Los Angeles indie rock artist Rosie Tucker announce new album 'UTOPIA NOW!' and U.S. tour
Los Angeles indie rock artist Rosie Tucker is unveiling their fourth studio album this March.
Announced today, UTOPIA NOW! will be released on March 22 via Sentimental Records. A new single from the album titled “All My Exes Live In Vortexes” comes with a music video directed by Monica Moore-Suriyage, which can be seen below.
Tucker said this about their forthcoming album:
The album title is a bit of a trick mirror. I had been spinning on the idea that capitalism can metabolize dissent, and in this way UTOPIA NOW! might read like the hollow promise of an advertisement, a poke at how desperation can make us cynical and naive (paradise is near! are you buying it?).
There is another reading, where UTOPIA NOW! is a demand, earnest and enraged. The United States remains genocidal, as culpable for the unfathomable suffering in Palestine as it is for the exploitation, incarceration, persecution and neglect shown to so many of the people within its “borders”. Me and my loved ones understand that oppression cannot stamp out the desire for freedom and freedom cannot tolerate compromising one another.
The final meaning is simpler: UTOPIA NOW! is my present reality. When I get my mind right, I am confronted with it several times a day. While I was writing this album, I fired my manager of many years, as at last my desire to develop my artistic agency outpaced the fear that I might be no good at calling the shots in my own life. While I was recording this album, I was dropped by Epitaph Records. Creating a record “independently” has taught me that I am not at all alone, and this record would not exist without many invaluable and unexpected allies. I hope you will listen and know that it is a labor of love.
Pre-orders for UTOPIA NOW! can be made here.
Tucker will promote the album with a trek across the United States this spring. Tour dates can be seen below. Tickets will go on sale to the general public this Friday (January 26) @ 10 a.m. EST.
Next month, Tucker will have a residency at The Goldfish in Los Angeles performing their albums in full.
Rosie Tucker tour dates
February 8 - Los Angeles, CA - The Goldfish (free show, 21+)
February 15 - Los Angeles, CA - The Goldfish (free show, 21+)
February 22 - Los Angeles, CA - The Goldfish (free show, 21+)
February 29 - Los Angeles, CA - The Goldfish (free show, 21+)
April 23 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
April 26 - Portland, OR @ Mano Oculta
April 27 - Seattle, WA @ Black Lodge
April 30 - Denver, CO @ Lost Lake
May 2 - Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen
May 3 - Detroit, MI @ Lager House
May 4 - Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups
May 7 - Boston, MA @ The Rockwell
May 8 - New York, NY @ Baby's All Right
May 9 - Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong
May 11 - Atlanta, GA @ Purgatory at Masquerade
May 12 - New Orleans, LA @ Siberia
May 14 - Austin, TX @ The Mohawk - Inside
May 17 - Phoenix, AZ @ Trunk Space
UTOPIA NOW! tracklisting
1. Lightbulb
2. All My Exes Live In Vortexes
3. Gil Scott Albatross
4. Paperclip Maximizer
5. Maylene
6. Big Fish/No Fun
7. Suffer! Like You Mean It
8. Unending Bliss
9. White Savior Myth
10. Obscura
11. Me Minus One Atom
12. UTOPIA NOW!
13. Eternal Life