Steve Gunn has announced a new album. It’s called Other You and it’s due out August 27th via Matador. To break the news, he’s releasing the two-song single “Other You” / “Reflection” today and has unveiled a string of US tour dates as well. Gunn has released a lot of records over the years, but technically speaking Other You is his sixth studio album and the follow-up to 2019’s The Unseen in Between. It was created with veteran producer Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith) and Gunn’s longtime friend and collaborator Justin Tripp. It also features contributions from Julianna Barwick, Mary Lattimore, Jeff Parker, Bridget St. John, Bill MacKay, Ben Bertrand, and others. In a statement, Gunn explained that the idea for the title came about during a vocal recording session with Schnapf. “Rob was v...
Pinegrove’s last album, Marigold, arrived in January 2020, and now they can properly take their new music on the road. The indie rock band has announced a handful of shows for 2021. The 15-date run will take them primarily along the East Coast, with an appearance at Bonnaroo in September. It marks their first live shows since the original Marigold tour was cut short due to the pandemic. The tour kicks off in Accord, NY this August, ending with a hometown show in Montclair, NJ in October. Joining Pinegrove are supporting acts Samia, Mikaela Davis Band, Miloe, Grumpy, Indigo DeSouza, Skullcrusher, and Blue Ranger. Tickets go on sale this Wednesday, June 30th, at 10:00 a.m. EST, and you can grab yours via Ticketmaster or on the secondary market here. See the dates below. In April 2020, Pinegr...
Yo La Tengo are going on the road. The beloved indie rock trio just announced a 2021 tour for later this fall in the US and UK, and you can check out the complete list of tour dates below. This trek will see Yo La Tengo performing live in support of their records from last year. In 2020, fans were treated to a surprise instrumental EP called We Have Amnesia Sometimes that saw the band going full jam mode. A few months later, they returned with another new EP, Sleepless Night, which showcased an original song called “Bleeding” alongside five fresh covers. The fall 2021 tour consists of 13 dates in total. It kicks off in Holyoke, Massachusetts on September 17th and sees the band performing in Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey before jumping to the west coast. Yo La Tengo will then f...
Bad Religion and Alkaline Trio will finally get the chance to embark on their co-headlining tour after postponing the outing due to the pandemic. The originally scheduled trek was supposed to kick off in March 2020, the same month the concert industry shut down, but will now launch this October. The newly rescheduled 30-date tour kicks off October 15th in Riverside, California, then makes its way east before returning to the West Coast for a final gig on November 26th in Los Angeles. War on Women will serve as support for the entire run. “This tour is special,” said Bad Religion singer Greg Graffin in a press release. “Not only are we celebrating the return of live music, but we get to do it with Alkaline Trio, who are such a great band, really excited about this!” Related Video Alkaline T...
Titus Andronicus are celebrating the 10th anniversary of The Monitor by hitting the road for a North American tour. The indie rockers will perform the 2010 breakthrough album in full on the 15-city trek, which kicks off this November. The celebration of the milestone anniversary was originally scheduled for 2020, but was cancelled due to the global coronavirus pandemic.”As the 10th anniversary came and went, I considered scrapping the whole thing,” frontman Patrick Stickles said in a statement. “But my audience has helped me so much to endure during this difficult time, and knowing how much they themselves have had to endure, I couldn’t ignore or deny that they deserve a little treat. After so many years of doing whatever I want, for once, I’m going to give the people what they want....
Kevin Parker is putting on his lab coat and going on tour. The Tame Impala mastermind has rescheduled “Phase I Rushium® Trials” — aka, the band’s North American tour that is finally going down in 2021. The “trials,” as indicated by the press release, will begin this September at Bonnaroo. The news was teased by a clip Tame Impala shared yesterday, showing Parker touring a medical lab. After releasing their last album, The Slow Rush, in February 2020, Parker and company were forced to cancel the tour behind it due to the coronavirus. They were supposed to hit North America this summer, but those dates got postponed, too. Now, a year and a half after The Slow Rush’s release, we’ll finally have the chance to hear it in person — er, we mean, participate in Phase I trials of Rushium®. Tickets f...
Wu-Tang Clan members GZA, Raekwon, and Ghostface Killah are uniting for the “3 Chambers Tour”, a “tri-headlining” outing which will see each rapper perform material from his respective classic solo album. GZA will perform tracks from Liquid Swords; Raekwon will run through Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, and Ghostface Killah will revisit Ironman. The “3 Chambers Tour” officially kicks off in Minneapolis on October 1st and visits 25 US cities through mid-December. Check out the full list of dates below. Related Video Tickets go on sale Wednesday, June 23rd at 12 pm local time. “3 Chambers Tour” Dates:10/01 – Minneapolis, MN @ Skyway Theatre10/02 – Sauget, IL @ Pop’s10/03 – Fort Wayne, IN @ Piere’s10/16 – Denver, CO @ The Fillmore10/20 – Chicago, IL @ Concord Music Hall10/22 – Chicago, IL @ Co...
Sir Elton John has detailed the final leg of his long-running “Farewell Yellow Brick Road: The Final Tour”. The culmination of a journey that began nearly five years ago, John will play 30 stadium shows across Europe, the UK, and North America beginning in May 2022. The tour will conclude with a pair of gigs at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles, California on November 19th and 20th. “Hello, all you wonderful fans out there. I’m coming to you today with an announcement I’ve been working towards for, well, all my life: the shows that I announce today will be my final tour dates ever in North America and Europe,” John said in a statement. “I’m going to go out in the biggest possible way, performing at my very best, with the most spectacular production I’ve ever had, playing in places that have m...
Damon Albarn has officially announced his sophomore solo album, The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows. It’s out November 12th via Transgressive Records, and he also shared the title track and revealed rescheduled 2022 tour dates. Originally intended as an orchestral piece inspired by the landscapes of Iceland, the Gorillaz mastermind revisited the project during COVID-19 lockdown and further developed it to explore themes of fragility, loss, emergence, and rebirth. The title is taken from John Clare’s poem Love and Memory. “I have been on my own dark journey while making this record and it led me to believe that a pure source might still exist,” Albarn said about The Nearer the Fountain in a press statement. Related Video The five-minute title track serves as the lead si...
Alt-rock veterans Manchester Orchestra are ready to hit the road. The Atlanta, Georgia four-piece just announced a lengthy tour that will see them performing across North America late this fall and into early 2022. Along the way, they’ll be supported by emo trio Foxing. Check out the full list of tour dates below. Manchester Orchestra are kicking off the trek on October 5th in Dallas, Texas and hitting up the usual major cities like New York City, Houston, Philadelphia, Nashville, and Boston, before throwing their annual holiday extravaganza The Stuffing on November 19th in their hometown. After a quick break, Manchester Orchestra will jumpstart the tour again on February 16th in St. Louis, Missouri, and they’ll stay on the road until finishing in Montreal, Quebec on March 16th. “It is our...