PR: Foster The People Announce “Paradise State Of Mind Tour”

3X GRAMMY® AWARD-NOMINATED GROUP CELEBRATE ACCLAIMED NEW ALBUM, PARADISE STATE OF MIND,

WITH EAGERLY AWAITED 23-CITY RUN NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR DATES BEGIN JANUARY 25, 2025 IN SEATTLE, WA

PRE-SALES BEGIN TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15th AT 10:00 AM (LOCAL)

GENERAL ON-SALES SET FOR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18th AT 10:00 AM (LOCAL)

TOP-BILLED APPEARANCE AT AUSTIN CITY LIMITS MUSIC FESTIVAL TOMORROW, OCTOBER 11th

RIAA Multi-Platinum and Diamond-certified group Foster The People have announced their  North American headline “Paradise State of Mind Tour” with special guest Good Neighbours.  The 23-city run, produced by Live Nation, gets underway January 25, 2025 at The Paramount Theatre in Seattle, WA and then travels through early March. Highlights include stops at such prestigious venues as Los Angeles, CA’s Hollywood Palladium (February 6), Las Vegas, NV’s Fontainebleau Las Vegas (February 8), Chicago, IL’s The Salt Shed (February 15), Brooklyn, NY’s Brooklyn Paramount (February 24), and Atlanta, GA’s Tabernacle (February 28). Pre-sale registration is available now. Pre-sales begin Tuesday, October 15th at 10:00 am (local). General on-sales follow on Friday, October 18th at 10:00 am (local). For complete details including presale registration and ticket information, please visit www.fosterthepeople.com/tour.

The eagerly awaited tour celebrates the recent arrival of Foster The People’s acclaimed new album, Paradise State of Mind, available now via Atlantic Records HERE. Produced by Foster The People lead singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Mark Foster and bandmate Isom Innis with contributions from Paul Epworth, Jack Peñate, Chrome Sparks, and Asa Taccone at studios in London and Los Angeles (including East West Studios’ famed Studio Three, the room where The Beach Boys recorded Pet Sounds), the album is highlighted by such acclaimed tracks as “Chasing Low Vibrations,” “Take Me Back” and the cosmically catchy first single, “Lost In Space.” Hailed by Consequence for “(invoking) moments of psychedelia, the space age, the anthemic of the ’80s, and dramatic disco strings,” the latter track arrived alongside an official music video directed by award-winning filmmaker Rupert Höller and currently boasting over 1.5 million views HERE. The band also recently released the “Lost in Space (PNAU Remix).” The Remix is out everywhere now HERE.

“I think the trickiest part about this record was trying to be authentic about what had been going on with me,” says Mark Foster, “without writing something super dark and without glossing over it, either. Because, to me, it was really important that hope remain at the core of this whole thing. People need hope. I need hope. And when I think about what hope is – it’s having the courage to walk towards something that you think can be better, while fully acknowledging the darkness and reality around you. That was the goal, walking into this album, which was actually really tricky – to make something that rang true to what was on my mind, but that had this much groove and that would be fun to dance to. You know, to me, they’re like Trojan Horses, the message is hiding in the melody.”

Paradise State of Mind – which made a top 10 debut on Billboard’s “Top Albums Sales” chart upon its August release – has been met by critical applause around the world. Uncut praised the album for “evoking Prince and Daft Punk,” while CLASH simply raved, “Foster the People have created a record that, despite its challenging and at times dark journey is one of optimism and insight with a groove that will make you want to dance just like their mega hit single ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ did in 2010… Paradise State of Mind is a coming-of-age record, a band lyrically at the peak of the powers who will take you somewhere to ponder and dance in another dimension.” “With the influx of diverse instrumentation and delightfully wacky songwriting/production choices, Paradise State of Mind may actually be (Foster The People’s) most accomplished album to-date,” wrote Sputnikmusic, “regardless, it’s definitely their most entertaining.” “(Paradise State of Mind) sounds like the backing track for the best space opera ever written,” declared Far Out. “Heavily inspired by disco, the catchy choruses and easy-to-dance-to instrumentation evoke the same feelings that initially helped us fall in love with Foster the People… The band is back, and the album is paradise.”

Foster The People continue to celebrate Paradise State of Mind with a top-billed appearance at Austin, TX’s Austin City Limits Music Festival, both last weekend Friday, October 4th and this Friday, October 11. Foster The People first marked the album’s arrival this summer with an intimate pair of sold-out live dates at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom and Los Angeles, CA’s The Roxy Theatre as well as an electrifying performance of “Lost In Space” on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (streaming HERE). 

FOSTER THE PEOPLE

PARADISE STATE OF MIND TOUR 2024/2025

 WITH SPECIAL GUEST GOOD NEIGHBOURS

OCTOBER

11 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Music Festival *

JANUARY 2025

25 – Seattle, WA – The Paramount Theatre

27 – Vancouver, BC – Queen Elizabeth Theatre

28 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom

31 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater ^

FEBRUARY 2025

3 – Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory

4 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren

6 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium

8  – Las Vegas, NV – Fontainebleau Las Vegas

11 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Union Event Center

12 – Denver, CO – The Fillmore Denver

14 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore Minneapolis presented by Affinity Plus

15 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed

17 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit

18 – Toronto, ON – HISTORY

19 – Montreal, QC – MTELUS

21 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore Philadelphia

22 – Boston, MA – Citizens House of Blues Boston

24 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount

27 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz

28 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle

MARCH 2025

3 – New Orleans, LA – The Fillmore New Orleans

5 – Houston, TX – House of Blues

6 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues

* Festival Appearance

^ Non-Live Nation Date