Philly's Own Japanese Breakfast To Play The Met In May

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia's own Japanese Breakfast is playing a hometown show in May in celebration of the band's fourth album.

Helmed by Bryn Mawr College grad and author of "Crying in H Mart" Michelle Zauner, the indie pop band that got its start in Philadelphia will play The Met on Friday, May 16 as the band tours on their new album, "For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)."

"For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)" is set to release March 21 on Dead Oceans records.

The Melancholy Tour is the band’s first tour in three years, following the Jubilee Tour in 2022. Artist pre-sales begin Wednesday, with general on-sale going up at 10 a.m. Friday.

Get tickets online here.

Japanese Breakfast will be supported by Ginger Root at the Philadelphia show.

"For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)," marks the band’s first proper studio release after a decade making the most of improvised recording spaces set in warehouses, trailers and lofts.

The album is produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills, whose collaborators include Bob Dylan and Fiona Apple, and tracked at Sound City in Los Angeles, birthplace of After The Gold Rush, Fleetwood Mac and Nevermind.

Fans can expect Zauner to pull back from the bright extroversion that defined Japanese Breakfast's last album, "Jubilee," to examine the darker waves that roil within, the moody, fecund field of melancholy, long held to be the psychic state of poets on the verge of inspiration.