Against Me! comes to town on Wednesday, September 27th at The Ready Room along with support from Bleached and The Dirty Nil. Visit HERE for the event info. This is a Mike Judy Presents event.
THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NEW ALBUM, SHAPE SHIFT WITH ME,
IS AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE NOW:
“Raging, tender, organic, erotic and liberating…an album that hits both the brain and the body, simultaneously and without apology.” – NPR
"Bolstered by whip-smart lyricism and indelible riffs, Grace bares her sensual, sentimental side –
but not without a few swift kicks in the eye." – Rolling Stone
“Grace remains a rebel heart who defies expectation” – VOGUE
Against Me! puts forth what could be its magnum opus: 'Shape Shift With Me', a guitar riff–laden high-speed chase rife with angst and hard-won redemption...the most revelatory music of
Grace's career." – ELLE
WATCH: “HAUNTING, HAUNTED, HAUNTS” (YOUTUBE)
Celebrated American rock band Against Me! have announced its fall North American headline tour in support of its critically acclaimed studio album, Shape Shift With Me. After spending a month supporting Green Day on its Revolution Radio tour, Against Me! will be touring the U.S. and Canada again this year throughout September and October with supports Bleached and The Dirty Nil. The tour began on Saturday, September 2 at the Garrick Theatre in Winnipeg, MB and visits markets such as Vancouver, BC on Friday, September 8, San Francisco, CA on Wednesday, September 13, Los Angeles, CA on Thursday, September 14, Dallas, TX on Saturday, September 23, Chicago, IL on Saturday, September 30, Toronto, ON on Friday, October 6, Brooklyn, NY on Saturday, October 14, Nashville, TN on Friday, October 20, and culminate in a headlining appearance at The Fest in Gainesville, FL on Saturday, October 28. A complete listing of dates can be found below with tickets going on sale this Friday, May 12. More information can be found on Against Me!’s official website: http://www.againstme.net.
Shape Shift With Me, Against Me!’s seventh full-length studio album, has the distinction of the first album frontwoman Laura Jane Grace has written truly from the heart, with no metaphorical cloaks cast over the lyrics. It’s an album about love, that deceptively complex emotion we all struggle with yet has somehow eluded most of Grace’s songwriting for the past 20 years. Recorded, mixed and engineered by Marc Jacob Hudson (Taking Back Sunday, Saves The Day) at Rancho Recordo, Shape Shift With Me is available now physically and digitally via the band’s own Total Treble label (iTunes, Amazon).
“Tons of people have written about love. But while love is cliché, it’s infinitely relevant,” Grace says. As such, Shape Shift With Me is a loose concept album about traveling the world and falling in and out of love, with Grace serving as the narrator. But even though she was opening herself up to new songwriting topics, she knew what her mission was from the start.
“Is there a record that is about relationships from a trans perspective?” she asks rhetorically. “There needs to be more records about trans rights and everything like that, but feeling like I already did that, I wanted to move on to write commentary on living from a trans perspective. I wanted to write the transgender response to the Rolling Stones’ Exile On Main St., Liz Phair’s Exile In Guyville and the Streets’ A Grand Don’t Come For Free. All those records are relationship records. There’s been an infinite amount of records talking about what love means from a cisgender perspective. I wanted to present the trans perspective on sex, love and heartbreak.”
In a career already full of classic punk records, Shape Shift With Me feels like the definitive Against Me! album—it’s poppy and catchy (“Rebecca,” “Suicide Bomber”), aggressive and in-your-face (“ProVision L-3,” “Dead Rats”), sentimental and longing [Crash,” “All This (And More”)]. Moreover, it’s the culmination of four years of existence as Laura Jane Grace—there’s no going back now, so she might as well embrace it.
“While I’ve always wanted the moon and the stars, I have a certain amount of humbleness,” she admits. “I just want to play shows and make records and write songs. That’s what I’ve always wanted to do. Of course I always want the biggest and best things for those shows and records and songs, but when it comes down to it, I just love doing it. I have no other ambitions or career goals.”
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