Good news from Andrew McMahon! The band announced that a new album and tour is on the way with the release of brand new single “Teenage Rockstar.”
The new album Upside Down Flowers, which will hit stores on Nov. 17, follows Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness’s 2017 sophomore release Zombies On Broadway.
“Welcome to the land of Upside Down Flowers,” Andrew McMahon shared. “We don’t live here because it’s easy, we live here because it’s beautiful. When I close my eyes and think about these songs I see the faces of the people I wrote them for. Some are so real I can conjure our shared lives in waves of nostalgia and others are a fiction I’ve grown to love so dearly over time they might as well be old friends. I see Penelope, the runaway, on a midnight bicycle ride. I see my friends and former bandmates on stages the world over as we navigated the strangest coming of age. I see the gambler driving to Las Vegas with every last dollar he can muster trying to pay off a debt he never knew he had. I see my grandmother in the courtyard on Lido and again in a bed at my aunts house where I played her one last song before she passed.
“I see the back house and the blue ocean, and all the heroes in heaven. I see the piano from my teenage years and my fingers getting older on it’s keys. I see my wife like a statue of calm with my daughter at her side and I see my sister in the backseat of the family car as we pulled out of that driveway in Ohio. I wrote this fast and alone in a California winter. I entrusted the production to Butch Walker, a friend and fellow traveler. A man I met in a moment so bizarre and so far gone now, but one that shaped me for years to come. How grateful I am we ended up back in each others orbits. I’ve sent this record to friends who have said it’s my best and to some who never replied. What that means in the long run, I have no idea. What I know is this came from someplace primal and practiced and true.
“Find what you love, be patient or be quick. There is a piece of me in this and I hope a piece of you, my friends. As I see it we are all upside down flowers. Beautiful and backwards, and if we’re lucky…just a little proud.”
You can pre-order Upside Down Flowers here and read the full note on Instagram.
The band kicks off the tour on Jan 23. in Phoenix with Flor and Grizfolk before finishing up on March 24 in San Diego.
Watch the video for “Teenage Rockstars” above and check out the band’s tour dates below:
2019 Tour Dates
01/23 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
01/25 – Dallas, TX @ House Of Blues
01/26 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s BBQ
01/27 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues
01/29 – New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues
01/30 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
02/01 – Tampa, FL @ The Rock Boat XIX
02/02 – Tampa, FL @ The Rock Boat XIX
02/03 – Tampa, FL @ The Rock Boat XIX
02/04 – Tampa, FL @ The Rock Boat XIX
02/05 – Tampa, FL @ The Rock Boat XIX
02/06 – Tampa, FL @ The Rock Boat XIX
02/07 – Lake Buena Vista, FL @ House of Blues
02/08 – Jacksonville, FL @ Maverick’s At the Landing
02/09 – Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz
02/10 – Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa
02/15 – Philadelphia, PA @ Metropolitan Opera House
02/16 – Niagara Falls, NY @ Rapids Theatre
02/17 – Huntington, NY @ The Paramount
02/19 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues
02/21 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5
02/22 – Mashantucket, CT @ Fox Theatre – Foxwoods Casino
02/23 – Clifton Park, NY @ Upstate Concert Hall
02/24 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
02/26 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
02/28 – Indianapolis, IN @ Egyptian Room at Old National Centre
03/01 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore
03/02 – Chicago, IL @ The Riviera Theatre
03/03 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
03/05 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Pabst Theater
03/07 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
03/09 – Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
03/10 – Aspen, CO @ Belly Up Aspen
03/12 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
03/14 – Missoula, MT @ The Wilma
03/15 – Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
03/16 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
03/19 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
03/21 – Oakland, CA @ ox Theater
03/22 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Orpheum
03/23 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
03/24 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
