IMAGINE DRAGONS ANNOUNCES 13 SUMMER TOUR DATES DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND FOR SOLD OUT SPRING TOUR
LOS ANGELES, CA (February 22, 2013) - Imagine Dragons, one of the biggest break-out rock bands of 2012, has announced 13 additional summer tour dates due to overwhelming demand. The summer tour announcement comes on the heels of the band's first ever headlining club & theater tour, which sold out quickly with many dates selling out the same day tickets went on sale. Tickets to their summer tour go on sale to the public beginning Friday, March 1st at LiveNation.com.
Beginning today fans can click here or visit http://on.fb.me/XDgEng to RSVP for early access to presale tickets available on Thursday, February 28th. Citi® cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, February 26th at 10 a.m. local time through Citi's Private Pass® Program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com. Live Nation mobile app users will have access to presale tickets beginning Thursday, February 28th. Mobile users can text “LNAPP” to 404040 to download the Live Nation mobile app. (Available for iOS and Android.)
The summer leg of the Imagine Dragons tour will begin on Tuesday, May 7th at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina with dates through June 3rd at the Comerica Theater in Phoenix, Arizona. The current spring tour kicked-off on February 8th at The Marquee in Tempe, Arizona and will visit 29 Cities, wrapping March 23rd at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, Colorado.
Imagine Dragons are touring in support of their full-length debut gold album Night Visions (KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records) which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Album chart selling more than 83,000 copies — the best first-week sales for a full-length album by a new rock band since May 2006. Night Visions also climbed to No. 1 on Billboard’s Rock and Alternative Albums chart. The first single “It’s Time” (which spent 41 weeks on the Alternative chart, 44 weeks on the triple A chart ) continues to grow at Top 40 and Hot AC charts, selling more than 1.8 million copies. Their other single “Radioactive” is also nearing platinum and currently No. 1 on the Alternative chart.
IMAGINE DRAGONS are: Dan Reynolds (vocals), Wayne Sermon (guitar), Ben McKee (bass), Daniel Platzman (drums).
IMAGINE DRAGON NEWLY ANNOUNCED TOUR DATES:
05/07 Charlotte, NC Time Warner Cable Arena 05/08 Raleigh, NC Red Hat Amphitheater 05/10 Boca Raton, FL Sunset Cove Amphitheater 05/11 St. Augustine, FL St. Augustine Amphitheater 05/16 Denver, CO Red Rocks Amphitheater 05/20 Orem, UT UCCU (Utah Community Credit Union) Events Center 05/21 Boise, ID Idaho Botanical Garden 05/23 Edmonton, AB Shaw Conference Centre 05/24 Calgary, AB BMO Centre 05/29 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Palladium 05/31 San Francisco, CA America's Cup Amphitheater 06/01 San Diego, CA Open Air Theatre – San Diego State University 06/03 Phoenix, AZ Comerica Theatre
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED DATES:
02/22 Silver Spring, MD The Fillmore 02/23 New York, NY Roseland Ballroom 02/25 Boston, MA House of Blues 02/27 Toronto, ON Sound Academy 02/28 Indianapolis, IN Egyptian Room 03/01 Detroit, MI The Fillmore Detroit 03/02 Milwaukee, WI The Rave 03/04 Chicago, IL House of Blues 03/06 St. Louis, MO The Pageant 03/08 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater 03/09 Winnipeg, MB Garrick Centre 03/11 Edmonton, AB The Starlite Room 03/12 Calgary, AB MacEwan Ballroom 03/14 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom* 03/15 Portland, OR Roseland 03/16 San Francisco, CA Warfield Theatre 03/18 San Diego, CA House of Blues 03/19 Anaheim, CA House of Blues 03/20 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern 03/22 Salt Lake City, UT The Complex 03/23 Denver, CO The Fillmore Auditorium *w/o Atlas Genius
All dates are subject to change.
For more tour and ticket information, visit: www.imaginedragonsmusic.com http://www.facebook.com/ImagineDragons http://twitter.com/imaginedragons http://www.youtube.com/user/ImagineDragons www.LiveNation.com
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