Dave Matthews Talks New Album On SiriusXM’s Dave Matthews Band Radio

While Dave Matthews Band haven’t released a new studio album since 2018’s Come Tomorrow, the wait for the next one should end soon according to frontman Dave Matthews. Dave discussed the status of the 10th DMB studio album and more with SiriusXM’s Ari Fink during a recent interview on SiriusXM’s Dave Matthews Band Radio.

Matthews sat for a chat with Fink at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center earlier this month. “I think we have a great record,” Dave told Ari about the forthcoming LP. “I was like, we finished, for now, the recording and then we were mixing and my friend, Rob Evans, who’s been really the force behind getting it done and been a great, you know, it wouldn’t have happened without him and it’s been fun to work with him. And so essentially we have to just put it in the bag and send it out into the world.”

DMB debuted four originals in 2021 with “Walk Around The Moon,” “Madman’s Eyes” and “The Only Thing” each in heavy rotation this summer. “I’m really psyched about it, but every time I walk into the studio and we’re listening to mixes, I say, ‘Ooh,’ and then, you know, there’s another little song,” Matthews added.

Fink asked Matthews if putting the final touches on an album is the hardest part. “It’s sort of, it’s a little bit hard to clean it up and so, you know, it’s not even just like sweeping things together in the sequence and getting the art and all those things are not, you know, necessarily necessary, but I’m because I’m old, I’m attached to the idea of a collection,” Dave explained. “Maybe the next collection of songs will just be songs we put out on the internet.”

Watch Dave discuss the next DMB album with Ari Fink below:

Matthews also explained why he sees justifying government decisions through religious beliefs is a slippery slope. Read what Dave had to say:

I do think this is a very serious time. I’m not anti-Christian or anti-religion, but you know, if the way people are talking about Christianity and how this government should be governed by Christian ideals, and that we need to weed out those people that are examples of un-Christian or immoral behavior, that’s very dangerous language and it may seem like it’s coming from a good place, but that language can be exploited and it’s a very dangerous language. And obviously people react when this name is brought up, but if you look at old speeches from people like Hitler or Idi Amin and they talk about for the greater good for righteousness for, you know, to fight ungodliness, that is a precursor to potentially terrible, terrible, terrible times because you’re listening to ideas of one small group and that one small group is being exploited by the ideas of even a smaller group and it brings people from the margins into the mainstream, but it also takes the mainstream into marginal ideas and the ideas that should be marginalized like speaking for God or speaking for what is right or speaking for the judgment, being the judge on God’s behalf. That’s terrible, terrible, terrible rhetoric and it’s terrifying to me because these kinds of things don’t happen slowly. We have to be vigilant in this country to prevent ourselves from falling into the hands of people that will not allow it to come back without a much more desperate fight than the one we’re having right now.

See Dave talk about the separation of church and state:

The chat also dove into the importance of voting, especially in the wake of recent gun violence and the Supreme Court overturning Roe Vs. Wade. “I understand people saying, ‘Nothing works, voting doesn’t work,’ but I do think that this, and I mean maybe it’s my drowning faith in the potential for the system, but that faith still thinks that if everybody says, ‘Despite your efforts to stop me from being able to have my voice heard through my vote, despite your effort to through claims of fraud, which have never been verified, despite your efforts to make it harder for me to vote, I’m still gonna vote,’ and then, you know, ground level efforts to curtail those enforceable laws that are stopping people from being able to get to the polls whether it’s removing drop boxes or whatever the efforts are in different states, it’s different things, please everybody should go and vote,” Matthews told Fink.

Check out that portion of Dave’s conversation with Ari:

The full interview can be heard by SiriusXM subscribers on-demand via the SXM App. Dave Matthews Band Radio airs on Channel 30. DMB’s tour resumes on August 20 and 21 in West Palm Beach, Florida.