For Immediate Release
IMAGINE DRAGONS RELEASE NEW ALBUM — EVOLVE — VIA KIDINAKORNER / INTERSCOPE RECORDS
BAND BRINGS DYNAMIC LIVE SHOW TO ARENAS ACROSS NORTH AMERICA WITH THE EVOLVE TOUR THIS FALL
May 9th, 2017 — (Santa Monica, CA) — Multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning band Imagine Dragons will bring its electrifying live show to arenas across North America this fall with the Evolve Tour, produced by Live Nation.
Watch the video for “Believer” HERE and “Thunder” HERE.
“Believer” spent six consecutive weeks at No. 1 at Alternative Radio and broke a 13+ year record for number of spins at the format, besting the record previously held by Linkin Park’s “Faint” in 2003. TIME called “Believer” “another showstopper of an anthem,” while Entertainment Weekly noted its “thudding tribal drums, a massive shout along chorus, and a wicked bassline that’s the sonic equivalent of a slug to the gut.” Billboard called “Believer” “a whimsical-yet-authoritative anthem sure to turn even the most hesitant of optimists into a believer.”
Imagine Dragons will kick off the Evolve Tour on September 26th in Phoenix, AZ, with Grouplove and K.Flay providing support.
Formed in 2009 and featuring lead vocalist Dan Reynolds, guitarist Wayne Sermon, bassist Ben McKee, and drummer Daniel Platzman, Imagine Dragons earned a grassroots following by independently releasing a series of EPs. After Alex Da Kid signed them to his KIDinaKORNER/Interscope label, the band made its major-label debut with the release of Continued Silence, a 2012 EP featuring the 2x platinum breakthrough single “It’s Time.” Night Visions arrived later that year and Imagine Dragons found themselves on a skyward trajectory that saw the album debut at No. 2 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and became the No. 1 album on Spotify Worldwide for 2013. Night Visions has sold over 5 million copies worldwide. The album’s second single, the 9x-platinum “Radioactive,” hit No. 1 on the Billboard Rock chart and earned the band a 2014 Grammy for “Best Rock Performance.” The third single, “Demons,” hit No. 1 at Alternative and Top 40 radio, and has sold 3.9 million copies in the U.S. Imagine Dragons’ platinum-selling second album, Smoke + Mirrors, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart and has sold 1.1 million copies worldwide.
The track-list for Evolve is as follows:
I Don’t Know Why Whatever It Takes Believer Walking The Wire Rise Up Make It Up To You Yesterday Mouth of the River Thunder Start Over Dancing In The Dark
Evolve Tour Dates:
09/26 Phoenix, AZ Talking Stick Resort Arena 09/27 San Diego, CA Mattress Firm Amphitheatre 09/29 Las Vegas, NV T-Mobile Arena 10/01 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl 10/03 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre 10/04 Sacramento, CA Golden 1 Center 10/06 Seattle, WA Key Arena 10/08 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena 10/10 Edmonton, AB Rogers Place 10/11 Calgary, AB Scotiabank Saddledome 10/13 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheater 10/14 Denver, CO Pepsi Center 10/16 Saint Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center 10/18 Chicago, IL United Center 10/19 Detroit, MI Little Caesars Arena 10/21 Cincinnati, OH U.S. Bank Arena 10/23 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center 10/24 Newark, NJ Prudential Center 10/26 Quebec, QC Le Centre Videotron 10/27 Montreal, QC Bell Centre 10/29 Boston, MA TD Garden 11/01 Buffalo, NY KeyBank Pavilion 11/02 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center 11/04 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena 11/05 Washington, DC Verizon Center 11/07 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena 11/08 Charlotte, NC Spectrum Center 11/10 Orlando, FL Amway Arena 11/12 Houston, TX Toyota Center 11/13 Dallas, TX American Airlines Arena 11/16 Anaheim, CA Honda Center
www.imaginedragonsmusic.com
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For Imagine Dragons contact:
Hillary Siskind Interscope [email protected]
Lisa Gottheil Grandstand Media [email protected]
For Live Nation: Emily Bender [email protected]