Baltimore five-piece rock outfit Turnstile are taking their new album Glow On on the Love Connection Tour in 2022. The record dropped on Aug. 27 via Roadrunner Records.
Kicking off in San Francisco in late February for two shows before officially resuming in April, the 22-date trek through North America will feature support from Citizen, Ceremony, Ekulu, Truth Cult, and Coco & Clair Clair.
The title of the tour, Turnstile Love Connection, comes from the band’s summer EP of the same name. Those four songs, including the comeback single “Mystery,” worked their way onto Glow On for their first new album in three years.
“A lot of it is a big-picture reflection on the effect that you have on the world as a person, and on what you leave behind when you’re gone,” Turnstile’s Brendan Yates told Kerrang of the project.
Tickets sales begin on Friday, November 19th. Find tickets here.
The Turnstile Love Connection Tour Dates
February 23 — San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
February 24 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Novo
April 26 — Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre
April 27 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell
April 29 — Vancouver, BC @ The Rickshaw Theatre
April 30 — Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
May 2 — Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
May 4 — Albuquerque, NM @ El Rey Theatre
May 6 — Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
May 7 — Dallas, TX @ Amplified Live
May 9 — Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
May 10 — Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl
May 12 — Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
May 13 — Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
May 14 — Lawrence, KS @ The Granada Theater
May 17 — Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre
May 18 — Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre
May 19 — Toronto, ON @ The Phoenix Concert Theatre
May 21 — Worcester, MA @ Palladium
May 23 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
May 24 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore Philadelphia
May 26 — Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
NEWS
No matter what you thought of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, there was only one undisputed winner by the end of it all: the reaction community in the worlds of streaming and YouTube. Your favorite content creators broke down the bars, reacted to all the most shocking moments, and helped this showdown become one of hip-hop's most culturally significant and resonant moments in a long time... For better or worse. See, the battle's technically not over yet, but only because the 6ix God's idea of victory is clearly quite different. In his federal defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group – his label – for releasing K.Dot's "Not Like Us," he named various content creators who allegedly helped boost the track's widespread popularity and, as a result, its supposedly defamatory nature.
Furthermore, the specific allegation that Drake brings up in this highly controversial lawsuit is that UMG "whitelisted" copyright claims for YouTubers, streamers, etc. concerning "Not Like Us." This means that they would be able to monetize their content without facing a copyright claim from UMG over "Not Like Us," and this isn't really an allegation because various creators have backed this up. But a few important (alleged) caveats that people are talking about online need to be clear. First, "whitelisting" supposedly happens on behalf of a record label behind a song like the West Coast banger, and UMG is instead the distributor of that track. Secondly, as rapper and online personality ScruFaceJean brings up as seen in the post below, tracks like "Push Ups" were also "whitelisted" by its team.
Along with Jean, many other of your favorite content creators spoke out against this Drake lawsuit. Zias! and B.Lou, for example, spoke with their lawyer about the possibility of countersuing for emotional distress, as they found the Toronto superstar's accusations and his implication of them very disturbing and misguided. NoLifeShaq also dragged The Boy through the mud, calling him "soft" and positing that, whether "whitelisting" happened or not, they would react to "Not Like Us" accordingly as they did to his own tracks.
In addition, it's important to bring up that many others fans have pointed to how Drake excitedly used streamers to generate hype and reaction clips for his own diss tracks against Kendrick Lamar. The most direct example is with Kai Cenat, whom he texted to "stay on stream" before dropping "Family Matters." Ironically, the Twitch giant appears in this clowned-upon defamation lawsuit as an example of what the OVO mogul's accusations and implications are. And one more thing: there is no direct link between monetization and algorithmic boosting on sites like YouTube. With all this in mind, content creators seem to feel almost insulted at the idea that they only reacted to the two biggest rappers in the world beefing with each other because one of them would allow them to make money. If Drizzy knew the first thing about the reaction community, maybe he wouldn't have included this...
