brakence brings the marroW tour to the Regency Ballroom

Four years after hypochondriac and his last San Francisco show, brakence plays the Regency on April 20, 2027, behind his new album.

The last time brakence played San Francisco, the stage was the Great American Music Hall on December 5, 2022, on the touring cycle for *hypochondriac*. The next visit is in a much bigger room. brakence plays The Regency Ballroom on Tuesday, April 20, 2027, with doors at 7pm and the show at 8pm. Tickets are on AXS, and the date was announced October 27.

The move up says a lot. The Regency holds about 1,400, a big step from the Music Hall, and it's a booking you make when you expect the new record to bring the crowd back and then some.

The new record is *marroW*, released on October 23, 2026, via Columbia. As The Fader reported, it's the hyperpop-and-rock artist's first full-length since his 2022 breakout, *hypochondriac*. That's a long wait by internet-era standards, and the people who spent it replaying *hypochondriac* make up a big part of the audience that will fill the Regency.

The rollout was quick. According to Archyde, brakence announced the album in September with less than a month's notice, along with the lead single "Ready or Not." The same report lays out the North American marroW Tour: it opens March 4 in San Diego at Soma and wraps August 21 at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, with San Francisco on the route between Portland and Los Angeles.

That timing works in the city's favor. By April 20 the tour will have been on the road for about six weeks, and the new songs will be well broken in by the time it reaches the Regency. It also means fans will have had nearly six months to learn *marroW* before the show, which counts for a lot with a crowd that knows the lyrics.

The people who spent four years replaying hypochondriac make up a big part of the audience that will fill the Regency.

What to expect: the big swings between glitchy, maximal production and guitar-driven catharsis that made *hypochondriac* connect, now with an album's worth of new material alongside it. The Regency's open floor suits that kind of set, with plenty of room to move.

For San Francisco fans who caught the 2022 Music Hall show, this is a chance to see whether the artist has grown into the bigger room. For anyone who found brakence later, it's the first local chance in four years.

It's a Tuesday in April. Take Wednesday morning off.

Sources: Brakence releases 'marroW,' his first album in four years — The Fader (thefader.com); Brakence Announces North American Tour for New Album Marrow — Archyde (archyde.com); JamBase: brakence at The Regency Ballroom (jambase.com)