Better Than Ezra announced their own “Legends of the Fall Tour” is returning this November, marking 25 years since their album “Closer” first came out on August 7, 2001. The band made the announcement themselves on Instagram, writing: “25 years of Closer. We’re bringing the Legends of the Fall Tour back this November to celebrate an album that’s meant so much to us,” according to Parade’s coverage of the announcement.

• Confirmed November dates run through the Midwest and Texas: Minneapolis (Nov. 5), Madison (Nov. 6), Milwaukee (Nov. 7), Chicago (Nov. 8), San Antonio (Nov. 19), Houston (Nov. 20), and Dallas (Nov. 21).
• Tickets went on sale Friday, August 8, at 10 a.m. local time through the band’s official website.
• The band’s current touring lineup is Kevin Griffin on lead vocals, guitar, and piano, Tom Drummond on bass, James Arthur Payne Jr. on guitar and keyboard, and Michael Jerome on drums.
• “Closer” runs 11 tracks, opening with “Misunderstood” and “Extra Ordinary” before “A Lifetime” as track five, per the album’s own official release listing.

Before “Closer,” Better Than Ezra had already put together a real run in the alternative-rock era. Their 1993 album “Deluxe” went multi-platinum, and the single “Good” hit Number One on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart in April 1995, holding the top spot for five weeks, per Parade’s reporting. That earlier success is part of what made “Closer” a real statement rather than a sophomore slump — it proved the band could evolve past the sound that first got them radio play.

Twenty-five years is long enough that an album anniversary tour risks feeling like pure nostalgia bait, but the band’s own framing on Instagram — an album “that’s meant so much to us” — reads more like a band revisiting work they’re still proud of than a label-driven cash grab. Seven cities across two regions, in November, timed exactly to the anniversary month, suggests a genuinely planned celebration rather than a tour that happened to get an anniversary sticker slapped on it after the fact.

For a band that’s kept touring steadily since the 90s without ever landing the mainstream household-name status of some of their alt-rock peers, an anniversary tour built around one specific album is a smart move — it gives longtime fans a reason to travel for a show built entirely around the record that mattered most to them, rather than just another stop on a generic hits-heavy setlist tour.