FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FEBRUARY 6, 2018
GRAMMY-WINNING ROCK BAND PORTUGAL. THE MAN ANNOUNCES NEW SET OF TOUR DATES DATES INCLUDE ADDITIONAL SOLD OUT HEADLINE SHOWS AND WIDE RANGE OF FESTIVAL APPEARANCES INCLUDING A TOP BILLED SET AT COACHELLA
ACCLAIMED PORTLAND ROCKERS TAKE HOME GRAMMY GOLD! 2X-PLATINUM HIT “FEEL IT STILL” WON BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
NEXT SINGLE “LIVE IN THE MOMENT” PROVING TO BE ANOTHER SMASH CURRENTLY TOP 10 AT ALTERNATIVE RADIO SPENDS THIRD STRAIGHT WEEK OVERALL AT #1 AT TRIPLE A RADIO PERFORMANCE ON THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT SET FOR FEBRUARY 20TH
WAIT…THERE’S MORE! BAND RELEASES VISUAL FOR “KEEP ON” DIRECTED BY MULTI-DISCIPLINARY 3D ARTIST PAULIN ROGUES
EIGHTH STUDIO ALBUM “WOODSTOCK” AVAILABLE NOW
(PHOTO CREDIT: SLAVEN VLASIC FOR GETTY IMAGES)
On the heels of their victory at last week’s GRAMMY Awards, multi-platinum, chart topping band PORTUGAL. THE MAN announce a new set of tour dates, which will see the band bringing their electrifying live show to stages in both North America, as well as Europe. Fan pre-sales have now begun while Spotify presales begin today at 3PM EST/ 12PM PST. General onsale tickets will be available 2/9 10AM local time. For complete details, and ticket information, please visit www.portugaltheman.com/tour-dates.
Last week saw a career milestone moment for the band who hails from Portland, by way of Wasilla, Alaska, as they won the GRAMMY for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for their 2x-Platinum certified single “Feel It Still,” over some of the biggest songs from the biggest artists including Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito (Remix)” featuring Justin Bieber, The Chainsmokers & Coldplay’s “Something Just Like This,” Zedd & Alessia Cara’s “Stay” and Imagine Dragons’ “Thunder.”
In addition to their GRAMMY win, Portugal. The Man were among the week’s busiest and most in-demand artists. The self-proclaimed “Lords of Portland” were all over New York City appearing at the star-studded 2018 MusiCares Person of the Year tribute to Fleetwood Mac at Radio City Music Hall, where they performed “I’m So Afraid,” as well as The Roots’ annual Jam Sessions extravaganza.
Meanwhile, “Live In The Moment” – the next single from their eighth studio album, WOODSTOCK – is currently spending its third consecutive week overall atop the Triple A Radio chart. The track is joined by a creative companion visual – directed by Aaron Brown for Portland, OR’s W+K Productions – is streaming now via YouTube. The band is set to kick off a flurry of television performances of “Live In The Moment” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, February 20th (check local listings.) Additional appearances to be announced in the coming weeks.
They’ve also just introduced a new video for “Keep On.” The video is directed by multi- disciplinary artist Paulin Rogues who comes from a practice of drawing and writing comics. His narrative works have been curated at Ars Electronica, the Musuem of Modern Art of Portland, Superchief Gallery New York and Superchief Gallery in Los Angeles. “’Keep On’ is a song of hope, to always go further and never surrender. The start of the video illustrates a lonely teenager who is obsessed with others’ perception of her. By the end she eventually grows to accept herself and fully experience the true essence of self-love,” says Rogues. Watch now: https://lnk.to/keeponvidPR.
Undoubtedly one of the biggest songs of 2017, “Feel It Still” has been ever-present across a range of platforms, including ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, Sony Pictures’ highly-anticipated film, Peter Rabbit, as well as a wide array of national advertising campaigns for major brands including Nike, YouTube, American Express, HBO Now, Apple, and Vitamin Water, the latter starring actor Aaron Paul. Portugal. The Man has also performed “Feel It Still” on a long list of high profile television appearances including the 2017 American Music Awards, The Voice, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, CBS This Morning, CONAN and The Late Late Show with James Corden. * * *
Portugal. The Man took 2017 by the horns after a considerably long gap, especially for a band that has dropped roughly an album a year since 2006. They spent years working on an album called Gloomin + Doomin before later developing what would become known as their eighth studio album WOODSTOCK. Fate struck lead singer, John Gourley, twice. First, John got some parental tough love from his old man. “What’s taking so long to finish the album?,” John’s dad asked. “Isn’t that what bands do? Write songs and then put them out?” The whole thing got John thinking about why the band seemed to be stuck on a musical elliptical machine from hell and more importantly, about how to get off of it. Second, John found his dad’s ticket stub from the original 1969 Woodstock music festival, which ultimately knocked something loose in his head. He realized that, in the same tradition of bands from that era, Portugal. The Man needed to speak out about the world crumbling around them.
With these two ideas converging, the band made a seemingly bat-shit-crazy decision: they took all of the work they had done for the three years prior and threw it out. The band went back to the studio – working with John Hill, Danger Mouse and longtime collaborator Casey Bates. In this new-found creative territory, the album that became WOODSTOCK rolled out naturally from there. Fast forward to present day and it was impossible to escape the album’s first single “Feel It Still,” which dominated the charts and radio airwaves in 2017. The multi-platinum certified hit reigned at #1 at nearly all radio formats, including Top 40, as well as Alternative, where the song held the chart’s top spot for a mind-blowing 20 weeks, breaking the record for most weeks at #1. Yes, you read that right. 5 guys from Wasilla, Alaska who have played nearly 1,500 shows in their career broke Alternative radio records and had a #1 song at Pop radio. Billboard Magazine even went as far as to call the song, “the unexpected rock crossover hit of 2017,” while Rolling Stone listed it as “one of the best songs of 2017.”
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PORTUGAL. THE MAN NORTH AMERICA & EUROPE 2018 *additional tour dates FEBRUARY 6 Calgary, AB MacEwan Hall w/ Hollerado *SOLD OUT* 8 Winnipeg, MB Burton Cummings Theatre w/ Hollerado *SOLD OUT* 9 Minneapolis, MN Palace Theatre w/ Twin Peaks *SOLD OUT* 10 Minneapolis, MN Palace Theatre w/ Twin Peaks *SOLD OUT* 11 Madison, WI Overture Hall w/ Twin Peaks *SOLD OUT* 13 Iowa City, IA IMU Ballroom w/ Twin Peaks *SOLD OUT* 14 Columbia, MO The Blue Note w/ Twin Peaks *SOLD OUT* 16 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom w/ Twin Peaks *SOLD OUT* 17 Louisville, KY Palace Theatre w/ Twin Peaks *SOLD OUT* 18 Cleveland, OH Music Hall At The Cleveland Public Auditorium w/ Twin Peaks 20 New York, NY Brooklyn Steel* w/ Topaz Jones 21 Montreal, QC MTELUS w/ Twin Peaks *SOLD OUT* 22 Providence, RI The Strand w/ Twin Peaks *SOLD OUT* 24 Washington, DC The Anthem w/ Twin Peaks *SOLD OUT* 26 Athens, GA Georgia Theatre w/ Mattiel *SOLD OUT* 27 Athens, GA Georgia Theatre w/ Mattiel *SOLD OUT* 28 Macon, GA Hargray Capitol Theatre* w/ Mattiel
MARCH 17 Teton Village, WY Jackson Hole Rendezvous Spring Festival
APRIL 11 Reno, NV Grand Sierra Theater w/ Cherry Glazerr 13 Las Vegas, NV The Chelsea Theater at The Cosmopolitan w/ Cherry Glazerr 15 Indio, CA Coachella 18 Santa Fe, NM Santa Fe Convention Center w/ Deap Vally 21 Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara County Bowl* w/ Chicano Batman & Deap Vally 22 Indio, CA Coachella 27 Wayville, Australia Groovin The Moo Festival 28 Maitland, Australia Groovin The Moo Festival 29 Canberra, Australia Groovin The Moo Festival
MAY 5 Bendigo, Australia Groovin The Moo Festival 6 Townsville, Australia Groovin The Moo Festival 12 Bunbury, Australia Groovin The Moo Festival 18 Gulf Shores, AL Hangout Music Festival 19 Nashville, TN Ascend Amphitheater* w/ Jack Harlow 20 Columbus, OH Express Live* w/ Jack Harlow 22 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE* w/ Jack Harlow 25 Boston, MA Boston Calling 26 Portland, ME Thompson’s Point* w/ Jack Harlow
JUNE 14 Dover, DE Firefly Music Festival 15 Hunter, NY Mountain Jam 22 Neuhausen Ob Eck, Germany Southside Festival 23 Scheessel, Germany Hurricane Festival 25 Warsaw, Poland Palladium* 28 Sankt Gallen, Switzerland OpenAir St. Gallen 29 Panensky Tynec, Czech Republic Aerodrome Festival
JULY 1 Ewijk, Netherlands Down the Rabbit Hole Festival 3 Milan, Italy Fabrique 7 Argeles, France Les Deferlantes Festival 8 Arras, France Main Square Festival 10 Argeles Sur Mer, France Parc de Valmy 11 Stockholm, Sweden Debaser Hornstulls Strand Bar Brooklyn och Calexico's 13 Oeiras, Portugal NOS Alive Festival 14 Lisbon, Portugal Passeio Maritimo de Alges 14 Madrid, Spain Mad Cool Festival 15 Barcelona, Spain Apolo 18 Moscow, Russia Crocus City Hall* 19 Carhaix, France Site de Kerampuilh 21-22 Paris, France Lollapalooza Paris 24 London, UK Forum* 28 Indianapolis, IN Lawn At White River State Park*
AUGUST 1 Lewiston, NY Artpark Amphitheatre* 8 Denver, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre* w/ Oh Sees 10 Los Angeles, CA Shrine Auditorium* w/ Cuco 18-19 Tokyo, Japan Summer Sonic 24 Troutdale, OR Edgefield* 25 Troutdale, OR Edgefield*
SEPTEMBER 14 New Orleans, LA The Sugar Mill* w/ Chicano Batman 16 Charleston, SC Volvo Car Stadium* w/ Chicano Batman 18 Charlotte, NC Charlotte Metro Credit Union* w/ Chicano Batman 20 Richmond, VA Classic Amphitheater* w/ Lucius 22 Forest Hills, NY Forest Hills Stadium* w/ Lucius
OCTOBER 26 Anchorage, AK Alaska Airlines Center* 27 Anchorage, AK Alaska Airlines Center* www.portugaltheman.com/tour-dates