Mudhoney books the Wild Buffalo for April 1, its first Bellingham date since 2020

Seattle's grunge originals come back up I-5 to Holly Street next spring, fresh off their first New Zealand tour in more than a decade.

Mudhoney's last date on the books in Bellingham was May 2, 2020, at the Wild Buffalo. The band is heading back to the same Holly Street room next spring.

Mudhoney plays The Wild Buffalo on Thursday, April 1, 2027, at 8 p.m. Tickets are through VenuePilot. The show was announced Oct. 26, which puts it about five months out as of today. That is a long runway, and a 450-capacity room does not need long to sell out for a band with this kind of history.

That history starts in 1988 in Seattle, when vocalist Mark Arm and guitarist Steve Turner formed Mudhoney after the split of Green River. The band's mix of punk and blues made it a pioneering force in grunge, as Rough Trade's artist page and this summary lay out. Nearly four decades later, it has never really stopped.

The most recent studio album is *Plastic Eternity*, the band's 11th, released on Sub Pop in April 2023, per Treble. This fall, Mudhoney has been on the other side of the Pacific: a run of intimate club shows in Australia, followed by the band's first New Zealand tour in more than a decade, as Happy Mag reported. The AU Review caught the band at Sydney's Factory Theatre on Oct. 22. So the band that comes back up to Bellingham in April will have spent the season playing exactly the kind of rooms it will find here.

The band that comes back up to Bellingham in April will have spent the season playing exactly the kind of rooms it will find here.

We could not find a new album or a broader 2027 tour announced yet, so the Wild Buffalo date stands on its own for now. Expect a set that leans on the catalog, which, for a band that has been at it since 1988, is a deep well.

The Wild Buffalo, at 208 W. Holly St. downtown, is one of the city's anchor rooms. Visit Bellingham counts it among the best music venues in Whatcom County, and Western Washington University students have long helped fill it, down to a student street team marketing its shows. A Thursday night with Mudhoney is the kind of booking that pulls both the campus crowd and the people who bought *Superfuzz Bigmuff* the first time around.

Mark April 1 on the calendar. It's not a joke.

Sources: VenuePilot: Mudhoney at Wild Buffalo, Bellingham, 2027-04-01 (tickets.venuepilot.com); Rough Trade: Mudhoney (roughtrade.com); EPFL Graph Search: Mudhoney (graphsearch.epfl.ch); Treble: Mudhoney announce new album, Plastic Eternity (treblezine.com); Happy Mag: Mudhoney Australia & New Zealand tour 2026 (happymag.tv); The AU Review (Amy Halpin): Mudhoney at the Factory Theatre (theaureview.com); Visit Bellingham: 9 great music venues in Bellingham and Whatcom County (bellingham.org); WWU News: Street team marketing squad draws crowds to Wild Buffalo (news.wwu.edu); JamBase: Mudhoney at The Wild Buffalo (jambase.com)