Lorde is set to play Kia Forum in Inglewood on 15.05.2026 at 19:00, bringing the Ultrasound tour to one of the region’s best-known arenas. The show comes as she works through a new stretch of material built around Virgin, her fourth studio album.

The venue has been specially adapted for concerts after a major renovation, with upgraded acoustics and an arena floor that can function as a large general admission area. Its circular shape also gives the crowd the feeling that it surrounds the stage, a layout that should suit a concert built for scale and movement.

That matters because Lorde’s set is coming at a moment when Virgin is still new enough to define the night. Released on 27.06.2025, the album was announced as her first studio album after four years and has drawn a Metacritic score of 82 based on 20 critical reviews. It was shaped with Jim-E Stack, Dan Nigro, Buddy Ross and other collaborators, marking another turn in a career that has already produced Pure Heroine in 2013, Melodrama in 2017 and Solar Power in 2021.

She has spent that career building a catalog with songs that tend to change the temperature of a room: Royals, Team, Green Light, Supercut, What Was That, Man of the Year and Hammer. That history makes the Inglewood date more than a standard tour stop. Even without the exact set list known in advance, Virgin is likely to sit near the center of the evening because the tour follows the album and the tour itself is named for the sound she is pushing now.

The small uncertainty is part of the appeal. Fans can expect the new record to matter, but they will not know until Lorde walks out whether the night leans toward the stark first-wave pulse of Pure Heroine, the sharper emotional sweep of Melodrama, the reflective drift of Solar Power or the newer terrain of Virgin. At Kia Forum, with the floor opened up and the crowd wrapped around the stage, that question should be answered in real time.