. It was chaotic, it was piecemeal. To be honest, we couldn’t appreciate a single moment of it because it was all moving so fast. So, it’s been such a blessing to be able to revisit it and celebrate these songs and the people we were when we made them.”

In addition to the upcoming anniversary tour, X Ambassadors will release a reimagining of their breakout album with reworked versions of “Renegades” and “Unsteady.”

X Ambassadors went on the road last year and performed in clubs and theaters across the globe. One of their most successful performances was a sold-out show at the iconic 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., on June 4, which grossed $42,000 off 1,200 tickets, according to Pollstar Boxoffice.