A daytime live concert photograph of Jim Adkins from the rock band Jimmy Eat World performing on an outdoor stage. Adkins is in sharp focus in the background, singing passionately into a black microphone while playing a light wood-colored electric guitar. They have short brown hair and are wearing a black short-sleeve button-down shirt. In the blurred foreground to the right, the back and profile of another band member playing a reddish-brown bass guitar is visible. The scene is brightly lit by natural sunlight, with metal stage scaffolding and green foliage visible in the background.
Jimmy Eat World plays Dcode Music Festival in Madrid Spain on Sept. 10, 2016. Credit: Christian Bertrand / Shutterstock

Released three months before 9/11, Jimmy Eat World was forced to rename its mainstream breakthrough Bleed American after the attack on the Twin Towers. But 25 years later, the album stands the test of time and serves as a watershed moment for the Arizona emo outfit. 

Recorded on the band’s own dime after Capitol headscratchingly dropped Jimmy Eat World following the release of genre staple Clarity, Bleed American (which was a self-titled LP before going back to its original name in 2008) went platinum thanks to the hit single “The Middle.” In 2024, the album joined Spotify’s billion-stream club.

Without a dull moment in its 47-minute runtime, frontman Jim Adkins & co. will play the album in full this year, on a tour that kicks off next month with Florida stops planned for the fall. The tour closes in Florida in November, with a penultimate show set for Tampa where Hot Mulligan opens the show along with Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers.

In a release, drummer Zach Lind said the tour is a second chase to love on fans who’ve allowed Jimmy Eat World to make a living over the last two-and-a-half decades.

“I feel like at this time in our lives, especially for me, it’s important to get back to a place that you can savor. This tour is designed to be an elevated version of our show, a heightened experience with production that reflects 25 years of learning how to stretch artistically in the live environment,” Adkins added.

Tickets to see Jimmy Eat World play MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre on Saturday, Nov. 14 are still available and start at $51.

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This article appears in May 07 – 13, 2026.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...