ALABAMA SHAKES WIN THREE GRAMMY® AWARDS, INCLUDING BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM FOR SOUND & COLOR
Band Announces Summer North American Tour Dates
Pre-Sale Begins Tomorrow, February 17; Tickets Go On Sale To
Public Beginning Friday, February 19
Headline Run Includes Two-Night Stands In Chicago And Los Angeles
Alabama Shakes’ sophomore album, Sound & Color (ATO Records), won the GRAMMY Award for Best Alternative Music Album last night. The album’s first single, “Don’t Wanna Fight,” took honors in the Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song categories, bringing their awards tally to three. In addition, Sound & Color was named the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
View Alabama Shakes performing “Don’t Wanna Fight” at last night’s awards ceremony HERE. Rolling Stone observed, “[Front woman] Brittany Howard…led the Shakes through the pleading, heart-wrenching soul throwback, swallowing the theater whole with her vocals, which swung easily between ragged and rapturous.”
Today, the band announced the second leg of its 2016 North American headline tour. The summer run will kick off on July 15 at Mud Island Amphitheater in Memphis and include two shows in Chicago – July 19 at the Civic Opera House and July 20 at Aragon Ballroom. The band’s August 9 show at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre has already sold out, so a show has been added on August 10. A ticket pre-sale for the summer shows begins on Wednesday, February 17, at 10:00 AM local time at www.alabamashakes.com/tour. Tickets go on sale to the public beginning Friday, February 19.
Alabama Shakes’ spring tour launches on April 21 at Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheatre. Due to the level of demand for tickets, the venue for the April 26 show in Asheville, NC has been changed from Thomas Wolfe Auditorium to ExploreAsheville.com Arena. The band will perform at many 2016 festivals, including Hangout, Sasquatch, Forecastle, British Summer Time Hyde Park and Lollapalooza in Brazil, Argentina and Chile. See below for itinerary or visit www.alabamashakes.com.
Sound & Color, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, appeared on many critics’ best-of-2015 lists, including The New York Times, NPR Music, Associated Press and Rolling Stone, which called it “one of the year’s most daring interstellar groove journeys.”
“Don’t Wanna Fight” came in at No. 1 on NPR’s list of the best songs of 2015. “Sound & Color,” the album’s title track, is currently charting in the Top 10 at Non-Comm radio, within the Top 20 at Triple A and climbing at Urban AC. The song was heard in the new iPad Pro commercial and in the trailer for director David O’Russell’s film JOY, which featured two additional songs from the album. The “Sound & Color” video, which can be seen HERE, was nominated for the VEVO Vision Award.
“Sound & Color is one of the most wonderfully unique rock records of the past five years,” said SPIN and American Songwriter observed, “they make magic.” “There are no more limits for Alabama Shakes—not even the sky” said PASTE. The Los Angeles Times praised the album as a “breathtaking statement that expands on the band’s rock ‘n’ soul debut in ways few could have predicted…At its center…Brittany Howard, an undeniable force equally gifted at song craft and vocal performance.”
Alabama Shakes – comprising lead singer/guitarist Brittany Howard, guitarist Heath Fogg, bassist Zac Cockrell, drummer Steve Johnson, and touring keyboard players Ben Tanner and Paul Horton – has received a BRIT Awards nomination for Best International Band. Billboard named Howard as the 2015 Women in Music “Powerhouse” artist. You can read People Magazine’s feature on Howard HERE and listen to her interview with Terry Gross on NPR’s “Fresh Air” HERE.
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Alabama Shakes – Upcoming Tour Dates
(newly announced dates in bold)
3/11 – Bogota, Colombia @ Festival Estereo Picnic
3/13 – São Paulo, Brazil @ Lollapalooza Brazil
3/14 – São Paulo, Brazil @ Lollapalooza Brazil Sideshow at Club Audio
3/15 – São Paulo, Brazil @ Lollapalooza Brazil Sideshow at Circo Voador
3/17 – Buenos Aires, Argentina @ Lollapalooza Argentina Sideshow at Niceto Club
3/19 – Buenos Aires, Argentina @ Lollapalooza Argentina
3/20 – Santiago, Chile @ Lollapalooza Chile
4/21 – Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater w/special guest Dylan LeBlanc
4/22 – Charlotte, NC @ Uptown Amphitheater w/special guest Dylan LeBlanc
4/23 – Charleston, SC @ Volvo Cars Stadium w/special guest Dylan LeBlanc
4/25 – Chattanooga, TN @ Track 29 w/special guest Dylan LeBlanc SOLD OUT
4/26 – Asheville, NC @ ExploreAsheville.com Arena w/special guest Dylan LeBlanc
4/27 – Athens, GA @ The Classic Center w/special guest Dylan LeBlanc
4/29 – Ybor City, FL @ Cuban Club w/special guest Dylan LeBlanc SOLD OUT
4/30 – St. Augustine, FL @ St. Augustine Amphitheater w/special guest Dylan LeBlanc
SOLD OUT
5/21 – Gulf Shores, AL @ Hangout Festival
5/27 – Bend, OR @ Les Schwab Amphitheater w/special guest Hop Along
5/28 – Burnaby, BC @ Festival Lawn at Deer Lake Park w/special guest Kurt Vile and the Violators
5/29 – George, WA @ Sasquatch! Music Festival
7/8 – London, UK @ Hyde Park @ British Summer Time
7/9 – Barcelona, Spain @ Cruilla Barcelona Summer Festival
7/15 – Memphis, TN @ Mud Island Amphitheater
7/16 – Louisville, KY @ Forecastle
7/19 – Chicago, IL @Civic Opera House
7/20 – Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
8/6 – Taos, NM @ Kit Carson Park w/special guest Dawes
8/7 – Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica Theatre w/special guest Dawes
8/9 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theater w/special guest Dawes SOLD OUT
8/10 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theater w/special guest Dawes
8/12 – Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre w/special guest Kurt Vile & the Violators
