Silverada Restocks Tour Dates Ahead of New Album
They may have a new name, but it’s still one of the best damn live bands in all of country music. Saying otherwise might stimulate unnecessary altercations with ornery rednecks, so it’s best just to accept it as the gospel truth.
Mike and the Moonpies changed their name to Silverada earlier this year, and ahead of their new self-titled album out June 28th, they have just restocked their tour schedule with can’t miss dates all across the country, including some locales they’ve never been before. Michigan will get their first opportunity to see the band ever when they play The Machine Shop in Flint on August 21st.
Other notable dates on the tour schedule include a headlining appearance at the Jackalope Jamboree on the June 28th album release date. They also have their highly-anticipated first headliner show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville with Uncle Lucius and Town Mountain on July 5th. Silverada will also be playing the Roostertail Festival July 6th in Indiana, and Bristol Rhythm and Roots in Bristol, TN in September.
The Silverada show at the legendary Gruene Hall in Texas July 13th is already sold out, as is their first show of two at the Showboat Saloon in August. You can anticipate more sold out shows as they get closer.
All dates on sale now.
June 10, 2024 @ 6:15 pm
Saw them in Amarillo last year, and Coupland a few years before. Wish they would come to Texas so I don’t have to drive as far to see them, even though it is surely worth it!!
June 10, 2024 @ 6:27 pm
No NY dates is wild
June 11, 2024 @ 5:23 am
Nothing up here, north of the boarder in Canuckistan either. 🙁
June 11, 2024 @ 11:06 am
I hear border crossings have been a real PIA for bands.
June 10, 2024 @ 6:44 pm
Seen em twice, best live shows I’ve been to. One was at a small local bar with less than 100 people in attendance… they brought the house down. If only their merch folks were as on-fire as they are! Bought a signed “producers club” poster back in March and still haven’t received it 4 emails late. Trying to cover an ugly spot on a bare wall here for crying out loud!
June 10, 2024 @ 6:58 pm
Seems like their merch always takes forever to ship. I bought some stuff from their website a few years ago and it took so long that I was concerned I’d never receive it. Rest assured I’m sure your stuff will arrive eventually though.
June 11, 2024 @ 9:03 am
I hope you’re right! And that they still have NOS moonpie posters. Still a little salty about the name change. Although I find myself more and more admiring the penmanship of whoever scrawled that “S” in Silverada.
June 10, 2024 @ 7:04 pm
Stoked for the Ryman next month ????????
June 10, 2024 @ 7:39 pm
Get to Roostertail Music Festival in Madison Indiana. Lineup is STACKED.
June 10, 2024 @ 8:31 pm
Old man here: name change still bugs me
June 10, 2024 @ 8:58 pm
They just dropped another track off the new album and after a few listens, I think I’m into it. It’s a bit different, but I have trust in them considering all their previous albums have been great.
June 11, 2024 @ 3:55 am
For better or worse, seems like they are evolving into more of a rock band to me.
June 11, 2024 @ 3:56 am
The name change feels more right
June 11, 2024 @ 4:44 am
10 days til Summer Solstice Festival. 2 nights of Silverada!!! Come on down or up………
https://solsticemusicfest.com/
June 11, 2024 @ 5:27 am
While I’m sure Silverada will remain a band fans will want to see live just on reputation alone, but I’m just going to say what no one else is saying here out loud. The songs released from the new album so far are very disappointing. Honestly, I don’t understand the direction of the band here. There is a lot of talk of the guys changing to appeal more to a mainstream audience, but this sounds no more mainstream than it sounds like the Texas Honky Tonk the band is known for. I’m not sure who exactly this is supposed to appeal to other than hardcore fans that will convince themselves they like it.
They may ultimately prove me wrong, but I think this attempt at a name and sound change to take the band to the next level will turn out to be a misfire they regret.
June 11, 2024 @ 7:25 am
I don’t think they have the desire to appeal to a “Mainstream” audience. I think they want to get out of the shadow that has been strangely cast over this band and that has people overlooking them that would otherwise be fans. I’m not going to say the new name or the new album will be effective in that because we don’t know yet. But they’re not trying to appeal to Luke Bryan fans.
June 11, 2024 @ 7:59 am
I agree they don’t appear to be making a move at the mainstream. It does seem to be a common statement about the change though. I’m just confused as to who they are attempting to appeal to here, or if the changes will bring them out of the shadows. We’ll see.
June 11, 2024 @ 9:37 am
Now four songs into the new album, I’m starting to agree with this sentiment.
As I’ve said before – the band has every right to make the music they want. And if these songs are where they want to go, more power to them. Maybe I’ll come around to the new sound, but so far each song has progressively put the thought in my mind about how the Moonpies sound that I fell in love with over the past 3 albums, is no longer with Silverada.
I preordered the new record the first day the Producers Club was pushed, and I bought tickets the moment the Ryman album release show went on sale, but personally, I’m feeling progressively less optimistic with the new direction.
June 13, 2024 @ 6:16 pm
Can someone please explain the name change, them wanting to be taken more seriously, and yet hiring Cornbread Cowboi for the lead single music video?
June 11, 2024 @ 6:49 am
Saw them at BBR back in 2021. Looking forward to seeing them again here in Cleveland on August 22nd. Surprised they’re making a stop in Cleveland, but so glad they are!
June 11, 2024 @ 10:04 am
Amazing live band (I’ve got my tickets) with a handful of amazing albums, but we’ve heard 40% of the new album now and I think this new material so far is incredibly underwhelming.
This doesn’t sound at all to me like a seasoned honky-tonk band leveling up, playing to their strengths and shooting for the moon, rather a band in a creative slump making a lateral (or backward) move toward a sound and vibe that will leave longtime fans (and country music fans in general) scratching their heads at best and be ignored by potential new fans at worst.
I respect that maybe this is exactly the creative direction the band wants to follow, something they felt they needed to do, but I have no idea who will hear this material and think – yes, this is top-shelf country music worthy of all the buzz I’ve heard about this band over the years.
As a longtime fan, I will absolutely pick up the album and give it my full attention (and maybe, hopefully, I’ll end up enjoying it) but if I didn’t know and love the band already I probably wouldn’t give them a second look based on any of these new songs. Really bums me out to feel this way.
June 11, 2024 @ 11:03 am
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
I felt like “One to Grow On” was, pun intended, one they would grow on. It was an amazing album top to bottom and it seemed to get unanimous love from the fans, country music blogs and outlets that I saw cover it. My best guess is it just wasn’t what the band connected with anymore. And that’s okay – I can respect that. Just bummed, selfishly.
June 11, 2024 @ 12:04 pm
One To Grow On should’ve been the band’s popular/commercial breakthrough. I mean, just banger after banger – and unequivocally country, despite some obvious rock influence. A home run of an album, but it barely seemed to move the needle for the band.
This new stuff? I’m not totally sure what the intent was – the narrative seemed to be that, along with the name change, it was intended to open doors and expand the fanbase – but I think the band may actually lose fans with this one.
I’m really glad they’ll be touring far and wide this album cycle. At least they’ll get a chance to wow audiences with their live show and create renewed interest in their back catalogue, because I’m not sure the new album will do that alone.
June 11, 2024 @ 10:11 am
I’m disappointed they won’t be coming down to Florida again, had a great time seeing them at Will’s Pub last year. Looks like they’ve graduated to some bigger and better venues.
June 13, 2024 @ 10:16 am
Sure Mike has seen this, but Roostertail Fest 2024, has Mike & the Moonpies, listed as the Moonpies.
Nonetheless, sure most people are aware that they are now, Silverada.
Seriously considering getting a ticket for Saturday Roostertail Music, to see Silverada, Stephen Wilson, Jr., & Wyatt Flores.
By the by, Wallflower from the new album is VERY good.
June 13, 2024 @ 2:06 pm
I’m not sure what I’m missing with these guys but I don’t get it at all.
Not my cup of tea, I suppose.
June 18, 2024 @ 1:07 pm
No one asked my opinion, but here it is anyway:
This was exactly the feedback that I saw on this website about the Turnpike Troubadours’ last album based on the early singles and then more of the same when the full album dropped. The feedback was so overwhelmingly negative that it actually took me months to listen to the album (an album which I had been waiting for with incredible anticipation and one which I downloaded the day it was available). I think, after all the negative feedback in this comment section, I was afraid to listen to it because I was afraid I would be disappointed by one of my favorite bands of the last 10 years. When I finally played the album, my conclusion was that, like all TT albums, it was top-notch. I may not have thought it was their best, but their best has been so good that expecting every album of theirs to reach those heights is unfair. I ended up quite disappointed that I had read the SCM comment section and lost months in which I could have been listening to the album. I should’ve just stuck to trigger’s review, which was pretty spot on in retrospect.
So I’m going to stop reading this comment section and wait until the album drops. I am purposefully not listening to the singles and will wait to hear the album as a whole. I have the last 4 M & MPs albums, and I think they’re all pretty phenomenal. I’ll be surprised if they lost the plot that badly after their most recent album, which I think was their best yet. At a minimum, I’m not going to have my perception tainted in advance, I will wait to see what trigger says (since he is usually right) and then listen for myself and form my own conclusions.
That said, I do think their original name might well have held them back commercially, and I’m not sure I like the new name all that much either. Good thing their music is fantastic!