“I hope 10 years ago in some small corner of the world you heard the imagination of young folks from the city of chicago”
Noname at Coachella, 2023 (Getty Images)
Telefone, the piercing 2016 breakout debut from Noname, turns ten this year, and the Chicago rapper is celebrating it with a late-summer anniversary trek. It kicks off in Toronto on August 2 and ends with a September 10 hometown show. Check out the full list of stops below. Two months after the tour ends, she will take the Telefone festivities across the Atlantic to Pitchfork Festival London in November.
“I hope you were there,” Noname said in an Instagram post announcing the performances. “I hope 10 years ago in some small corner of the world you heard the imagination of young folks from the city of chicago. Telefone was already breathing when I discovered it. It sat, quietly whispering to me between every blunt rotation outside youmedia, after every conversation with cam about the texture of sound, after I lived along enough to sing about it. Telefone was raised by a community.”
Revisit Julianne Escobedo Shepherd’s 2023 profile of Noname.
Telefone Ten Year Anniversary Tour
08-02 Toronto, Ontario - The Opera House
08-04 Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
08-05 New York, NY - Sony Hall
08-06 Philadelphia, PA - Brooklyn Bowl
08-08 Richmond, VA - Richmond Jazz Festival
08-09 Washington, DC - Howard Theatre
08-11 Atlanta, GA - The Loft
08-14 Houston, TX - House of Blues
08-15 Austin, TX - Emo’s
08-16 Dallas, TX - House of Blues
08-18 Denver, CO - Cervantes
09-01 Los Angeles, CA - The Fonda
09-02 San Francisco, CA - Regency Ballroom
09-04 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
09-06 Seattle, WA - Bumbershoot Festival
09-10 Chicago, IL - Park West