GRAMMY-award winning rock bands The National and The War On Drugs are bringing their 2024 co-headline Zen Diagram Tour to the United Center on September 24, marking the first time the two bands have toured together. Special guest Lucius will be joining. The tour will feature sets packed with great music from both bands, highlighting each group’s deep catalog.
Formed in 1999, The National have established themselves as mainstays of arenas and festivals with sold-out performances and headlining slots around the world. The band has scored five top 10 albums on The Billboard 200, multiple Grammy nominations with 2017’s Sleep Well Beast earning the award for Best Alternative Album. The National dropped not one but two new albums in 2023. First Two Pages of Frankenstein was released in April, followed by a surprise album Laugh Track in September, both on 4AD. Across two albums worth of new material they were joined by Phoebe Bridgers, Taylor Swift, Roseanne Cash, Bon Iver and Sufjian Stevens.
The War on Drugs have steadily emerged as one of this century’s great rock and roll synthesists, removing the gaps between the underground and the mainstream, between the obtuse and the anthemic, making records that wrestle a fractured past into a unified and engrossing present. Led by Adam Granduciel, The New Yorker called them “the best American ‘rock’ band of this decade” in support of their album, A Deeper Understanding, for which they won the 2018 Grammy for Best Rock Album and were nominated for a BRIT Award for International Group of the Year. 2020 saw the release of LIVE DRUGS featuring live interpretations of songs throughout their career, including off their 2014 breakthrough, Lost In The Dream. Co-produced by Granduciel and Shawn Everett, their fifth studio album, I Don’t Live Here Anymore, chips away some of their hazier edges in favor of sharper melodies, broadening the borders of the meticulous yet joyously simple sound [Granduciel] has perfected” (Pitchfork, Best New Music). It landed on numerous 2021 best albums of the year lists and garnered a second GRAMMY Award nomination (Best Rock Song) and BRIT Award nomination.
NOTE FOR ALL FLOOR GUESTS
All guests with floor tickets must enter through Gate 5 only when gates open at 6:30. This includes guests with General Admission and guests with floor seats. Additional information for guests with General Admission can be found below.
GENERAL ADMISSION PROCESS
The following approved process will be implemented at the United Center for the General Admission (GA) pit:
-
WRISTBAND DISTRIBUTION TIMES: At 9 a.m. on show day, guests will receive a numbered wristband. This represents the order they will be lined up in to access the GA area. Numbered wristbands will be distributed until 3:30 pm.
-
WHO NEEDS A NUMBERED WRISTBAND: Please note that numbered wristbands are only required if a guest would prefer to have first access to the standing room floor. A numbered wristband is not needed if a guest doesn't have a preference on where they will stand on the floor.
-
LOCATION: Fans will only receive wristbands from a credentialed United Center security employee at Gate 5.
-
LEAVING PRIVILEGES: Once the wristband is received, guests are free to leave and return to Gate 5 no later than 3:30 p.m.
-
RETURNING TIME: All guests with a wristband must return to the United Center and be lined up in order by 3:30 p.m. to have wristband number honored.
-
LATE ARRIVAL: If a guest with a numbered wristband arrives after 3:30 p.m., the guest will be placed in line after the last guest in line. Guests without wristbands arriving after 3:30 pm will also be placed in line after the last guest in line.
-
ONE PROCESS: This is the only process approved for GA entry. No additional arrangements can be honored at this time.
**Please note- you must have your ticket to obtain a wristband and only one wristband per person.
** All guests with general admission tickets must enter though Gate 5.