The band will launch the tour in February
Alkaline Trio walks among us once again. On January 26, 2024, everyone’s favorite tortured triumvirate will return in Grand Guignol style with Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs, its tenth album and first full-length offering of new material to be released in six years.
Recorded with Grammy-winning producer Cameron Webb at Foo Fighters’ Studio 606 in Northridge CA, Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs finds Alkaline Trio stripping its sound down to the skin and bones of its unmistakable sonic spirit while taking that dark essence to parts previously unknown. Accompanied by the premiere of a fittingly kinetic video directed by Ravi Dhar and featuring pro skaters including Steve Caballero, Chris Cole and more, the album’s first single and title track exemplify its balance of the eerily familiar and the shock of the new.
“My mom worked for years as an emergency room nurse,” says vocalist/guitarist/founder Matt Skiba. “She and her co-workers referred to exceptionally busy nights as ‘blood, hair, and eyeballs’. Well, we’ve been busy making an exceptional record we refer to as Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs, too. We approached this new record in completely new ways. We built the songs together, from the ground up, in the same room which hasn’t happened since the band started. Usually, we start with an idea somebody’s already written. This time, we had the unique opportunity to build the songs onto drums recorded at Studio 606 on to two-inch tape using one of the most beautiful-sounding and legendary consoles in rock. It has almost everything to do with how our new record sounds.”
“Sometimes the full circle nature of life is enough to just completely blow my mind… this is one of those times,” adds bassist/vocalist Dan Andriano. “Skateboarding was my first love, is my favorite sport, and a community through which I was first introduced to punk rock. So when Matt and I read Ravi’s idea to combine our music with an homage to the Bones Brigade’s ‘The Search For Animal Chin’ and throw some spooky zombies in there… we both dug it right away. The work Ravi and the entire production crew put in was insane and it shows… So to kick off the release of our 10th album with this super fun video featuring Steve Caballero, Chris Cole, Ace, Corey and Shea is so much more than a dream come true, it’s true love. This is not a phase.”
In addition to being a darkly shining exemplar of the Trio’s signature blend of wry lyrical wit and bittersweet melodic sensibility, Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs arrives in a confluence of endings and beginnings—specifically, it’s both the first album to be released via the band’s new label home, Rise Records, and the last to feature longtime member Derek Grant, drummer on every Alkaline Trio record since 2003’s classic Good Mourning.
The band will support the record with a North American tour featuring support from Drug Church. The band will be joined by veteran drummer Atom Willard (Against Me!, Rocket from the Crypt) on the live shows which kick off February 22nd in Anaheim, CA. Tickets are on sale now.
- Hot For Preacher
- Meet Me
- Versions Of You
- Bad Time
- Scars
- Break
- Shake With Me
- Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs
- Hinterlude
- Broken Down In A Time Machine
- Teenage Heart
Alkaline Trio 2024 North American Tour Dates:
Feb 22 – Anaheim, CA @ House Of Blues Anaheim
Feb 23 – San Diego, CA @ SOMA
Feb 24 -Phoenix, AZ @ Van Buren
Feb 26 – Dallas, TX @ HOB Dallas
Feb 27 – Austin, TX @ Stubbs
Feb 28 – Houston, TX @ House Of Blues Houston
Mar 1 – Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
Mar 2 – Orlando, FL @ HOB Orlando
Mar 3 – Charlotte, NC @ Fillmore
Mar 5 – Washington DC @ Fillmore Silver Spring
Mar 6 – Philadelphia, PA @ Fillmore Philadelphia
Mar 8 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theater and Ballroom
Mar 9 – Queens, NY @ Knockdown Center
Mar 10 – Boston, MA @ House Of Blues Boston
Mar 12 – Toronto, ON @ History
Mar 13 – Montreal, QC @ Beanfield
Mar 15 – Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
Mar 16 – Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
Mar 17 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
Mar 18 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fillmore Minneapolis
Mar 20 – Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
Mar 21 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
Mar 23 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
Mar 24 – Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
Mar 25 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
Mar 27 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
Mar 29 – Los Angeles, CA @ Novo
Mar 30 – Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas
