Multi-platinum dwell sensations Rainbow Kitten Surprise have launched the model new monitor “Overtime” that includes 7x-GRAMMY winner Kacey Musgraves (hear HERE). Musgraves shared information of the duet on her socials earlier this week, and expressed her personal pleasure concerning the collaboration in a heartfelt message to the band (watch HERE). The effervescent single marks the latest providing from the North Carolina-bred quartet’s first full-length album in six years, LOVE HATE MUSIC BOX, due out May 10, 2024.
Rainbow Kitten Surprise singer/songwriter/frontperson Ela Melo explains: “I really believe in serendipity. I wrote ‘Overtime’ on a Saturday, met Kacey the following Monday, and got up the nerve to ask if she’d be down to lay down some vocals for it on Tuesday. It’s the first time we’ve had a feature on an RKS song and we’re still pinching ourselves that it’s her.”
The band not too long ago introduced particulars for his or her upcoming Tiny Music Box Tour, a run of underplay exhibits that function differing set lists every night time, highlighting materials from LOVE HATE MUSIC BOX alongside fan-favorites from all through the band’s beloved discography. With most dates already offered out, the tour will kick off May 6 in Nashville at Brooklyn Bowl, adopted by a present at New York’s Webster Hall on May 9. Due to overwhelming demand, extra exhibits have been added to their beforehand introduced 2-night stands in Boston, Austin, and Denver. (Full dates under; extra dates later within the 12 months to be introduced quickly). Working with Plus 1, $1 per ticket goes in direction of supporting organizations delivering psychological well being remedy and access to care.
“Overtime” follows the album’s effervescent, lead single “Superstar” and shock fan providing “LOL,” each streaming on all platforms now. Each music arrived accompanied by a music video directed by Matthew DeLisi [Paramore, Judah & The Lion] – streaming on the band’s official YouTube channel.
After years of struggling along with her personal psychological well being that resulted in author’s block, on-stage episodes, and tour cancellations, RKS singer/songwriter/frontperson Ela Melo was correctly recognized and handled in 2023, vastly enhancing her high quality of life. As if all of a sudden struck by inventive intervention, songs as soon as once more poured out of her, writing not less than one a day for a complete 12 months and forming the spine of their 22-track opus LOVE HATE MUSIC BOX. This epic mosaic of sound and emotion was totally realized as soon as the band – guitarists Bozzy Keller and Ethan Goodpaster, drummer Jess Haney and former bassist Charlie Holt – reconvened within the studio, including one other dimension sonically.
Produced by Daniel Tashian (Kacey Musgraves) together with Konrad Snyder (Noah Kahan) and Melo, the much-anticipated album ponders life’s ups and downs, and traces the turbulent trajectory of relationships, painted out loud in hues of pop, digital, rock, and hip-hop. As such, it finds the musicians at their most vulnerable, vibrant, and important.
As if channeling one other dimension the place genres merely don’t exist, Rainbow Kitten Surprise finds concord in unpredictability – weaving collectively lyrical poetry, hummable melodies, and a rush of instrumental eccentricities. Now boasting over 2 billion international streams throughout platforms, the band first started building their devoted fanbase with impartial albums SEVEN + MARY(2013) and RKS (2015). The band’s breakout full-length debut for Elektra, HOW TO: FRIEND, LOVE, FREEFALL, arrived in April 2018. Produced by GRAMMY® Award-winner Jay Joyce (Cage The Elephant, Lainey Wilson), the album featured RIAA-certified Platinum single “It’s Called: Freefall,” earned widespread reward from Billboard, TIME, Vice, and NPR who described their sound as “…a mix of jam and indie and whatever else you can throw into the soup…very earnest, beautiful, political, loving rock n’ roll,” and noticed the band make a number of nationwide tv appearances, together with performances on “CBS Saturday Morning,” “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” and PBS’s “Austin City Limits.” After gracing the payments of Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and Osheaga, to call a number of, RKS moved 80,000 tickets of their very own on the sold-out 2018/2019 Friend, Love, Freefall Tour. That tour was earmarked by a sold-out debut at Red Rocks Amphitheatre and three consecutive gigs in Athens, GA (the latter of which had been chronicled on their first official dwell album, LIVE FROM ATHENS GEORGIA, launched in 2021).
The band launched a two-track single Mary (B-Sides) in May 2019 – consisting of “Heart” and “No Vacancy.” The following 12 months introduced the discharge of standalone single “Our Song” – already a fan favourite of their dwell rotation previous to launch – in addition to a livestream live performance in July, held for 1000’s of followers on what would’ve been the date of one other sold-out Red Rocks efficiency (cancelled as a result of COVID-19 pandemic). In March 2022, the band launched the emotionally charged monitor “Work Out,” marking their first new music in practically two years.
2022 additionally noticed the band set out on their first full headline trek in practically 3 years, a run that included their long-awaited, sold-out, two-night return to Red Rocks. And in 2022 alone, with the assistance of companions PLUS1 and Propeller, Rainbow Kitten Surprise raised over $170k for meals banks in native tour markets, LGBTQ+ causes, and psychological well being initiatives.
Rainbow Kitten Surprise is: Ela Melo (she/her; lead vocals), Darrick “Bozzy” Keller (he/him; guitar, vocals), Ethan Goodpaster (he/him; lead guitar, vocals), Jess Haney (he/him; drums)
Tiny Music Box Tour:
May 6 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl Nashville – SOLD OUT
May 9 – New York, NY – Webster Hall – SOLD OUT
May 13 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner – SOLD OUT
May 14 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner – LIMITED TICKETS
May 15 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner – ADDED NIGHT
May 23 – Austin, TX – ACL Live at Moody Theater – ADDED NIGHT + SOLD OUT
May 24 – Austin, TX – ACL Live at Moody Theater – SOLD OUT
May 25 – Austin, TX – ACL Live at Moody Theater – SOLD OUT
May 30 – Denver, CO – The Mission Ballroom – ADDED NIGHT + SOLD OUT
May 31 – Denver, CO – The Mission Ballroom – SOLD OUT
June 1 – Denver, CO – The Mission Ballroom – SOLD OUT
LOVE HATE MUSIC BOX Track Listing:
Peter Pan
Sickset
Finalist
LOL
Lucky
Meticulous
Hot Pink Ice Cube
SVO
Code Blue
Overtime (Feat. Kacey Musgraves)
Ghoul
John Woo
Low As We Go
Bearwalk
Superstar
Cinderella
Best Man
Rabbit Run
Daddy Yankee
Re-Entry
No Occasion
Thanks For Coming
