CINDERELLA frontman Tom Keifer will team up with L.A. GUNS for a U.S. tour this summer and fall.
The trek is currently scheduled to kick off on August 28 in Louisville, Kentucky and run through October 4 in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
Tom Keifer and L.A. GUNS 2025 tour dates:
Aug. 28 – Louisville, KY @ Iroquois Amphitheater
Aug. 30 – Eau Claire, WI @ The Sonnentag
Sep. 01 – Paw Paw, MI @ Warner Vineyards
Sep. 04 – Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
Sep. 05 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theater & Ballroom
Sep. 06 – Rockford, IL @ Coronado Performing Arts Center
Sep. 12 – Airway Heights, WA @ Spokane Live
Sep. 13 – Idaho Falls, ID @ Mountain America Center
Sep. 14 – Boise, ID @ Morrison Center
Sep. 17 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Theater at Virgin Hotels
Sep. 19 – Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre
Sep. 20 – Phoenix, AZ @ Celebrity Theatre
Sep. 21 – Albuquerque, NM @ Revel Entertainment Center
Oct. 03 – Carteret, NJ @ Carteret PAC
Oct. 04 – Stroudsburg, PA @ Sherman Theater
L.A. GUNS‘ new album, “Leopard Skin”, will be released on April 4, 2025. It will mark the first fruit of L.A. GUNS‘ reunion with Cleopatra Records, a label known for its diverse roster and innovative approach to music production.
L.A. GUNS‘ founding guitarist Tracii Guns stated about the “Leopard Skin” album title: “There’s the saying, ‘a leopard never changes its spots.’ But even so, they have a million different spots. And they’re all unique. It’s the same with L.A. GUNS. We can’t shed our leopard skin, but there’s a lot of different spots in this band.”
Not only is “Leopard Skin” hot on the heels of 2023’s “Black Diamonds” album, but is also L.A. GUNS‘ fifth studio effort in seven years, since the core team of guitarist and band founder Tracii Guns and singer Phil Lewis reunited in 2017. “Leopard Skin”, like the last few L.A. GUNS records, reconvenes the tight-knit lineup of Guns, Lewis, bassist Johnny Martin, guitarist Ace Von Johnson and studio drummer Adam Hamilton, but beyond that it is its own unique beast. True to form, it’s a hard-and-heavy, tough-as-nails L.A. GUNS set. But the music also presents the band at their funkiest, rowdiest, most classic-rock-worshipping best. And it’s clear they’re having a helluva lot of fun playing it.
Explains Tracii: “When we started doing records again in 2017, I wanted to be really aggressive. We hadn’t put out anything new in a lot of years, and we needed to be focused to have an impact. This one was a different approach. Musically, it was more about James Brown and soul music, with some ’70s sensibilities — things like Joe Walsh and THE ROLLING STONES and the NEW YORK DOLLS. And the process was more organic. It was, ‘Here’s a riff, go for it. Let’s see how many riffs we can build after this riff, and then going into the next riff.'”
The results speak for themselves. You want a four-on-the-floor AC/DC-style stomper? Cue up anthemic opener “Taste It”. Slippery funk-rock? Try out “Lucky Motherfucker” or “Don’t Gimme Away”. Rollicking ’70s-style glam? Drop the needle on “If You Wanna”. Swampy, slide guitar-laced grooves? Crank up the ZEP-tastic “The Grinder”.
Where does that position L.A. GUNS in 2025? Tracii returns to “Leopard Skin”. “The song title ‘Lucky Motherfucker’ kinda says it all,” he says. “Because I don’t know how many other bands that have been around almost 40 years are still out there not just touring consistently, but putting out records consistently, and the thing just keeps getting bigger and bigger from year to year.”
He continues: “So the work ethic is yielding what it’s supposed to, you know what I mean? The fans stay excited, we stay excited, and we keep making records. And as long as we have that opportunity and there’s a place for this music in the world, there’s no reason to ever stop.”
Last July, Tracii told On The Road To Rock podcast with Clint Switzer about the sound of L.A. GUNS‘ new LP: “It’s different than the other records. That’s the thing about L.A. GUNS, is I never know what’s gonna come out. I don’t know what mood I’m gonna be in or whatever, but I’m really proud of what I was able to record. And all the management and Phil and the guys, they’re freaking out, like, ‘Where’d this shit come from?’ So, yeah, I’m always most excited about L.A. GUNS. It’s the complete playground for me. I love it.”