Rage Against the Machine Announces Rescheduled 2022 Reunion Tour Dates with Run the Jewels

One of the most anticipated concert tours of 2020 was scrapped due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it’s back on: Rage Against the Machine has announced that its Public Service Announcement tour with special guest Run the Jewels will now begin in March 2022.

The news was dropped by the hard-rock legends on Thursday in a message on social media.

The Rage Against The Machine & Run the Jewels “Public Service Announcement” Tour will now start in spring 2022. Your tickets will be honored for the postponed shows. Refunds are available at the original point of purchase for 30 days. See you next year.

Brad, Tom, Tim & Zack pic.twitter.com/5ywibk7x4H

— Rage Against The Machine (@RATMofficial) April 8, 2021

The announcement comes after the tour was originally pushed back to 2021 before those dates, too, were scrapped due to the pandemic.

Noteworthy with the details of the new tour dates is a gap in the Southern California region. Rage Against the Machine was to be one of the headlining acts of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in 2020, before that mega-fest was postponed a handful of times before being cancelled entirely (with the next Coachella now set for April of 2022). With Rage on the road during this time frame and an absence of Southern California concerts on this new itinerary, it makes sense for them to presumably be penciled in for new Coachella shows.

Prior to the pandemic, interest in Rage’s music was undergoing a surge, even though the band hasn’t released a new album since the year 2000. Fueled by social unrest and protests stemming from the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement, Rage Against the Machine albums re-entered the Billboard charts in June 2020, and the reunion tour would have been coming at an absolutely perfect time for the group and its incendiary themes of social action.

Now, the shows are on track to resume after all — just a little bit later than originally planned. Here’s the full schedule of dates for the 2022 tour:

03/31 – El Paso, TX @ Don Haskins Center
04/02 – Las Cruces, NM @ Pan American Center
04/04 – Glendale, AZ @ Gila River Arena
04/06 – Glendale, AZ @ Gila River Arena
04/26 — Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena
04/28 – Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena
04/30 – Tacoma, WA @ Tacoma Dome
05/02 — Portland, OR @ Moda Center
05/05 — Vancouver, BC @ Pacific Coliseum at the PNE
05/07 — Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place
05/09 — Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome
05/11 — Winnipeg, MB @ Bell MTS Place
05/13 — Sioux Falls, SD @ Denny Sanford Premier Center
05/15 — Minneapolis, MN @ Target Center
05/16 – Minneapolis, MN @ Target Center
05/18 — Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center
05/20 — St. Louis, MO @ Enterprise Center
05/22 – Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
05/23 – Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
06/09 — East Troy, WI @ Alpine Valley Music Theatre
07/11 — Chicago, IL @ United Center
07/12 – Chicago, IL @ United Center
07/15 – Ottawa, ON @ Ottawa Bluesfest
07/16 – Quebec City, QC @ Festival d’ete de Quebec
07/19 – Hamilton, ON @ FirstOntario Centre
07/21 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
07/23 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
07/25 – Buffalo, NY @ KeyBank Center
07/27 – Cleveland, OH @ Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse
07/29 – Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena
07/31 – Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena
08/02 – Washington DC @ Capital One Arena
08/03 – Washington DC @ Capital One Arena
08/08 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
08/09 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
08/11 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
08/12 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
08/14 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden