Steve Lacy brings the "Oh Yeah?" Tour to Arizona Financial Theatre on Nov 17

His first headline run since 2022, behind a self-produced album with SZA and Erykah Badu, lands in downtown Phoenix on a Tuesday at 8 p.m.

Four years is a long gap for an artist whose last big moment was everywhere at once. Steve Lacy spent it out of the headline spotlight, and this fall he's back on the road with a new record and a full-size tour. On Tuesday, Nov. 17, the Oh Yeah? Tour reaches Arizona Financial Theatre in downtown Phoenix, a 5,000-capacity room.

The show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are through Ticketmaster via the show's ticket link. We have no earlier Phoenix show for Lacy in our records.

The album behind the tour, *Oh yeah?*, came out July 17 on RCA. It's his third studio album and his first in four years: ten tracks, self-produced, with guest spots from SZA, Erykah Badu and Cecile Believe. Self-produced is the key word. Lacy has always been at his most interesting when the bedroom-studio instincts that made his name are left intact, and a short, ten-song record with his own hands on every knob suggests he knows it.

Ten songs, his own production, and a guest list that includes Erykah Badu.

The tour is a statement, too. According to Pollstar, it's his first run of headline shows since the sold-out Give You the World Tour in 2022, and it's built at scale: 27 North American cities, promoted by Live Nation, opening Sept. 27 in Minneapolis and wrapping Nov. 30 in Vancouver. It came through Detroit, Camden and Virginia Beach in October, played Houston's Smart Financial Centre just this weekend, and heads to Denver on Nov. 11 and Las Vegas on Nov. 13 before Phoenix.

That puts Phoenix in the last two weeks of the run, which is usually where a tour is at its tightest. The band has had seven weeks of nightly reps with the new material; the set is settled. If you've been waiting on reports from earlier stops, the version that shows up here should be the finished one.

The room suits it. Arizona Financial Theatre, at 400 W. Washington St., opened in 2002 as the Dodge Theatre, became the Comerica Theatre in 2010 and the Arizona Federal Theatre in 2019, and took its current name in 2022 when the credit union behind the sponsorship rebranded. Whatever the sign out front says, it has stayed one of downtown's mid-size workhorses, big enough for a real production and small enough that the back rows still feel like they're at a show. For an artist whose records feel close and personal, that matters.

A few things to plan around. It's a Tuesday, and an 8 p.m. start with an opener on most tour bills means a late finish downtown, so sort out parking or a ride before you go. Check the ticket page closer to the date for the full bill and entry policies.

Lacy has spent four years mostly out of view. The Phoenix crowd gets to see what he came back with.

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