Monster Magnet to Celebrate 1998’s Powertrip on North American Tour

We can argue all day about which Monster Magnet album is best, but we can’t argue about which was the most commercially succesful: that is indisputably 1998’s Powertrip, thanks mostly to the fact that it’s lead single, “Space Lord,” actually got mainstream radio and MTV play.

So it’s understandable that Dave Wyndorf and company would wanna celebrate Powertrip on tour… even if the fact that 2020 is the record’s 22nd anniversary doesn’t really offer any “reason” per se to do so.

The band won’t be playing Powertrip in full on the tour — a press release says the “live set will feature select cuts from this seminal album as well as your Monster Magnet favorites” — but I assume some of these “select cuts” will be tracks from the record that don’t get performed live very much.

Dates are below. Support will come from Nebula and Silvertomb.

3/20: Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere [tickets]
3/21: Boston, MA @ Sinclair [tickets]
3/22: Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts [tickets]
3/24: Pittsburgh, PA @ Rex Theater [tickets]
3/25: Toronto, ON @ The Opera House [tickets]
3/27: Flint, MI @ The Machine Shop [tickets]
3/28: Chicago, IL @ The Metro [tickets]
3/29: Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line [tickets]
3/31: Denver, CO @ The Oriental Theater [tickets]
4/1: Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Bar [tickets]
4/3: Vancouver, BC @ The Rickshaw [tickets]
4/4: Seattle, WA @ El Corazon [tickets]
4/5: Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater [tickets]
4/7: San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall [tickets]
4/8: Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda [tickets]
4/9: Las Vegas, NV @ The House of Blues [tickets]
4/10: San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park [tickets]
4/13: Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Bar N’ Grill [tickets]
4/15: Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade [tickets]
4/16: Charleston, SC @ The Music Farm [tickets]
4/17: Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Sound Stage [tickets]
4/18: Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom [tickets]