Souled American Announce First New Album In 30 Years <em>Sanctions</em>: Hear “Boom Boom” - stereogum.com/2485402/soul...

"lingering passion and unwavering vulnerability..." www.jimlaczkowski.net/catchup/

The first single and video off the new Souled American album "Sanctions" - I know I'm biased but I'll say it anyway - is heart stoppingly stunning www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJJ4...

Pre-ordered on sight just now. It's incredible that @souledamerican.bsky.social are back with a new album. Cannot wait to hear it! Thank you to @tobiascarroll.bsky.social and @sarahhennies.bsky.social for the tip.

Join me in getting excited for the first new Souled American @souledamerican.bsky.social album in 30 years. The return of their skeletal, darkly minimalist country sound after this long is very welcome: souledamerican.bandcamp.com/album/sancti...

Reposting for the @souledamerican.bsky.social hive that may have missed it this morning. Saw Souled American at the Make Out Room in SF about a billion years ago and sometimes can't believe it was real. New video is the absolute maximum in "very much my shit." www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJJ4...

*** AVAILABLE FOR PRE_ORDER TODAY *** ALSO--Tickets for their opening dates in Catskill NY (www.viewcy.com/event/playti...), Brooklyn NY (www.eventim.us/wafform.aspx...), and Evanston IL (www.ticketweb.com/event/souled...) (Code: FROZEN) on sale. Rest of dates will be announced next week.

And now: Rosy Overdrive's favorite reissues and compilations of 2025!

“There’s just something very unusual about the chemistry that these musicians had in the songs that they wrote…”

Thank you KSPC for 2.5 minutes of especially miraculous music this morning!

"Indeed, Souled American’s career arc mirrored Herman Melville’s. Almost popular, an adventurous debut, then diminishing commercial returns and decreasing visibility with each succeeding release. Then, silence.” --from Souled American's Slow Resurrection/Tracy Santa 27 February 2025, POP MATTERS.

Yesterday I received and read Camden Joy's "Unforgetting Flubber" which is a great read about my favorite @souledamerican.bsky.social LP. I remember seeing the video below for "All Good Things" super late either as the last shown on "120 Minutes" or the first video after 2 AM: youtu.be/WaEeSL_gZiw

Today’s mail! Camden Joy’s deep dive into the making of a great record by @souledamerican.bsky.social

Chris Grigoroff formed Souled American in 1986 with bassist Joe Adducci, drummer Jamey Barnard, and guitarist Scott Tuma. "To me it was a very simple concept," says Grigoroff. "I wanted to have a rock and roll band that used roots music to create something that had never been created."

Souled American’s seventh album—said since December 1997 to be nearing completion—is at last sequenced, mastered, and done. The band is in talks with several labels. Expect details soon.

In late-July 1989, a few months after the release of Flubber, the band arrives in California and the LA Weekly celebrates them thus: "funky hillbilly-rock that captures the dark, charred heart and speed-addled brain of the American truckstop spirit..."

Best novel ever is being reissued Tuesday

Souled American playing outdoors at Phyllis’s North in 1988.

A review of Souled American’s Rise Above It in Poland’s Lizard magazine…!

Chris Grigoroff, age twenty-four, in cut-offs and Charleston Girls softball shirt, pictured with the rest of the Uptown Rulers in 1980, the band of cut-offs that preceded Souled American.

“We dub thee… Flubber!” Souled American’s second release was named for the anti-grav product created by Ned Brainard in Disney’s “The Absent-Minded Professor” (1961)

This from the excellent Skylar Keffer—a photo from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a flyer mentioning Souled American, raising hopes that they will dominate next year’s voting.

Super articulate.

Tomorrow : Bandcamp Friday. Cost of 35 DAYS OF FE: momentarily low.

“Souled American are a conundrum.”

Hey, JD, wanted to thank you for shouting out this show last week. I had not heard of SA before and I went solely due to the recs from you and @cardiganenthusiast.bsky.social and it was a really fantastic and special gig. @souledamerican.bsky.social

I have an album coming out May 9. Here's a video for one tune from it, a cover of a song by the incomparable @robynhitchcock.bsky.social. Please feel encouraged to share widely! youtu.be/IP_qEFULFoM?...

New interview with the band open.spotify.com/episode/3iAX...

In Boomer films, men bond at the batting cages. In Gen X films, men play paintball. In Millennial films, men sit on sofas and shoot aliens/terrorists on TV. What do Gen Z men do?

Consider buying tickets app.promotix.com/events/detai...

just got mine in the mail -- something to really cherish.

NOW AVAILABLE. 35 Days of Fe by Camden Joy. Short essays about the creation of the band's debut, drawing on research and interview conducted by the author. Includes lyrics, illustrations, photos. Designed by Mark Lerner of Rag & Bone Shop. 66 pages, 5.5" x 8.5" $15.00 plus shipping.

I love this scrap. While sequencing their second album "Flubber," Souled American heard that Rough Trade label-mates The Feelies called them the "most musically talented on our roster."

We just discovered 800 Bandcamp people behind us! Thanks ❤️

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A feature about Souled American from illustrious Jon Dale occupies a remarkable number of pages in the very latest issue of Uncut Magazine labeling RISE ABOVE IT their choice as "Reissue of the Month." !!!!!!!!!!

“This music may be enigmatic and idiosyncratic but repeated listens to many of the tracks reveal their beauty…” www.theaquarian.com/2025/02/21/o...

Tickets can be purchased for an appearance by Souled American in Chicago on April 17: link.dice.fm/u760a6cc5f7b

tickets on sale today to attend an exceedingly rare appearance of Souled American in Cleveland on Saturday April 19. app.promotix.com/events/detai...

April 19. Cleveland. Tickets on sale Friday. (Poster by Emma Jane Keffer.)

April 17. Chicago. Tickets go on sale this Friday. (Poster by Emma Jane Keffer!)

A great collection requires a great cover picture and Souled American is indebted to Achim Kröpsch for not only taking a great picture in 1989 but now allowing it to be used on the forthcoming “Rise Above It: A Souled American Anthology.” Thanks!!!

We all desperately need something to look forward to so here’s this: Souled American will perform in April. Details to come.

Here Joe Adducci, Scott Tuma, and Chris Grigoroff harmonize on Notes Campfire, the opener of the 20-song overview “RISE ABOVE IT: A Souled American Anthology,” out next week from Omnivore Recordings.

Played my kids White Man in the Hammersmith Palais. Cried.

we are all a-quiver because it's now LESS THAN 2 WEEKS before Omnivore Recordings releases RISE ABOVE IT: a souled american anthology, which collects 20 previously released SA tunes including 'Feel Better.' Here's Scott Tuma pictured by Wade Iverson in 1988! (cont.)

An exciting month here at SA HQ: Just eighteen days until the release of “RISE ABOVE IT: A Souled American Anthology” from Omnivore Recordings… should you be an individual who wishes to write or pod-speak or interview the band about this, please email [email protected] Fists raised high. ❤️