News

We're excited to announce a handful of shows out east in late December, including our first New Years Eve show outside of Chicago...ever!

December 28 - Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop

December 29 - ...

Starting July 10, the Popes will be playing shows with Alkaline Trio. Check out our "tour" page for the West Coast dates. More shows will be announced soon.

The Popes are guest-editing Magnet Magazine this week. A new post from the band every day. Check it out!

Here's a link to our first tour video. We will be posting new videos on our blog page throughout the tour, so keep checking the site. You just might see your smiling face ...

This Sunday March 13 the Popes will be on WXRT's Local Anesthetic with Richard Milne. FM 93.1 in Chicago. The program starts at ...

Check out our JBTV episode. Songs from the new album, interviews, awesomeness!!

Check it out! Punknews is showing our new video http://www.punknews.org/article/41791 The song is called "Punk Band". It's the first music video we've done since "I Know You Love Me" ...

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20110214/entlife/799999438/

Go to www.altpress.com to hear an exclusive audio stream of the new song ...

Check out the official Smoking Popes YouTube page! All the classic videos are up there now, with brand new Popes videos coming ...

Just added: Smoking Popes will play 2 Chicago area shows in February - 2/19 in Rosemont and 2/25 in Joliet. Click here for more details www.smokingpopes.net/tour

Smoking Popes at Double Door in Chicago "This Is Only a Test" CD Release show Sunday April 3. Click here for tickets http://www.doubledoor.com/event/26245/

Smoking Popes will celebrate the release of their new album "This Is Only a Test" with a show at Double Door on April 3. Tickets for this event go ON SALE This SATURDAY JANUARY 15 at noon. ...

We're doing a live television taping at JBTV in Chicago. To win guest list spots to watch us perform, go here: http://www.do312.com/JBTV

The Popes are playing on JBTV in Chicago. Their performance will be taped on Friday Jan 14 at noon and aired at a later date. If you'd like to be in the studio audience for that show...go to...