Chat Pile, Soul Glo and Shallowater take over Newport Music Hall on Nov. 18

The Who Loves the Sun tour reaches High Street in its final week, with a Wednesday bill that's one of the heaviest of the fall.

With four nights left on a tour that started in September, Chat Pile pull into the oldest rock room on High Street.

Chat Pile play Newport Music Hall on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m., with Soul Glo and Shallowater. Tickets are on sale through AXS. It's the first Chat Pile show in Columbus in our records, and it comes ten days after the run's stops in Detroit, Pittsburgh and Fairfield County and a week after New York, Philadelphia and Washington.

The occasion is *Who Loves the Sun*, the band's third full-length album, released Sept. 4 on The Flenser. They announced it this summer with the single "Deep Blue" and a fall U.S. tour to go with it, and the run is billed as the Who Loves the Sun Tour 2026. Soul Glo have been the main support across it, with Virga and Shallowater on select legs; the tour opened Sept. 12 in Oklahoma City and is scheduled to close Nov. 22 in Lawrence, Kansas. Columbus lands in the last week, which means a band that has been playing these songs every night for two months.

A band two months into playing these songs every night, in a room that has seen 55 years of loud ones.

The bill is the reason this is worth a weeknight. Chat Pile and Soul Glo sharing a stage is the kind of pairing metal and hardcore fans in town usually have to drive to Cleveland or Chicago for, and here it is on High Street on a Wednesday. Get there for the 7:30 start; with three bands on the bill, the openers will be on early.

Then there's the room. Newport Music Hall bills itself, through operator PromoWest, as America's longest continually running rock club, and even the narrower version of that claim makes it the oldest continually running venue on High Street. The building opened as a movie house, the State Theater, in December 1921, and became the Agora Ballroom in 1970; its first live rock show with a national act was Ted Nugent, on May 20, 1970. PromoWest bought the Agora in 1984 and reopened it as the Newport Music Hall, and a 2020 documentary, *If These Walls Could Talk*, marked its 50 years as a rock room. It holds 1,700, which is plenty of space for a pit and still close enough to feel the low end in your chest.

A few practical notes: it's a Wednesday, so plan your Thursday accordingly, and check AXS for the ticket that fits you before the day of the show, since the night's on the late end of the tour and there's no second chance on this run.

Columbus doesn't get a bill like this every week. Show up early, stay for all three.

Sources: Chat Pile reveal Who Loves The Sun details, release 'Deep Blue', announce tour — Metal Insider (metalinsider.net); Chat Pile Announce New Album and US Tour, Unleash Single 'Deep Blue' — Consequence (concerts.consequence.net); NMA Exclusive: Chat Pile set fall tour with Soul Glo, Virga and Shallowater — Nu Metal Agenda (numetalagenda.com); Chat Pile - Who Loves The Sun Tour 2026 w/ Soul Glo & Virga — Music Box San Diego (musicboxsd.com); Newport Music Hall — Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Newport Music Hall: historical stepping stone — The Lantern (thelantern.com); "If These Walls Could Talk" | A Newport Music Hall Documentary — Grateful Web (gratefulweb.com); Columbus music venue celebrates its 50th anniversary with new documentary — Dayton Daily News (daytondailynews.com); Chat Pile at Newport Music Hall — tickets (AXS) (axs.com)