While the slow drip of Summerfest headliners has begun, we know the BMO Pavilion likes to keep busy outside of the festival’s annual dates. With that in mind, the venue has booked an indie-rock double bill that will bring Peach Pit and Briston Maroney to the pavilion May 28.
The “Long Hair, Long Life” co-headlining tour will cover 25 shows in the late spring/early summer window, kicking off May 20 in Philadelphia and wrapping up June 26 in Toronto. Milwaukee is the fifth stop and the first of three performances in three days, followed by May 29 at Chicago’s Huntington Bank Pavilion and May 30 at The Armory in Minneapolis.
Both headliners have around a decade under their belts, with Maroney releasing his first EP in 2015 and Peach Pit a year later. The latter quickly followed it up with a proper full-length, 2017’s excellent Being So Normal. The band’s debut LP introduced many fans to frontman Neil Smith’s uniquely laconic vocal style and the group’s general sound that gleefully embraces guitar licks as a driving force.
Three subsequent albums have seen Peach Pit stay true to their approach while finding opportunities to refine it along the way. The most recent example is their recently released fourth studio release, Magpie, another solid collection of melodic melancholy spread across 11 tracks.
Maroney shares his co-headliner’s preference for creating music around the difficulties that often accompany relationships of all sorts: romantic, platonic and familial. The Nashville-based artist also knows his way around a groove, albeit with a slightly poppier sheen than Peach Pit’s approach. That comes across on Maroney’s latest album, Ultrapure, which he put out last September.
If you’re interested in grabbing tickets to the May 28 show at BMO Pavilion, your first chances are a series of presales that start at 10 a.m. this Wednesday, Nov. 20. Tickets for the general public go on sale at noon the following day, Nov. 21. For more information on all purchasing opportunities, visit the event page on Ticketmaster.
