Alabama Shakes Working On 1st New Music Since 2017

UPDATE: Alabama Shakes are featured on the 2025 Minnesota Yacht Club Festival lineup. The set is the band’s first announced performance in nearly eight years.

Alabama Shakes posted photos of the band at Nashville’s Sound Emporium recording studio captioned, “Working on some exciting stuff!” The Brittany Howard-fronted group’s most recent album was their Grammy-winning 2015 sophomore effort, Sound & Color.

Alabama Shakes recorded a cover of “Killer Diller” for the 2017 film The American Epic Sessions. The band went on hiatus in 2018 and Howard’s solo album Jaime, was issued the following year. Howard’s follow-up, What Now was released in 2024.

Alabama Shakes reunited during a surprise appearance last December. Howard was joined by bassist Zac Cockrell and guitarist Heath Fogg for their first public performance since 2017. Drummer Steve Johnson, who faced serious legal charges during the band’s hiatus, was not pictured in the recently shared recording facility photos and did not perform with the group in December.

Producer/engineer Shawn Everett appeared in the photos with Howard, Cockrell and Fogg. Everett worked with Howard on Jaime and What Now.