Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill anniversary tour will feature Garbage and Liz Phair
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If you want to feel super old, here’s some news: Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill turns 25 in 2020. But it’s time to dig out your ’90s tour T-shirts: Like an edgier Lilith Fair, Morissette’s tour will also feature fellow alt-rock stars from that era, openers Garbage and Liz Phair.
Rolling Stone reports that next year will also include a new album for Morissette, her first since 2012’s Havoc And Bright Lights. Her ninth studio album Such Pretty Forks In The Road will be released on May 1. Today she also releases that album’s lead single: “Reasons I Drink,” a catchy anthem to self-medication, rhapsodizing that “I feel such rapture and my comfort is so strong” post drink, drug, eating, or shopping “to survive this sick industry” that she’s heading into once again.
The jam-packed tour includes 31 North American tour dates in two months. Pre-sales will begin Tuesday, December 10 at 11:00 a.m. local time, with general on-sale open on Friday, December 13 at 11:00 a.m. local time, in case you’re still looking for a holiday gift for that aging Riot Grrrl on your list.
Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill Anniversary Tour Dates
June 2—Sunlight Supply Amphitheatre—Portland, Oregon
June 3—White River Amphitheatre—Seattle, Washington
June 5—Concord Pavilion—Concord, California
June 7—USANA Amphitheatre—Salt Lake City, Utah
June 9—Hollywood Bowl—Los Angeles, California
June 10—Ak-Chin Pavilion Phoenix, Arizona
June 12—Austin360 Amphitheater Austin, Texas
June 13—Walmart AMP—Rogers, Arkansas
June 14—Dos Equis Pavilion—Dallas, Texas
June 17—Midflorida Credit Union Amphitheatre—Tampa, Florida
June 18—Coral Sky Amphitheatre—West Palm Beach, Florida
June 20—Ameris Bank Amphitheatre—Alpharetta, Georgia
June 21—PNC Music Pavilion Charlotte, North Carolina
June 23—Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek—Raleigh, North Carolina
June 26—Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater—Wantagh, New York
June 27—Xfinity Theatre—Hartford, Connecticut
June 28—BB&T Pavilion Camden, New Jersey
July 1—PNC Bank Arts Center—Holmdel, New Jersey
July 2—Merriweather Post Pavilion—Columbia, Maryland
July 3—Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater—Virginia Beach, Virginia
July 6—Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion—Gilford, New Hampshire
July 8—Saratoga Performing Arts Center—Saratoga Springs, New York
July 9—Xfinity Center—Mansfield, Massachusetts
July 11—Budweiser Stage—Toronto, Ontario
July 16—Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center—Noblesville, Indiana
July 17—Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre—Tinley Park, Illinois
July 18—Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre—Maryland Heights, Missouri
July 21—DTE Energy Music Theatre—Clarkston, Michigan
July 23—Blossom Music Center—Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
July 24—Riverbend Music Center—Cincinnati, Ohio
July 25—Bridgestone Arena Nashville, Tennessee
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Wow, this and Green Day/Weezer in the same summer? Not too shabby.
If as soon as she starts playing I get my Camaro and hair back and lose the wife and k…I’ll be torn up. All torn up.
That Phair and Morissette’s respective careers went the way that they each went to the point where Phair will no be opening for Morissette and not the other way around just goes to show me that I ended up in the darkest timeline way before 2016.
This is a great lineup of talent, imo. I’d place Garbage as headliner, personally.
Yeah, Garbage are great, too. That was really just my ham-handed way of saying that I think Phair should have had much more commercial success than she did. It’s also always bugged me a little that Morissette was celebrated for breaking taboos with her frank sexual lyrics on Jagged Little Pill (“Would she go down on you in a theater?,” just to point to the most salient one) when Phair had done it bigger and better (“I want to be your blowjob queen,” as a rejoinder) a year before with Exile in Guyville. It’s a personal peccadillo that I really need to get over at some point, especially since Morissette herself isn’t to blame whatsoever.
And Phair has an entire album of that, compared to just one single for Alanis. Maybe Phair should have boned Bob Saget.
Point of order: it was Dave Coullier (sp)!
Yes, that’s the joke. Banging a different dorky comedian from Full House.
I……get it now.
It probably just didn’t register because Liz Phair has no lips.
I now feel compelled to confess that I hate Liz Phair’s philtrum.
What you pointed out regarding Liz’s “bigger and better” lyrics was precisely the problem. This was the ‘90s, around the time that Madonna’s career was flying off the rails in the face of public backlash after she released Erotica. If people thought Madonna was going too far, then Liz Phair was never going to stand a chance on Top 40 radio. She was always going to remain the underground favorite, never the pop superstar. Alanis Morissette, who had a background in bubblegum pop music and knew how to play that game, did not have that problem, and knew how to take Liz’s style, sand off the rougher edges (or water it down, if you prefer), and make it palatable for mainstream listeners.(It also didn’t help that, on her fourth album, Liz tried to go for mainstream pop-rock in the mold of Avril Lavigne, and… it really didn’t go well.)
All true, and all very well said. The little iconoclast in me wanted her to succeed even more for those very reasons.
(It also didn’t help that, on her fourth album, Liz tried to go for mainstream pop-rock in the mold of Avril Lavigne, and… it really didn’t go well.)I saw a Liz Phair/The Cardigans co-headline show in 2004. As someone who was too young for Exile in Guyville era Liz Phair (my only prior exposure were my fuzzy, little kid memories of hearing “Polyester Bride” on the radio), I remember feeling intensely embarrassed on her behalf during her set.
I couldn’t agree more & never understood why Alanis got so much ‘credit’ for her ‘frank, explicit lyrics’ when Liz opened the door for EVERY indie rocker & still frames a LOT of what you hear from female rockers to this day. She’s a lyrical genius & a groundbreaker from day one, but that’s coming from me – a die hard Liz fan since EIG was released & I was working in record shops, recommending (successfully, I might add – no one came back to say ‘I don’t like this’) her music to anyone who impressed me enough to seem to want to pay attention 🙂
Garbage > Liz > Alanis. Garbage is fucking awesome. Liz not far behind. Alanis is fine but man those songs got ran into the ground. Be fine to never hear them again.
She’s like the female Sublime.
Yeah, in a sane world Garbage headlines this package every time. Liz has gotta play first,as much as I love her. Alanis is gonna do what? (I am unsure of the track order of the album,sorry)Play JLP straight thru? There’s PLENTY of filler on that record. Does she even have an hour of recognizable-to-the-average-fan material?
No, which is why Alanis always manages to piss off us “super fans”. I’ve seen her live five times, adore almost everything she’s put out, but she ONLY ever loads her shows with tracks from JLP. LOVE that album, but if I never hear Alanis sing another song from it for as long as I live I’d be all too happy. She has an incredible back catalogue that she adamantly refuses to dig into, and it’s really irritating to those of us who have always showed up and showed out as fans to hear the same gotdamned songs sung over and over again in concert. ADORE HER, but………..
Serious question,though it sounds snarky; does she do this in Canada as well? I’m too lazy to google her chart stuff,but alot of folks tailor their set list to the regional fanbase.
Nah, she’s notorious for not changing her set lists… she will change things a bit for her South American crowds,because they’re rabid for her; maybe play a couple songs she doesn’t tend to perform. Otherwise, the shows are almost always the same. Fantastic band, great live voice and warm stage presence, but mostly the same show over and over again. Does that stop me from buying tickets? Nope. But I complain nonetheless.
That’s too bad, it’s going to be hard to belt out JLP at 60 I’d imagine. And why would you want to?
I saw Phair open for Morrisette in 98 so idk what you’re talking about.
I did, too! (Or thereabouts—whitechocolatespaceegg had just come out). I was bitter about it then, too.
I was 13. Way too young to be bitter. Def perf age for that combo.
Morissette sucks. Garbage is boring. Phair sounds promising. If tickets were $10, I might go (but probably not).
Of course, when your target audience is parents in their 30s and 40s, there’s something to be said for playing earlier. If I thought I could actually get to Raleigh on a Tuesday night I’d happily buy a ticket to this show, enjoy the openers, and head home.
Exile in Guyville is one of my top 5 albums of all time, and Phair deserves so much more credit than she has ever gotten for creating it.
Seems like it should be the other way around, Alanis opening up for Liz Phair and Garbage. Those are gonna be two tough acts to follow.
Garbage: very good.Liz: she has her moments.Alanis: very no.If this were coming anywhere near me, I might have gone just to see Garbage. I’ll be damned if I’m driving to Missouri or Illinois when Alanis is on the ticket though.
I’ll be six feet in the cold ground before I drive to Missourah.
Garbage deserves more recognition. Version 2.0 is fantastic from start to finish. Hope they’re touring Canadian cities, off to check.
If Alanis doesn’t tour Canadian cities can she be cited for treason?
Yes, but the punishment is that the Canadian government says sorry to her, even though it’s her fault.
Yeah but it’s the WAY they say sorry…
Only stop is Toronto, but treason averted.
True according to Canadian media, which doesn’t acknowledge the existence of Canada outside of Toronto other than for the sake of rural period pieces. However according to actual Canadian law, Toronto is technically just a very clean Eastern American city, so for legal purposes she is still guilty of treason.
You are correct. So true about rural period pieces, lol.
Yeah, Version 2.0 is rock solid (except for the dumb album title), and really elevated people’s perception of them. They kinda came off as a little gimmicky or manufactured (by recruiting Manson) the first time off, but they had really good songs on that first album.I had been following them since their first album, and I thought they were good live when I caught them on that first tour. They were significantly better and Manson even more comfortable onstage when I caught them on the Version 2.0 tour.
Strange Little Birds is great. Every song.
Sarah McLachlan is probably pissed she didn’t get invited.
Because people can’t disassociate her from images of abused puppies. Kills the mood.
bear in mind that there is an entire generation that probably only knows Sarah McLachlan’s songs from those commercials. Frankly I’m excited that future anthropologists will think Sarah McLachlan as some sort of vengeful spirt of animals that fills people with the sorrow of animals suffering.
AUGH why are they not coming to MN, or even WI, I want to go to this SO BAD.
Why do that when you can instead play Texas and Florida in June?
Too many moquitoes?
Garbage is a Madison, WI, band, too. But then I imagine their fans who were college age back in the ‘90s have all moved outta that town.
Nope. They swung by the Sylvee last year and half the city turned out for ‘em. 🙂
I have the same complaint. Nowhere within a reasonable radius of my Midwestern city… I was so excited and then immediately disappointed. At least I can drown my angst in their collective catalogs.
Heh! Jagged Little Hip Bone MORELIKE!
Wait… a national tour isn’t just New York, LA, Chicago and Coachella?
1995 me had such a crush on Alanis, Liz Phair and Shirley Manson in equal measures, I’m going to have to go see them when they come to Camden. I imagine this will be a hell of a show. I think I’d be most excited to see Garbage, but I’ll be excited to see all 3 acts.
Saw Garbage a couple years back when they did the anniversary tour of their first album. Shirley had the flu but still showed up and put on a hell of a show. Would love to see what she can do while healthy.
I’ll be seeing them for sure. I just texted my sister that we will be going June 28th when they come to Camden NJ. I’m currently nostalgiaing all over myself listening to Garbage. Version 2.0 is a criminally underrated album.
You think it’s underrated? It seemed to be a pretty big hit when it came out.
Well she’s a Terminator now so it makes sense
I’m rather glad they aren’t coming to my town. The last thing I need is a public masturbation arrest.
I wonder who the touring band will be. One of the things that made JLP (and its original tour) incredible were the outstanding musicians associated.
i think youre remembering radiohead
The closest this tour is coming to me is SLC so this is gonna have to be a pass. How come only the crappy anniversary/reunion tours come through Denver?
You oughta know this was going to happen
All those tour dates and all I need is a knife!
well at least now you learn.
I stopped in here specifically to say something snarky before realizing I should probably just shut up and get tickets for my wife.
It’s a show for Gen Xers. Saying something snarky is required for admission.
“Hello, you’ve reached the winter of our discontent.”I couldn’t punch Ethan Hawke in that movie, so should just punched myself for being a Gen Xer, too.
I think the reason there is always a big gap between Morissette’s albums must come down to coming up with the perfectly ironically-spiced album title. Not necessarily a criticism, as they do tend to be kind of cool.
Got tickets for Jagged Little Pill on Broadway. Paid too much, fingers crossed it’s like American Idiot good.
Oh it’s the anniversary. That explains why iHeartRadio has suddenly been playing You Oughta Know so much, I thought maybe she died. Nothing beats hearing the censored version with half the song cut out.
But won’t feature a Clinton presidency. Alas.
If terrorists want to rid the world of every living Karen, these concerts are where you do it.
Well… it wouldn’t be the first time I went to an Alanis show and left before Alanis played.
I forget the year but there was a Tori Amos/Alanis Morissette tour a while back and we just quietly ditched traffic after the Amos set. Completely worth it.
Isn’t it ironic that as a male I find ‘So Unsexy’ a personal anthem?