Jonathan Richman Announces Fall Tour

Ahead of Friday’s release of his 18th studio album, beloved indie rock singer/songwriter Jonathan Richman has announced a fall tour across the U.S. and Canada.

Only Frozen Sky Anyway will be available digitally July 4 via Blue Arrow Records, with vinyl and CD to be released at a later date. Richman is joined by his longtime drummer and percussionist Tommy Larkins and former Modern Lovers bandmate Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) on keyboards.

The album features the Spanish-inflected “Se Va Pa’volver,” which an announcement from his PR team notes captures the LP’s thematic theme of departures and returns.

“Like many of the songs on this new record, which either existed in a vague, skeletal form or did not at all before we started recording on January 5th of ’25 (and finished by January 10th), this song fits in with the theme that seems to have taken shape during that recording session. The song is about how our friends are leaving, in their dying, on an errand, only to return in another role… with another mission. How do I dare say such a thing? Oh…I don’t know,” Richman says.

Richman has a handful of gigs lined up in July before the tour launches Oct. 3 in Boise, Idaho, at the Shine Social Club. Dates are booked through a Nov. 1 show at Alderney Landing Theatre in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Richman’s dates in North America are booked by High Road Touring. Check out the routing below. Tickets for many dates are on sale now. Visit Richman’s page on High Road Touring’s website for links to tickets here.

D A T E V E N U E C I T Y

01 Jul Aladdin Theater Portland, OR

02 Jul Aladdin Theater Portland, OR

31 Jul UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley Berkeley, CA

03 Oct Shrine Social Club (Shrine Ballroom) Boise, ID

04 Oct Zootown Arts Community Center Missoula, MT

07 Oct Royal Canadian Legion No.1 Calgary, AB

08 Oct Myer Horowitz Theatre Edmonton, AB

09 Oct Roxy Theatre Saskatoon, SK

11 Oct West End Cultural Centre Winnipeg, MB

15 Oct West Theatre Duluth, MN

16 Oct First Avenue Minneapolis, MN

17 Oct Englert Theatre Iowa City, IA

18 Oct Delmar Hall St. Louis, MO

19 Oct The Whirling Tiger Louisville, KY

21 Oct Manny’s State College, PA

23 Oct Lark Hall Albany, NY

24 Oct Somerville Theatre Somerville, MA

25 Oct Somerville Theatre Somerville, MA

26 Oct Somerville Theatre Somerville, MA

28 Oct SPACE Gallery Portland , ME

29 Oct SPACE Gallery Portland , ME01 Nov Alderney Landing Theatre Dartmouth, NS