Alabama Shakes have teased their first new music in eight years, and have shared particulars of a 2025 pageant gig.
Posting a sequence of images on Instagram of them within the studio, the band wrote: “Engaged on some thrilling stuff!”
Drummer Steve Johnson doesn’t seem within the footage. He was arrested on fees of kid abuse in March 2021, however was then dismissed in December 2021.
This is able to be their first new music since “Killer Diller Blues,” their Grammy-winning contribution to Music From The American Epic Periods: Unique Movement Image Soundtrack.
Along with teasing new music, Alabama Shakes have confirmed they are going to be taking part in Minnesota Yacht Membership Competition in St Paul, headlining the Friday alongside Hozier. Additionally billed to play are Fall Out Boy, Weezer and Inexperienced Day.
In December, the band reunited for the primary time in over seven years at a shock present of their native Alabama. Brittany Howard was truly slated to carry out on the gig as a solo act however determined to shock company by inviting her Alabama Shakes bandmates – Zac Cockrell, Heath Fogg, and Ben Tanner – to the stage.
Alabama Shakes performed:
‘Hold Free’
‘Shoegaze’
‘Be Mine’
‘Joe’
‘This Feeling’
‘Gimme All Your Love’
‘Maintain On’
‘I Ain’t the Identical’
‘All the time Alright’
Alabama Shakes beforehand performed on the final two Tuscaloosa Get Up advantages again in 2012 and 2013 respectively. This efficiency marked the primary time the band had carried out collectively since August 2017 after they performed on the Osheaga Competition earlier than occurring an indefinite hiatus.
This month, Brittany Howard‘s new hardcore band, Kumite, performed their first present in Nashville.
Howard was joined on stage at East Nashville’s Basement East by members of Nashville hardcore band Second Spirit. Collectively, they turned Kumite and performed stay for the primary ever time.
Final yr Howard launched her solo album ‘What Now‘. In a four-star overview of the LP, NME shared: “[The album] is knowledgeable by emotional malaise and confusion, but when anybody has the solutions on find out how to navigate our personal journeys, you’d do effectively to show to Howard.”
