The Growlers bring City Club back to the Stone Pony in April

The California band's 10th-anniversary tour stops in Asbury Park on Friday, Apr 16, 2027, its first Pony date since a sold-out 2019 show.

The last time The Growlers played Asbury Park, in the summer of 2019, the Stone Pony sold out. Seven and a half years later they're coming back. The band has added Friday, Apr 16, 2027 at the Pony, 913 Ocean Ave., as part of its City Club Live 10th Anniversary Tour, with a 7pm start on the Ticketmaster listing.

The show was announced Oct 20. A presale opened Oct 22, and the band's tour page put general on-sale at 10am on Friday, Oct 23, so tickets are on sale now. The Stone Pony holds about 600, which makes this one of the smallest rooms on the run. The next two nights are at Irving Plaza in Manhattan, Apr 17 and 18. If you'd rather see this band on the boardwalk than in a midtown ballroom, this is the date.

The tour revisits City Club, the band's fifth studio album, released on Cult Records on Sept 30, 2016. That puts the record's actual tenth birthday in the past few weeks; the anniversary run follows in the spring. The spring 2027 dates span late March to May 1 across North America.

City Club was the album where The Growlers, long tagged with the "Beach Goth" label they built around their Southern California sound, tightened up and pushed toward a sleeker, rhythm-forward style. The band hasn't said whether the anniversary shows will play it in full or in sequence, and we don't want to promise that until it does.

The return comes after a long quiet stretch. Coverage of the band's 2026 activity describes its first global run since 2019, starting in Australia in January, followed by a West Coast swing this fall that ended at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on Oct 3, its first hometown headline show in seven years. The April Stone Pony date is part of the band carrying that return east.

As for the room: a 600-cap show on Ocean Avenue is about the best setting a group like this gets on the East Coast.

Tickets are on Ticketmaster through the Stone Pony's own calendar. Doors and age policy should be confirmed there closer to the date. Opening acts haven't been announced.

April is a long way off, and in a 600-capacity room that matters: the Shore crowd that remembers 2019 doesn't wait around. If City Club was one of your records in 2016, this is a good room to hear it in.

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