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Weezer and Spoon (or more properly, Spoon and Weezer) announced a summer concert today at The Great Saltair. The Spoon and Weezer SLC show is on a Sunday night, August 27. It is part of what’s billed as the Weezer Indie Rock Road Trip. What a great wrap to the summer!

Ticket info for Spoon, Weezer SLC show

The first tickets go on sale for Salt Air fan club members and VIP tickets Wednesday at 10AM. Live Nation sales start Thursday and general admission on Friday. This is a spendy date.

General lawn seats are $65… so you’re close to $90 with taxes and fees just to sit in the grass with the great unwashed. Unfortunately the next step up is a VIP ticket with a premium seat and unknown “merch” (chip clip? refrigerator magnet?). VIP tix cost close to $200 all in.

If you’re not a wild-eyed superfan, I can’t recommend the mostly vague VIP options.

I’m a little lost on better guidance for seating — I have never been to Saltair. The truth is: I didn’t know Saltair was still booking acts on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake. Some coming attractions include the Thrones of Blood US tour (March 25), Kayzo – Unleashed XL (April 7), NGHTMRE (April 21) and Seven Lions: Beyond the Veil (June 9).

Not clear if these are bands or Dungeons & Dragons conventions.

Spoon and Weezer SLC concert at end of nationwide tour

From June until the middle of September, Weezer is touring with Spoon, Modest Mouse and Future Islands. I think we are just fortunate that the Western US leg of the tour in August includes this Spoon, Weezer SLC combo. Here is the current itinerary:

• 03-18 Tampa, FL – Innings Festival Florida

• 06-03 Lexington, KY – Railbird Music Festival
• 06-04 Huntsville, AL – The Orion Amphitheater $@
• 06-06 Irving, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory $@
• 06-08 Austin, TX Germania Insurance Amphitheater  $@
• 06-10 Oklahoma City, OK – Zoo Amphitheatre $@
• 06-11 Bonner Springs, KS – Azura Amphitheater $@
• 06-13 Minneapolis, MN – The Armory $@
• 06-14 Madison, WI – Breese Stevens Field $@
• 06-16 Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center $@
• 06-17-18 Indianapolis, IN – Wonderroad Festival
• 06-18 Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre $@
• 06-23 Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion &%
• 06-24 Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion &%
• 06-25 Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre &%
• 06-27 Philadelphia, PA – TD Pavilion at the Mann &%
• 06-28 Bridgeport, CT – Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater &%
• 06-30 Bangor, ME – Maine Savings Amphitheater &%

• 07-01 Worcester, MA – The Palladium Outdoors &%
• 07-03 Canandaigua, NY – CMAC &%
• 07-04 Toronto, Ontario – Budweiser Stage &%
• 07-09 Gary, IN – Hard Rock Casino Northern Indiana – Hard Rock Live %
• 07-11 Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE &%
• 07-13 Queens, NY – Forest Hills Stadium &%
• 07-28-07-30 Naeba, Japan – Fuji Rock Festival

Weezer Indie Rock Tour heads west in August

• 08-22 Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater *^
• 08-24 Berkeley, CA – Greek Theatre *^
• 08-27 Magna, UT – The Great Saltair – Outdoor Pavilion *^
• 08-28 Greenwood Village, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre *^
• 08-30 Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial Theatre *^

• 09-01 Las Vegas, NV – Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood *^
• 09-02 Irvine, CA – Fivepoint Amphitheatre *^
• 09-03 San Diego, CA – Sycuan Stage at Gallagher Square Petco Park *^
• 09-17 Asbury Park, NJ – Sea.Hear.Now Festival

$ with Modest Mouse
@ with Momma
* with Spoon
^ with White Reaper
& with Future Islands
% with Joyce Manor

Get ready for the Weezer Indie Rock Roadtrip

Weezer and Spoon were both very active in 2022. Weezer released four seasonal EP’s in 2022, like the Gilmore Girls reboot. SZNZ: Spring came out in March 2022 and the subsequent three EP’s for each season by December. All of this and more at Weezerpedia, which is an actual site on the interwebs. Spoon toured on the acclaimed Lucifer on the Sofa throughout 2022, including in Salt Lake City in May.

Here’s the reveal video for the Weezer Indie Rock Roadtrip. See you at The Great Saltair!