Ticket Alert: Rilo Kiley’s Reunion Tour Comes to the Greek Theatre in Berkeley

When legendary early-aughts indie rock band Rilo Kiley announced its first slate of concerts since 2008 earlier this year, Bay Area fans pored through the schedule in disappointment: The closest the long-awaited reunion tour would be coming to the Bay was a May 5 kick-off show in San Luis Obispo.

Here’s good news, then: The band just added six new tour dates in the fall, and one of them will be an Oct. 16 show at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley. Waxahatchee, a recent Tiny Desk performer and indie cult favorite in its own right, will open.

Fronted by lead vocalist Jenny Lewis and guitarist Blake Sennett — both former child actors — Rilo Kiley rose to prominence in the early 2000s on the strength of its smart, often darkly humorous lyrics about finding one’s place in the world, and Lewis’ soaring vocals. Famously, the band broke up right after the tour promoting its most commercially successful album, Under the Blacklight, due to long-simmering tensions between Lewis and Sennett.

But when the four original band members reconnected during the pandemic, enough time had passed for them to feel nostalgic about the possibility of a reunion.

“It couldn’t have happened any sooner,” Lewis told former Pitchfork staff writer Quinn Moreland in the band’s comeback announcement. “It feels like now is the time to share that joy and love with each other and with everyone else.”

In parallel with the reunion tour, the band released a self-curated greatest hits album, That’s How We Choose to Remember It, on May 9.

Here’s what you need to know about snagging tickets for Rilo Kiley’s Oct. 16 show in Berkeley: Presale tickets are currently available through Ticketmaster using the the band’s presale code, “Foxes.”

Another Planet Entertainment, the concert’s co-producer,  has its own presale starting on Thursday, May 15 at 10 a.m. using the code “silverlining.” Meanwhile, general ticket sales for the show open up on Friday, May 16 at 10 a.m.