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ANNOUNCES FALL TOUR
July 8th, 2026 by Traci Turner
In news many outside of California thought they would never hear, Oingo Boingo frontman Danny Elfman has confirmed dates for a North American tour! The fall trek has Elfman packing up the tour bus in support of a forthcoming rock album, his first solo album since “Big Mess” in 2021.
The tour kicks off September 7th in Chicago, hits the Midwest and East Coast, then wraps up in California with two dates up north: October 3rd in San Francisco, and October 4th in Sacramento – technically at the Aftershock Festival.
Our Pumpkin King for so many years in SoCal became Mr. Fancy Pants Composer and brought us film scores and soundtracks for “Beetlejuice,” “Batman,” “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,” “Edward Scissorhands,” “Good Will Hunting,” “To Die For,” “Spider-Man,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” and about 5,362,087 others.
After leaving Boingo, many thought we would never see Elfman on stage again. But in 2013 Elfman returned for “Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton,” performing music from 15 of Burton’s films in new arrangements.
Then, in 2015, Elfman made the Hollywood Bowl home for Halloween when he was joined by an orchestra and performed “The Nightmare Before Christmas” musical score along to the film.
With last year being the 10th anniversary, Elfman reprised his singing role as Jack Skellington for a live performance, joined by Janelle Monáe, Keith David, and John Stamos.
Elfman has also ventured out further performance-wise, leading himself back to the Boingo days with “Danny Elfman: From Boingo to Batman to Big Mess to Beyond!” which he debuted at Coachella in 2022.
We are expecting to hear some of our Boingo favorites; “Dead Man’s Party,” “Grey Matter,” “Only a Lad,” or “Weird Science,” perhaps?
Joining Elfman for the tour will be some incredible musicians you may have heard of: Robin Finck on guitar (Nine Inch Nails), his bandmate Josh Freese on drums (Nine Inch Nails, Foo Fighters), Matt McJunkins on bass (A Perfect Circle), and Nili Brosh on guitar (Dethklok).
A ticket presale is on now and the general on sale begins tomorrow at 10 a.m. local time.
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