Passion Pit Announce North American Summer Tour

Passion Pit, led by influential indie pop artist Michael Angelakos, announced a headlining summer 2026 tour with club and festival stops including Middle Waves Music Festival, Bonnaroo, the Minnesota Yacht Club Festival and Up In The Sky Festival. 

Angelakos will be playing alongside bandmates Giuliano Pizzulo (lead guitar/samples/synths), Eric Scullin (bass/synths), Denzel Cox (organs/synths) and Ben Barter (drums/drum machine). Tickets for the tour are available March 18.

Passion Pit began as the solo project of Angelakos, who created music alone in his dorm room in Boston before moving to an apartment in Cambridge in 2006, where he shared his compositions with his roommates and friends. Angelakos self-released the Chunk of Change EP, which included the songs “Batty Lashes” and “Tons of Guns,” selling the EP for $7 at his first show on March 20, 2007, in the Cabaret at Emerson College.

Ambitious, but not altogether informed. The stickers Angelakos used on the CDs weren’t meant for playing inside a computer, but fortunately no one asked for a refund or repair costs. He did, however, give them a new disc. He still owes his friend Colin Pratt approximately $250 for the printing and overnighting of the record sleeves.

Undaunted, Angelakos’ friends and frequent collaborators Ian Hultquist and Adam Lavinsky, encouraged him to start a band, which went to sell out shows in Boston and were named Best New Band by the Boston Phoenix.

After being picked up by Frenchkiss in 2008, Chunk of Change was released with the hit “Sleepyhead” solidifying Passion Pit’s evolution with 3x Platinum certification – including a Passion Pit and Sofi Tukker remix of the song, which was released in March of 2025.

To celebrate the two decades since the Chunk of Change, Passion Pit will be releasing the Pretty Penny EP. The project honors the past while eyeing the enormous amount of new material that Angelakos intends to release with the full band – a Passion Pit first. Release date and track list will be announced at a later date.

North American Passion Pit Dates:
June 6 – Fort Wayne, IN, Middle Waves Music Festival
June 7 – Detroit, MI, Majestic Theatre
June 9 – Richmond, VA, The National
June 10 – Norfolk, VA, The NorVa

June 11 – Columbia, SC, The Senate
June 13 – Manchester, TN, Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
June 14 – Charlotte, NC, The Fillmore

June 16 – Indianapolis, IN, Egyptian Room at Old National Centre
June 18 – Milwaukee, WI, Summerfest
June 19 – St. Louis, MO, The Hawthorn
June 20 – Kansas City, MO, The Truman

June 22 – Pittsburgh, PA, Stage AE

June 23 – Columbus, OH, Newport Music Hall
June 24 – Cleveland, OH, Globe Iron

June 26 – Rothbury, MI, Electric Forest
July 19 – Saint Paul, MN, Minnesota Yacht Club Festival 
July 20 – Chicago, IL, Riviera Theater
July 22 – Buffalo, NY, Electric City
July 24 – Boston, MA, House of Blues
July 25 – New York, NY, The Rooftop at Pier 17
July 26 – Philadelphia, PA, The Fillmore
July 28 – Washington, DC, 9:30 Club
July 29 – Washington, DC, 9:30 Club

July 31 – Raleigh, NC, The Ritz
Aug. 1 – Atlanta, GA, The Eastern
Aug. 3 – Oklahoma City, OK, Tower Theatre
Aug. 5 – Phoenix, AZ, The Van Buren
Aug. 7 – Aspen, CO, Up In The Sky Festival
Aug. 9 – Denver, CO, Ogden Theatre

Aug. 11 – Salt Lake City, UT, The Complex, Rockwell

Aug. 13 – Seattle, WA, Showbox SoDo
Aug. 14 – Portland, OR, Roseland Theater
Aug. 16 – Oakland, CA, Fox Theater

Aug. 18 – Los Angeles, CA, The Bellwether