Judging from their current world tour, Florida hard rockers Shinedown live by the motto “go big or go home.”
Since May, the band has been selling out most of the arenas on its “Dance, Kid, Dance, Act II” world tour, which pulls into Tucson Arena on Tuesday, Aug. 4.
It will be the band’s first show here since co-headlining KFMA Day with Papa Roach in 2019.
Shinedown brings its "Dance, Kid, Dance, Act II" tour to Tucson Arena on Tuesday, Aug. 4.
When they get here, Shinedown will be without longtime bass player Eric Bass, who stepped away from the tour in early July. In a video posted to social media, Bass said he was dealing with "a pretty serious mental health crash” that occurred in June.
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“I don't really feel it's the wise thing for me to do to go out on tour right now,” said Bass, a longtime champion of mental health.
The band tapped two players to fill in for Bass, who has said he plans to return to the tour as it makes its way across North America through early September, when the tour moves on to Europe.
“Dance, Kid, Dance” is a track off Shinedown’s months-old eighth studio album “Ei8ht.” In early June, the album topped Billboard’s Hard Rock Charts while the single “Young Again” landed at No. 1 on the Hot Hard Rock Songs, adding to the band’s record 24 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock charts since it released its debut album in 2003.
At a few of its recent shows, Shinedown has played "Junkies for Fame," a song they haven’t played live in 18 years.
New York prog-rockers Coheed and Cambria (from left, Zach Cooper, Claudio Sanchez, Travis Steever and Josh Eppard) are on the road with Shinedown through late November.
New York prog-rockers Coheed and Cambria open the show. This will be the first time they have been on a Tucson stage since 2016.
Tuesday’s show at the Tucson Arena, 260 S. Church Ave., starts at 7 p.m. Tickets start at $44.35 through ticketmaster.com.
Contact reporter Cathalena E. Burch at cburch@tucson.com. On Bluesky @Starburch
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