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Due to fan outpouring, Rage Against The Machine have added additional dates to their reunion tour again.
Rap-metal pioneers Rage Against The Machine broke the Internet earlier this year with the announcement of their North American and European tour. That tour sold so well that RATM added extra shows. And now, they’ve added even more dates, including two at Madison Square Garden.
Tickets will go on sale on Thursday, February 27, at 11am local time. Here are the newly-announced tour dates:
April
01 Glendale, AZ @ Gila River Arena
July
11 East Troy, WI @ Alpine Valley Music Theatre
August
14 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
17 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
Scalping often prevents fans from getting tickets, especially on a tour as big as this one, but Rage Against the Machine said they were planning to protect 90% of the tickets from scalpers, and that the remaining 10% of the tickets would be sold at a higher price with the proceeds going to charity. In addition to this, the proceeds from the first three shows would go toward immigrant rights organizations.
“We want to do everything we can to protect our fans from predatory scalping and, at the same time, raise a substantial amount of money for charities and activist organizations we support in each city,” the band said in a statement. “At many concerts, up to 50% of the seating is scooped up by scalpers and then resold to fans at much higher fees.”
“We are doing everything we can to protect 90% of the RATM tickets from scalpers and then WE are holding in reserve 10% of the seating (random seats throughout each venue) to sell at a higher ticket price (but low enough to undercut the scalpers) We will donate 100% OF THE MONEY over the base ticket price to charities and activist organizations IN EACH CITY.”
And it looks like those efforts paid off – those tickets raised $3 million for charity.
“So far we have been able to block approx 85% of scalpers trying to buy tickets and in two days have raised over $3,000,000 for charity,” Tom Morello wrote in an Instagram post. “Still, annoying scalpers (and misinformation) remain. We appreciate the overwhelming demand and are discussing next steps to ensure more of you will be able to come and see us.”
Here are Rage Against the Machine’s complete tour dates for the year:
March
26 El Paso, TX @ Don Haskins Center
28 Las Cruces, NM @ Pan American Center
30 Glendale, AZ @ Gila River Arena
April
01 Glendale, AZ @ Gila River Arena
10 Indio, CA @ Coachella
17 Indio, CA @ Coachella
21 Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena
25 Portland, OR @ Moda Center
28 Tacoma, WA @ Tacoma Dome
May
1 Vancouver, BC @ Pacific Coliseum at the PNE
3 Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place
5 Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome
7 Winnipeg, MB @ Bell MTS Place
9 Sioux Falls, SD @ Denny Sanford Premier Center
11 Minneapolis, MN @ Target Center
14 Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center
16 St. Louis, MO @ Enterprise Center
19 Chicago, IL @ United Center
23 Boston, MA @ Boston Calling
June
19 Dover, DE @ Firefly
July
10 East Troy, WI @ Alpine Valley Music Theatre
11 East Troy, WI @ Alpine Valley Music Theatre
13 Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
17 Ottawa, ON @ Ottawa Bluesfest
18 Festival d’Été de Québec @ Festival d’Été de Québec
21 Hamilton, ON @ FirstOntario Centre
23 Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
27 Buffalo, NY @ KeyBank Center
29 Cleveland, OH @ Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse
31 Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena
August
2 Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena
4 Washington DC @ Capital One Arena
7 Camden, NJ @ BB&T Pavilion
10 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
11 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
14 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
17 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
28 Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival
30 Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
September
1 Paris, France @ Rock En Seine Festival
4 Stradbally Laois, Ireland @ Electric Picnic Festival
6 Berlin, Germany @ Lollapalooza Berlin Festival
8 Prague, Czech Republic @ O2 Arena
10 Krakow, Poland @ Tauron Arena