Moon Taxi Announce “Set Yourself Free” Tour With The Stews
Nashville-based indie band Moon Taxi has just released (June 9th, 2023) their sixth studio album, Set Yourself Free, and fans are in for a treat as the quintet announce their upcoming tour of the same name. The “Set Yourself Free” tour will take Moon Taxi on a three-month run across the United States, with support from The Stews, and include stops in major cities such as Atlanta, Nashville, Boston, Denver, and many others.
Talking about Set Yourself Free, lead guitarist Spencer Thomson explained, “We didn’t exactly sit down and have an agenda for what the album was going to sound like. We just worked on songs for a long period of time, and then the last couple of months have been more of a discovery process – discovering what we’ve actually been doing and trying to make sense of the whole thing.”
Set Yourself Free marks a significant milestone for Moon Taxi, as the band primarily wrote and recorded the album themselves. Reflecting on the creative process, keyboardist Wes Bailey shared, “The last record had quite a few co-writes – this record did not. We challenged ourselves to write most of the material on our own, and that’s really something to hang your hat on these days when you typically hire an outside writer or producer. We really tried to look inward and do a lot of that on our own.”
Listen to Moon Taxi’s album title track “Set Yourself Free” below
With five previous albums under their belt, Moon Taxi had, and took, the opportunity to think outside the box and make some reaches, both musically and lyrically. “I think a lot of that freedom comes with having done it for a long time and on album number six, you’re no longer trying to find your sound like you are in earlier albums. You can kind of do what you want and then objectively look at it towards the end,” said bassist Tommy Putnam. “You just trust yourself and your ear.”
With support from The Stews, the “Set Yourself Free” tour will begin with a three day residency at Isle of Palms, South Carolina’s The Windjammer from August 4th-6th then continue to make stops in Atlanta, Nashville, Boston, Brooklyn, and concluding in Denver, Colorado, on December 9th at Summit Music Hall.
Moon Taxi Set Yourself Free Tour
- August 4 – Isle of Palms, SC @ The Windjammer
- August 5 – Isle of Palms, SC @ The Windjammer
- August 6 – Isle of Palms, SC @ The Windjammer
- August 9 – Virginia Beach, VA @ 24th Street Park
- August 10 – Savannah, GA @ Victory North
- August 11 – Ponte Vedra, FL @ Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
- August 12 – Augusta, GA @ Imperial Theatre
- August 24 – Tuscaloosa, AL @ Druid City Music Hall
- August 25 – Chattanooga, TN @ Signal
- August 26 – Athens, GA @ Georgia Theater
- August 31 – Greenville, SC @ The Foundry
- September 1 – Wilmington, NC @ Greenfield Lake Amphitheater
- September 2 – Asheville, NC @ Salvage Station
- September 15 – New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina’s
- September 16 – Mobile, AL @ Soul Kitchen
- September 22 – Huntsville, AL @ Mars Music Hall
- September 28 – Columbia, SC @ The Senate
- September 29 – High Point, NC @ The Stage @ Cohab
- September 30 – Macon, GA @ Capitol Theatre Macon
- October 4 – Baton Rouge, LA @ Varsity Theatre
- October 5 – Oxford, MS @ Lyric Theater
- October 6 – Little Rock, AR @ The Hall
- October 7 – St. Louis, MO @ The Big Top
- October 12 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
- October 13 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverfront Amphitheater
- October 14 – Louisville, KY @ Paristown Hall
- October 20 – Birmingham, AL @ Avondale Brewing
- October 26 – Columbus, OH @ The Bluestone
- October 27 – Indianapolis, IN @ Vogue
- October 28 – Peoria, IL @ Premier Event Center
- November 1 – Charlottesville, VA @ Jefferson Theater
- November 2 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
- November 3 – Richmond, VA @ The National
- November 4 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr Smalls Theatre
- November 6 – Portland, ME @ State Theatre
- November 8 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
- November 9 – Philadelphia, PA @ Brooklyn Bowl
- November 10 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bowl
- November 11 – Raleigh, NC @ Lincoln Theater Block Party
- November 18 – Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
- November 30 – Houston, TX @ Last Concert Backyard & Amp
- December 1 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s
- December 2 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
- December 3 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
- December 5 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Jones Assembly
- December 6 – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown
- December 8 – Kansas City, MO @ The Truman
- December 9 – Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall
For more information on Moon Taxi or to get tickets to any of their upcoming tour dates, visit their website here.