St. Paul & The Broken Bones book The Mill & Mine for April 15

The soul band brings its self-titled sixth album and the new Proxy EP to Knoxville next spring, with The Point. opening.

There are bands you see once and then make a point of seeing every time they come through. St. Paul & The Broken Bones have built a career on being that band, and next April they come back to Knoxville with more new music than they've had in years.

St. Paul & The Broken Bones play The Mill & Mine on Thursday, April 15, 2027, at 8pm, with The Point. opening. The date was announced on October 26. Tickets are through TicketWeb, and The Mill & Mine holds 1,200.

The reason to pay attention now is the band's recent run of releases. In October 2025 they put out their sixth studio album, simply titled St. Paul & The Broken Bones, on their own label, Oasis Pizza Records, distributed by Thirty Tigers, as mxdwn reported when they announced it. Singles "Fall Moon" and "Sitting in the Corner" led the way. A self-titled record six albums in is usually a statement, and mxdwn's review took it as one.

They didn't stop there. In September 2026 the band followed with Proxy, a four-song EP that BroadwayWorld framed as the follow-up to the self-titled album. Put the two together and an April show next year will be drawing on a set list with plenty of new songs in it.

A self-titled record six albums in is a statement, and the Proxy EP kept it going.

St. Paul & The Broken Bones have been a steady touring act for more than a decade, and the routes have taken them everywhere from Minneapolis's First Avenue to Cincinnati's Taft Theatre, which hosted the band's "Live in 2026" run this May. They've done television too: Live for Live Music covered their soulful performance on Conan. The common thread across all of it is a live show built around a big band, horns and a frontman who commits completely.

Why The Mill & Mine? A 1,200-capacity room is the right fit for a band this size: big enough for a horn section to breathe, small enough that the show doesn't lose its intimacy. For Knoxville, it also means a weeknight show that feels like an event without the trek of an arena.

The Point. open the night, so plan to arrive close to the 8pm start.

Tickets are live now through TicketWeb. April is five and a half months away, which gives you all winter to get to know the new record and the Proxy EP before you hear them in the room.

Some bands are worth the Thursday night. This is one of them.

Sources: JamBase: St. Paul and The Broken Bones at The Mill & Mine (jambase.com); TicketWeb: St. Paul & The Broken Bones at The Mill & Mine (ticketmaster.evyy.net); mxdwn: St. Paul & The Broken Bones drop 'Sitting in the Corner,' announce self-titled album (music.mxdwn.com); mxdwn: St. Paul & The Broken Bones share new song 'Fall Moon' (music.mxdwn.com); mxdwn: Album review – St. Paul & The Broken Bones (music.mxdwn.com); BroadwayWorld: St. Paul & The Broken Bones release Proxy EP (broadwayworld.com); First Avenue: St. Paul & The Broken Bones (first-avenue.com); Taft Theatre: St. Paul & The Broken Bones – Live in 2026 (tafttheatre.org); Live for Live Music: St. Paul & The Broken Bones deliver soulful performance on Conan (liveforlivemusic.com)