[Cover photo credit to Mackenzie Ryan]
Gold-certified singer/songwriter Madds Buckley has announced her most extensive headline tour to date in support of her upcoming album, A Simple Binary and a Complex Phrase, out October 16, 2026. The tour launches its first leg on October 27 in her hometown of Nashville, TN, before resuming for a second leg on January 20, 2027 in Kansas City, MO.
Alongside the tour announcement, Madds has shared her new single, “Tomes and Tombstones,” an “exploration of a painful breakup and the resolve to press on.”
Of the song, Madds Buckley says:
‘Tomes and Tombstones’ pictures old wounds like a haunting: a shadow at the corners of your eyes, creaky floorboards and door hinges, and a chilling curse. A graveyard, an old house, a moonlit night. Despite it all, the music swells into powerful folky emotion: acknowledging, but not wallowing in the past and what it takes. ‘Will you ever have enough?’ is a war cry. And sometimes, facing what lurks behind is the only way to move forward.
On A Simple Binary and a Complex Phrase, Buckley widens her sound and themes. Across the album, she examines the ways we “connect, disconnect, and lose parts of ourselves to technology.” It’s also “an album for those feeling disillusioned with a world that seems willing to cede more and more humanity to technology, and a call to action for those eager to resist.”
Buckley has a genre-blending sound and lyrics “shaped by anime, video games, and lived experience.”
Madds Buckley Tour Dates:
Oct 27 – Nashville, TN @ Cannery Hall – The Mill
Oct 29 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
Oct 30 – Durham, NC @ Stanczyks
Oct 31 – Washington, DC @ Union Stage
Nov 2 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
Nov 4 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry
Nov 5 – New York, NY @ Racket
Nov 7 – Toronto, ON @ Hard Luck Bar
Nov 8 – Detroit, MI @ Pike Room
Nov 10 – Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
Nov 12 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Parkway
Jan 20 – Kansas City, MO @ Encore
Jan 22 – Denver, CO @ Marquis
Jan 24 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
Jan 27 – Seattle, WA @ Vera Project
Jan 28 – Portland, OR @ Holocene
Jan 30 – Berkeley, CA @ Cornerstone
Jan 31 – Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s
Feb 2 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy
Feb 3 – Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge
Feb 7 – Austin, TX @ Antone’s
