Phoebe Bridgers Locked Up the Phones at Madison Square Garden, Played Eight New Songs and Announced a Fall Tour

Phoebe Bridgers asked a few thousand people to lock their phones in pouches, give up their pens and trust her with eight songs nobody had heard. At Madison Square Garden on Thursday night (June 4), they did.

It was her biggest solo concert in years, and the clearest sign yet that a third solo album is coming. Billboard, which was let in on the condition that it print no new song titles or lyrics, reported that Bridgers played the unreleased material stripped back on a small stage with a couch, lava lamps and a vintage TV, accompanied only by guitarist Christian Lee Hutson and keyboardist Nick White. She opened with “Motion Sickness,” and the arena sang every word.

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The night worked because of what she took away. Between beloved songs like “Kyoto” and “Moon Song,” Bridgers announced the new set with a joke about smuggling a recording device, then extended her arms to the crowd and added, “I trust you.” Late in the show, people held up disposable lighters instead of phone flashes. She shook her head at the sight of it, and said quietly after “Graceland Too,” “Unbelievable.”

This was also a fundraiser. Seats were handed out by lottery, and winners donated to the Immigration Bond Freedom Fund, which works to release people from immigration detention, according to Pitchfork. Thanking the crowd, Bridgers was blunt about why.

I hate those ICE idiots,

Phoebe Bridgers, at Madison Square Garden, Billboard

The show capped a month of pop-ups. Pitchfork reports she started in Roswell, New Mexico, where she gave fans pieces of a painting rumored to be the artwork for her next record, and she has debuted several new songs along the way. Rolling Stone notes those dates were her first performances since the Punisher world tour and her 2023 tour with boygenius. The album itself has not been announced.

What was announced, just hours after she left the stage, was a tour. “We’re going on tour,” she told the crowd, as the arena erupted. “We’re telling everyone else tomorrow, but we’re telling you guys tonight.”

The Lost Tour opens Sept. 15 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, with two nights at Barclays Center in Brooklyn (Sept. 25 and 26) and two at Intuit Dome in Inglewood (Oct. 30 and 31) among the North American stops. It heads to Europe in November and wraps Dec. 12 in Stockholm. Alex G opens in North America, and Isaac Wood, formerly of Black Country, New Road, supports in the U.K. and Europe. Like the pop-ups, the tour will be phoneless, with devices locked in Yondr pouches at the door, and $1 from every ticket goes to RAINN, the anti-sexual-violence organization. General tickets go on sale June 12.

Bridgers closed the night, and the announcement, in the future tense: “Hope to see you this fall.” She has since entered the awards conversation, too, with her end theme for Primetime, in the 2027 Best Original Song race.

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