Rhye opens the Joy Tour at The Warfield next Saturday

Mike Milosh brings this summer's Joy EP to San Francisco on Nov 14, the first night of a nine-date run.

Every tour has a first night, the one where the new songs meet a crowd for the first time on this run and nobody quite knows how it will land. For Rhye, that night is in San Francisco. Rhye plays The Warfield on Saturday, Nov 14, at 8pm, with tickets through AXS. It is the first of nine dates on the run, and the Warfield's 2,300 seats make it a big room to start in.

Rhye is the project of Mike Milosh, who has carried it on as his own outlet through a run of records: the albums *Blood* in 2018, *Spirit* in 2019 and *Home* in 2021, then the *Passing* EP in 2023. This year brought the next chapter. The single "Hold On" arrived last December, which a Shotgun event listing described as Rhye's return and a sign of a new chapter ahead. "Close Your Mouth" followed in March, and the *Joy* EP came out June 12 on Secular Sabbath Records.

The tour takes its name from that EP, so the Joy Tour is the first real chance for most people to hear these songs live. Since the EP has been out since June, fans will have had a full summer and fall with it by the time the lights go down.

Every tour has a first night. For Rhye, that night is in San Francisco.

After the Warfield, the run heads up the coast and back down: Seattle on Nov 17, San Diego on Nov 18 and Los Angeles on Nov 20, then a winter swing through Minneapolis–St. Paul on Dec 4, Chicago on Dec 5 and Detroit on Dec 6. San Francisco gets it before any of them.

That is worth something. Opening nights can be looser than the shows deep into a tour, but they also carry an energy you do not get once a set is locked in. For a project built on intimacy and restraint, starting in a room with the Warfield's history and size is a statement of confidence in where these songs are.

A few practical notes. The show starts at 8pm on a Saturday, so give yourself time to get downtown and through the door; tickets are linked from this page via AXS. Rhye's catalog rewards close listening, so it is worth getting there early enough to settle in rather than catching the first songs from the back of the line.

Milosh has spent the year easing Rhye back into view, one single and one EP at a time. Next Saturday is where the Joy Tour starts, and San Francisco gets the first listen.

Sources: Rhye — Qobuz (qobuz.com); Zeyzey presents Rhye — Shotgun (shotgun.live); Rhye Joy Tour — Michigan.org (michigan.org); Mike Milosh update on new Rhye album — NBHAP (nbhap.com)