Duff McKagan has announced today’s premiere of two new songs, HEROES and TRUE TO THE DEATH ROCK N ROLL BALLAD, both available now at all DSPs and streaming services. A distinctive cover of David Bowie’s timeless classic, the double-sided single – which pairs HEROES with a brand-new Duff original – heralds next week’s kickoff of McKagan’s eagerly awaited Lighthouse Tour ‘24, a world headline run getting underway September 30 at Dublin, Ireland’s The Academy. US dates begin November 4 at Boston, MA’s Paradise Rock Club.
“We thought it was good idea to put out a couple of fresh songs right here on the eve of the Lighthouse tour,” says Duff McKagan. “Choosing David Bowie’s HEROES seemed to be a natural subject matter for me (I am of course, a massive history nerd)…star-crossed lovers in the shadow of the mid-70’s cold-war era Berlin Wall. To try and compliment this era, I chose a sort of 70’s glam-rock song that I wrote some time last year, TRUE TO THE DEATH ROCK N ROLL BALLAD, another lyric where love and lust and time are the central figures. We hope you dig this ‘single’ and thank you all for just being you!”
Lighthouse Tour ’24 will see Duff McKagan and his band traveling Europe and the United Kingdom, making stops in Scotland, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, France, and Sweden through late October. Support on all EU/UK dates comes from Cardiff, Wales’s James and the Cold Gun. US dates will follow, including intimate shows at New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge (November 6), Chicago, IL’s Outset (November 8), and Denver, CO’s Bluebird Theater (November 10), all of which will have special guests Lee Ving’s (FEAR) Range War, marking the first live performances from the famed FEAR founder’s groundbreaking country punk outfit in over three decades. Lighthouse Tour ‘24 then hits Los Angeles, CA’s historic El Rey Theatre (November 13) with support from acclaimed singer-songwriter Grace McKagan, before wrapping up at Portland, OR’s Aladdin Theater (November 18) and Seattle, WA’s The Showbox (November 20) joined by extremely rare solo acoustic performances by legendary D.O.A. co-founder Joey “Sh*thead” Keithley. Tickets and VIP packages for all announced dates are on sale now. For complete details and remaining ticket availability, please see duffonline.com/live. In addition, an exclusive line of Lighthouse Tour ’24 are currently available for worldwide pre-sale at shopglobal.duffonline.com/collections/lighthouse-tour-24.
McKagan has also announced a Black Friday Record Store Day (Nov. 29, 2024) exclusive RSD vinyl LP release of his searing performance at Easy Street Records in Seattle, WA on December 8, 2023. The set contains tracks from McKagan’s critically acclaimed recent album Lighthouse and This is the Song EP.
Tracklisting:
1. Intro by Matt Vaughn
2. I Just Don’t Know
3. Chip Away
4. Longfeather
5. Fallen Ones
6. Tenderness
7. I Saw God on 10th Street
8. Just Another Shakedown
9. This Is The Song
10. Lighthouse
SEPTEMBER
30 – Dublin, Ireland – Dublin Academy *
OCTOBER
2 – Glasgow, Scotland – The Garage *
3 – Manchester, UK – Manchester Academy 2 *
5 – London, UK – Islington Assembly Hall *
7 – Utrecht, Netherlands – TivoliVredenburg *
8 – Cologne, Germany – Die Kantine *
9 – Munich, Germany – Freiheitshalle *
11 – Brno, Czech Republic – Sono Centrum *
13 – Warsaw, Poland – Klub Stodola *
14 – Berlin, Germany – Heimathafen Neukölln *
16 – Milan, Italy – Magazzini Generali *
17 – Solothurn, Switzerland – Kulturfabrik Kofmehl *
19 – Liege, Belgium – OM *
20 – Paris, France – La Trianon *
22 – Stockholm, Sweden – Nalen *
NOVEMBER
4 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club †
6 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge †
8 – Chicago, IL – Outset †
10 – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater †
13 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey ^
18 – Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater +
20 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox +
* w/ James and the Cold Gun
† w/ Lee Ving’s Range War
^ w/ Grace McKagan
+ w/ Joey “Sh*thead” Keithley
McKagan’s first solo headline run in half a decade, Lighthouse Tour ‘24 celebrates last year’s release of his critically acclaimed third solo album, LIGHTHOUSE, available everywhere now. Hailed by Paste as “an emotional, personal and spiritual reckoning…(McKagan’s) most important rock project yet,” the album sees Duff McKagan baring more of his artistic spirit than ever before, fusing acoustic elements with hard-edged rock ‘n’ roll to land at the sweet spot between soul-searching reflection and pure energy. LIGHTHOUSE was met by critical applause from such international outlets as Rolling Stone, Kerrang!, Revolver, and American Songwriter for such singles as LIGHTHOUSE, I SAW GOD ON 10TH STREET, and LONGFEATHER, the latter hailed by Revolver as “folky, elegiac” and joined by an official music video streaming now at YouTube. McKagan later performed LONGFEATHER with an exclusive appearance on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, streaming HERE.
LIGHTHOUSE is available now in a wide range of formats including streaming, download, CD, cassette, and LP. A number of deluxe versions and bundles featuring official Certificates of Authenticity signed by McKagan are also available. LIGHTHOUSE – as well as an exclusive line of LIGHTHOUSE merch – is available now at www.duffonline.com.
In addition, an expanded digital edition of LIGHTHOUSE is available now at all DSPs and streaming services. The deluxe release includes eight additional tracks along with three exclusive live performance videos filmed last December at Easy Street Records in McKagan’s hometown of Seattle, WA. In addition, a complete video capturing McKagan’s live in-store performance can be viewed in its entirety via YouTube HERE.
In addition, this spring saw the long-awaited release of McKagan’s new double-live album, TENDERNESS: LIVE IN LOS ANGELES, available everywhere now for streaming and download, with limited 2CD and 2LP editions available via www.duffonline.com. Recorded June 13, 2019 at Los Angeles’ historic El Rey Theatre just days following the May 2019 release of his acclaimed second solo album, TENDERNESS, TENDERNESS: LIVE IN LOS ANGELES sees McKagan taking an intimate journey through his own canon of songs along with a few deeply personal cover versions, backed by 3x GRAMMY® Award-winning TENDERNESS producer Shooter Jennings and his band. Highlights include an electrifying rendition of Mad Season’s RIVER OF DECEIT along with powerful takes on The Clash’s classic CLAMPDOWN and such Guns N’ Roses fan favorites as YOU AIN’T THE FIRST, DUST N’ BONES, and DEAD HORSE.
For more than 40 years, Duff McKagan has been an unstoppable creative force, spanning a multitude of bands, tours, collaborations, and writings. Starting at just 15, McKagan has been a part of such diverse and influential bands as The Vains (1979), The Fastbacks (1980), The Living (1982), The Fartz (1990), 10 Minute Warning (1993), and Loaded (1998), along, of course, with his historic role as founding member of both Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver. In addition to his prolific musical efforts, McKagan is the New York Times best-selling author of 2011’s It’s So Easy: And Other Lies and 2015’s How to Be a Man: (And Other Illusions), and the co-host (with Susan Holmes McKagan) of the popular Three Chords & The Truth radio show, airing in North America on Sirius XM’s Ozzy’s Boneyard (Ch. 38). In addition, Three Chords & The Truth airs weekly on stations around the globe including Denmark’s myROCK, the UK’s Planet Rock, Finland’s Radio Rock, Ireland’s Nova, Norway’s Radio Rock, Sweden’s Rock Klassiker, Germany/Switzerland/Austria’s Rock Antenne, Iceland’s x977, and Poland’s Antyradio. For showtimes, please visit duffmckagan.ffm.to/threechordsandthetruth.
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