Slide Away Festival Will Reunite Hum, Chapterhouse

Shoegaze heroes Hum and Chapterhouse will reunite for the third Slide Away festival, which is organized by Philadelphia band Nothing and will visit Brooklyn, N.Y., Chicago and Los Angeles in May 2026. It will be Hum’s first shows since 2019 and the 2021 death of drummer Bryan St. Pere, while Chapterhouse will be on stage for the first time since 2010.

Nothing will perform in all three cities on the run, which will visit Brooklyn Paramount on May 15-16, Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom on May 23 and Los Angeles’ Hollywood Palladium on May 29-30. Among the other acts set to appear at different stops are Bleary Eyed, Lovesliescrushing, Manslaughter 777, She’s Green, Swirlies, Warmachine, Cloakroom, Sunshy, Cryogeyser, Mint Field, Ovlov, Seko and Terraplana.

Tickets go on sale to the general public on Oct. 3, but pre-sales are already underway. Click here for details.

Hum emerged from Champaign, Il., with the 1995 rock radio smash “Stars” and released three highly regarded albums before splitting in 2000. Although the band occasionally reunited for shows throughout the 2000s, they stunned fans by surprise-releasing their first album in 22 years, Inlet, during the summer of 2020. The project garnered some of the best reviews of Hum’s career.