New single available now
Everclear has released their new single “Year of the Tiger.” The politically-charged offering marks the first new song from the band since the release of their 2015 album, Black Is The New Black.
“After all of the events of the last almost three years with COVID, worldwide shutdowns, the political debacle of 2020…emanating from in and outside of MAGA world, I felt I needed to write a song that not just explained my anger and frustration, but a song that served as a mission statement,” shares frontman Art Alexakis, who was also born in a Year of the Tiger in 1962. “I feel like the tiger should be the new symbol of the new Democratic party. We will not back down, we will not forget, we hit back, we challenge lies, and we refuse to be intimidated by ignorance or loud voices. To quote the song’s lyrics, ‘Here we are in the Year of the Tiger, we are where we are because of all the big lies.’ Tigers are everywhere.”
Everclear is celebrating 30 years as a band in 2022. In its honor, the four-piece – Alexakis, guitarist Davey French, bassist Freddy Herrera and drummer Brian Nolan – has been on the road all across the US on their headlining 30th Anniversary Tour, which featured special guests Fastball and The Nixons in the summer and Sponge this fall. The band also released a special remastered reissue of their 1993 debut album, World Of Noise, in June, making the currently out-of-print album available for the first time on digital streaming platforms. World Of Noise – 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition features all 12 original tracks plus six bonus songs including the previously unreleased “Drunk Again” and “Nervous & Weird 2001 Remix.” The reissue will be available on vinyl soon.
Next, Everclear heads overseas to the UK for a run of co-headlining tour dates throughout November with fellow ‘90s rockers Soul Asylum. The band will then wrap the year with a handful of headlining Southern California shows with Sponge supporting. For these shows, which includes a stop on the Sunset Strip at the famed Whisky a Go Go on December 1st, Everclear has teamed up with Border Kindness, a 501c3 nonprofit humanitarian-aid organization, for a toy drive, encouraging those in attendance to bring a new, unwrapped toy with them.
