Sleep play Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom on Sunday, September 20, 2026, the only Canadian date on the first leg of the doom band's fall North American tour. It is also the first Vancouver show for a substantially rebuilt group: founding bassist and vocalist Al Cisneros is now joined by guitarist Bubba Dupree of Void and drummer Dale Crover of the Melvins and Redd Kross, with founding guitarist Matt Pike no longer in the band.
Key details
- Who: Sleep, featuring Al Cisneros, Bubba Dupree and Dale Crover
- Tour: North America 2026
- Date: Sunday, September 20, 2026
- Venue: Commodore Ballroom, 868 Granville Street, Vancouver
- Tickets: on sale via Ticketmaster
- Canadian dates: Vancouver is the lone Canadian stop in September; Toronto and Montreal follow on the second leg in November
Full tour dates
Sleep's 2026 North American tour runs in two legs, September 8 to 29 and November 4 to 17.
- Sep 8 - San Diego, CA - The Observatory North Park
- Sep 9 - Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren
- Sep 10 - Albuquerque, NM - The Revel Entertainment Center
- Sep 12 - Dallas, TX - Granada Theater
- Sep 13 - Austin, TX - Levitation
- Sep 14 - Oklahoma City, OK - Tower Theatre
- Sep 16 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
- Sep 17 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Grand at the Complex
- Sep 18 - Boise, ID - Treefort Music Hall
- Sep 20 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
- Sep 21 - Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre
- Sep 22 - Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre
- Sep 23 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theater
- Sep 25 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
- Sep 26 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
- Sep 27 - Santa Cruz, CA - The Catalyst
- Sep 28 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern
- Sep 29 - Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory
- Nov 4 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
- Nov 5 - Milwaukee, WI - The Pabst Theater
- Nov 6 - Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre
- Nov 7 - Detroit, MI - St. Andrew's Hall
- Nov 9 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre
- Nov 10 - Montreal, QC - Club Soda
- Nov 11 - Burlington, VT - Higher Ground
- Nov 12 - Boston, MA - Roadrunner
- Nov 13 - Hudson, NY - Basilica Hudson
- Nov 15 - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts
- Nov 16 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Paramount
- Nov 17 - Washington, DC - Lincoln Theatre
A new trio, and the first Sleep music in eight years
Sleep announced the tour in June 2026 alongside "Have Spacesuit Will Travel," their first new recording since the 2018 album The Sciences and the first Sleep track ever made without Matt Pike. Released through Jack White's Third Man Records, it keeps the band's signature slow, enormous low end intact while introducing two players with deep underground pedigrees of their own. Dupree built his reputation on Void's furiously compressed hardcore, and Crover has spent nearly four decades behind the kit in the Melvins, one of the few bands whose influence on heavy music rivals Sleep's own.
The lineup change was not a small one. Sleep has always been understood as the Cisneros and Pike partnership, a two-headed riff engine that produced Sleep's Holy Mountain in 1992 and then the hour-long Dopesmoker, a record so uncommercial on arrival that it helped end the band's first run and so influential in hindsight that it effectively founded a genre. In the band's announcement, Cisneros wished Pike well and framed the new configuration as a continuation rather than a reinvention, saying the group is composing in the spirit of what was established decades ago.
Cisneros has kept busy in the interim. Om, his duo with Sleep's original drummer Chris Hakius and later Emil Amos, spent the 2000s and 2010s turning Sleep's heaviness inward into something closer to devotional minimalism, and that patience is audible in how the new Sleep material breathes. There is also a comic: Cisneros has worked with artists Dave Kloc and Arik Roper on the first issue of a Sleep comic book, also via Third Man, which extends the Marijuanaut mythology that has run through the band's lyrics since the beginning.
For Vancouver, the practical detail is scarcity. The September leg runs from San Diego on the 8th to Santa Ana on the 29th and touches Canada exactly once. The Commodore, with its sprung dance floor and roughly 1,000-person capacity, is also a considerably more intimate room than the theatres Sleep are playing in Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles on the same run. Anyone weighing options should note the calendar conflict: the Foo Fighters are at BC Place the same night, which makes September 20 one of the busiest Sundays on the fall schedule. Our full listings are at the Scene in the Dark concert calendar.
Frequently asked questions
When do Sleep play Vancouver in 2026?
Sunday, September 20, 2026 at the Commodore Ballroom, 868 Granville Street. Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster.
Is Matt Pike still in Sleep?
No. The band's 2026 lineup is Al Cisneros on bass and vocals, Bubba Dupree on guitar and Dale Crover on drums. "Have Spacesuit Will Travel" is the first Sleep recording made without Pike.
Is the Vancouver show Sleep's only Canadian date this fall?
It is the only Canadian stop on the September leg. Sleep return to Canada in November for shows in Toronto and Montreal, but there are no other announced British Columbia dates.
Scene in the Dark has covered Vancouver's live-music scene since 2010.
