Claude VonStroke Declares 2025 Comeback Tour, "Lifetime of Leisure"

Dirtybird founder Claude VonStroke is retreating on a comeback tour, formally ending a two-year hiatus that noticed him promote his prized document label.

VonStroke flew the coop again in 2023, when he introduced a break from the home music undertaking to deal with his bass alias, Barclay Crenshaw. The influential DJ and producer, who spent over 20 years cultivating the beloved Dirtybird ecosystem, is now set to hit the street with a brand new imaginative and prescient in late-April.

Quite than pursuing the everyday relentless touring schedule that always leaves artists migrating from venue to venue with out goal, VonStroke’s strategy displays a extra intentional philosophy. Dubbed “Lifetime of Leisure,” the tour represents what he describes as “a trip on the dancefloor,” creating nest-like protected havens the place followers can escape the anxieties of on a regular basis life.

“This is not a standing flex, it’s a trip on the dancefloor. The ravers are the heroes; I’m the information,” VonStroke stated in a press launch shared with EDM.com. “Let’s depart the stress behind and dwell the ‘Lifetime of Leisure’ collectively, even when it’s only for a couple of hours within the membership.”

VonStroke’s “2.0 model” will launch at a document launch celebration at New York’s Knockdown Middle on April twenty fifth earlier than swooping into different hand-picked venues throughout North America. The tour will then perch at a lot of his favourite venues and festivals, together with Miami’s Membership House, SoCal’s Lightning in a Bottle and Detroit’s iconic Motion.

For followers throughout the pond, VonStroke is not leaving European audiences out within the chilly. Particular reveals in digital music hotspots London and Berlin are already confirmed, with extra worldwide dates set to hatch within the coming weeks.

The tour will in the end coincide with the discharge of VonStroke’s upcoming EP, I Was the Wolf, scheduled to drop April twenty fifth. Followers can anticipate “one of the best components of 2000s minimal home with the luxurious, quirky eccentricity solely VonStroke can deliver,” per the press launch.

Pre-sale tickets to “Lifetime of Leisure” will likely be out there Thursday, February twenty seventh at 10am ET. The final on-sale will start the next day on the similar time.