Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts Set 2025 European/N. American Love Earth Tour
The outing is slated to kick off on June 18 in Sweden and wind down on Sept. 15 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts will hit the road this summer for the Love Earth European/North American world tour. The first leg of the tour will kick off in Europe on June 18 at Dalhalla in Rättvik, Sweden before moving on to gigs in Norway, Denmark, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.
The outing will then jump to the U.S., beginning with an August 8 show at the PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte, N.C., hitting Detroit, Cleveland, Toronto, New York, Chicago, Denver and Vancouver before winding down on Sept. 15 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, with more dates to be added at a later time.
Young, 79, will be accompanied by the Chrome Hearts band, featuring his longtime collaborator keyboardist Spooner Oldham, as well as Promise of the Real members Micah Nelson on guitar/vocals, Corey McCormick on bass and Anthony LoGerfo on drums. The group released the noisy anthem “Big Change” in January, a grungy warning shot about a major revolution whose outcome is a jagged question mark.
“Might be a politician/ Tryna say something new/ Might be your decision/ Now you’ve got to see it through/ Looks like a collision,” Young hollers in the tune whose video features the outspoken singer marching through the woods wielding an American flag and a giant boom box. “Ain’t the worst that you could do/ Might be bad, might be good/ Big change is coming to you,” Young warns.
Young debuted the Chrome Hearts band during a show last year and has said an album from the group is tentatively slated for release in April.
Tickets for the tour will go on sale on Tuesday (Feb. 25) via an exclusive pre-sale for Neil Young Archives members, followed by a general on-sale that launches on Friday (Feb. 28). To protect the prices set by Young, a release said that the tour will use Ticketmaster’s Face Value Exchange for all resales and make tickets mobile only and restricted from transfer. According to the release, this will mean that if fans buy tickets and cannot attend they will have the option to re-sell them to other fans at the original price using TM’s Face Value tool; this applies to all shows except those in Illinois, New York, Utah and Virginia.
Young has also partnered with Farm Aid — which he co-founded in 1985 with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp — to bring HOMEGROWN Concessions to the summer tour, which will bring sustainably produced, fair-priced family farm food served on compostable serviceware to venues.
After a lifetime of regular touring, Young took a break from the road during the COVID-19 pandemic and had planned to be back on stages for a huge tour with his long-running Crazy Horse compatriots in summer 2024 before cancelling the dates a few weeks in due to an unspecified health issue.
Check out the dates for the Young and the Chrome Hearts’s 2025 summer tour below.
June 18 – Rättvik, Sweden @ Dalhalla
June 20 – Bergen, Norway @ Bergenhus Fortress
June 22 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Tiøren
June 26 – Dublin, Ireland @ Malahide Castle
June 30 – Brussels, Belgium @ Brussels Palace Open Air, Palace Square
July 1 – Groningen, Netherlands @ Drafbaan Stedpark
July 3 – Berlin, Germany @ Waldbühne
July 4 – Mönchengladbach, Germany @ Sparkassenpark
July 8 – Stuttgart, Germany @ Cannstatter Wasen
Aug. 8. – Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion
Aug. 10 – Richmond, VA @ Allianz Amphitheater at Riverfront
Aug. 13 – Detroit, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre
Aug. 15 – Cleveland, OH @ Blossom Music Center
Aug. 17 – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
Aug. 21 – Gilford, NH @ BankNH Pavilion
Aug. 23 – New York, NY @ Northwell at Jones Beach
Aug. 24 – Bethel, NY @ Bethel Center for the Arts
Aug. 27 – Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
Sept. 1 – Denver, CO @ Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
Sept. 5 – George, WA @ The Gorge
Sept. 6 – Vancouver, BC @ Deer Lake Park
Sept. 10 – Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater
Sept. 12 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheater
Sept. 15 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
