Nine Inch Nails Announce North American Tour Dates, with an Unusual Caveat for Buying Tickets

Electronic rockers Nine Inch Nails have announced their “Cold Black and Infinite” North American tour dates.

The tour begins in September with support from Scottish noise-pop veterans The Jesus and Mary Chain at all dates. The “Cold Black and Infinite” tour includes stops at some of the country’s most iconic venues, including Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre, New York City’s Radio City Music Hall and Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom. Then, Nine Inch Nails will close out their tour in December, culminating with four shows at the Palladium in Los Angeles.

One thing that separates this large rock tour from many others is that the band is only allowing fans to purchase tickets in person at the box office. Nine Inch Nails are employing this ticket sales method “to get tickets directly into the hands of fans instead of resellers,” per a press release. The band will be selling tickets to all seats at “The Physical World” pre-sale events, taking place May 19 at each venue’s box office, with the exception of Red Rocks for which the pre-sale will take place on May 20 at the Denver Coliseum Box Office.

This seems like a strange way to get around ticket scalpers and bots, and many fans have expressed their annoyance with this ticket purchasing caveat. Fans pointed out that it’s a massive inconvenience for disabled fans, fans who want to come to a show from out of town, or fans who work during the day. However, some fans don’t seem to mind and see it as a more memorable ticket purchasing experience that mirrors the nostalgic feeling of going to a record store to buy an album on its release date.

In Person ticket sales? Wow how edgy. Fuck your disabled fans, right? Or the fans working two jobs who can’t take off to drive six hours to just buy tickets. Or people who don’t live near a big city too, fuck all y’all. This is some privileged white man bullshit. https://t.co/gudj2TfWJU

— ?? (@goddamnithanna) May 10, 2018

In-person ticket sale is an awesome idea. Reminds me of having to wait in line at the local drugstore to buy concert tickets when I was a kid. https://t.co/nE8Hf94LD7

— Luis Tovar (@mr_luis) May 10, 2018

Nine Inch Nails will release Bad Witch on June 22, which completes their EP trilogy that began with 2016’s Not The Actual Events and 2017’s ADD VIOLENCE.

Check out the band’s upcoming “Cold Black and Infinite” tour dates below, beneath their new EP’s album art and tracklist. You can preorder Bad Witch now here.

Bad Witch Tracklist:
01. Shit Mirror
02. Ahead of Ourselves
03. Play the Goddamned Part
04. God Break Down the Door
05. I’m Not From This World
06. Over and Out

Bad Witch Album Art:

Nine Inch Nails Tour Dates:

September
13 – Phoenix, Ariz. @ Comerica Theatre
14 – Phoenix, Ariz. @ Comerica Theatre
18 – Morrison, Colo. @ Red Rocks
19 – Morrison, Colo. @ Red Rocks
24 – Memphis, Tenn. @ Orpheum Theater
26 – Atlanta, Ga. @ Fox Theatre
27 – Atlanta, Ga. @ Fox Theatre
29 – Nashville, Tenn. @ Ascend Amphitheater

October
09 – Washington, D.C. @ The Anthem
13 – New York, N.Y. @ Radio City Music Hall
14 – New York, N.Y. @ Radio City Music Hall
19 – Boston, Mass. @ Boch Center
20 – Boston, Mass. @ Boch Center
22 – Detroit, Mich. @ Fox Theater
23 – Detroit, Mich. @ Fox Theater
25 – Chicago, Ill. @ Aragon Ballroom
26 – Chicago, Ill. @ Aragon Ballroom

November
23 – New Orleans, La. @ Saenger Theatre
24 – New Orleans, La. @ Saenger Theatre
27 – Irving, Texas @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
28 – Irving, Texas @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory

December
03 – San Francisco, Calif. @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
07 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ Palladium
08 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ Palladium
11 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ Palladium
12 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ Palladium