Today, Shakey Graves shares that his forthcoming new album, Movie Of The Week, will be released September 15 on Dualtone Records. A track from the album, “Evergreen,” is out today with an accompanying music video, which you can check out below.

“In late 2018, some friends of mine were making a movie, and they asked if I would do the soundtrack for it,” Alejandro Rose-Garcia, a.k.a. Shakey Graves, says. “I started recording music along to footage, but when I started to turn a lot of it in, I realized that the director and I did not see the movie in the same way. A lot of the music was turned away. But I made all this really cool stuff and felt really invigorated.”

When Rose-Garcia went into the studio with his band, he realized he didn’t have songs, but rather soundtrack ideas. “I sent them all a link to some of the soundtrack stuff. We came up with this way to record where we went through them like themes. I came up with the plot of an imaginary movie. And we started to treat it like a soundtrack to a movie.”

“Movie Of The Week is definitely more on the lush side,” he continues. “I’m really excited about making this more like a project than an album.”

TOUR DATES
July 28—Bauhaus Brew Labs—Minneapolis, MN* (SOLD OUT)
July 29—Bell’s Eccentric Cafe-Beer Garden—Kalamazoo, MI* (SOLD OUT)
July 30—Old Forester’s Paristown Hall—Louisville, KY*
August 2—Greenfield Lake Amphitheater—Wilmington, NC †
August 3—Firefly Distillery—North Charleston, SC ‡
August 4—Rabbit Rabbit—Asheville, NC ‡ (SOLD OUT)
August 5—Maymont Park—Richmond, VA ‡
August 6—The Ritz—Raleigh, NC †
August 8—The Atlantis—Washington, DC † (SOLD OUT)
August 9—Lincoln Hill Farms—Canadaigua, NY †
August 11—The Pines Theater at Look Park—Northampton, MA*
August 12—The Green at Shelburne Museum—Shelburne, VT* (SOLD OUT)
August 13—Guster’s On The Ocean—Portland, ME
August 15—Pier 17—New York, NY*
August 16—XL Live—Harrisburg, PA
August 17—Freeman Arts Pavilion—Selbyville, DE*
August 18—Stone Pony Summer Stage—Asbury Park, NJ
September 21—The Van Buren—Phoenix, AZ
September 22—BeachLife Ranch—Redondo Beach, CA
September 23—KBCO On Tap Breckenridge Brewery—Littleton, CO**
September 26—The Sound At Del Mar—Del Mar, CA
September 27—Orpheum Theater—Flagstaff, AZ §
September 30—Ace of Spades—Sacramento, CA §
October 1—Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas—Las Vegas, NV §
October 5—Vina Robles Amphitheatre—Paso Robles, CA §
October 6—Cascade Theatre—Redding, CA §
October 7—Crystal Ballroom—Portland, OR §
October 8—Rebels and Renegades—Monterey, CA
October 10—Paramount Theatre—Seattle, WA §
October 11—Queen Elizabeth Theatre—Vancouver, BC §
October 12—Knitting Factory Concert House—Spokane, WA §
October 13—Knitting Factory Concert House—Boise, ID §
October 14—Knitting Factory Concert House—Boise, ID §
October 15—Union Event Center—Salt Lake City, UT §
October 26—Longhorn Ballroom—Dallas, TX §
October 27—The Lawn at White Oak Music Hall—Houston, TX §
October 28—Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park—Austin, TX§
November 1—Ryman Auditorium—Nashville, TN**
November 2—The Eastern—Atlanta, GA**
November 3—Avondale Brewing Company—Birmingham, AL††
November 4—Georgia Theatre—Athens, GA††
November 5—Neighborhood Theatre—Charlotte, NC††
November 6—The Signal—Chattanooga, TN††
November 8—Roxian Theatre—Pittsburgh, PA††
November 9—Toad’s Place—New Haven, CT††
November 11—Massey Hall—Toronto, ON††
November 12—Union Transfer—Philadelphia, PA
November 13—9:30 Club—Washington, DC††
November 14—Roadrunner—Boston, MA**
November 16—Agora Theatre—Cleveland, OH**
November 17—The Salt Shed—Chicago, IL**
November 18—The Sylvee—Madison, WI**
November 19—Egyptian Room-Old National Centre—Indianapolis, IN**

*with Lucius
† with Abraham Alexander
‡ with Trampled by Turtles
§ with flipturn
** with Rayland Baxter
††Sadurn

Photo Credit: Jeremy Gordon

TheWaster.com | Movie Of The Week
7.19.2023