{"id":2446351,"date":"2019-07-15T09:23:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T15:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=858918"},"modified":"2019-07-15T09:23:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T15:23:51","slug":"hear-sandy-alex-g-grapple-with-grief-on-new-song-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-sandy-alex-g-grapple-with-grief-on-new-song-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear (Sandy) Alex G Grapple With Grief on New Song \u2018Hope\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Philadelphia indie rocker (Sandy) Alex G<\/a> unveiled a devastating new song about the death of a friend, \u201cHope,\u201d which will appear on his forthcoming album House of Sugar<\/em>, out September 13th via Domino.<\/p>\n

\u201cHope\u201d is centered around an upbeat rush of acoustic guitar and shuffling drums, but the song gets an offbeat edge from the peculiar bent of the vocal harmonies, the strange synth lines and an odd music video in which a marionette dances in front of a window. Meanwhile, (Sandy) Alex G\u2019s vocal performance teeters between fragile and frank as he sings about the death of a friend, ostensibly from an overdose of the opioid Fentanyl: \u201cHe was a good friend of mine\/He died\/Why I write about it now\/Gotta honor him somehow\/Saw some people crying that night\/Yeah, Fentanyl took a few lives from our life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with sharing \u201cHope,\u201d (Sandy) Alex G announced a North American headlining tour in support of House of Sugar<\/em>. The run kicks off October 17th at the Black Cat in Washington, D.C. and wraps November 30th with a hometown show at Union Transfer in Philadelphia. Tickets will go on sale July 19th at 10 a.m. local time.<\/p>\n

\u201cHope\u201d follows previously released House of Sugar<\/em> track \u201cGretel.\u201d The album marks (Sandy) Alex G\u2019s first since 2017\u2019s Rocket<\/em>.<\/p>\n

(Sandy) Alex G Tour Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n

October 17 \u2013 Washington, DC @ Black Cat
October 18 \u2013 Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall
October 19 \u2013 Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle
October 20 \u2013 Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
October 22 \u2013 Austin, TX @ Mohawk
October 23 \u2013 Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
October 25 \u2013 Mesa, AZ @ Nile Theater
October 26 \u2013 San Diego, CA @ The Irenic
October 27 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA @ Fonda Theatre
October 29 \u2013 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
October 30 \u2013 Oakland, CA @ The New Parish
November 1 \u2013 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
November 2 \u2013 Vancouver, BC @ The Imperial
November 3 \u2013 Seattle, WA @ Neumos
November 5 \u2013 Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue
November 6 \u2013 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
November 8 \u2013 St Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar & Hall
November 9 \u2013 Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
November 10 \u2013 Detroit, MI @ El Club
November 12 \u2013 Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
November 14 \u2013 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
November 15 \u2013 Burlington, VT @ ArtsRiot
November 16 \u2013 Holyoke, MA @ Gateway City Arts
November 17 \u2013 Boston, MA @ Royale
November 30 \u2013 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia indie rocker (Sandy) Alex G unveiled a devastating new song about the death of a friend, \u201cHope,\u201d which will appear on his forthcoming album House of Sugar, out September 13th via Domino. \u201cHope\u201d is centered around an upbeat rush of acoustic guitar and shuffling drums, but the song gets an offbeat edge from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 14:20:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}