From their earliest days as the solo project of frontman Rick Maguire, Pile have followed an unusual path through a decade in which rock bands have generally receded from the cultural spotlight. Starting out in 2007, in the then thriving Boston DIY scene, the band rapidly became heroes and standard-bearers for their hometown’s music community, garnering a cultish-adoration that has only intensified as that cult has grown, expanding by word of mouth across the country and throughout the globe.

For fifteen years, Pile’s evolving take on rock has earned the group one oft-repeated superlative: “your favorite band’s favorite band.” Ceaseless touring took its members from Boston’s basement circuit to international festivals, hitting loftier technical apexes with each new record. All Fiction, the band’s eighth record, finds the ambitious group assembling its most texturally complex material yet—despite the fraught inspiration underscoring its restive lyrics. Alongside the blistering drums and scorched-earth riffs that first galvanized Pile’s dedicated fanbase, the band has incorporated elegiac strings, mystifying vocal corrosions, and haunting synths. All Fiction is an ornate, carefully paced study on the subjectivity of perception, the data-shaping despotism of big tech, and the connections between anxiety and death.

team
  • agent // Brendan Biesen // bbiesen@fieldbookingagency.com
  • band // hq@pilemusic.com
select tour history
(2022 & 2023 seasons)
PhilaMOCA
PhilaMOCA
Philadelphia
PA
150
2023
Somerville Theatre (Crystal Ballroom)
Somerville Theatre (Crystal Ballroom)
Somerville
MA
500
2022
Market Hotel
Market Hotel
Brooklyn
NY
450
2022
Johnny Brendas
Johnny Brenda's
Philadelphia
PA
250
2022
DC9 Nightclub
DC9 Nightclub
Washington
DC
180
2022
529
529
Atlanta
GA
250
2022
Nashville
TN
200
2022
Lincoln Hall
Lincoln Hall
Chicago
IL
500
2022
Sanctuary
The Sanctuary
Hamtramck
MI
300
2022
Space Ballroom
Space Ballroom
Hamden
CT
300
2022
Sinclair
The Sinclair
Cambridge
MA
525
2022
Trunk Space
The Trunk Space
Phoenix
AZ
100
2022
Soda Bar
Soda Bar
San Diego
CA
230
2022
Beat Kitchen
Beat Kitchen
Chicago
IL
275
2022
Radio Bean
Radio Bean
Burlington
VT
87
2022