When Hard Rock Turns Inward: Citizen Soldier Brings “Secret Songs” to the 210
a mental-health conversation long overdue.
In recent years, Citizen Soldier has built a touring model that looks like a series of conversations carried city to city. The Secret Songs Tour II continous to frame live shows around material written outside the band’s main catalog—songs that, by design, were never meant to be singles. That idea has helped fuel steady momentum on the road, including stops in secondary and tertiary markets that many national tours bypass, according to regional coverage of the band’s recent growth and audience reach (Lehigh Valley News; Rexburg Standard Journal).
On Saturday, May 16, 2026, at The Rock Box in San Antonio, a city long associated with emotionally direct rock culture, Citizen Soldier’s will open a mental-health conversation long overdue. The same tenderheartedness covered in their school-district fundraiser events and community outreach in 2024, has become part of the tour’s identity.
Dakster Sullivan
Support on the date comes from Adelita’s Way and New Medicine, both of whom occupy adjacent lanes in modern radio-leaning hard rock. Their inclusion positions the night as a gamble and continuum: bands still built on melody and emotional extremes. It’s a lineup that mirrors how the genre currently sustains itself.
The tour lands well into 2026, after Citizen Soldier’s message-driven approach has already been tested in classrooms, benefit shows, and mid-sized halls across the country. it's almaot a measure of how far that model can stretch. They're offering a version of hard rock that can focus on the community's well being –something we have already grown to apreciate.
LINEUP
Citizen Soldier
Adelita’s Way
New Medicine
VENUE
The Rock Box — San Antonio, TX