Seattle’s Minus the Bear bid farewell to performing in 2018, to focus on other priorities, but the passage of time has brought them back together, just in time to celebrate the album that changed their lives forever twenty years after the fact. In 2005 the band would release their sophomore album, Menos el Oso, on local independent label, Suicide Squeeze Records.
Last week, the band was announced as co-headliners of Best Friends Forever in Las Vegas, NV this October, and today are thrilled to announce a nationwide tour, where they will be playing the seminal album in full. Dates below, tickets available for purchase on Friday, March 14 at 10:00 A.M. local time here. Additionally, the band have shared a new video for “Drilling,” which you can see below..
Guitarist and founding member David Knudson, while reflecting on the album, notes “Menos el Oso put us on a trajectory that none of us were expecting. There is a “before ‘Pachuca Sunrise’ video” moment in time, and then there is an “after ‘Pachuca Sunrise’ video” moment in time. It seemed like once people heard that song, and saw that video, everyone went straight to Limewire, Napster, Soulseek, BitTorrent, etc. and shared the album immediately. Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of something this monumental in our lives is a gift. Having the chance to appreciate it with our fans, families and fellow bandmates while we are all alive and kicking is an opportunity I can’t wait to embrace.”
At the first Minus the Bear rehearsal in seven years earlier this year, the band’s drummer Joshua Sparks put it this way, “These songs are like having a really nice car in the garage… it’d be a shame not to take them out for a drive every now and then.”
Minus the Bear Tour Dates:
10/04/25 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
10/06/25 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
10/07/25 – San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom
10/08/25 – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
10/10/25 – Las Vegas, NV @ Best Friends Forever Festival
10/11/25 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco
10/12/25 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco
10/14/25 – Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
10/17/25 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
10/18/25 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s Austin
10/21/25 – Orlando, FL @ The Beacham
10/22/25 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
10/24/25 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore
10/25/25 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues
11/05/25 – Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club
11/07/25 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
11/08/25 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
11/11/25 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Roxian Theatre
11/12/25 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
11/14/25 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre
11/15/25 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
11/16/25 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
11/18/25 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
11/21/25 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
11/22/25 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
11/23/25 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
11/28/25 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
11/29/25 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
