JUNO Award-winning Winnipeg duo The Bros. Landreth release “Knuckles” from their forthcoming album Dog Ear – out November 14, 2025 via Birthday Cake Records. “Knuckles” features a beautiful and emotive featured vocal from one of the band’s musical heroes, Bonnie Raitt.
The Bros. Landreth grew up listening to and adoring Raitt’s music in their childhood home. The artists initially connected after sharing a bill at the Winnipeg Folk Festival and some ten years later Raitt recorded her own version of one of their songs called “Made Up Mind.” That version won a Grammy for Best Americana Performance in 2023. It feels like a full circle moment to have her iconic voice now on The Bros. Landreth’s new album.
Dave Landreth says of the song, “Some relationships will stand the test of time, but a lot don’t. Even the good ones can dissolve, fall apart, drift away. Knuckles is about the idea that sometimes being a punching bag is the last kind thing you can do for someone, when it’s easier to let yourself take all the lumps than to ask the other person to face things that they aren’t ready or willing to.”
Dog Ear explores themes of connection, refuge, and self-reflection with guests like Raitt (“Knuckles”, “Half Moon Eyes”) and alt-pop powerhouse Begonia (“Strange Dear”) offering listeners an intimate yet expansive journey. The album is fueled and informed by the band’s live shows and the many hours they’ve logged sharing the stage together. That is the energy they tried to bottle.
“These songs kept circling back to ideas of refuge—a lighthouse, a shoreline, a dog-eared page to hold your place,” The Bros. share. “They’re tiny prayers for who we want to be for our children, and hopeful ideas about who they might become for their own communities.”
Official “Knuckles” Cover Art | High-Res Download Link
The band will mark the release of Dog Ear with a string of U.S. shows in November 2025, before embarking on the Tumbling Wild Tour in early 2026. The global run kicks off in Paris on February 13 and includes stops in Berlin, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Dublin, Manchester, Glasgow, and London’s Union Chapel, among many others.
Upcoming Performances
Upcoming Dates
Begonia supports on all dates except:
^ with support from Madeleine Roger
* with support from Emily Elbert
North America – 2025
Nov 21 – The Guitar Sanctuary, McKinney, TX ^
Nov 22 – Magnolia Motor Lounge, Fort Worth, TX ^
Nov 23 – Antone’s, Austin, TX ^
Nov 26 – The Moroccan Lounge, Los Angeles, CA *
Europe & UK – 2026
Feb 13 – La Marquinerie, Paris, FR
Feb 14 – Powerplay Studios, Maur, CH
Feb 15 – Live Evil, Munich, DE
Feb 16 – Franzz, Berlin, DE
Feb 18 – Vega, Copenhagen, DK
Feb 19 – Train, Aarhus, DK
Feb 20 – Tobakken, Esbjerg, DK
Feb 21 – Bhf Pauli, Hamburg, DE
Feb 22 – Gerd’s Juke Joint, Joldelund, DE
Feb 24 – Brotfabrik, Frankfurt, DE
Feb 25 – Luxor, Cologne, DE
Feb 27 – Cultureel Cafe, Amen, NL
Feb 28 – Oosterpoort, Groningen, NL
Mar 1 – Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL
Ireland & UK – 2026
Apr 9 – Whelan’s, Dublin, IRE
Apr 10 – Roisin, Galway, IRE
Apr 11 – Black Box, Belfast, IRE
Apr 14 – The Cluny, Newcastle, UK
Apr 15 – Brudenell, Leeds, UK
Apr 16 – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK
Apr 17 – Band on the Wall, Manchester, UK
Apr 18 – Oran Mor, Glasgow, UK
Apr 21 – Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth, UK
Apr 22 – Thekla, Bristol, UK
Apr 23 – Junction, Cambridge, UK
Apr 24 – Old Market, Brighton, UK
Apr 25 – Union Chapel, London, UK
