Today, Trippie Redd announced his 2023 Take Me Away Tour across North America this fall in support of his upcoming album A Love Letter To You 5. The 24-date tour kicks off on Thursday, August 31 at Somerset Amphitheater (just outside of Minneapolis, MN), in Somerset, WI, with stops in Toronto, ON, Brooklyn, NY, Los Angeles, CA and more before wrapping up on Monday, October 9 in Seattle, WA at WAMU Theater. Special guest LUCKI will join across all dates on the tour, along with D.Savage, Ekkstacy, and K Sauve. Jean Dawson will also join on select dates.

Tickets will be available starting with an Artist presale beginning Thursday, June 29 at 10 AM local time. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning Friday, June 30 at 11 AM local time at Ticketmaster.com.

The news of the tour comes on the heels of Trippie’s latest single, “Took My Breath Away,” featuring Skye Morales, which was released June 16, 2023 via 10K Projects. The single follows the release of his Mansion Musik mixtape, which dropped earlier this year featuring Travis Scott, Future, Chief Keef and JuiceWRLD debuting at #1 on Billboard’s Rap Albums Chart and #2 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart. It also debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart marking Trippie’s seventh consecutive Top 5 debut on the list. Additionally, the project saw 7 songs debut on the US Spotify Chart bringing Trippie’s total career entries to 143 songs – the 6th most of any artist.

LUCKI is still enjoying the success of his most recent album, FLAWLESS LIKE ME, which dropped in late 2022 with features from Future and Babyface Ray. To support the album’s release, LUCKI embarked on a sold out 25-date tour that crossed the country in early 2023, and included sold out shows in London and Canada.

Gearing up for another pivotal creative chapter, GRAMMY® Award-winning singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer James Blake has released “Big Hammer”, with accompanying music video directed by Oscar Hudson (Radiohead, Bonobo).

“Big Hammer” is the debut single from James’ forthcoming, sixth studio album Playing Robots Into Heaven whichwill be released on September 8th via Republic records. The full track listing can be found below.

Playing Robots Into Heaven follows the critically acclaimed Friends That Break Your Heart – James’ highest charting album in the UK to date – and will see James once again return to the electronic roots of his Hessle, Hemlock and R&S records days. It will also nod to his latest creation, the CMYK event series with Ronda INTL which kicked off in LA last March and will be coming to London on July 6th. All the CMYK events over the past year have sold out within minutes and have featured appearances from special guests including, Steve Lacy, Channel Tres and HAii, to name a few.

To mark the release of Playing Robots Into Heaven, James will be embarking on a headline international tour, with dates in the UK, Europe and North America. Kicking off at the Fabrique in Milan on September 18th it will see James travel to his home town in London for an Alexandra Palace show on September 28th, before wrapping up in Los Angeles on October 19th. See below for full list of dates.

Tickets will be available starting with an artist presale beginning today, June 28 at 9am PT/12pm ET. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on sale beginning on Friday, June 30 at 10am local time. For more information go to www.jamesblakemusic.com