The Growlers book Turner Hall Ballroom, their first Milwaukee date since 2019

After a long break from the road, the Southern California band brings its comeback run to Turner Hall on Monday, April 26, 2027.

The last time The Growlers played Milwaukee, it was a late-September night at Turner Hall Ballroom in 2019. Seven and a half years later, the band is coming back to the same room.

The Growlers play Turner Hall Ballroom on Monday, April 26, 2027. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale now through AXS. The date was announced Oct. 20, and it is the band's first Milwaukee show since Sept. 27, 2019, when they last played this same ballroom.

That gap is the story. For a band that once seemed to be permanently on tour, the years after 2019 were quiet ones. The return started on the other side of the world: in January 2026 the band opened a global run in Australia, and coverage of the Melbourne kickoff at Northcote Theatre described it as their first show in over half a decade. The North American leg followed in the spring, and when the tour reached New York, NYS Music billed it as the band's long-awaited return to Brooklyn Steel.

The comeback kept building through the year. A fall West Coast run led to a hometown headline show at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre on Oct. 3, 2026, the band's first LA headline in seven years and its first time playing that venue. Glide Magazine noted that the return has arrived with fresh music, so this is not purely a victory lap through the old catalog.

For Milwaukee, the April date is a chance to close a loop that has been open since 2019. A lot of people who were in that room the first time around were college-age fans who found the band through its loose, reverb-soaked take on garage rock and surf pop. Plenty of the crowd next spring will be hearing those songs live for the first time, because the band simply has not been through the Midwest in years.

Turner Hall is the right size for it. The ballroom holds just under a thousand, which keeps a band like this close to the floor without the distance of a bigger theater. It is also the same stage the band left from, which gives the night a certain symmetry. The building's balcony wraps the room, so latecomers can still find a decent sightline, but the floor is where this show will happen.

A Monday in late April is not the most obvious slot, but it is typical for a long tour routing through the region, and it means the show will not be competing with a crowded weekend calendar. With doors at 7, there is time to get downtown after work and still catch the whole set.

Anyone who has been waiting since 2019 now has a date to circle. The Growlers left this room more than seven years ago, and next April they walk back into it.

Sources: The Growlers tickets — AXS (axs.com); The Growlers at Turner Hall Ballroom — JamBase (jambase.com); The Growlers (USA) — The Music (themusic.com.au); The Growlers Long Awaited Return Hits Brooklyn Steel — NYS Music (nysmusic.com); The Growlers — Nederlander Concerts (Greek Theatre) (nederlanderconcerts.com); The Growlers — Glide Magazine (wpcms.glidemagazine.com)