Laura Jane Grace Releases "Wearing Black", Summer Tour Dates
Credit: Bella Peterson
Polyvinyl Record Co. and Laura Jane Grace In The Trauma Tropes are excited to present the thundering “Wearing Black”, a hook-bound and stomping ode to being the punk or goth amid the rainbows, sparkles and glitter of a massive Pride Parade. “My pride’s a riot, it’s not a parade,” Grace sings during this anthem of acceptance that follows the release of “Active Trauma,” “Mine Me Mine” and “Your God (God’s D*ck)”, a bold and fearless song that continues to test the new right’s alleged devotion to free speech and double standard of gender constructs.
Additionally, Grace will be touring extensively throughout 2025 across North America and Latin America with Murder By Death, Rodeo Boys, Trapper Schoepp and Team Nonexistent in select markets.
Before the phrase “Adventure Club” became the title of Laura Jane Grace’s electrifying new album, it was the name for her gaggle of adventurous friends in Greece. In the summer of 2024, Grace joined an artist residency program in Athens, embedding with Greek punk rockers and exploring the ancient landscape and the city’s vibrant culture. They dove from beaches nestled in seaside caves into the Aegean and swam with sea turtles. They submitted to tourism, seeing the Parthenon and Epidaurus and breaking into the Panathenaic Stadium to run its track. They became addicted to Freddo espresso, a locals-only iced coffee topped with whipped milk. The lifestyle of this “Adventure Club” inspired her so much that, by the time she left Greece, she’d unexpectedly finished Adventure Club, a new career apogee that recalibrates what punk rock means for her now.
Two years ago, the Onassis Foundation invited Grace to Greece. They wanted her to transform “Walls,” a century-old poem of isolation and doubt by Greece’s Constantine P. Cavafy, into a song for a short documentary about inmates learning to express themselves through film while in prison. When she traveled there in early 2024, the filmmaker assembled a pick-up band of local punk rockers (plus Paris) for a string of shows. When the brief tour was done, bad weather delayed her flight home. Waiting for her early-morning exit, she stayed up all night with the ad hoc group and Paris. They recorded a new version of “Walls,” then flew home in a delighted daze. When she returned six months later after earning a full residency with the Onassis Foundation, Grace co-wrote and cut an entire LP with Paris, bassist Jacopo Fokas, and drummer Orestis Lagadinos, that pickup group called The Trauma Tropes.
Adventure Club is frequently a record about learning to take up space, about feeling free to be yourself as the bullshit of our ahistoric moment mounts. Protest songs and personal tunes have never been a binary for Grace, and she delivers some of her most profound — and, yes, playful — work ever at that particular intersection here. But the most prominent thread through Adventure Club’s dozen tracks is one of evolution, of letting yourself become something new.
She talks often about her age, about nearing the second half of her 40s after a lifetime as a punk. What does it mean, really, to remain a punk for 44 years? For Grace, it is the same as it’s always been — a resolve to question everything about oneself and the world around you and to allow yourself to evolve within that framework. Adventure Club epitomizes that spirit the way that the best of Laura Jane Grace’s music always has.
The young punk from Florida may never have imagined making a record in Greece, but it does not change the spirit of the songs that inspired them: to create a place where we’re all burdened by less bullshit, whether it’s our own baggage or the stuff that autocrats, capitalists, and assholes simply want to put on us because they don’t know the thrill of being happy and free themselves. Maybe they need to try writing a rock song, or simply jump into the sea.
Laura Jane Grace will be making the following appearances throughout 2025. Dates below.
JUNE
13 — Garwood, NJ — Crossroads *
14 — Albany, NY — Empire Live *
16 — South Burlington, VT — Higher Ground *
17 — Buffalo, NY — Electric City *
19 — Newport, KY — Southgate House ^ (SOLD OUT)
20 — Detroit, MI — St. Andrew's Hall ^
21 — Toronto, ON — Danforth Music Hall ^
22 — Montreal, QC — Le Studio TD ^
23 — Woodstock, NY — Bearsville Theater ^
25 — Norwalk CT — District Music Hall ^
26 — Portland, ME — State Theatre ^
27 — Boston, MA — Paradise Rock Club ^ (SOLD OUT)
28 — Brooklyn, NY — Warsaw ^
29 — Asbury Park, NJ — Asbury Lanes ^
JULY
01 — Cleveland Heights, OH — Grog Shop ^ (SOLD OUT)
02 — Cleveland Heights, OH — Grog Shop ^ (SOLD OUT)
05 — Pelham, TN — The Caverns ^ (SOLD OUT)
09 —Millersville, PA — Phantom Power ^
10 — Baltimore, MD — Union Craft Brewing ^ (SOLD OUT)
11 — Washington, DC — Black Cat ^ (SOLD OUT)
12 — Philadelphia, PA — Union Transfer ^
13 — Pittsburgh, PA — Mr. Smalls ^ (SOLD OUT)
15 — Grand Rapids, MI — The Pyramid Scheme ^ (SOLD OUT)
16 — Chicago, IL — Thalia Hall ^
17 — Chicago, IL — Thalia Hall ^ (SOLD OUT)
18 — Madison, WI — The Sylvee ^
19 — Minneapolis, MN — First Avenue ^
20 — Maquoketa, IA — Codfish Hollow Barnstormers ^ (SOLD OUT)
AUGUST
01 — Peoria, IL — Scottish Rite Theatre >
02 — Omaha, NE — Slowdown >
03 — Fargo, ND — Sanctuary Events Center >
05 — Winnipeg, MB — The Park Theatre >
06 — Saskatoon, SK — Louis’ Pub >
08 — Edmonton, AB — The Starlite Room >
09 — Calgary, AB — Commonwealth Bar & Stage >
10 — Kelowna, BC — Revelry >
12 — Vancouver, BC — The Pearl >
13 — Victoria, BC — Sticky Wicket>
15 — Missoula, MT — Monk’s Bar >
16 — Boise, ID — Treefort Music Hall >
17 — Salt Lake City, UT — Soundwell >
19 — Casper, WY — Oil City Beer Company >
21 — Denver, CO — Gothic Theatre ^
22 — Denver, CO — Gothic Theatre ^
24 — Dallas, TX — Ferris Wheelers Backyard & BBQ >
25 — Austin, TX — Antone’s >
26 — Houston, TX — House of Blues >
27 — Baton Rouge, LA — Chelsea’s Live >
29 — Tampa, FL — The Orpheum #
30 — Fort Lauderdale, FL — Revolution #
OCTOBER
24–26 — Gainesville, FL — THE FEST
DECEMBER
03 — Guadalajara, MX — Anexo Foro Independencia
04 — Mexico City, MX — Foro La Piedad
05 — San José, CR — Amón Solar
06 — Bogotá, CO — Boro
09 — Santiago, CL — Club Ambar
11 — Buenos Aires, AR — Uniclub
12 — Porto Alegre, BR — Bar Ocidente
13 — Curitiba, BR — Basement Cultural
14 — São Paulo, BR — Fabrique Club
* — w/ Rodeo Boys
^ — supporting Murder By Death
> — w/ Trapper Schoepp, Team Nonexistent
# — w/ Against All Authority, Catbite
