Turnstile Announce Free Benefit Show At The Washington Monument

This is going to be something special. In a few weeks, Turnstile will play a free public outdoor show on the National Lawn in Washington, DC. The performance goes down at 3 p.m. on Oct. 24. While there's no admission fee, the event will still be a benefit, with Human Concern International, the charitable organization hosting the gig, raising funds for humanitarian efforts in Palestine, Sudan, and Lebanon. You can RSVP and sign up for updates here, and you can make a donation here.Turnstile teased the announcement with a cryptic social media post yesterday.Turnstile have done things a bit like this before. When their last two albums came out, they played free no-barrier afternoon shows at parks in their Baltimore hometown and used the occasions to raise funds for unhoused people. They played the Clifton Park bandshell when Glow On came out in 2021, and the celebrated the release of Never Enough at Wyman Park Dell last year. Something like 10,000 people came out to the Wyman Park show. Videos from both of those gigs were absolutely fucking insane, and I was kicking myself hard for missing both of them.A National Mall show promises to be even bigger, and I have to wonder how they even...