Southern California’s alternative rock band Dirty Heads announce the release of their seventh studio album, Super Moon, out on Friday, August 9, worldwide through Five Seven Records. To celebrate, the band will unveil a lyric video for title track “Super Moon,” today, Friday, June 14, at 12pm ET/9am PT via YouTube. Click HERE to reserve your spot!
The album was produced by four-time Grammy®-winning Nashville, Tennessee-based super producer Dave Cobb (A Star is Born soundtrack, Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson), and features the title track, “Super Moon,” which vocalist Jared “Dirty J” Watson describes as “a 70’s sci-fi kung fu Western car chase soundtrack. It gives you a look into the sonics, tone, and creative narrative of this album. It was all recorded live in the same room to tape in Studio A in the old RCA building in Nashville, Tennessee, where legends like Johnny Cash and Elvis recorded a lot of their work.
“The artwork was meant to spook some folk, definitely. The running joke in the studio was, ‘Don’t worry, we aren’t doing a country album,’ but we were inspired by the city and the studio and the artists who recorded there before us. Dave Cobb produced, and he was perfect for where we are mentally for this album. He’s a purist. He runs on pure creativity. No rules, no boundaries, no structures — a mantra that we have also tried to live by. Also playing and recording the songs live makes you really rely on yourself and your strengths. I’ve never loved an album from front to back so much in our career. We hope you enjoy.”
Dirty Heads will head out on a 32-date co-headlining U.S. tour with 311, with support from The Interrupters, Dreamers and Bikini Trill, this summer, starting on July 2 in Dayton, Ohio. They will be hitting major market cities with three new dates announced in Mt. Pleasant, MI, Avila Beach, CA, and Philadelphia, PA. The band will of course be playing a diverse setlist, including a few tracks from Super Moon, in addition to hits and fan favorites from their catalog. Dirty Heads will close the shows in Detroit, MI, Indianapolis, IN, Boston, MA, Gilford, NH, Jacksonville, FL, Dallas, TX, Chula Vista, CA, and Auburn, MI, concluding the tour on August 20 in Salt Lake City. Tickets are available for purchase HERE and exclusive VIP and merch packages HERE.
Dirty Heads and 311 have partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket will go to organizations bringing dignity, equity, and access to communities who need it.
Dirty Heads Dates:
June 29, 2019 – Atlantic City, NJ – Vans Warped Tour
July 9, 2019 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Co-headlining Tour Dates with 311:
Newly announced dates in BOLD
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+with The Interrupters, Dreamers and Bikini Trill
July 2, 2019 – Dayton, OH – The Rose Music Center at The Heights+
July 3, 2019 – Mt. Pleasant, MI – Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort+
July 5, 2019 – Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre^+
July 6, 2019 – Chicago, IL – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre+
Jul 7, 2019 – Duluth, MN – Bayfront Festival Park+
Jul 10, 2019 – Bonner Springs, KS – Providence Medical Center Amphitheater+
Jul 12, 2019 – Indianapolis, IN – Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center^+
July 13, 2019 – Pittsburgh, PA – KeyBank Pavilion+
July 14, 2019 – Hartford, CT – XFINITY Theatre+
July 18, 2019 – Boston, MA – Xfinity Center^+
July 19, 2019 – Philadelphia, PA – The Met Philadelphia+
July 20, 2019 – Darien Lake, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater+
July 23, 2019 – Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion^+
July 24, 2019 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center+
July 26, 2019 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater+
July 27, 2019 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion+
July 28, 2019 – Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek+
July 30, 2019 – Atlanta, GA – Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park+
July 31, 2019 – Charleston, SC – Volvo Car Stadium+
August 2, 2019 – West Palm Beach, FL – Coral Sky Amphitheatre+
August 3, 2019 – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre+
August 4, 2019 – Jacksonville, FL – Daily’s Place^+
August 6, 2019 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall Lawn+
August 7, 2019 – Austin, TX – Austin360 Amphitheater+
August 8, 2019 – Dallas, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory^+
August 10, 2019 – Phoenix, AZ – Ak-Chin Pavilion+
August 11, 2019 – Chula Vista, CA – North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre^+
August 14, 2019 – Avila Beach, CA – Avila Beach Concerts at the Cove+
August 16, 2019 – Sacramento, CA – Papa Murphy’s Park at Cal Expo+
August 17, 2019 – Portland, OR – Veterans Memorial Coliseum+
August 18, 2019 – Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheatre^+
August 20, 2019 – Salt Lake City, UT – USANA Amphitheatre+
Inhaling alternative, hip-hop, reggae, and rock and exhaling one irresistible and infectious anthem after another, DIRTY HEADS—Jared “Dirty J” Watson [vocals], Dustin “Duddy B” Bushnell [vocals/guitar], Jon Olazabal [percussion], Matt Ochoa [drums], and David Foral [bass]—have been redefining the sound of Southern California since 2003 and delivering hit after hit over their 16-year career. With over 1.35 billion audio streams to date, the group first made a splash with their full-length 2008 debut, Any Point In A Storm. The record yielded the RIAA gold-certified smash “Lay Me Down,” and it held #1 on the Billboard Alternative Chart for 11 weeks: longer than any single that year by any other artist. 2014’s Sound of Change earned acclaim from the likes of Esquire and bowed at #8 on the Billboard Top 200 as its first single, “My Sweet Summer,” captured #3 on Alternative Radio. Meanwhile, the band’s 2016 self-titled Dirty Heads went Top 15 on the Top 200 and spawned the smash “That’s All I Need,” which racked up over 26.19 million Spotify streams and counting. Noisey described it as “Killer.” Beyond selling out countless shows around the world, the band headlined its own High & Mighty Festival in 2017. Their sixth studio album, SWIM TEAM (2017), featured singles “Vacation” and “Celebrate,” which landed the band a performance on Jimmy Kimmel in 2018. The momentum continued with one-off hit “Visions” (2018), which climbed the radio charts and garnered over 5 million streams, while summer anthem “Vacation” landed on the Top 10 at Alternative Radio and was the #1 most added song for two weeks straight. Additionally, the band partnered with PLUS1 in 2018 to raise over $134,000 for NRDC and The David Suzuki Foundation and also collaborated with Huntington Beach’s Four Sons Brewery to release their very own beer, Vacation Session Ale + Pineapple
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