Barns Courtney Has New Album & 2024 Tour
Barns Courtney has released his long-awaited new album Supernatural via Avenue A/Virgin Records. His raucous third LP is a high-flying and nail-biting odyssey through a dystopian world of his own creation—a concept album that nonetheless is packed with universal truisms when it comes to who we are, and what we try to avoid becoming.
He has teased the album with the recent single “National Treasure,” which Wolf In A Suit labeled “”wonderfully unique (and) rebellious.” The song introduces fans to the album’s narrative center, a post-apocalyptic cult leader and his terrifying ascent in a fictional dystopia amidst a oil-starved world worshiping natural gas company logos.
Hailed by Rolling Stone as a “stomping, swaggering rock & roll balancing act teetering between blinding light and total darkness,” Barns Courtney will be the direct support for The Struts on their forthcoming North American tour. The dates kick off on July 23 in Houston, TX and conclude on August 31 at the House of Blues in Anaheim, CA. Following that he heads to The UK and Europe to tour as the co-headline with the band.
Barns Courtney—a near-lifelong musician who started writing songs at age six and later spent time living in his car as he struggled to kickstart his career—the push for transformation and transcendence lies at the heart of all his work. His star-making debut The Attractions of Youth dropped in 2017 and the follow-up, 2019’s 404 was a top 25 at Alt Radio and top 40 at AAA. Over the course of his career he has received critical acclaim with multiple Gold singles in the US and UK including “99” (which reached the top 5), “Glitter and Gold” and “Fire.” Performances on Conan, The Late Late Show with James Corden and video game syncs including Apex Legends, FIFA 17 and more, have all helped propel Barns to the forefront of the rock world.
With Supernatural, Courtney has returned with a record that triumphantly announces his return while launching him head-first into the future’s awesome stratosphere. The road to Supernatural was, as with all accomplished works, not without difficulties: Courtney was previously riding high on the release of his sensational second album 404 in 2019, before COVID hit and shut down the world around him: “The immense amount of work that I’d been putting in, touring eleven and a half months out of every year for six years, hit me all at once like a ton of bricks,” he recalls. “The moment I had a chance to breathe, all my demons saw the opportunity with the waters calmed to raise their disgusting awful hideous heads out from the depths. They challenged me all at once, and I was paralyzed.”
Barns Courtney 2024 Tour Dates
7/23 – House of Blues – Houston, TX
7/24 – Stubb’s – Austin, TX
7/26 – The Marathon – Nashville, TN
7/27 – The Factory – Chesterfield, MO
7/28 – Andrew J Brady Music Center – Cincinnati, OH
7/30 – Bottle & Cork – Dewey Beach, DE
8/1 – Anthem – Washington, DC
8/2 – Fillmore – Philadelphia, PA
8/3 – Stone Pony Summer Stage – Asbury Park, NJ
8/4 – HOB – Boston, MA
8/6 – State Theater – Portland, ME
8/7 – College Street – New Haven, CT
8/9 – Royal Oak – Detroit, MI
8/10 – History – Toronto, ON
8/11 – Stage AE – Pittsburgh, PA
8/13 – The Rave – Milwaukee, WI
8/14 – Kemba Live – Columbus, OH
8/16 – Rock The Ruins – Indianapolis, IN
8/17 – The Riviera Theatre – Chicago, IL
8/18 – The Fillmore – Minneapolis, MN
8/20 – Mission Ballroom – Denver, CO
8/21 – The Complex – Rockwell – Salt Lake City, UT
8/23 – Roseland Theater – Portland, OR
8/24 – Showbox SoDo – Seattle, WA
8/25 – The Orpheum – Vancouver, BC
8/27 – Grand Sierra Theatre – Reno, NV
8/28 – Fox Theater – Oakland, CA
8/30 – Marquee – Tempe, AZ
8/31 – House of Blues – Anaheim, CA9/27 – Barrowlands – Glasgow, UK
9/28 – O2 Academy – Leeds, UK
9/29 – Rock City – Nottingham, UK
10/1 – Albert Hall – Manchester, UK
10/2 – O2 Institute – Birmingham, UK
10/4 – NX – Newcastle, UK
10/5 – SWX – Bristol, UK
10/6 – Roundhouse – London, UK
10/8 – La Madeleine – Brussels, BEL
10/9 – 013 Poppodium – Tilburg, NL
10/10 – Carlswerk Victoria – Cologne, GER
10/12 – Bataclan – Paris, FRA
10/13 – Docks – Hamburg, GER
10/15 – Vega – Copenhagen, DEN
10/16 – Huxleys – Berlin, GER
10/17 – Progresja – Warsaw, POL
10/19 – Lucerna Music Bar – Prague, CZR
10/20 – Komplex 457 – Zurich, SWI
10/21 – Fabrique – Milan, ITA