Queens of the Stone Age is set to headline its biggest Detroit concert to date, bringing a 16-date North American tour to Little Caesars Arena on May 22, 2027, with Pixies and Wheelchair Sports Camp opening every night. Tickets go on sale to the general public on October 29, 2026 at 10 a.m. local time, with an artist presale kicking off the day before, on October 28 at 10 a.m. local time.
The Detroit stop was confirmed Thursday when representatives for the band announced the concert, according to The Detroit News, whose Adam Graham reported that the Little Caesars Arena date marks Queens of the Stone Age's largest Detroit show to date. The run is being staged in support of the band's forthcoming album, Perfecth, which Loudwire reports is set to drop on October 30, 2026.
Perfecth arrives through Matador Records and was produced by frontman Josh Homme and bassist Michael Shuman, according to Jambase. The outlet also notes that the album marks the band's ninth full-length and its first since 2023's In Times New Roman…, per ticketnews.com.
A Tour Built Around Fresh Material
The Detroit date is one stop on a 16-date North American run featuring Pixies and Wheelchair Sports Camp supporting each night, the band's representatives confirmed. Consequence reports that the stateside leg of the Perfecth World Tour kicks off May 1 in San Diego and runs through a May 24 show in Boston, placing the Detroit stop roughly three weeks into the run.
Ticketnews.com frames the 2027 dates as a return to larger venues for Queens of the Stone Age following the band's more intimate performances on its Catacombs Tour. That stripped-down run included an October 3, 2025 stop at Detroit's Fox Theatre, one of just 11 fall concerts the band played that year, inspired by its performance film Alive in the Catacombs, according to the Oakland Press. That show ran about an hour and 45 minutes and featured Paris Jackson as the opening act, the outlet reported.
Fresh Off a Fallon Appearance
The Detroit announcement came the same week Queens of the Stone Age appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, performing the live debut of “Where The Goth Girls At?” the night before, per Jambase's report. It's the latest high-profile stop for a band that, per Metro Times, has been at it for 30 years now.
Detroit has seen the band in a few different configurations over the past year. Queens of the Stone Age performed at Ford Field on August 6, 2026, ahead of headliners Foo Fighters, according to a Detroit News photo gallery — a stadium Metro Times describes as having a 50,000-person capacity. Little Caesars Arena, by contrast, can fit crowds of up to 17,000 for a 360-degree concert staged in the round, according to statistics cited by the Free Press from spring 2025.
With tickets opening to an artist presale on October 28 and to the general public the following morning, Detroit fans now have a timeline to plan around for what organizers are billing as the band's biggest local headlining turn yet.
