Thursday release second reunion single, “White Bikes”

Thursday have released their second new song in 13 years, “White Bikes,” following this past April’s “Application For Release From the Dream.” The band says Stuart Richardson (who’s also in singer Geoff Rickly’s band No Devotion and has been touring with Thursday since 2022) “had the idea to produce the track like a nostalgic, upbeat, summertime version of War All the Time,” and you can definitely hear that energy coming through in this one. Here’s the band’s full statement about the song:

SURPRISE! We’ve been blown away by your support this year: you’ve bought our merch, come to our shows, streamed our music. In April we dropped our first song in over a decade. Then in June we had the opportunity to spend some time at @hansastudios in Berlin, where David Bowie wrote and recorded Heroes, where Nick Cave, Iggy Pop, Depeche Mode and REM all made history. There are still magical places left in this world and Hansa is one of them. The result of this session — a song called White Bikes and a @duranite / @gotobednickscholey video documenting our time in Berlin — will start to appear online as the clock strikes midnight around the world tonight / tomorrow morning. Twenty five years to the day that we unveiled our first ever song, we are sharing our newest one. This is our gift to you this holiday season. We hope you love it as much as we do. White Bikes started with an idea from @normanbrannon , and you can hear his distinctive style all over this song. @stu_richardson had the idea to produce the track like a nostalgic, upbeat, summertime version of War All the Time. Geoff told us that the lyrics deal with the loss of a dear friend — one of the first people he ever played music with — who disappeared one day on his bike. This one means a lot to us for a lot of different reasons. We have no record label, we have no ‘team’ behind this. But we have each and every one of you and that is all we’ve ever really needed in these 25 years… White Bikes on the side of the road.

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Listen and watch the video below. Thursday also have lots of tour dates coming up, including three intimate 25th anniversary shows for their 1999 debut album, Waiting, in New Jersey this weekend, a run opening Silverstein’s 25th anniversary tour in 2025, the New Jersey stop of My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade tour, and the 2025 Coheed cruise. All dates below.

Members of Thursday, My Chem, Coheed, and Circa Survive also make up the supergroup L.S. Dunes, who cover the Winter 2024 Issue of AltPress.

Thursday — 2024/2025 tour dates

playing Waiting in full:

12.06 Garwood, NJ Crossroads

12.07 Garwood, NJ Crossroads – all-ages afternoon show

12.07 Garwood, NJ Crossroads – 21+ evening show

supporting Silverstein (with Arm’s Length and Split Chain):

1.10 Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore Philadelphia

1.11 Boston, MA Citizens House of Blues

1.12 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom

1.14 Buffalo, NY Buffalo RiverWorks

1.15 Huntington, NY The Paramount

1.17 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE

1.18 Silver Spring, MD The Fillmore Silver Spring

1.19 Charlotte, NC The Fillmore Charlotte

1.21 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade (Heaven)

1.22 St Petersburg, FL Jannus Live

1.24 Houston, TX House of Blues

1.25 Dallas, TX The Factory in Deep Ellum

1.26 San Antonio, TX Vibes Event Center

1.28 Albuquerque, NM El Rey Theater

1.29 Tempe, AZ The Marquee

1.31 Anaheim, CA House of Blues

2.01 San Diego, CA The Observatory – North Park

2.02 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern

2.04 Salt Lake City, UT The Complex

2.06 Denver, CO Mission Ballroom

2.08 St. Louis, MO The Pageant

2.10 Indianapolis, IN Egyptian Room at Old National Centre

2.11 Chicago, IL Concord Music Hall

2.12 Royal Oak, MI (Detroit) Royal Oak Music Theatre

2.14 Toronto, ON HISTORY

2.15 Montreal, QC Olympia de Montreal

2.28 Manchester, UK O2 Ritz

3.01 London, UK O2 Forum Kentish Town

3.04 Brussels, BE AB Box

3.05 Paris, FR Trabendo

3.06 Amsterdam, NL Melkweg

3.07 Wiesbaden, DE Schlachthof

3.08 Munich, DE Backstage Werk

3.10 Vienna, AT Arena Wien

3.11 Nuremberg, DE Löwensaal

3.13 Berlin, DE Huxleys

3.14 Hamburg, DE Grosse Freiheit

3.15 Cologne, DE Palladium

supporting My Chemical Romance (with Death Cab For Cutie):

8.09 East Rutherford, NJ Met Life Stadium

Coheed cruise:

11.08 – 11.13 SS NEVERENDER Miami to Cozumel, Mexico