David Byrne continues to add more dates for his 2025-2026 world tour. The run has had dozens of shows already completed in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the U.K. and Ireland, with another long run underway in the U.S. during the spring and then a summer return to Europe (that’s comprised mostly of festival dates). New shows have been added to Asia and the U.S. for August and September. The tour is in support of Byrne’s new studio album, Who Is the Sky?, his first new LP since 2018’s acclaimed and award-winning American Utopia. The title arrived on September 5 by Matador Records, just days before the 2025-2026 world tour commenced. His return to the road with a brand new live show features 13 musicians, singers and dancers, including members of the American Utopia band, all of whom will be mobile throughout the set. Tickets can be purchased here. The album, on CD, vinyl and special lemon yellow vinyl, is available in the U.S./worldwide here, in Canada here and in the U.K. here.

Who Is the Sky? was produced by the Grammy-winning Kid Harpoon (Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus), while its 12 songs were arranged by the members of New York-based chamber ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra. It’s led by the infectious single “Everybody Laughs”; its official video, directed by multimedia artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, was released on June 10, the day of the announcement.

Byrne describes it as “kind of a list song… where you start off with a premise and you kind of list a lot of stuff and then you break away from that.”

“Someone I know said, ‘David, you use the word “everybody” a lot.’ I suppose I do that to give an anthropological view of life in New York as we know it,” says Byrne. “Everybody lives, dies, laughs, cries, sleeps and stares at the ceiling. Everybody’s wearing everybody else’s shoes, which not everybody does, but I have done. I tried to sing about these things that could be seen as negative in a way balanced by an uplifting feeling from the groove and the melody, especially at the end, when St. Vincent and I are doing a lot of hollering and singing together. Music can do that – hold opposites simultaneously. I realized that when singing with Robyn earlier this year. Her songs are often sad, but the music is joyous.”

“What Is The Reason For It?” features vocal interplay between Byrne and Paramore’s Hayley Williams.

[More about the new album below the tour dates.]

Related: Our review of the tour

David Byrne 2026 World Tour (Tickets are available here)

North America
04/24 – Houston, TX – Smart Financial Centre
04/28 – St. Louis, MO – Stifel Theatre
04/29 – St. Louis, MO – Stifel Theatre
05/01 – Indianapolis, IN – Murat Theatre
05/02 – Indianapolis, IN – Murat Theatre
05/03 – Milwaukee, WI – Miller High Life Theatre
05/05 – Kansas City, MO – Starlight Theatre (Outdoors)
05/07 – Cleveland, OH – Playhouse Square
05/09 – Nashville, TN – Ascend Amphitheater
05/11 – Durham, NC – DPAC
05/12 – Durham, NC – DPAC
05/13 – Virginia Beach, VA – The Dome
05/15 – Bridgeport, CT – Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater
05/17 – Baltimore, MD – Hippodrome Theatre
05/18 – Baltimore, MD – Hippodrome Theatre

Europe
06/07 – Dublin, IE – St Anne’s Park
06/12 – Oslo, Norway – Piknik i Parken
06/17 – Prague, Czechia – O2 Universum
06/18 – Budapest, Hungary – Budapest Arena
06/21 – Athens, Greece – Release Athens x SNF Nostos
06/23 – Bari, Italy – Fiera del Levante
06/25 – Lucca, Italy – Piazza Napoleone
06/26 – Marostica, Italy – Marostica Summer Festival
06/28 – Pula, Croatia – Arena Pula
07/01 – Gdynia, Poland – Open’er Festival
07/03 – Roskilde, Denmark – Roskilde Festival
07/04 – Beuningen, Netherlands – Down the Rabbit Hole
07/10 – Barcelona, Spain – Cruilla Festival
07/11 – Madrid, Spain – Mad Cool Festival
07/14 – Cascais, Portugal – Ageas Cooljazz Festival
07/18 – Halifax, UK – TK Maxx Presents Live at the Piece Hall
07/20 – Edinburgh, UK – Edinburgh Playhouse
07/21 – Edinburgh, UK – Edinburgh Playhouse
07/22 – Edinburgh, UK – Edinburgh Playhouse
07/24 – Henham, UK – Latitude Festival
07/26 – Cardiff, UK – TK Maxx Presents Depot Live at Cardiff Castle
7/29 – Reykjavik, Iceland – Sena Live

Asia
8/07 – Singapore – The Star Theatre
8/10 – Bangkok, Thailand – UOB Live
8/15 – Tokyo, Japan – Summer Sonic Festival
8/16 – Tokyo, Japan – Summer Sonic Festival
8/21 – Seoul, South Korea – Hall of Peace Kyunghee University

North America
8/27 – San Diego, CA – Cal Coast Union Open Air Theatre
8/28 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl
8/29 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl
9/17 – Saratoga Springs, NY – SPAC
9/19 – Forest Hills, NY – Forest Hills Stadium

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In 2023, as his triumphant American Utopia era came to a close after morphing from an album and tour into an acclaimed Broadway show and then a Spike Lee-directed HBO film, Byrne began jotting down the occasional groove, chord or melody.

During the tumultuous three prior years, “I did a LOT of cooking (Mexican and Indian mostly) and a LOT of drawing,” says Byrne, who also started compiling lyric ideas and phrases for possible songs. “I’ve found that when the time comes, it’s easier to start if there’s a little stockpile – and before too long there was. Very rudimentary songs began to emerge, with just me on acoustic guitar singing over a programmed loop or beat.”

And with the world, and the in-progress American Utopia Broadway run, on pause, he, like much of humanity, took the opportunity to ask, “Do I like what I’m doing? Why am I writing songs, or working this job, or whatever? Does any of it matter?”

The Who Is The Sky? album package was designed by Shira Inbar and finds Byrne nearly obscured by radiating, colored patterns and psychedelic, spiky outfits designed by Belgian artist Tom Van Der Borght.

David Byrne Who Is the Sky? Track List
Everybody Laughs
When We Are Singing
My Apartment Is My Friend
A Door Called No
What Is the Reason for It?
I Met the Buddha at a Downtown Party
Don’t Be Like That
The Avant Garde
Moisturizing Thing
I’m an Outsider
She Explains Things to Me
The Truth

The album, on CD, vinyl and special lemon yellow vinyl, is available in the U.S. here and in Canada here and in the U.K. here.