Rival Sons, who recently announced a second album entitled LIGHTBRINGER arriving this October, have confirmed L.A. Edwards (Luke Andrew Edwards) an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Julian, CA as main support on their UK & European tour this autumn.
Rival Sons are currently on tour with The Smashing Pumpkins in North America. Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan is quoted in Glide Magazine as stating: “They (Rival Sons) have the blues, but it makes me feel good.”
The band have been on the road since before the release of DARKFIGHTER in June. They will continue through 2023 returning to Europe in October. The UK & European tour will kick off at the legendary Roundhouse in Camden, London on October 13th and includes Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom (16th Oct), Paris L’Olympia (27th Oct) and Melkweg Amsterdam (Sold Out). Tickets and full dates available now at rivalsons.com/tour
Guitarist Scott Holiday has confirmed that they will not only be playing material from latest album DARKFIGHTER (June 2023) but also the forthcoming album LIGHTBRINGER (Out October 20th 2023) on the European dates. “Dear friends across the pond, not only will you be getting songs from DARKFIGHTER on the upcoming tour, but you will be first to hear us perform songs from the new album LIGHTBRINGER! This really is a landmark for the band, 2 releases this year! It’s something we’re quite proud of. We can’t wait to share these new songs live, as well as dipping back into our career with some deeper cuts. We really want to create a special, individual show every night.”
Jay Buchanan states, “DARKFIGHTER is a new Rival Sons, and LIGHTBRINGER is the clear definition of what we are now. We broke ground on DARKFIGHTER, but LIGHTBRINGER is a step beyond the personal innovation and exploration. It goes a little further. We took everything into our own hands and pushed to see how far we could go. It was a self-exploration to see who we were and who we’ll be now. We had more friction and compromise than ever, because we isolated the bare essence of where we needed to go—and then we went there.”
The band set the stage for LIGHTBRINGER with a rollicking, roaring, and righteous new single entitled “Sweet Life” – available on all streaming platforms now. Check out the Sweet Life Lyric video: https://youtu.be/myGkkoK344M
From the jump, a frenetic drumbeat gives way to a rip-roaring riff. Meanwhile, Jay’s bluesy wail bounces between a cathartic hook and boogie-down groove as he bemoans, “I’ve got to shake, shake, shake the bad rhythm for good,” shimmying in lockstep with the guitar.
Regarding “Sweet Life,” Jay promised, “It’s the most old-school Rival Sons song on either of these two records. It has all the early elements of what Rival Sons is and was. It was born out of my love mid-sixties rock like The Animals, The Kinks, and the bands I was raised on. It’s a bit of a break from all of the heavy subject matter too; it’s a barnburner.”
Rival Sons crafted DARKFIGHTER and LIGHTBRINGER during the same sessions over the course of 2021. Once again, they recorded with creative confidant and longtime producer Dave Cobb behind the board. The band initially dropped DARKFIGHTER to unanimous tastemaker praise earlier this summer. Classic Rock attested, “DARKFIGHTER might just be Rival Sons’ masterpiece,” and GLIDE Magazine enthused, “DARKFIGHTER is a lean hard rock album that condenses what Rival Sons does well into a brief attack.” At the same time, they have piled up millions of streams across the likes of “Nobody Wants To Die,” “Bird in the Hand,” “Rapture,” and more.
For more information about L.A. Edwards who released their third studio album January 2023 Out of the Heart of Darkness. Go to https://www.laedwards.net/
NORTH AMERICA TOUR DATES:
8/30 Wantagh, NY Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater+
8/31 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live+
9/2 Toronto, Canada Budweiser Stage+
9/3 Ottawa, Canada Canadian Tire Centre+
9/6 McKees Rocks, PA Roxian Theatre*
9/7 Knoxville, TN The Mill & Mine*
9/8 Franklin, TN First Bank Amphitheater+
9/9 Noblesville, IN Ruoff Music Center+
9/23 Clarkston, MI Riff Fest^
9/25 Louisville, KY Louder Than Life 2023^
UK & EUROPEAN TOUR:
10/13 London, UK The Roundhouse
10/14 Newcastle, UK NX
10/16 Glasgow, UK Barrowland Ballroom
10/17 Birmingham, UK O2 Academy
10/18 Manchester, UK Manchester Academy
10/20 Cambridge, UK Cambridge Corn Exchange
10/21 O2 Academy Bristol, UK (SOLD OUT)
10/22 Southampton, UK O2 Guildhall
10/24 Nantes, France La Carrière
10/25 Lyon, France Le Radiant
10/27 Paris, France L’Olympia
10/28 Lausanne, Switzerland Les Docks
10/29 Milan, Italy Alcatraz
10/31 Vienna, Austria Gasometer
11/1 Zurich, Switzerland X-TRA
11/2 Munich, Germany Theaterfabrik
11/4 Prague, Czech Republic Lucerna Music Bar
11/5 Warsaw, Poland Klub Stodola
11/6 Poznan, Poland Music Club B17
11/8 Berlin, Germany Huxleys
11/9 Amsterdam, Netherlands Melkweg Max (SOLD OUT)
11/10 Cologne, Germany Kantine (SOLD OUT)
11/12 Brussels, Belgium Ancienne Belgique (SOLD OUT)
11/13 Hamburg, Germany Grosse Freiheit 36
11/14 Copenhagen, Denmark The Grey Hall
11/16 Bergen, Norway Forum Scene
11/17 Oslo, Norway Sentrum Scene (SOLD OUT)
11/18 Stockholm, Sweden B-K
11/20 House of Culture Helsinki, Finland
11/21 Tampere, Finland Tampere Hall
10/13 – 11/21 – European Headline Tour
+Supporting The Smashing Pumpkins
*Headline
