If Titus Andronicus (or “+@” as the band stylizes it) can be counted on for one thing, it’s to bring some motherfucking fire to pretty much everything it does—there’s probably never been a rock opera about manic depression more intense than 2015's The Most Lamentable Tragedy, for instance—but the band and frontman Patrick Stickles seem to be slowing things down for A Productive Cough, a new album that was just announced today. The reveal came with a music video for the first single, “Number One (In New York),” which opens with Stickles looking a bit like a man of the woods and singing over a quiet piano melody that gradually builds into a significantly more elaborate beast. There’s no guitar-shredding and no cathartic “fuck you” shouts, but that doesn’t mean it’s lacking that usual Titus Andronicus fire:
A Productive Cough will be available on March 2, and it’ll be accompanied by what a press release says is the band’s “first-ever ‘acoustic’ tour” in the U.S., with Stickles accompanied by pianist Alex Molini. The press release also describes it as a “quiet evening with +@,” but, again, that may undersell how rowdy things could get. The full list of tour dates is below.
Titus Andronicus Tour 2018
3/7—Kingston, NY—BSP Kingston
3/8—Boston, MA—The Sinclair
3/9—Providence, RI—AS220
3/10—Burlington, VT—Arts Riot
3/11—Montreal, QC—Bar Le Ritz
3/13—Toronto, ON—Great Hall
3/14—Detroit, MI—El Club
3/15—Chicago, IL—Subterranean
3/16—Madison, WI—The Frequency
3/17—St. Paul, MN—Turf Club
3/18—Omaha, NE—Slowdown
3/19—Denver, CO—Globe Hall
3/20—Salt Lake City, UT—Urban Lounge
3/22—Boise, ID—Treefort Festival
3/23—Seattle, WA—Crocodile
3/24—Portland, OR—Mississippi Studios
3/27—Sonoma, CA—Gundlach Bundschu Winery
3/28—San Francisco, CA—The Chapel
3/29—Santa Cruz, CA—Crepe Place
3/31—Los Angeles, CA—Bootleg Theater
4/2—San Diego, CA—Soda Bar
4/3—Phoenix, AZ—Valley Bar
4/6—Ft. Worth, TX—Ridglea Room
4/7—Austin, TX—Barracuda
4/8—Houston, TX—White Oak Music Hall
4/10—Birmingham, AL—Saturn
4/11—Atlanta, GA—Masquerade
4/12—Durham, NC—The Pinhook
4/13—Washington, DC—Rock and Roll Hotel
4/14—Philadelphia, PA—UArts Black Box
4/15—Brooklyn, NY—Murmrr Ballroom