Bellhead set 14 US dates on the ‘If I Can’t Break Your Heart Then No One Will’ tour
Chicago two-bass duo Bellhead play 14 US dates from 28 August to 4 October 2026, opening at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee and closing in Salt Lake City.
Chicago post-punk and industrial duo Bellhead play 14 United States dates between 28 August and 4 October 2026 on the “If I Can’t Break Your Heart Then No One Will” tour, announced on 21 August. The run opens at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee and crosses the Midwest, Great Plains, Southwest and South before closing at Club Area 51 in Salt Lake City. Tickets are sold by each venue.
The tour takes its name from “Threats (If I Can’t Break Your Heart)”, the John Weaver-directed video Bellhead put out in June 2026 and the first clip to show Karen Righeimer and Ivan Russia unmasked. The band have since posted two 2026 laurels for it: Best Low Budget Music Video at the Hollywood Best Indie Film Awards and Best Director Music Video at the Tokyo Film and Screenplay Awards.
Two dates carry a festival billing. The Albuquerque show on 4 September is part of New Mexico Goth Fest 2026 and shares a bill with eight other acts, and the Salt Lake City date on 4 October falls under The Dark Arts Festival of Utah 2026. On 19 September in Little Rock the duo appear on a bill with PIG and Cyanotic, a single overlap with PIG’s own Hurt People tour rather than a shared leg.
Bellhead tour dates for 2026
- 28 August – Cactus Club, Milwaukee, WI, with Spectra and Vic Dagger
- 1 September – Coven, Omaha, NE, with X-ID and Dread Portal
- 2 September – Kirby’s Beer Store, Wichita, KS, with Seven And A Switchblade and Evening Gown
- 3 September – Crypt, Denver, CO, with eHpH and Hypersomnia
- 4 September – Launchpad, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico Goth Fest 2026, with Thief, Hex Cassette, Future Club, Zero Batz, Somno Profundante, Sndwavs, BB Doom and DJ Ordo Amoris
- 5 September – Resonant Head, Oklahoma City, OK, with Mechanical Flesh, Blood Bells, Othering and Later Laine
- 6 September – Kickback Bar, Houston, TX, with Polybius Cabinet and TRB
- 7 September – The Crypt, New Orleans, LA, with Livernois and Chasm Comfort
- 17 September – Rose Bowl Tavern, Urbana, IL, at Bat Factory
- 18 September – Hi Tone, Memphis, TN
- 19 September – Birdie’s, Little Rock, AR, with PIG and Cyanotic
- 20 September – Fubar, St. Louis, MO, with Spicy Kitty and Bitchface
- 2 October – Witches’ Brew O.M.G., Lincoln, NE, with Moon Pigeon, The Trauma Center and Bungee Jumping Jesus
- 4 October – Club Area 51, Salt Lake City, UT, at The Dark Arts Festival of Utah 2026
What Bellhead are touring behind
The current catalogue centres on “Threats”, first issued on 8 April 2025 and reissued in June 2026 as a ten-track expanded edition on yellow vinyl. Side A carries the five original songs, and side B collects remixes by Christopher Hall and Walter Flakus of Stabbing Westward, Clubdrugs, Frontal Boundary and the band themselves.
Their most recent standalone release is “The The Empty”, a cover of the Le Tigre song, put on Bandcamp on 14 February 2026 through Oppressive Sky Records. Neil Strauch recorded and mixed it, Carl Saff mastered it, and the artwork is Righeimer’s.
About Bellhead
Bellhead formed in Chicago in 2019 around a line-up of two basses and a drum machine, with no guitar. Karen Righeimer plays low bass and sings, and Ivan Russia plays high bass, sings and programmes the drums. The duo release through Oppressive Sky Records.
The discography opens with the 2019 track “Fire Control”, whose Ordinary Mammal remix Side-Line offered as a free download in the Face The Beat: Session 5 profile series. “Unicorn Bones” followed in 2020 and “Dead Lights” in 2021. The single “Nothing As It Seams” arrived in June 2022, the same summer the pair placed tracks on two compilations and toured heavily. The EP “Good Intentions” came out in May 2023 ahead of a US East Coast run with Clay People, and a Prince cover, “I Would Die 4 U”, sits in the catalogue alongside it.
“Threats” was announced in March 2025 and reviewed by Side-Line that June. The expanded vinyl edition and the title-track video were announced in June 2026. On the road the duo have supported Stabbing Westward, Clan of Xymox, PIG, Julien-K, Christian Death and Powerman 5000. On the autumn 2026 run they headline, with local and regional support billed at almost every stop.
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