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RÜFÜS DU SOL Make History For Electronic Music At Madison Square Garden

Mary Varvaris

RÜFÜS DU SOL will perform four consecutive sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden this week, becoming the first electronic act to do so.

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Australian Grammy Award-winning electronic outfit, RÜFÜS DU SOL, have gone and made history at one of the world’s most renowned venues: Madison Square Garden.

Currently touring across the US, the Australian dance group lands in New York this week for four consecutive sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden – the most gigs by an electronic artist at the venue, selling the most tickets by an electronic artist in the venue’s history.

Other highlights of their current US tour include performing to a sold-out, 45,000-capacity crowd at Montréal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau, plus sold-out shows at American baseball stadiums, such as Chicago’s Wrigley Field, Boston’s Fenway Park, and San Diego’s Petco Park.

Another highlight: on Saturday, 4 July, the trio will perform to over 60,000 fans at Mexico City’s Foro Sol.

The incredible turnout at RÜFÜS DU SOL’s current US tour follows a whirlwind year for the trio. Their Inhale / Exhale World Tour was crowned the highest-selling electronic tour of all time, selling 750,000 tickets to their headline shows and playing to 1.5 million fans worldwide, including at festivals.

At home, the trio played to over 150,000 fans last November, which included three nights at two of the country’s largest arenas: Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena and Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena.

Reviewing the trio’s first of three Melbourne shows, The Music’s Michael Prebeg wrote, “The first of three sold-out RÜFÜS DU SOL Melbourne shows proves that they remain masters of turning electronic soundscapes into communal, deeply human experiences that can move both body and soul.

“Their euphoric homecoming unites electronic music fans on a large scale and turns the arena’s dance floor into a dreamscape where music, visuals and emotion fuse together seamlessly for a moment of collective transcendence.

RÜFÜS DU SOL’s most recent album, Inhale / Exhale, was released in October 2024 and debuted at #3 on the ARIA Albums Chart. The album followed the group’s 2021 full-length, Surrender.