Time to charge your flip phone, straighten your bangs, and prepare for some cathartic shouting — HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS are hitting the road in 2026 to celebrate 20 years of their landmark album If Only You Were Lonely.
The “Lonely World Tour” kicks off March 5 in Lexington, KY, and will bring the band (and your teenage feelings) across North America. Special guests LETLIVE. and CREEPER will join the tour’s first leg, ensuring there’s enough emotional intensity on stage to make 2006 blush.
Tickets — including VIP packages for those who want to cry closer to the stage — go on sale Friday, October 31 at 10 a.m. local time via hawthorneheights.com.
Frontman JT Woodruff reflected on the milestone with the poetic weariness only 20 years of emo survival can give:
“The best thing about looking back on the last 20 years is realizing that we can finally do it without panic. When we made If Only You Were Lonely, everything was chaos — the pressure, the noise, the second-album stress. It felt impossible to enjoy the magic as it happened. But looking back, it’s a story of triumph and tragedy that changed our lives forever.”
He added,
“That’s how we’re approaching the Lonely World Tour. We’ll play the entire album, plus a career-spanning setlist — a rollercoaster ride designed to make you forget what you’re going through alone, and remind you that we’ve all been there. Whether you come to relive your youth or to exorcise some old ghosts, we’ll do it the only way we know how: together.”
Before embarking on the anniversary run, HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS will finish out 2025 with several headline dates and a supporting slot for CHIODOS on their All’s Well That Ends Well tour this fall, followed by appearances on the E.N.D. Cruise in January, Sonic Temple Festival, and the U.K.’s Slam Dunk Festival in May.
Formed in Dayton, Ohio in 2001, HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS became a cornerstone of the 2000s emo scene with their emotional honesty and melodic post-hardcore sound. Despite industry shakeups, personal loss, and changing musical tides, the band — JT Woodruff, Mark McMillon, and Matt Ridenour — continue to thrive, proving that heartbreak might fade, but great choruses don’t.
Early 2026 “Lonely World Tour” Dates:
March 05 – Lexington, KY @ Manchester Music Hall
March 06 – Bloomington, IL @ Castle Theater
March 09 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Ave
March 12 – Denver, CO @ Summit
March 13 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
March 14 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Hall
March 15 – Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory Spokane
March 17 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
March 18 – Portland, OR @ Roseland
March 21 – Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues
March 22 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco
March 23 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
March 24 – Tempe, AZ @ Marquee (Half House)
March 25 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
March 27 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
March 28 – San Antonio, TX @ Vibes Event Center
March 29 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s
March 31 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues
April 01 – Little Rock, AR @ The Hall
