Latest News About The Rapture Band

Updated 2026-04-20 09:03

Here’s the latest I can share based on recent reporting:

If you’d like, I can pull more current sources or summarize fan-site coverage and mainstream outlets to confirm whether there have been any fresh developments after spring 2025.

Illustration: a quick look at their activity timeline shows a peak era in the mid-2000s, a quiet breakup in 2014 per multiple outlets, a 2019–2020 reunion phase, and touring in 2025–2026 with no clear confirmation of new recordings. For precise dates and quotes, I can fetch the latest articles and provide direct citations.[4][9]

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Looks Like The Rapture Broke Up

All signs point to the New York dance-punks the Rapture quietly breaking up. As Consequence Of Sound points out, a press release for an upcoming Red Bull Music Academy event in New York lists guitarist and passionate hyena-yawper Luke Jenner as “formerly of the Rapture.” When self-titled sought clarification, Jonathan Galkin of DFA Records responded…

stereogum.com

The Rapture Announce European and North American Tour Dates | The Quietus

The Rapture have announced a run of tour dates across Europe and North America for later this year. The run of 26 shows is billed, in a press release, as the group’s “first proper headline tour in 15 years”, though although they did play a small number of reunion shows in 2019 and 2020. This latest […]

thequietus.com

The Rapture Lead Singer Indicates Band Not Only Has ...

In a recent interview with Consequence of Sound, lead singer of The Rapture, Luke Jenner, hinted at the potential release of a new album. Fans of the dance-punk group might be in luck based on some of the implications from Jenner. The band broke up in 2014 for various reasons, one of the biggest being Jenner’s quest

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