Death From Above 1979 add La Rosa, and Tucson gets the first night of the tour

The noise-rock band's new date at the midtown church-turned-venue lands Monday, Feb. 1, three days after their first album in six years comes out.

There's a restored old church in midtown Tucson, and on the first Monday night of February it's going to be very loud inside. Death From Above 1979 have added La Rosa to the front of their 2027 tour. The date lands three days after their first studio album in six years comes out.

The show: Death From Above 1979 play La Rosa on Monday, Feb. 1, 2027, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $85 through See Tickets. The date was announced Oct. 22, and the band's own shows page marks it plainly: "NEW SHOW!"

That label matters. When the band announced the new record and the tour on Sept. 29, the North American run started Feb. 2 at The Marquee in Tempe. Now Tucson goes first. Tempe gets the next night, then the band heads west to San Diego and Los Angeles. If you want to see the opening night of this run, you don't have to drive up I-10 for it. It's here.

The record is Private Lives, out Jan. 29, 2027, on Last Gang/MNRK, the band's original label. It has 10 songs, it follows 2021's *Is 4 Lovers*, and the title track is already out. So by the time the band walks onstage at La Rosa, the album will have been out for a weekend. That's long enough for the people up front to know the new songs, and soon enough that the songs will still feel new to the band.

Several dates on the 2027 run were moved from the band's 2026 fall tour, so in some cities these shows make up for nights that didn't happen. Tucson isn't one of them. This is a new booking, added to a route that originally skipped us.

Tucson gets the first night of the run, three days after the record drops.

The room is a big part of the appeal. La Rosa is one of the newest stops on the local circuit, a live music and events space built inside a restored former Benedictine church in midtown. It's listed on the Rialto Theatre's Tucson calendar next to the downtown rooms most of us already know. Death From Above 1979 usually headline rooms of about 850 people, so La Rosa is about the size they're used to. A church nave is still a very different place to hear a band this loud than a downtown club.

A few practical notes. It's a Monday, so plan the night around work on Tuesday. The 7:30 p.m. start leaves room for a beer or a bite in midtown first. At $85 this costs more than a usual Tucson club show, so decide early rather than counting on a cheap ticket closer to the date. Buy through the See Tickets link on our page or from the band's shows page, not a resale site. The shows page also has the rest of the run if you'd rather chase them to Tempe the next night.

If you haven't heard the band since *Is 4 Lovers*, the *Private Lives* title track is the place to start. You have three months to get ready.

Tempe gets them on Tuesday. On Monday, they're ours.

Sources: Death From Above 1979 — Shows (deathfromabove1979.com); Death From Above 1979 Confirms New Album 'Private Lives' & 2027 Tour Dates (JamBase) (jambase.com); Death From Above 1979 announce new album Private Lives (Stereogum) (stereogum.com); La Rosa Tucson (larosatucson.com); Rialto Theatre — Tucson calendar (rialtotheatre.com); See Tickets — Death From Above 1979 at La Rosa (prod-nts-api.seeticketsusa.us); JamBase show listing (jambase.com)