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What's new with Lagwagon?

Posted by Loren on August 25, 2019

What's new with Lagwagon?
photo by Ilkay Karakurt

Lagwagon have a new tour and a new record in 2019. The tour is a co-headlining jaunt with labelmates Face To Face in early fall, plus the band just shared news of a new album on October 4 titled Railer (Fat Wreck Chords).

Railer is the group's ninth full-length album and features 12 new songs.

Spoeaking of the new record, frontman Joey Cape says:

The idea of that song was to embrace and appreciate what you have...I really specifically tried to make ["Bubble"] feel and sound like an old Lagwagon song, so I borrowed a lot from early records for it. And then from there, I just kept thinking that the rules have to be that ‘RAILER’ feels like something Lagwagon might have done in the old days. I wanted to see what would happen if I didn’t overthink things and I just tried to write a record as quickly as possible without losing the quality I expect from myself as a songwriter.”

Check out the video to "Bubble" here:

09/27/19 – Tacoma, WA @ Spanish Ballroom at Elks Temple *
09/28/19 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre *
09/29/19 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom *
10/01/19 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot *
10/02/19 – Denver, CO @ Oriental Theater *
10/04/19 – Minneapolis, MN @ Skyway Theatre *
10/05/19 – Chicago, IL @ House of Blues *
10/06/19 – Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall *
10/07/19 – Columbus, OH @ Columbus Athenaeum *
10/09/19 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw *
10/10/19 – Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore *
10/11/19 – Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom *
10/12/19 – Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa *
10/13/19 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club *
10/15/19 – Charlotte, NC @ The Underground >
10/16/19 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade >
10/17/19 – Tampa, FL @ The Ritz Ybor >
10/18/19 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room >
10/19/19 – St. Augustine, FL @ St. Augustine Amphitheatre >
10/21/19 – Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Live! #
10/23/19 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Pressroom #
10/24/19 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues #
10/26/19 – Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory #
10/27/19 – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park #

>: H2O opening
*: MakeWar opening
#: Destroy Boys opening

RAILER track listing:
Stealing Light
Surviving California
Jini
Parable
Dangerous Animal
Bubble
The Suffering
Dark Matter
Fan Fiction
Pray For Them
Auf Wiedersehen
Faithfully

What's new with Lagwagon?
photo by Ilkay Karakurt

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