Out in the desert of Lord Huron's songs there is a neon honky-tonk called the Broken Bottle, and for 23 nights this winter the band is building it inside old theaters. Las Vegas gets one of them: Saturday, January 2, 2027, at The Theater at Virgin Hotels, the hall that used to be The Joint at the Hard Rock.
23 Nights at the Broken Bottle
An Evening with Lord Huron is the Las Vegas stop on what the band calls a traveling residency, a run of theater shows that starts at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and ends at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. The billing promises a trip across the band's whole catalog, and after a summer of arenas and amphitheaters it puts Ben Schneider's project back in rooms with balconies and history.
Where: The Theater, Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, Paradise Road, east of the Strip. When: Saturday, January 2, 2027, one night only. Run time: recent headline sets have run close to two hours. Ages: 4 and up. Best for: fans who know the songs past The Night We Met, and anyone staying in town after New Year's Eve.
What the setlist looks like
The Broken Bottle shows start a month before Las Vegas, so the exact set is still to come. The last tour gives the shape. On the Cosmic Selector run, which wrapped in August 2026, shows typically opened with Who Laughs Last and Looking Back from The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1, the band's fifth album, released in July 2025. Ends of the Earth, Wait by the River and Ancient Names (Part I) came mid-set, then a run from Strange Trails, La Belle Fleur Sauvage, Frozen Pines and Meet Me in the Woods, before The Night We Met closed the main set. Encores brought The World Ender, Nothing I Need, Not Dead Yet and Digging Up the Past, around 21 songs in all.
The Night We Met is the song everyone waits for. It was an album track on Strange Trails in 2015, and it has since passed 3.7 billion plays on Spotify, most of them after 13 Reasons Why used it in 2017.
The room at Virgin Hotels
The Theater is the concert hall inside Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, the resort that used to be the Hard Rock Hotel, at 4455 Paradise Road, about a mile east of the center Strip. It is far smaller than the arenas Lord Huron played last year, which is the point of this tour. A rideshare from the Strip takes a few minutes, and the resort has its own restaurants for dinner before the doors open.
New Year's weekend around it
January 2 is the Saturday after New Year's Eve, the night plenty of visitors add to stretch the holiday. Across town, Train plays BleauLive Theater at Fontainebleau the same evening, the second half of Fontainebleau's New Year's double bill, so a group that can't agree on Drops of Jupiter or The Night We Met has both within a short ride. Our New Year's Eve guide covers the countdown the night before.
