Updating a story first posted here on Feb. 4, after announcing appearances at the Just Like Heaven and Kilby Block Party festivals this spring, Rilo Kiley have added a host of dates to their first tour in 17 years. The Jenny Lewis-led group will return to the stage May 5 in San Diego and has shows booked through Sept. 26 in Atlanta.
Julien Baker and TORRES will open a May 14 show at Red Rocks outside Denver, while the Mountain Goats will support on Sept. 24 in Raleigh, N.C.
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To complement the tour, Saddle Creek will on May 9 release the group’s first greatest hits collection, the 11-track That’s How We Choose To Remember It. In addition, Rilo Kiley will reissue their 2002 sophomore album The Execution of All Things on April 25, also through Saddle Creek. The so-called “Frozen Lake Edition” will be available as a single LP, a deluxe LP with a bonus 7-inch vinyl single and on CD. Click here to pre-order.
“It’s going to be wonderful for us, like going back to the purest version of yourself — that early ’20s place where everything is possible,” says Lewis, who is flanked in Rilo Kiley by Blake Sennett, Pierre de Reeder and Jason Boesel. “You’re in a van and Jason’s got the map, Pierre is behind the wheel, and I’m on the shitty acoustic guitar on the bench seat working out a new song with Blake. I don’t think it’s ever been as good as that, when it was just us against the world.”
“Planning this reunion over these past months has been like reconnecting with family. We haven’t missed a beat,” adds de Reeder. “The stakes are only to have a good time, to revel in this nostalgia. Getting to revisit and celebrate the music from that special time of our lives while experiencing it alongside a lot of people that lived it with us back when, and new folks alike.”
Rilo Kiley released four well-regarded albums between 2001 and 2007, after which Lewis has focused on her solo career and participated in two, 10-years-apart reunions of the Postal Service. The closest the group has come to reuniting was in 2015, when Sennett made a surprise appearance during Lewis’ solo Coachella set to play the Rilo Kiley song “Portions for Foxes.”
In 2012, they teased fans with a Facebook message saying that a “record is almost finished,” but the project in question turned out to be the rarities collection Rkives, which was eventually released the following year.
Here are Rilo Kiley’s tour dates:
5/05/25 – San Luis Obispo, CA – Fremont Theatre
5/07/25 – Ojai, CA – Libbey Bowl
5/10/25 – Pasadena, CA – Just Like Heaven
5/12/25 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
5/14/25 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre
5/16/25 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Block Party
5/17/25 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Fest
5/19/25 – Jackson, WY – Center for the Arts
5/21/25 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
5/23/25 – Portland, OR – McMenamins Grand Lodge
5/24/25 – Seattle, WA – Chateau Ste. Michelle
9/03/25 – New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall
9/04/25 – Philadelphia, PA – The Met Philadelphia
9/07/25 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway
9/08/25 – New York, NY – SummerStage @ Central Park
9/10/25 – Washington, DC – The Anthem
9/11/25 – Pittsburgh, PA – Roxian Theatre
9/13/25 – Louisville, KY – Bourbon & Beyond
9/16/25 – Saint Paul, MN – Palace Theatre
9/17/25 – La Vista, NE – The Astro
9/21/25 – St. Augustine, FL – Sing Out Loud Festival
9/23/25 – Nashville, TN – The Pinnacle
9/24/25 – Raleigh, NC – Red Hat Amphitheater
9/26/25 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern
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