Interpol and Deafheaven bring a heavy double bill to Thomas Wolfe Auditorium

Interpol's first Asheville show since 2022 lands March 23 with Deafheaven opening, on a short spring run behind 'This Mirror Weighs a Ton.'

Interpol's spring tour only has nine American stops, and one of them is a Tuesday night in downtown Asheville. That is a better hand than this town usually gets dealt.

Interpol plays Thomas Wolfe Auditorium on Tuesday, March 23, 2027, with Deafheaven opening. Doors are at 7pm and the show starts at 8pm. Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. The date was announced Oct. 22, and it's the band's first Asheville show since Sept. 3, 2022, when they played Asheville Yards. The auditorium holds 2,431.

The run is short and it's specific. Interpol's March dates cover nine US shows between March 16 and 27, starting at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans and moving through San Antonio, Hidalgo and Dallas before turning east. Asheville comes after Dallas and ahead of The Anthem in Washington, D.C., the Met in Philadelphia and the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey. Deafheaven opens eight of the nine, with Memphis the lone exception, so Asheville gets the full bill.

This is a tour with a new record to carry. This Mirror Weighs a Ton, Interpol's eighth studio album, came out Aug. 28 on Partisan Records, their first release for the label and their first album in four years. The band made it in Manhattan, something they hadn't done in more than a decade, with Andrew Wyatt producing and Dave Fridmann mixing. The arrangements reach past the band's familiar guitar architecture to bring in strings, woodwinds, acoustic guitar and experimental sound design.

The reviews suggest the change took. The Skinny called it the band's most refreshed sound in more than 15 years, and Under the Radar called it one of their strongest records in years. The 12 songs open with the title track and "See Out Loud" and run through "Iron City," "Wounded Soldier" and "Wings On Fire" before closing on "Sudden." By late March the record will have been out for seven months, which is about when new songs stop sounding new on stage and start sounding like part of the catalog.

Asheville gets the full bill: Deafheaven opens eight of the nine dates.

The pairing is the other reason to circle this one. Interpol and Deafheaven come from different corners of loud guitar music, and putting them on the same stage makes a night that should appeal to two crowds that don't always end up in the same room. If you've been meaning to see Deafheaven and never lined it up, an opening slot in a 2,400-seat hall is a low-risk way to do it.

The setting changes too. In 2022 Interpol played Asheville Yards. This time it's Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, the downtown hall at the Harrah's Cherokee Center, and a different kind of room for a band that likes its shows dark and tightly lit.

It has been four and a half years since Interpol came through. On a Tuesday in March, with a new record and one of the more interesting openers they could have picked, they are giving Asheville a reason to stay out late on a school night.

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