It might have taken 20 years, but Dirty Heads have finally found their true voice. The Huntington Beach, California alternative rock has matured with age, reaching a type of musical renaissance with their self-titled new album, out July 15.
Lead track “That’s All I Need” is a hooky, feel-good affair which plants one foot into the mainstream, and the other in retro-world.
The Dirty Heads, ‘Home | Phantoms of Summer: The Acoustic Sessions’: Exclusive Album Premiere
“It’s just got that throwback kinda ’90s hip-hop vibe with a little bit of southern California,” says frontman Jared Watson in a new making-of video, which Billboard exclusively premieres below.
The band teamed up with Justin Gray (Mariah Carey, Joss Stone) to produce the track “because we knew that he understood the Dirty Heads vibe,” Watson tells Billboard. “This is the song that we wanted to write so if you’ve never heard the Dirty Heads before you would instantly get a feeling for where we came from and what we’re about. This is our summer time anthem.”
Dirty Heads follows the band’s most successful album release to date, 2014’s Sound of Change, which opened at No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Albums Chart and reached No. 8 on the Billboard 200.
The group is currently on the road with Sublime with Rome; see all their tour dates below.
July 1 – St Augustine, FL @ St Augustine Amphitheater
July 2 – Miami, FL @ Bayfront Park Amphitheater
July 3 – Tampa, FL @ MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheater
July 5 – Charlotte, NC @ Uptown Amphitheater
July 7 – Baltimore, MD @ Pier Six Concert Pavilion
July 8 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
July 9 – Philadelphia, PA @ Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing
July 10 – Wantagh, NY @ Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
July 12 – Boston, MA @ Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
July 14 – Sterling Heights, MI @ Freedom Hill Amphitheater
July 15 – Cincinnati, OH @ PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center
July 16 – Indianapolis, IN @ Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn at White River State Park
July 17 – Chicago, IL @ FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
July 19 – Kansas City, MO @ Crossroads
July 22 – Eagle, ID @ Eagle River Pavilion
July 23 – Missoula, MT @ Big Sky Brewing Company
July 24 – Seattle, WA @ WAMU Theater
July 25 – Eugene, OR @ Cuthbert Amphitheater
July 27 – Murphys, CA @ Ironstone Amphitheater
July 28 – Concord, CA @ Concord Pavilion
July 29 – Irvine, CA @ Irvine Meadows Amphitheater
July 30 – Chula Vista, CA @ Sleeptrain Amphitheater
July 31 – Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica Theater
August 3 – Corpus Christi, TX @ Concrete Street Amphitheater
August 5 – Austin, TX @ Austin360 Amphitheater
August 7 – Spring, TX @ The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman
August 14 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Reggae Rise Up
*w/ Kongos
August 16 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheater
August 19 – Syracuse, NY @ 95X Summer Survival Concert Series
*w/ Sublime with Rome
August 20 – Middlebury, VT @ Ciderstock 2016
September 23-25 – Downtown, NV @ Life Is Beautiful
*w/ Slightly Stoopid
December 14-18 – Ecatepec De Morelos, MX @ Closer To The Sun 2016