Deftones have been on the road almost nonstop recently, mostly playing festivals – now they’re celebrating their enduring, cross-generational popularity with their own headlining tour of US arenas this winter and spring. The tour kicks off in Portland, Oregon on February 25 and ends in Boston on April 8, with stops at the KIA Forum in LA and Madison Square Garden in New York. Mars Volta and Fleshwater will open the shows.
Before that, Deftones will headline the fifth edition of their own festival, Dia De Los Deftones, at Petco Park in San Diego on November 2. Their hand-picked lineup for the festival also includes Idles, Sunny Day Real Estate and Duster, among others.
Twenty-four years after the release of their breakthrough album White pony, Deftones have a fanbase almost as young as ever, with fans from Generation Z and even Generation Alpha finding the band via TikTok and word of mouth. The band’s last album was 2020 ohmand frontman Chino Moreno said in April that the band was already in the middle of recording their next release.
In 2022, Sergio Vega, who had been the band’s bassist since 2009, left the band and was replaced by touring bassist Fred Sabian – Vega said at the time that he was only a contract member of the band and had hoped for a more permanent status. “It was clear that there were no opportunities for me to develop,” he explained.
Deftones keyboardist Frank Delgado said Rolling Stone By 2016, it became clear that the band’s creative engine was based on a certain level of creative conflict. “That back and forth is what makes us our thing, whatever that is,” Delgado said. “We’re different enough that things rub up in a certain way. We also like unsettling feelings. That’s the hard part.”
February 25 – Portland, OR @ Moda Center
February 27 – Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
March 1 – Sacramento, CA @ Golden 1 Center
March 4 – San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center
March 6 – Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum
March 8 – Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena
March 9th – Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center
March 12 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center
March 13 – San Antonio, TX @ Frost Bank Center
March 15 – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
March 16 – Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
March 18 – Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
March 20 – Orlando, FL @ Kia Center
March 22 – Sunrise, FL @ Amerant Bank Arena
March 24 – Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Center
March 26 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
March 28 – Indianapolis, IN @ Gainbridge Fieldhouse
March 29 – Columbus, OH @ Nationwide Arena
March 31 – Chicago, IL @ United Center
April 1 – Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
April 3 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
April 4 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
April 6 – Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena
April 8 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden
