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Chad R. Matheny has been making music since 1998, often under the name Emperor X. A former STEM educator and physics graduate student, Matheny paused academic work and spent much of the past two decades crossing the world on buses and bullet trains to perform hundreds of concerts or compose in situ at locations ranging from a symphony hall in Portugal to the basement of a garden supply shop in Pittsburgh to an abandoned trade fair dome in northern Lebanon. He often tours alone with a guitar and synth, but sometime shares bills with fellow travelers including The Hotelier, The World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, and most recently AJJ and Xiu Xiu. To date he has released eleven albums and more than a dozen odd-format tour-only EPs and one-off singles. Music from some of these recordings appears in the soundtrack of the of the 2014 Warner Bros. film Veronica Mars and has been featured on national radio outlets including Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg in Germany and National Public Radio (three times) in the United States. He co-produced the Sub Pop album Bits by jangle punk legends Oxford Collapse alongside Eric Topalski of Don Caballero and Storm & Stress. He has composed video soundtrack music for labor unions and non-profit organizations including Planned Parenthood and SEIU. In 2011 and 2012, Matheny’s ambient work Keeling Curve was used in a multimedia installation by photographer Joel Sternfeld that was featured in a retrospective exhibition at Museum Folkwang. In addition to his nascent cooperative label project Dreams of Field Recordings with The Hotelier’s Christian Holden, he has worked with several labels including Burnt Toast Vinyl, Tiny Engines, and Bar/None Records. Matheny is a resident of Brieskow-Finkenheerd, a former East German power plant town east of Berlin on the Polish-German border. He is also one of the owner-operators of Donau115, an important node in Berlin’s active jazz/new music/songwriting scene.
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Folk, Alternative, Indie, Indie Pop, Electronic, Pop, Speed Folk
Yes, Emperor X is currently on tour. If you're interested in attending an upcoming Emperor X concert, make sure to grab your tickets in advance. The Emperor X tour is scheduled for 9 dates across 9 cities. Get information on all upcoming tour dates and tickets for 2026-2027 with Hypebot.
Emperor X is scheduled to play 9 shows between 2026-2027. Buy concert tickets to a nearby show through Hypebot.
Emperor X's tour starts Jul 10, 2026 and ends on Jul 25, 2026. They will play 9 cities; their most recent concert was held in Somerville at Warehouse XI - Boston Event Space and their next upcoming concert will be in Chicago at Beat Kitchen.
As part of the Emperor X tour, Emperor X is scheduled to play across the following venues and cities:
