Collective Soul comes back to Lincoln, seven years after a Valentine's night at Twin River

The Georgia rockers return to Bally's Twin River Lincoln on Friday, March 26, 2027, carrying a New Wave-tinted 13th album the room hasn't heard yet.

The last time Collective Soul played Rhode Island, it was Valentine's Day 2020, and the world had about a month left before every room in the state went dark. The band hasn't been back since. That changes next spring.

Collective Soul plays Bally's Twin River Lincoln on Friday, March 26, 2027, at 8 p.m. The date was announced Oct. 29, and tickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster. It's the same Lincoln room the band played on Feb. 14, 2020 — a roughly 3,000-capacity event space that suits a group with three decades of radio songs and a crowd that knows every one of them.

Seven years is a long gap for a band that tours as steadily as this one, and the Collective Soul arriving in March isn't quite the same band that left. The biggest change is on record. This spring the group released Touch and Go, its 13th album, first as a Record Store Day exclusive on April 18 on the band's own Fuzze-Flex label, sold only through independent shops before a wider release later in the summer.

Ed Roland has been blunt about where it came from. "It has a New Wave sound," he told Consequence when the album was announced. A venue listing for the band's tour describes the 10-song record as "something new musically for the band, taking inspiration from The Cars and New Wave music" — a turn for a group that built its name on big, crunchy guitar rock out of Georgia. The album was pressed on 180-gram colored vinyl, a nod to the record-store crowd that got it first.

"It has a New Wave sound." — Ed Roland on Touch and Go

The lineup on Touch and Go is the one Lincoln should expect onstage: Ed Roland on vocals, guitar and piano, his brother Dean Roland on rhythm guitar, Will Turpin on bass, Jesse Triplett on lead guitar and Johnny Rabb on drums. The Roland brothers and Turpin are the band's long-running core, the people who've carried these songs since the debut, Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid.

The band hasn't exactly been idle in the years it skipped Rhode Island. In 2025, Collective Soul reunited with Live for a co-headlining Summer Unity Tour of amphitheaters. Its JamBase tour page now runs well into 2027, with Lincoln one of the spring stops.

What to expect in March: a headlining set long enough to mix the catalog with the new material. Touch and Go will be about a year old by then, and this will be the first chance Rhode Island has had to hear how the New Wave songs sit next to the guitar anthems that made the band. Twin River's event center is a comfortable size for that — big enough to feel like an arena-rock night, small enough that you can actually see the stage from the back.

Doors-to-close, it's a Friday in late March, which in Rhode Island usually means the first night of the year you can leave the heavy coat in the car. After seven years away, that seems about right.

Sources: Collective Soul Announce New Album Touch and Go, Inspired by New Wave Music (Consequence) (concerts.consequence.net); Collective Soul (Wikipedia) (en.wikipedia.org); Collective Soul – The SKY PAC (theskypac.com); New Ocean Media tag (Screamer Magazine) (screamermagazine.com); Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid (Wikipedia) (en.wikipedia.org); LIVE And COLLECTIVE SOUL Reunite For 2025 Co-Headlining 'Summer Unity Tour' (Blabbermouth) (blabbermouth.net); Collective Soul Tickets & 2026-2027 Tour Dates (JamBase) (jambase.com); Collective Soul at Bally's Twin River Lincoln (JamBase) (jambase.com)