Rainbow Kitten Surprise

Lumen Field Event Center

Rainbow Kitten Surprise have announced their biggest North American headlining tour yet in support of the recently released album Love Hate Music Box. The “Love Hate Music Box Tour” is set to kick off on September 9. A substantial jaunt that boasts the band’s first-ever stadium shows, the “Love Hate Music Box Tour” follows the band’s “Tiny Music Box Tour,” a series of underplays that saw Rainbow Kitten Surprise performing unique setlists at intimate venues.

Lenovo Center

The Chrysalis at Merriweather Park is both a stunning work of futuristic urban art, as well as a 5,000-square foot concert stage, soaring 60 feet into the air. Located among the trees adjacent to Merriweather Post Pavilion, the brightly colored open-air iconic venue hosts concerts, as well as cultural events for the entire community. It’s as big as Carnegie Hall and is adorned by a bright green asymmetric canopy of 7,700 aluminum tiles that meld to create a sculpture flowing among trees in every direction.

Merriweather Post Pavilion

As if channeling another dimension where genres simply don’t exist,Rainbow Kitten Surprisefindsharmony in unpredictability–weaving together lyrical poetry, hummable melodies, and a rush ofinstrumental eccentricities. Now boasting over2 billion global streamsacross platforms, the band firstbegan building their devoted fanbase with independent albumsSEVEN + MARY(2013) andRKS(2015). InMay 2024, Rainbow Kitten Surprise released their first album in six years,LOVE HATE MUSIC BOX.Produced byDaniel Tashian(Kacey Musgraves) along withKonrad Snyder(Noah Kahan) and lead singerEla Melo, the record is the band’s most vulnerable project yet, and has been met with critical praise fromBillboard, Consequence, Paste,and more. LOVE HATE MUSIC BOX follows the band’s breakout full-lengthdebut for Elektra,HOW TO: FRIEND, LOVE, FREEFALL, which arrived in April 2018. Produced by GRAMMY®Award-winnerJay Joyce(Cage The Elephant, Lainey Wilson), the album featuredRIAA-certified Platinumsingle “It’s Called: Freefall,” earned widespread praise fromBillboard, TIME, Vice,andNPR, and saw theband make several national television appearances, including performances on “CBS Saturday Morning,”“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” andPBS’s “Austin City Limits.” After gracing the bills ofBonnaroo,Lollapalooza, andOsheaga, to name a few, RKS moved 80,000 tickets of their own on the sold-out2018/2019Friend, Love, Freefall Tour.Following a sold-out run of underplay shows in May, Rainbow KittenSurprise returned to the road this fallfor theLOVE HATE MUSIC BOX Tour, which notably marked their largest tour to date. The 35-show runincluded multiple arena headline dates, a stop at Radio City Music Hall in New York, and two nights at theiconic Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.Rainbow Kitten Surprise is:Ela Melo(she/her; lead vocals),Darrick “Bozzy” Keller(he/him; guitar, vocals),Ethan Goodpaster(he/him; lead guitar, vocals),Jess Haney(he/him; drums)

Rainbow Kitten Surprise

Jul 25, 2025