Seven years after Durand Jones & The Indications gave the lowrider community a thank-you note called "Cruisin' to the Park," the Bloomington-born soul band is steering that title back to the boulevards that made it an anthem. The Cruisin' To The Park Tour puts the group on 13 headline stages between March 11 and March 30, 2027, and general tickets hit the market Friday (Oct 23) after two days of presales.

The route plays like a slow roll down a main drag with the windows down. It opens at Laxson Auditorium in Chico and swings through Fresno, Bakersfield and Monterey before a desert pit stop at Pappy & Harriet's in Pioneertown on March 18. Las Vegas, Phoenix and Santa Fe come next. The final week belongs to Texas, with Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin and Dallas lined up ahead of the closer at White Oak Music Hall in Houston on March 30. The full run, with presale signups for each city, lives on the band's official tour page.

Nobody has been named as an opener yet, and there's no East Coast, Midwest or Canadian leg on the books. Fans who want more than a seat can chase the Pre-Show Acoustic Experience. The Lensic's event listing puts it at $207 plus fees in Santa Fe for a private acoustic set, a meet-and-greet and group photo, signed merch and first entry. Regular Lensic tickets start at $70.

The song that names the tour has a backstory worth knowing. When the band dropped the song as a standalone single in August 2019, months after American Love Call, they explained how an Indiana basement project found its people out west. "We put together our first record in our basement, messing around with different styles of soul music," the band said in the Dead Oceans release. "But it was our sweet-soul tunes that got an overwhelming response from people who introduced us to the world of Chicano soul and lowrider car culture." Director Jude Gonzalez filled the video with that same community, and the record has ridden in their trunks ever since.

That loyalty explains the map. More than half of these dates land in California and Nevada, and the Central Valley stops in Fresno and Bakersfield are the kind of rooms a soul act chasing only big-city grosses would skip. Five Texas nights in six days, from the Aztec Theatre in San Antonio to ACL Live at The Moody Theater in Austin, follow the same logic deeper into Chicano soul country.

The band arrives at this run after a busy 2026. Flowers, their fourth album, landed in June 2025 on Dead Oceans. In February the group carried it across Europe with Mrcy opening, from the Roundhouse in London on Feb 12 to Le Trianon in Paris and two nights at Paradiso in Amsterdam. On Jan 20 they released "Let's Take Our Time," a slow, swaying two-step with Aaron Frazer's falsetto out front. "The music is sweet but the rhythm is tough, made for a two-step that works on a humid dance floor or a slow dance with your crush," Frazer said when the single dropped. Colemine Records pressed it onto a 7-inch backed with "Flower Moon" on March 13.

The back half of the year got stranger in the best way. On Aug 29 the band played a homecoming in Bloomington at Switchyard Park, part of a Granfalloon series celebrating 30 years of Secretly Group, the label family behind Dead Oceans. From Sept 16 through Oct 2 they rode shotgun on Charley Crockett's Age of the Ram tour, putting sweet soul in front of hard-country crowds at amphitheaters in St. Louis, Kansas City, Charlotte and Atlanta before closing at Central Park SummerStage on Oct 1 and the Stone Pony in Asbury Park the following night. Somewhere in that stretch they also worked the Bourbon & Beyond grounds in Louisville on Sept 26.

Frazer, meanwhile, has his own calendar to keep. His six-song solo EP Corners, cut between tours at studios in South Central, Riverside, Pasadena and Lincoln Heights, comes out Oct 30 through Dead Oceans, with guitarist Blake Rhein among the collaborators. "Same Old Game," his ode to childhood crushes in the spirit of The Intruders' "Cowboys to Girls," leads the set.

The road between now and Chico isn't empty either. The Indications are booked for Corona Capital in Mexico City from Nov 20 to 22, then the One Big Holiday destination festival in Mexico's Riviera Maya from Jan 14 to 18. The 17-song setlist on their Live Nation page slots "Cruisin' to the Park" eighth and sends people home with "Witchoo."

Durand Jones came to Indiana University in 2012 as a saxophonist from small-town Louisiana and never planned to front anybody's band. In March he'll stand in Chico, the first of 13 rooms full of people who learned his voice from a car stereo.