Howlin Rain Announces 2018 Summer Tour & Shares New Single ‘The Wild Boys’

Oakland-based Howlin Rain have announced a North American Summer Tour in support of their upcoming fifth studio album The Alligator Bride. The band also shared another track from the record coming out on June 8 through Silver Current Records, the single “The Wild Boys.”

The first leg of the newly announced tour takes place on the West Coast. It begins on June 2 in California and spans June 16 with additional stops in Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. The second leg finds the band on the East Coast and Midwest from July 11 in Washington D.C. through July 27 in Jersey Hall, New Jersey. The second leg also includes shows in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario and Massachusetts.

Howlin Rain’s follow-up to their 2015 album Mansion Songs was again recorded at Eric Bauer’s San Francisco-based studio Mansion. According to the band’s mastermind Ethan Miller, the seven songs making up The Alligator Bride were inspired by “classic rock formations such as the Grateful Dead’s Europe ’72, Mountain Bus’ 1974 burner Sundance, and Free’s masterpiece of atmospheric, minimalist blues, 1969’s Fire and Water.”

“‘The Wild Boys’ is my homage to the novel of the same name by William S. Burroughs,” said Miller. “I took the setting from Mexico and touched it down in Riverside and San Bernardino County in the USA where plenty of sordid and fringe American scenarios could still play out unhindered by mall cops and border patrol — at least for the length of the song.”

Featuring Miller on guitar, Jeff McElroy on bass, Dan Cervantes on guitar and Justin Smith on ​d​rums and premiered by Relix, stream the eight-minute single “The Wild Boys” below:

Here’s the previously released title track:

The Alligator Bride Tracklist

1. Rainbow Trout
2. Missouri
3. Speed
4. The Wild Boys
5. Alligator Bride
6. In The Evening
7. Coming Down