Sunny Day Real Estate Reunites, Tours, Reissues

Two months after we first reported the possibility of a Sunny Day Real Estate reunion, we have more faith than ever in the Twitter rumor mill. Maybe that's not exactly true, but this week the band announced that they are reconvening after a decade-long hiatus for a 20-date tour and reissues of Diary and LP2.

In 1995, following the success of the band's debut album Diary, the group disbanded: Jeremy Enigk to pursue solo work, William Goldsmith and Nate Mendel to join up with Dave Grohl's then-new project, and Dan Hoerner to move to a farm. The band had a brief reunion sans Mendel at the end of the '90s, but it was ill-fated--the band broke up again just a few years later, after pushing two albums through Sub Pop and Time Bomb.

Now, however, the band plans to hit up a good amount of major cities for their tour, in addition to reissuing their seminal classics: Diary, their critically acclaimed debut album, and LP2, the title-less, album art-less record that SDRE released on the verge of their breakup (you may know it as "The Pink Album," since "make it pink" was the only artistic direction that Goldsmith gave the label). Ironically, the reunion comes on the heels of both Enigk's well-received solo album, OK Bear, and Dave Grohl's announcement of a Foo Fighters break.

“We had all these outsized ideas back then, ‘Everyone’s going to learn a new instrument,’ and ‘Let’s do a rock opera,’" Mendel said in a recent statement. "But before we could get anywhere with them, the band broke up. We left behind all these weird and beautiful songs, though, and they’ve stuck with me all this time. I’m really happy that we get a chance to play them together again.”

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September

17 - Vancouver, British Columbia @ Commodore Ballroom

18 - Portland, Ore. @ Crystal Ballroom

20 - Salt Lake City, Utah @ Murray Theater

21 - Denver, Colo. @ Ogden Theater

23 - Minneapolis, Minn. @ First Avenue

24 - Chicago, Ill. @ Metro

25 - Detroit, Mich. @ St. Andrews Hall

27 - New York City, N.Y. @ Terminal 5

28 - Boston, Mass. @ House of Blues

30 - Washington, D.C. @ 930 Club